Curry houses in Tampere?

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:38 pm

There are rumoured to be a couple

http://eat.fi/fi/tampere

Recommendations please.

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Karhunkoski · Post by **Karhunkoski** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:08 pm

If someone can remind me how to search on a forum, I can look for an old post of mine. I think that should at least tell you which one to avoid (IIRC).

Jukka Aho · Post by **Jukka Aho** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:02 pm

Karhunkoski wrote:If someone can remind me how to search on a forum

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Karhunkoski · Post by **Karhunkoski** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:25 pm

Jukka Aho wrote:
Karhunkoski wrote:If someone can remind me how to search on a forum
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Danke Jukka

Here you go Fishy:

http://finlandforum.org/viewtopic.php?f ... ry#p287722

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:05 pm

Good man,

I did try a search for "tampere curry" but didn't find my way to that post. I also checked Eat.fi which gave "Star & Moonlight" as the highest rated curry place

http://eat.fi/tampere/star-moonlight

But a check of the menu categories on

http://www.starandmoonlight.com/

indicates that it's some kind of burger / kebab / pizza joint with curry a distant 6th.

Coriander seems to be pretty poor, but it's not open tomorrow anyhow...

http://eat.fi/tampere/coriander

Gopal sounds promising, but isn't open in the evening ...

http://eat.fi/tampere/kasvisravintola-gopal

Nanda Devi several others complained about the service, and has an average rep at best....

http://eat.fi/tampere/nanda-devi

Any others care to pitch in?

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:36 pm

Due to its proximity to Stockmann, the fact that it was open when we wanted to eat and the reasonable review on eat.fi we went to Swagath

http://www.swagath.fi/

And it was pretty bad.

Weakly microwaved pakora and samosa to start (warm in parts stone cold in others).
43. Alu Palak (edible but tasteless) and 45. Kashimir Sabji (vile) as mains, plenty of rice which tasted alright.
Breads ... impossible to tell which was the paratha and which was the roti both dire... but on the up side the garlic naan was delicious.

Bill for 2 including soft drinks was €47.

Overall score 3/10 (2.8 of which are for the garlic naan).

TampereOwl · Post by **TampereOwl** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:22 am

The easiest way to get a good curry if you're in Tampere is to catch a ryanair flight to London.

Gopal's nice, but it's more 'vegetarian' than 'Indian' if you know what I mean. Lots of bean sprouts and salad, not much deep fried spicy loveliness (although when they do have pakoras on, they're usually good).

I was thinking of trying this place soon:

http://eat.fi/fi/helsinki/saffron-cuisine

Anyone tried it?

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:05 pm

TampereOwl wrote:The easiest way to get a good curry if you're in Tampere is to catch a ryanair flight to London.

Wise words... and we will be doing that in January... unfortunately, we were only in Tampere for the sales and wanted to grab a cuzza ... Pori is a curry free zone.

TampereOwl wrote:Gopal's nice, but it's more 'vegetarian' than 'Indian' if you know what I mean. Lots of bean sprouts and salad, not much deep fried spicy loveliness (although when they do have pakoras on, they're usually good).

Yeah, Gopal has a good rep., we'd have been happy to try that, but it shuts at 16:00 on Saturdays and we were looking for somewhere for dinner.

TampereOwl wrote:I was thinking of trying this place soon:
http://eat.fi/fi/helsinki/saffron-cuisine Anyone tried it?

Seems the reports on eat.fi are a bit variable ... love it or hate it. Would be good to have a review from someone who knows that the best curry in Tampere is via Ryanair.

TampereOwl · Post by **TampereOwl** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:29 pm

I'm a bit wary, as it looks like the kind of place where the bill is going to make me angry if the food is mediocre. Might be safest to try it for lunch first, which I will aim to do before I head to the UK at Christmas, but surely one of the Helsinkians must have been there?

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