I'd read a bit about Brighton's restaurants. I didn't expect that they would be so difficult to get a lunch spot on a Sunday. Apparently the small amount of options, the not-much-else-to-do and the weekend local diners and tourist visitors all come together. One person in the party was vegan which also made it that little bit more limited.
Terre-A-Terre and 64 Degrees were full. The Salt Room, Murmur and Jack & Linda fish smokers were inappropriate. So cheap curry was the order of the day.
Lal Mass? The last time I saw you was when you burnt my face off... (https://eatlikeushi.posthaven.com/handi-jaipur-01-2015).
- Hyderabadi Biryani (marinated boneless chicken pieces, basmati rice, fried brown onions, South Indian spices with yoghurt raita & mirchi ka salan) £11.95 - a decent rice dish with tender chicken. Not too heavily flavoured;
- Lamb Lal Mass Thali (British lamb shoulder slow-cooked in yoghurt & onion sauce balanced by red chilli) served with lemon rice, naan, parsnip & onion pakora, daal makhani, vegetable thoran, tomato & black pepper rasam, beetroot raita, poppadum & pineapple chutney £10.95 - a whole mixture of things of average quality. The daal was quite watery, the curry wasn't spicy at all and the rest were relatively standard.
A staple curry lunch but I prefer my London ones more.