Cafe Naz, Cambridge: 3 Dec 08

Like most Brits I like a curry (although increasingly I’m finding they don’t like me). So on Wednesday night I took the wife out for dinner to our preferred Cambridge curry house, Cafe Naz, just across the road from Shire Hall. We had to go out because we’re currently minus a kitchen but maybe more about that later.

We like Cafe Naz because it makes an attempt to be not your normal Indian restaurant with 6 different curries and 5 different meats/fish/vegetables giving 30 items on the menu. Fair does Cafe Naz does admit that its chicken dishes are also available with Lamb and beef but it does at least pretend to have a menu of specific decisions and ‘specialties of the house’. The other Indian in Cambridge which I know and also has such a menu is India House in Newnham.

We also like it because you get a good welcome and now they’ve started giving free popadum! And I especially like it because it’s the only restaurant that I know that supplies Bangla Beer.  This is real Bangladeshi beer, brewed in Bangladesh, and since  most Indian Food in the UK is in fact Bangladeshi food it seems to be apprporiate to dring it. It packs a punch with 5.2% alcohol and 2 bottles is just about my alcohol ration for a week. But for me it’s a better drink with Indian food that the now UK brewed Kingfisher and the other pretenders such as Cobra and Lal Toofan.

Anyway on Wednesday I had a Gosht Kata Masala and the wife had a Palak Lamb (with extra chilly which we shared. Both excellent, distictive taste, plenty of meat and just the right degree of punch.