Sheffield History Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Trying to track down which was Sheffield's first indian. So far the following are candidates: Induz - Fitzalan Square (where Cooplands is now) next to the cinema Nirmals - Glossop Road (still there today) The Naaz - On the Wicker The Oriental - Barrack Hill, Hillsborough Either 'The Everest' or 'Himalaya' in the city centre (glossop road area) next to Pollards grocers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest codeyes Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Trying to track down which was Sheffield's first indian. So far the following are candidates: Induz - Fitzalan Square (where Cooplands is now) next to the cinema Nirmals - Glossop Road (still there today) The Naaz - On the Wicker The Oriental - Barrack Hill, Hillsborough Either 'The Everest' or 'Himalaya' in the city centre (glossop road area) next to Pollards grocers. I am sure that it was The Everest mate.....from around 1980 ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daveyboy66 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Both the Induz and Naaz were open before 1980. I think the Induz was the first although I remember going in the Naaz at 7am in the morning on New Years Day after a lock in at the Hole in the Road pub which my mum worked at. Which must have been around 1977/8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 after a lock in at the Hole in the Road pub which my mum worked at. Daveyboy - see the following: http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=327 Help us out with any details that you can ?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 There was definitely an Indian in Sheffield in 1966ish. The blokes from work took me there after work once or twice. I think it was on West Bar somewhere around New Street area. We worked at Footprint Tools on Hollis Croft and we walked there, so it must have been quite close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 There was definitely an Indian in Sheffield in 1966ish. The blokes from work took me there after work once or twice. I think it was on West Bar somewhere around New Street area. We worked at Footprint Tools on Hollis Croft and we walked there, so it must have been quite close. On my stag night in 1968 we all finished up in some sort of foreign restaurant at the bottom of Snig Hill, somewhere near New Street on the same side as the gun shop, it was up some stairs. Anyone remember it ? Could have been the one you visited vox. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 On my stag night in 1968 we all finished up in some sort of foreign restaurant at the bottom of Snig Hill, somewhere near New Street on the same side as the gun shop, it was up some stairs. Anyone remember it ? Could have been the one you visited vox. W/E. I don't remember the stairs but near the Gun-shop is right around where I was thinking. It's most probably the same place W.E. Sheffield wasn't suffering a plethora of "exotic" (as they were considered then) restaurants at the time. We were pretty "amateur" at spicy food eating in those days weren't we. The older blokes from the Toolroom took me. (Older blokes! - well they seemed it to me at the time. I was in my teens and they would have only been in their 20's - 30's) They ordered the mildest curry on the menu for my first go. They all sat watching while I took my first mouthful, and they weren't disappointed. It was a right shock. Probably the spiciest thing I'd come across up to then would have been SpagBol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest snodgrass Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 According to 1965 Kelly's there were two obviously Indian restaurants: (one I cannot recall) Bombay Restaurant - 130/132 Attercliffe Common (one I visited occasionally) Taj Mahal - 349 Ecclesall Road I'm fairly sure that around 1972/73 I also sampled some good meals at the Manzil on Ecclesall Road In the same era it was always a difficult choice whether to eat at The Himalaya or walk across West Street to The New Bengal - Nirmal's didn't exist then Anyway this is making me hungry - must find the bombay mix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 One of the many ads from this guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 One of the many ads from this guide. They made a mistake at the printers. It was called Passage To India. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rcolley Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I think the Bombay on Attercliffe Common was the earliesr. It advertised "Best Curry in UK" The upmarket Ajanta at the bottom of Carver St was there in 1963. The Tah Mahal in Eccleshall Road and the Raja on Abbeydale Road were there around 1964/65. Ate in them all the 1960s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sotonowl Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 They made a mistake at the printers. It was called Passage To India. should've been back passage to india Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonr2z Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Okay, I know it wasn't the earliest but does anyone remember the Paradise at the bottom of London Road prior to it burning down in about 1985? Not my first Indian in Sheffield, but me and my mates used to go there a lot (usually well after midnight and drunk!). It did a really evil Vindaloo which we all loved! I don't know if it is still as good, but Nirmal's was always my favourite in terms of overall quality/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 http://www.sheffieldindian.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 They made a mistake at the printers. It was called Passage To India. Passage to India !!!!!! Does anyone remember the exploits of the Heeley couple and their Reliant 3 wheeler ? On one occasion they were waved off by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield from the Town Hall it must have been in the late 60s early 70s, their destination was India. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Passage to India !!!!!! Does anyone remember the exploits of the Heeley couple and their Reliant 3 wheeler ? On one occasion they were waved off by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield from the Town Hall it must have been in the late 60s early 70s, their destination was India. W/E. Didn't they make a habit of travelling the entire world, not just to India, in their 3 wheeler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jean_Helen Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Hi everyone, I am a new member. I remember going to the Islamabad (Slammers!) and Rim Jims, both on Attercliffe Common. This was very early 70`s when I was first married. Could these be among the first??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popadodge Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I went in Induz in early 70s I don't remember any other then...I remember they did a wicked t bone steak too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Martin Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 First curry house I went to was late seventies....Induz. I also remember Passage to India very well....lived close to there so visited it frequently in the 80's. Nirmals has been around since late 70's, earlt 80's. I remeber Nirmal and Pashota Gupta from when they had the Indian shop on the corner of Colchester Road, Mulehouse Road in Crookes in the 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevthelodgemoorowl Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I think The Curry Centre London Road was open by 1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyO Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I remember reading somewhere that the first Indian in Sheffield was the curry inn on Ecclesall Road, I can't remember where I read that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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