The Best Curry in the World?

After a tip off from our host, Farhan and I headed for a small but splendid looking restaurant called Heritage a couple of blocks from our hotel in Dhaka.

It turns out that this is run by a Bangladeshi chap called Tommy Miah. This fella cut his teeth making curry back home in Birmingham in England. Having made his fortune and opened several restaurants in the UK he's back here now and created the Heritage, a Bangladeshi Fusion restaurant in the style of the sort of cooking he did in England.

The starter we had was called the Heritage starter. It was out of this world. I've never had such a tasty starter anywhere in the world.

For our main course we had a fish and a lamb dish which we shared between us. Again totally delicious. The lamb was so juicy and succulent and the fish had real texture to it. The sauces were neither too thick or thin and wonderfully dark, rich and aromatic with just the right heat for my palate.

If you read this because you are coming to Dhaka, I can thoroughly recommend Heritage. A search on the web will find it. Though its website wasn't working properly when I looked earlier.

In the garden live 3 small Deer. They are fed the left over vegetables from the kitchen and look in at the window as you eat! The place itself is like a small ancient fort in the front with a big arched gate you have to pass through.

Well worth the 2010Tak we paid. About £25 for 2 of us - so not ever so cheap by Bangladeshi standards but about half what you'd pay in the UK and infinitely better value than the rather poor Italian we had at the Westin last night.