East is East and West is West…

Aren’t family breaks the best? And isn’t food just great? I’d say ‘yes’ to both of those questions.

This week I went away to York (a typical, but beautiful, British Midlands city for all you Yanks reading this) and there was pretty much not a single minute that we weren’t discussing where we were going to eat each day. Actually, our time was quite evenly divided as 50% food and 50% shopping, but for the purposes of this post, we’ll say that we were always talking about food.

For the first two nights, we had Italian and Portuguese. Pretty exotic for England, I’ll admit, but for the third night we decided to go full out and try something even further East. In fact, we ventured right out of Europe and ended up in Asia. We went for some traditional Pakistani cuisine at Akbar’s – one of only nine in the world.

We weren’t expecting much – our party of four suspected that Akbar’s would just be the same as any old Indian. Oh, how we were wrong.

For starters, we were brought out some large poppadoms that resembled the moon, along with four dips for us to try. Delicious.

We each ordered a meal – these included Pakistani Chicken Tikka and Lamb Paneer – and a ‘family naan’ to share.

Anyway, this family naan turned out to be more like a family of GIANTS naan. It was so big, we all joked about using it as either an umbrella or a blanket. Seriously, it was at least twice the size of my head and I’m not exaggerating. The meals themselves turned out to be much more than ‘just Indian food’ too. Some were extremely spicy (my cousin had two order two lassi drinks to cool down her throat) but all were bearable enough for us to enjoy our food.

The waiters and chefs were extremely professional yet still had a sense of humour. Service was quick and even the rice was cooked to perfection.

Concluding, it could easily be said that this was the best meal of our stay. It really is worth going a little more outlandish and eating in the East.

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