This month the curry club maintained a Christmas tradition of going to one of the favourite venues for the year. This was done with a certain amount of trepidation as last years gathering at the Thai Inn was a bit of a disappointment, would a visit to the Bangala Café in Rushden High Street meet our expectations? Our glorious treasurer was unfortunately unable to join us as he was off sick, and Bill was off somewhere on a cruise, so a reduced group consisting of Young Tom, the Prof, Pete, Jim, Ian, Keith, Alan B and Pastor Ian were to sample the delights along with a new member Nathan. Tony had secured a great deal for us of a starter, main course, side dish, choice of rice or Naan and coffee for an amazing £7.50.
So having studied the menu and ordered we waited for our feast to arrive. It was at this point that the election of a treasurer ensued, there was a lot of delegation going on, i.e. no one wanted to do it and delegated it to the next person, but being as he does such a good job of being Tony’s assistant, Pete was, err, volunteered to the position.
The conversation soon got on the way with reminiscing back to times when it was possible to get some really bad number 1’s in the chart before the days of “strictly comes the X-factor on ice”. Come back Mr Blobby all is forgiven! Pete said something about seeing Bare, Naked Ladies who he assured us were a group he had seen in a concert! Tom then told us a sad story about a dog that had climbed into a washing machine and gone through the whole cycle and died, “but at least it died in comfort” said Tom! We set about the party poppers and crackers and soon the food was arriving. It was noted that Nathan had ordered the biggest of everything but still managed to clean his plate. We had a wide selection and the quality was excellent. The staff in the Bangala are a delight, friendly and only too willing to explain what the various items on the menu are, we are now fully conversant with Momos!
At the end of the meal we were offered a complementary drink of our choice. Pastor Ian, who is partial to an occasional malt went for a Drambuie expecting a small glass to finish the meal he was presented with a bucket that must have contained a triple of the tipple.
Now to the important point of scoring, Jim did his usual visit to the “facilities” and they got the thumbs up, the service and the quality and cost couldn’t be faulted, there was a slight marking down for ambience but the overall score was 23.75 which is our highest ever. The manager of the restaurant said he was determined to get a perfect score, watch this space!