Curry Mile

Love the Curry Mile… bright lights, big city and Camel One.
Actually I’ve not been to Camel One, but I believe they serve top notch kebabs.
My first visit to the CM was on a Sunday where the restaurant we chose was full of families out for their Sunday meal. It was an array of traditional dress and colour.
On the second visit, last November we found it a lot busier parking up this time round, but managed to get a spot in a private car park.
We dined in Mughli, where we had a very pleasant experience and wonderful food.
The place is very well decorated and the staff extremely friendly, especially when we were leaving.
I highly recommend a visit to the Curry Mile in Manchester.

Its a street
Its about a mile long
Its full of Curry and Kebabs
Its heaven
Its like the moon on a stick

The curry mile is well worth a visit. It’s some kind of mixture of Manchester and Las Vegas. The lights of the takeaways and curry houses are well worth seeing, and well worth going to see. The smells as well are evocative and you could well imagine yourself to be many thousands of miles further east than you really are.
However, for all its glitz I’d really recommend going somewhere else if it’s a curry that you’re after. It’s glory days were in the 90s when it was the best food you could get in Manchester, but now I’m afraid most of the restaurants have been left behind by the increasing number of top-​class establishments in the city centre. They haven’t got any worse mind, it’s just that what was considered good 15 years ago hasn’t progressed and there are better places.
Of course I haven’t eaten in every one of the restaurants on the street, but the reviews bear me out. Places in the city centre that I would recommend include Akbar’s and East z East. These two are stand out and top class.
Rusholme still does have its place as the place to go for a 4am curry and there’s nothing wrong with that, but if it’s a top-​class tastebud exploding culinary experience that you’re after then I would suggest heading a mile or to the north.

The Curry Mile is another legend of the Mancunians. You can sit people down who are not familiar with these parts of the Mancunian way and as they all gather around, their breath baited, ears eager, you will in story teller fashion, divulge the secrets of the majestic Curry Mile. The traditions of drinking, the taxi deals, the recommendations, the not being quite sure what your chosen restaurant is called mid your alcohol haze, the ordering of a taxi at 4am or maybe 6am to come out to Rusholme, bellies satiated and alcohol/​blood levels sort of back to normal, looking up and down the row of curry houses as you await your taxi, and thinking that ah yes, that was indeed a beautiful night. These people you share the legend with will oooh and ahhh in the right places, and will swear a loyal oath to the name of Rusholme that they too will experience a night out just like that.
It is brilliant, and really, I can’t think of a bad experience food wise I’ve had down here, with businesses eager to please and willing to lower prices in order to compete with each other, it’s definitely worth flashing your student card and bartering for a better deal.
And as for the legend status, the Curry Mile is actually on the University tours! For realz! I accompanied my cousin on a tour and fair jumped through the upholstered ceiling of the tour bus when the Curry Mile popped up. DO IT!

Most cities offer a Chinatown. Some have a Little Italy. There are Jewish quarters, Polish neighbourhoods and other such places of cultured cuisine knocking around all over the UK. But how many of them have an entire mile dedicated to Indian food? Rusholme’s section of Wilmslow Road is where you’ll find a vast array of curry houses hotly anticipating your custom, as well as the obligatory variety of off-​licenses due to the Bring Your Own Booze policy of many of the restaurants… Then, there’s that which the uninitiated won’t have heard of — the many Indian sweet shops and ice cream stops ideally placed for that one wafer thin mint that’ll nickname you Mr Creosote after filling your belly with more spicy sauces than are humanly healthy.
If you have relatives or friends visiting and they like it hot, a visit here is a must. At first, it’s completely mind-​boggling. What differentiates one curry house from the next? Don’t they all serve the same food? Well, this is where Unilocal does the hard work for you — we’re here to Unilocal you after all. Take the ones you’re interested in. Maybe they offer something a little different? Sri Lankan cuisine, a charcoal pit, Pakistani, Punjab, Afghan… then search them in Unilocal and see what we have to say about them. Heck, we’re like one of those price comparison websites. We’re your middleman. We went to the bad ones when we were students, so you don’t have to.
The Curry Mile also has a policy somewhat alien to the rest of the UK. Rusholmers live like New Yorkers. If you want curry at 4am, you can get curry at 4am. A lot of these places stay open well into the wee small hours and then some.
Everyone should visit here at least once. It’s bright and shiny enough for tourists, authentic enough for foodies, cheap enough for students, lively enough for groups and different enough for just about every taste. Definitely put this on your to-​do list if you’re new to the great city of Manchester.

Curry Mile is just amazing, a truly brilliant area of Manchester that is always worth going to, whether you live here or even if you’re just visiting.
There are curry houses everywhere you look, and on most nights of the week, and especially when the students are in town, there will be guys outside every curry house trying to bargain with you and get you to come in to their restaurant.
If you play one or two off of each other, you can usually grab a pretty great deal for curry. I wouldn’t step inside any of them for anything less than 15% off and free popadoms. As for where is good, there should be enough individual reviews on this here Unilocal thing to help you make up your mind.

Bright lights, weird music, lazy people, delicious food, amazing desserts and Shisha cafes. What more could one want for an entire mile?!
It has millions of restuarants bordering both sides and yes it indeed goes on for a mile. It has Indian, Pakistani, turkish, Mediterranean and even Egyptian Cusines! The place is home to kebabs and curries! It has great dessert places like the famous Moonlight, Sweet box and Treats, where you can enjoy whipped cream, strawberries and cheesecakes to new levels!
My list for the best which all of you are welcome to try are as follows:
–Caspian
–Spice Kitchen
–Punjab
–Chicken Cottage
–Treats
–Moonlight
Check these out and you will not even be close to disappointed!

Curry Mile is arguably Manchester’s most famous piece of local flavour.
Officially known as Oxford Road and Wilmslow Road, Curry Mile consists of an entire mile of road, lined with the finest curry houses, kebab shops, Asian food stores and supermarkets the world has ever seen (possibly outside of Asia).
Manchester’s Asian community make it a real piece of cosmopolitan multiculturalism, bringing great authentic Indian, Pakistani and Middle Eastern food, culture and banter to the streets of Manchester.
A standard day sees dozens of restauranteurs outside on the road trying to lure in Manchester customers to sample their fine curries, rather than those of their numerous rivals.
Its closest parallel in the UK is of course Brick Lane in London, but for me there is no questions, Manchester’s Curry Mile is the finest of its kind.
Prices are great, and the competition means you can strike great deals.
And its not just the curry that you’re to come for but the culture as well, as restaurants are supplemented by authentic Indian shops, and even street vendors selling authentic snacks such as hot sweetcorn. There’s also Indian desert shops, Asian supermarkets and much more besides.
Curry Mile would make it onto my list of places to visit if you are only ever going to have one day in Manchester, let alone if you live here.