The Great British Food magazine featured a selection of top UK ‘curry’ restaurants and just managed to squeeze in one from Birmingham under a ‘home of balti’ tag. Strangely it was Lasan … now Lasan is a great restaurant deserving of many awards but balti isn’t one of them. If the magazine is to mention the balti connection then surely it should be Shababs or Al Frash in the Balti Triangle.

Yet another example of foodie ‘experts not having a clue about Balti!’

Davood Ghadami

The Strictly Stars waltzed into town and apparently Eastender’s star was desperate to get all the stars together to ‘try a curry in the home of balti’. It’s good to hear we’ve got a reputation with an ‘East End boy’ but let’s hope they went for a ‘proper’ one rather than some ‘posh nosh’.

Anyway, he’s been left a proper ‘Birmingham Balti Company‘ balti bowl as a souvenir even if he doesn’t actually make that balti get together.’