The Curry Club
since 1982

Price: £10.00
inc UK p & p

2007 Cobra Good Curry Guide

Your Guide to the best 1,000 UK curry restaurants.

Current Edition
Published by Blake for The Curry Club
472 pages, 210 x 150 x 16mm (A5), paperback,
ISBN: 9 781844 543113
Full colour throughout.
Available at all bookshops £14.95.

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Direct from us  £7.50 + £2.50 p&p = £10.00

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Established as the only in-print critical guide to the 1,000 best Curry Restaurants and Balti Houses in Britain. Regarded by media and the restaurants alike, as the definitive work of its kind. Each restaurant is assessed for price, style and quality of food, service, vegetarian availability, BYO, home delivery service, and more. Compiled with the help of hundreds of members of the public and of The Curry Club, whom we list in full.

2007 Award-Winners and Top 100 List. Statistics. Definitive menu glossary. Where you might get a discount if you show the management your copy of the Guide. (c700 restaurants participating).
Also features: alphabetical town index, county maps, fun and factual features, contributors’ list, etc.
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Click 2007/8 Cobra Good Curry Guide for a little more info.
The next (2010) edition will not be out until October 2009.

Click 2010 Cobra Good Curry Guide to find out what we need from you.

Click here to view pages from this book.
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"The Good Curry Guide gets better,"

By David Baker, Surrey.
(Reviewed on Amazon site, 14 April 2007.)
"This is the best edition of the Good Curry Guide yet. It is printed to a high quality in full colour throughout and contains many photographs of restaurants, chefs, owners, food and so on. Unlike some guides I can think of (The Good Food Guide for example), the restaurants are arranged helpfully by county, then by town and finally by name, each in alphabetical order. This makes it easy to find a good restaurant in whichever area you want. The book has a contents page, a county index, a list of the top hundred, an 'A' list (new to this edition) and a town index. It couldn't be clearer and easier to use. In addition, there are many interesting curry-related articles and a glossary of curry menu terms. The reviews are, as previously, mixed in content and detail, some being more helpful than others but, to some extent, I suppose this reflects the reports sent in by 'us'. All in all, the previous guides were great, but this one is even better.
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Email from : frank@franklawson.co.uk  Name: Francis Reynolds-Lawson           24 March 2008
"When on earth are you coming back down to earth, £14.95 +pp for a curry guide !!?. It's time you got back to basics with the £6.99 book you used to publish that was available from all good book sellers.  Get real !!"
Pat replies:
Woops!  Did we have a bad day Frank/Francis??
I don’t know why I’m bothering to reply to your wind-up but I think others will enjoy reading your remarks on my website.
I had to look up when the Guide retailed at £6.99. It was May 1995 (Fourth edition). I don’t know where you have been for the last 13 years, Frank, but you just may have noticed that prices have risen just ever so slightly!
Just out of interest I have run the 1995 price of  £6.99 on a  cost of Living calculator on www.measuringworth.com and it comes out at £9.69 in the 2007 value
However there is more to it than that. 
The current (2007) Guide has 421 pages against  288 pages, (31% larger)
It  measures 210 x 150 x 16mm against 195 x 100 x 15mm  (54% larger)
It  contains over 1000 restaurants against 600 (34% more)
It  is in full colour throughout against mono (c40% dearer)
It is on art (glossy) paper against 80gsm cheaper (matt) paper (15% dearer)
Despite all that, the current edition retails on my online shop for just £10.
Since you have emailed your comment directly from my website, I presume that you either ignored or didn’t notice that fact.
Now would you like to order a copy at £10?
I bet you don’t answer this.
Best wishes
Pat
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A reply if we get one, will be published right here.  Watch this space but don't hold your breath!