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Manchester
has lost its self-awarded claim to be Britain's curry capital.
According to a
new survey, the city's "curry mile" in Rusholme has
surrendered the title to Leicester.
The battle to
be curry capital has run for decades with cities such as Bradford and
Leeds also vying for the top spot (Birmingham is currently the official Kingfisher
Curry Capital of Britain). But a Frequency of Overseas Dishes
(FOOD) study has found that Leicester has the highest density of
curry houses of all British cities, with at least two every square mile.
The FOOD
study uncovered the number of restaurants in 20 cities across Britain
by using a new local search service from internet search engine MSN.
It found that
fish and chip lovers should head for Southampton and those with a
inkling for Italian food should make a dash for Glasgow.
However,
people who cannot make up their mind should visit Nottingham.
The city has
six restaurants representing different world cuisines for every
square mile.
New tastes
Diners in
Nottingham could visit a different Indian restaurant every month for
the next three years, a new chippy each week for 18 months and a
different Italian restaurant each month for two years, according to
the survey.
Glasgow is
Britain's new "Little Italy" with more Italian restaurants
per square mile than anywhere else in the country.
London is
dubbed the "kebab kapital" with more than 87 outlets per
square mile, followed by Nottingham then Manchester.
The title for
most traditional tastes goes to Southampton, where nearly four in
every 10 restaurants are chippies, while Liverpool has the most
Chinese restaurants, with one in every four restaurants serving Far
Eastern dishes.
The research
also shows that smaller cities in Britain are most open to new tastes.
Bristol and
Derby are just two which are branching out with their choice of food,
ranking second and third respectively for the highest density ratio
of Thai restaurants.
Stuart
Anderson, MSN UK marketing manager, said: "Diners are extremely
lucky that in the UK there's literally a world of choice on our doorsteps."
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