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The
restaurants representing Glasgow in this year's Curry Capital of
Britain 2007 competition tempted the public with pakora recently when
they visited Buchanan Galleries to drum up those all important last
minute votes.
The
competition, now in its seventh year, sees sixteen cities going head
to head to win the prestigious title of Curry Capital of Britain 2007.
India Quay
(Charing Cross), The Ashoka (Charing Cross), Panjea (Charing Cross),
Ashoka Ashton Lane (West End), and Mother India (West End) were
chosen by the public to represent Glasgow.
Staff from the
restaurants were at Buchanan Galleries (Ground Floor across from John
Lewis) from 12 - 2pm on Wednesday 11 April to give shoppers a taste
of what the city has to offer.
Members of the
public had until Friday 13 April to vote Glasgow - the current Curry
Capitan of Britain - to win the prestigious title for a fourth year.
It won the title in 2002 and 2003.
The city
council, in its submission to the judging panel, is once again proud
to support Glasgow in its quest to be crowned Britain's curry capital
for a fourth time.
The council's
submission forms part of the criteria for judging as well as the
culinary expertise of the five nominated restaurants. Each venue will
be visited secretly by a team of 13 independent judges before the
winning city is announced in May.
Support for
Glasgow has be considerable again this year with numerous glowing
recommendations including : Hello
Having
toured the length and breadth of the Country to find my Curry Nirvana
I can say with some certainty that Glasgow consistently achieves
higher standards in its range of Indian restaurants than any other
City in the UK.
Therefore I
fully support its bid to be Curry Capital of Britain
Tony Trotter
With all the
submissions now in it is clear that several councils are making a
real effort for the title this year to give Glasgow a run for their
money. Front runners along with the current holders seem to be
Bradford, Manchester, London East,Birmingham, Leicester and Edinburgh.
Kiplings, the
team leader restaurant in Bradford, kicked things off with a
tremendous fund raising effort for appointed charity Oxfam of
£2011 and London East team leader Mehek obtained the support of
London Design House in their efforts to win the title.
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