Britain’s love affair with curry goes back centuries, long before the boom in the late 1970s saw restaurants popping up in every town and city. Well into the 90s and 00s, going for a curry, mopped up with naan bread and washed down with your drink of choice, was a Friday night staple.
But in recent years the traditional British curry house has been in decline, and the famous Balti Triangle in Birmingham, once home to dozens of Balti restaurants, has only four remaining.
