Yellowfingers

121, Bridgnorth Rd, Wollaston, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 3NX

Tel: 01384 392788

This licensed restaurant is always popular and as ever was packed to capacity on Friday night so always best to book.

A recent return vist saw me order the deliciously crispy Onion Bahjees, a personal favourite of mine, followed by the simply so -over -the - top- its brilliant Korai Chicken Tikka Masalla - a dish containing not only Chicken Tikka (natch) but also keema mince. Whats not to like…?

The staff are polite and always at hand, and once you have finished your meal a complimentary small drink is often served to enhance the experience of dining here.

I can whole heartedly recommend a visit to East One.

Rating:

50, High St, Kinver, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY7 6HE 
Tel: 01384 877448

This one time I was in Kinver, and having been to the fantastic Shimla, and the now defunct (and not particularily missed) ‘Sizzler Spice’, fancied trying the other Indian restaurant in Kinver village.

So we grabbed a take-away menu and headed off to the Bathams pub across the road to study it hard.

The menu is fantastic and tempts you with a myriad of delights…

To be honest though, the menu is actually better than the  food that you get served as it was pretty run of the mill stuff at the end of the day…I nearly didn’t write this reveiw because it was a bit unmemoriable.

I do recall there being tons of salad when you order a starter, but you didn’t get a big portion of the starter itself. Very odd tasting mint raita too….

My wife had a Badam Pasanda which she has enjoyed elsewhere, but not so much here…I can’t even recall what I had (I wasn’t drunk!)

Try it if you like but I do think that Shimla has Kinver all sewn up for now -there is a new restaurant opening soon though in the village.

Unlicensed

92, Church Avenue, Clent, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY9 9PL
Tel: 01562 882456

Clent is a small rural villiage nestling away in the hills of the same name, to the south west of the Birmingham/Black Country conurbation. Years ago, factory workers from the industrialised towns used the Clent Hills as a weekend escape from their hammer-and -nails working life. The Clent Hills are still a great place for rest, recuperation and activity to this day.

So it is a little strange to find a Bangladeshi Tandoori restaurant at the foot of the Clent Hills, and is something of a secret that I have been dying to discover and sample for quite a while.

When you enter the main waiting area/lobby it could be mistaken for any other Indian Restaurant in the vacinity, but it is only until you are seated does it become evident that it deserves the name ‘Jaipur Cottage’ as it could pass for a tea-room, with its wood beams and horse-brasses, or indeed, a country villiage cottage, which, I suppose it is.

So onto the food. Its OK. As good as you would get anywhere, no better, no worse. I tried the non-vegetarian Thali which was a sampler mix of three dishes available- the Lamb Pasanda Nawabi -very mild and creamy, the Chicken Tikka Masalla (Strangely sour, but not unpleasant) and the Prawn Bhuna , medium, quite tomato based, nice enough, but the same as available in any other curry house in the West Midlands.

I guess the main comment from the rest of our party with their chosen dishes was…’meh, its just ok…’

I did find my starters at little bit lacking in content, two very small peices of Tikka, an average sized Shish and a larger than normal quantity of salad, so take from that what you will.

Prices are a bit high, at £7-8 for a main course, and it is licensed, offering both Cobra and Kingfisher as the Indian style lagers to compliment your meal and cool your Biriany down a bit…

Would I make a return trip? Well, yes, if I was in Clent, but I think the fact that I was eating in a Jaipur Clent ‘Cottage’, horse brasses or no, is not enough of a gimmick or a reason to go out of my way in future when there is so much elsewhere.

Licensed

3 Hillfield Road,Selsey,PO20 0JX

Tel:01243 602243/605799

I happened upon this restaurant during a business trip, and decided to give it a try, on a miserable 2008 summer week-day.

The starter consisted of Chicken Tikka and this arrived in record time, all the pieces were the same size so this suggests a microwave job rather than something cooked fresh in a tandoor-not good.

For the main course I elected to try some thing different , ‘Ko e ayed’, and this was exactly how it was spelled on my receipt.

The dish was advertised in the menu as a lamb based dish with brown onion, in reality I got what I hate the most - a few pieces of lamb floating round in a sea of gee. When this happens the taste is nearly always the same - unpleasant, and this occasion was no different.

On the whole , disappointing.

Licensed and Air Conditioned