Bath is too large and no doubt endowed with plenty of Indian restaurants to provide any accurate sort of run down to what is available. However, a walk round the City centre whilst I was there provided a peek at some alternatives.

When looking for high street Indian restaurants I usually start with the High Street. It seems to make some sort of logic! Sure enough the Jamuna is on the corner of High Street and Cheap Street. The address is actually 9-10 High Street although the entrance is in Cheap Street. A small doorway and rather unprepossessing stairs leads to a first floor restaurant, which seats about 60.

I next found the Rajpoot at number 4 Argyle Street. A larger restaurant seating getting on for 100 at a guess, with a very surly looking doorman. In fact, he looked so unfriendly (no smile when I approached) that he's more likely to put people off than encourage customers. Next door is the Pria which is under the same management (in fact, virtually all the Indian restaurants in Bath, except the Bengal Brasserie and Nepalese, are owned by the Chowdhury family). It is a modern, new-looking restaurant, although a couple of years ago the Pria was up a dingy staircase next door. They have clearly smartened it up and moved to street level. Opposite, still in Argyle Street ( number 12) is the Yak Yeti Yak, a Nepalese restaurant which opened in early 2004. It is down (a long way down!) in a basement, and the menu is entirely Nepalese dishes, although has a limited selection if you discount the dishes that are the same except for the type of meat. .

In Lower Bristol Road (number 78-79) is the smart looking Jafflong which advertises Bengal and Indian cuisine. It is Bangladeshi owned but the chefs are from Nepal (or were when I enquired in 2000). The menu has all the usuals plus a good number of different dishes amongst the specials.

At the top end of town at 32 Milsom Street is the Bengal Brasserie, another basement restaurant and which had been there 'about 17 year' according to the waiter when I enquired in 2005. 

Probably the best of those I found (I say that, however, without trying them all) is The Eastern Eye, which I went in the first time I was there. I wasn't disappointed, as the report shows, although I did enjoy the Nepalese restaurant.

Despite being a big City it did not seem overburdened with Indian restaurants at the center (and interestingly, very few are at street level) although I saw from an advert the first time I was there that there is the Curry 2000 (opened in 2000, which presumably explains the name) in Landsdown Road and also owned by the Chowdury family.

Malcolm Wilkins - April 2005