Best Take Out Food In Blanch

Jip

holly_johnson wrote: »

Does anyone know if Shimla is back open yet? It's my favourite Indian by a mile and I'm lost without it..

Jaipur is so much better, one of the best spots for Indian food in the city.

tony 2 tone

Thaedydal wrote: »

It was still closed when I was up that way last Thursday.

There was still a mound of rubble outside it when I passed it, and a note saying some along the lines of trying to get it back open asap. I was really looking forward to a vindaloo.

kgpixels

Apache has great pizza.

Mandarin Castle is the tastiest Chinese around imo and they'll deliver to Blanch!

kenon

I think Mizzoni are excellent. I've never been disappointed with their pizzas.

They do wagon wheel and mega-wheel pizzas aswel for when you're really hungry!

amdublin

holly_johnson wrote: »

Does anyone know if Shimla is back open yet? It's my favourite Indian by a mile and I'm lost without it..

EEEEEK! :eek:

Anyone know if it is re-opening or what the story is etc?!!!

I just adore shimla

JupiterKid

Macari's on Blanch Main St. without a shadow of a doubt. Up there with best take away chips available anywhere - gives Burdock's a real run for their money.

I have a American friend who comes over to visit me to Ireland now and then and the first thing she wants to eat as soon as she gets here all the way from California is a feed of Macari's fish and chips.:D

Salome

Thai Garden. Thai Garden. Thai Garden. Oh my, I want to go there now.

poindexter

kamobe wrote: »

Salvetta's is lovely - I order from there quite a bit. They have this chicken burger thing where they cut a chicken fillet up and place it in ciabatta like bun with sauce and lettuce. *drroool*.

where is this place in corduff?? is it the chipper at the shops????

Salome

poindexter wrote: »

where is this place in corduff?? is it the chipper at the shops????

Yes, best chipper in the area!

Canacourse

Abrakadabra in Blanch Village. You're always welcome as long as you are too pissed to see properly buy not too pissed that you couldn't pay.

I seem to remember Tracy's friendly scowl in the 90'ies as as I ordered Mechanically Recovered Meat Style Meat Kebab with all the sauces most of which were eventually split on the floor.

May not be like that now...

Canacourse

MadHatter wrote: »

Thai Garden on Church Ave is an excellent restaurant and they do takeaway - I think a 15% discount on the (already reasonable) menu prices.

The food in Thai Garden is definitely excellent but I would not call their prices reasonable not unless they have come down in the last 3 or 4 months.

Awesome-O

Shimla, best indian by a mile, can't wait until it re-opens. :pac:

Let's eat in do a lovely indian too and it's great because they do so much different types of food it keeps everybody happy

holly_johnson

My Dad was talking to the builders working in Shimla last week and they said it should re-open in about 3 weeks. Here's hoping!

Awesome-O

holly_johnson wrote: »

My Dad was talking to the builders working in Shimla last week and they said it should re-open in about 3 weeks. Here's hoping!

fingers crossed

Lothaar

Canacourse wrote: »

The food in Thai Garden is definitely excellent but I would not call their prices reasonable not unless they have come down in the last 3 or 4 months.

I've been going there regularly for the past five years and the prices have always been reasonable. Two early bird menus of either €17.95 or €21.95 for 3 courses plus tea/coffee/jasmine tea is exceptional value, particularly considering the quality of food and service. I ate from the full menu last week and paid just over €60 for 2x3 courses and 2 glasses of wine.

The takeaway prices are indeed more expensive than other takeaways... but it's a restaurant not a takeaway. Tbh, you're much better off going for the early bird if you're peckish. Whenever I order takeaway it's cos I want quality food and have to/want to sit at home for whatever reason.

nige1982

lads and lassies,

the best take aways around our local comunities are below (I have had enough to earn my shout )

Chineese - Hung Won in Rose Lawn

Mixed - Eatzin

Pizza - Pizzahut take away place dont know the name

Indian - Shimla it was so hot it burnt down ha

Pub Grub - Carpenter Pab a la cart (not the carvery :mad:)

Steaks - MY OWN on the BBQ

bananabunch

I am in desperate need of a decent curry. Have tried everywhere else around this area and nothing compares, the worst tastes of tinned tomato soup, the best I've found so far is from M&S. Please let me know if you hear any news, it's quite a detour for me to keep driving past the place to see if there's any progress!

Jip

Have you tried Jaipur, doesn't sound like you did.

daymobrew

Bombay Pantry is in Ashtown. They deliver to Carpenterstown. You can collect too.

+1 for Jaipur. It is very good too.

bananabunch

Admit I haven't tried either of those places. Looked at Jaipur menu a few times ad they don't seem to do the dishes my partner and I like such as Balti. Maybe it's time to be a bit adventurous.

PauloMN

Jaipur is pretty good but I find it very expensive for take out.

I got a take out the other day from the place in Clonee village across from Texaco - what was called Rangoli - but recently changed name/ownership. Was very nice and good value imo. They have Balti definitely.

suey71

I love Indian food myself and will give Shimla a try when they reopen.
I have gotten take outs from most of the Indian Take aways in D15 and I am always amazed at the variations of the same dish. For example, if I ordered a Chicken Bhuna in Shimlaand I love it, I could order one the next week and it tastes completely different and so on for all of the Indian take aways in the area, though I haven't tried Jaipur, its just too damned expensive.

What I hate about Indian take aways is that you pay extra for the rice. This could amount to 3 euro for a decent rice or 2.20 for a pilau. So for 2 people the rice alone could be 5euro. The main courses are also nearly twice what they are in a Chinese but to be honest, there is no comparison with the taste.
Once you've had Indian you'll never go back.

daymobrew

suey71 wrote: »

What I hate about Indian take aways is that you pay extra for the rice. This could amount to 3 euro for a decent rice or 2.20 for a pilau. So for 2 people the rice alone could be 5euro.

I often cook rice at home. I buy a large bag of basmati rice in one of the Middle Eastern stores in Coolmine Industrial Park.

suey71

Hi Daymobrew.

Did this myself a while ago but I was the only one in the family that liked the taste of the rice. The kids are too use to Uncle Ben.

Also there was a lot of preperation with the rice, washing all the starch from it at the beginning, plus it goes to mush if you dont stand over it constantly. But I get your point and I do like the taste personally. + its a lot cheaper.

Thanks.

daymobrew

suey71 wrote: »

Also there was a lot of preperation with the rice, washing all the starch from it at the beginning, plus it goes to mush if you dont stand over it constantly. But I get your point and I do like the taste personally. + its a lot cheaper.

I use a method that was on the side of the basmati packaging:

• 1 rice for 2 water ratio (e.g. 100g rice, 200g water)
• Put on high and quickly bring to boil.
• Give rice a gentle stir and turn to low
• Cover saucepan and cook for 12-14mins
• Done

I never bother with rinsing the rice.

suey71

Thanks for the reply.

You really should start rinsing the rice before its cooked, well, thats what I was told by the guy in the shop, Rasq in Lucan.
He told me to rinse it until the water ran white. I had to rinse it 4 times.

I'd like to check this out on the Cookery Forum though.
I also rinse pasta after cooking, you'd be amazed at the amount of starch comes out.

I hadn't got a weighing scale so I couldn't use your method. I just plopped some rice in the pot and boiled it until it was soft.


Then rinced it again:D. To be sure, to be sure.

Death By Starch.

bananabunch

As always I follow Delia's advice about cooking rice. I measure rice and water by volume, so one cup of rice and two cups of water, rinse it before cooking, then I hat up a little oil, put in the rice and give it a quick stir so the grains are coated, then pour in boiling water, stir once, cover the pan with the lid, turn the heat down then leave it alone for 15 minutes before rinsing again with boiling water and serving it. It is stirring the rice too much which leads to it sticking together, the opposite of what some people may think.

peteypop

:pac:HUNG WUN IN ROSELAWN FOR CHINESE:pac:

PRONTO PIZZA IN BLANCH VILLAGE:pac:

GUILIOS IN MULHUDDART FOR CHIPPER:pac:

Gaspode

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peteypop

apoligies it was meant to be a whisper:D