I do love going for a curry but love the side dishes so much that I usually have them and forgo the main. If pushed though, I go for a Balti or Biryani.
How "warm" do you like it ? My favourite is either Chicken Ceylon (coconut flavours) or Chicken Dhansak (lentils). Ceylon can sometimes be a bit warm but Dhansak is usually ok. Plain boiled rice and perhaps a Sag All side dish - yummy. Feeling hungry just thinking about it.
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No, because, in my experience, they have no idea how to cook them 'tender'. And I've been to Shimla Pink and Chutney Mary's in London and found the experience to be the same.
I tend to forget what I've had previously so I just avoid ingredients I don't like and each time is an adventure. Not that I can have one too often these days. (Come to think of it, one can never have them too often anyway.)
So much to choose from. why not try a Lamb Rezala and a selection of veg dishes ?
Our local Indian does a lovely Thali, a selection platter of either veggie or meat dishes - see if you can find one of them, it's like a taster platter of all sorts of items.
I used to love the tali menus at Shimla Pink, great for a group.
I usually go for lamp chops for starter and a dry chicken biryani without the curry sauce, though a favourite place of mine (I live right near Manchester's Curry Mile) does a lovely raita option instead of the curry sauce.
I like Saag Gosht too.
We get a proper Indian takeaway (rather than more Westernised Pakistani) at work sometimes which makes a really nice change, their Lamb dishes are especially gorgeous.
I always have the same thing too just because I'm a carnivore - lamb tikka, which is just spicy tandoori lumps of meat without sauce, usually get a mushroom or brinjal (aubergine) bhaji and a naan as well.