Blackpool : Mr Basrai’s World Cuisines
I saw this when on the little expedition that Liam had arranged and it looked suitably tempting as I can be quite greedy on occasion. I reserved a table on-line the previous evening, although I guessed that this wouldn’t really be needed. One thing that did slightly annoy me is that you can book on-line any table size from 2 people to 50 people, they seem to have forgotten about the option for 1 person. The venue is one of the three in the chain, the other two being located in Scotland.
It’s a sizeable place and I can imagine it gets very busy during the summer months. Less so on a cold windy weekday lunchtime in January. The venue did get hit with a 1/5 food hygiene rating a couple of years ago, but they’re back to top marks again now. The welcome was friendly and engaging, although they did try and overcharge me, but that seemed a genuine error.
There are rows of these, it’s the largest lunchtime selection at an all you can eat that I’ve seen. There were plenty of curries, stir fries, random fried food and they had some live cooking stations as well. Everything seemed clean, tidy and organised to me.
Don’t judge me on the beer, I thought it was the best available option. It’s the Birra Moretti and it tasted a little generic, but it was refreshing and clean so it had to do. I very much like brown food I’ve realised, but there is evidence of vegetables in there for the more eagle eyed of my four blog readers. I won’t post every food photo as I don’t want to look greedy, although, in fairness I think I was quite restrained.
I liked the window seat that I was given, it was really quite peaceful. You don’t normally get that sort of things at restaurants like this, it usually feels a bit more for a free for all.
The dessert selection.
Delicious.
The end result is that I didn’t need anything to eat for the day, although I probably over-did it as usual. It would probably be best if I could sign up to some sort of national self-exclusion database from all you can eat locations, as I can get overexcited…. Anyway, I thought the value here was rather good for £18 including the food and drink.
