HOW much chicken is too much chicken? I suppose if you were a chicken, then any would be excessive.

But as a keen curry-ist I can never decide whether I’m best sticking solely to white meat or moving to the darker delights of lamb and beef.

You know the score when you go for a meal. There are three things on the menu that you fancy, but of course you can’t have them all, can you?

Well in today’s dining out dimension you can with the rise of the buffet restaurant.

These eat-all-you-can outlets have redefined a meal out and what people expect from the food on their plate. Sometimes a bit grim. You may expect to see a lowering of quality from a la carte fayre purely due to the huge amounts of food which is cooked and the price charged.

I think it’s fair to say that within the buffet sphere there is a huge variation in quality. I remember one never-ending pizza buffet in which the only option seemed to be a limp Margarita and a salad which seemed to be adopting the brownish hues of army camouflage clothing before my eyes.

However, Aakash is definitely different. If you are a carnivore you may think you have died and gone to heaven.

Tikka-ed breasts from the poultry equivalent of Dolly Parton, freshly roasted lamb with Asian spicing sliced to your liking – and that’s just a taste of the dining delights.

The restaurant on Bradford Road in Cleckheaton styles itself as the largest Indian restaurant in the world.

It’s in a former Congregationalist chapel, built in 1858 and a Grade II listed building.

I think from the car park (manned) and the style of the building you know it’s not your normal curry house.

The ornate interior boasts a fabulous ceiling and a smaller mezzanine level above the huge main dining room.

The left-hand side is chock full with chromed and heated dishes filled with all manner of delights.

Starting at the beginning there’s a great selection of dips, sauces and salads as well as loads of poppadoms.

Then it’s the starters – my favourite bit of any meal.