THE BEST INDIAN CURRY IN OXFORDSHIRE
I’m elaborate with the food and tech industries and I for one am happy about them all coming over here. The turnaround is also down to the amazing new food scene emerging in the capital and much of that has spilled out from foreign influences that first arrived here during the boom times. Let’s be honest about things and admit that bar a few exceptions our food up until a few years ago was pretty shit. We now have great Indian, super Thai and incredible sushi as the standard.
One area that I think we’ve been extremely weak in as a country when compared to our UK friends across the water are good Indian Curry houses. We simply didn’t have the same amount of Indian people coming here and as a result curry houses in the capital are few and far between.
At the start of year I started looking around hoping to compile a list of the best ones in town. I really struggled and ended up eating the same bland old shite that tastebuds have labeled a “good curry”. Just look at the best curries according to Yelp and you’ll see they are all shitty takeaways. After failing to turn up anything myself I started asking Indian people. Taxi drivers, doctors, bouncers and anybody else I could find. They all agreed that the standard was poor and most said that the only place they could get a proper curry was in the comfort of their own home.
The papadums were light, crispy and perfect but the chutney, mint sauce and chili dip stole the show. I’d have shoveled them into my mouth all night and licked that mint sauce off the floor if I needed to. I went for a gorgeous little potato and lentil number next. Although it looked as if it had just come out of one of the larger English lad’s arse then lightly dressed in a child’s diarrohea it tasted incredible. Mind blowingly good especially when dunked into the remainder of the dips.
You don’t come to a curry house to focus on the starters though. It’s all about the curry, rice and naan bread and a dirty big pint of beer if you are drinking. I went for a COG naan (coriadner, onion and garlic) and it was as good as I’d ever had. Clearly cooked to order and fluffy, crispy and light all in one. The perfect curry dunking tool. The rice was equally fluffy but the real wonder was saved for the Rogan Josh I’d ordered. Fuck me was it good or what? You could have been sitting in Delhi eating that meal or at the very least Brick Lane as the Brits on the table next to me started to rack up the decibels and the beer flowed.
Some Famous Alternatives
Tree House is well known as a super high end Indian restaurant out in Oxford and they serve up incredible food with big flavors. The only reason it doesn’t win is because the vast majority of people want a big curry with pints of beer and a bit of craic. Tree hpuse is a very different experience and although amazing doesn’t tick all the boxes for me.
