The Birmingham Mail recently published a list  of ‘top’ Brum curry restaurants based on ‘readers recommendations’. Not sure how this was publicised but I couldn’t see one genuine Balti House, nor any ‘desi’ pubs and not even arguably the City’s top Indian restaurant, the Jewellery Quarter’s Opheems. That’s not to say that the restaurants listed (mainly standard Bangladeshi curry houses) aren’t good ones but the omissions seem strange and perhaps show that ‘reader’ surveys and polls can miss the mark.