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Curry Capitol of Britain® – Brighton comes third

Gary Hart October 27, 2015

Bradford won the crown for Curry Capital of Britain® for the fifth time in succession with Glasgow coming second, just 5 points behind and Brighton taking third spot. Restauranteurs complain of lack of support from city council for their bids.

National Curry Capitol

Founder of Curry Capital of Britain® Peter Grove, said: “Winning Curry Capital of Britain is a long and arduous process and all the restaurant teams have to be commended on their efforts. Unfortunately, some councils take the event more seriously than others, which means fewer points in the final analysis for content.”

Each city enters four restaurants to the competition. Points awarded include the judges’ scores for each team of four restaurants, health and hygiene from Scores on the Doors, public votes, a council submission and finally, any fundraising for charity is also taken into account.

Peter explained: “The underlying concept of the event is Community Cohesion through Curry – not necessarily which city has the best restaurants.”

“I realise some restaurateurs will feel aggrieved, but council support is part of the process and if that is not there, there is little we can do.”

Leicester managed to pip self-styled curry capital Birmingham to fourth place, with Birmingham fifth and London South and London Central joint sixth. The two London teams also achieved the excellent record of being the only 100% health & hygiene scorers amongst all the teams.

Brighton put up a very spirited challenge in only its third year in the competition and surprised many by being in the top three again. There was excellent support from local restaurants and local PR man George Shaw, although concerns have been raised about the lack of support and interest shown by the city council. Brightons representative restaurants were:

♦ Indian Summer

Chilli Pickle

Blue Mango

Curry Leaf Cafe

Leicester provided one of its best challenges since they won in 2007, beating rival Birmingham into fifth place. Birmingham scored the second highest restaurant marks after London South and London Central but unfortunately received little council support. The same applied to the two London teams which both only dropped two points each out of a possible forty-four.

For a full list of the places in 2015, click here:

 

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