Nawaab

35 Westgate, Huddersfield

Venue Nawaab

Tel01484 422775

Websitewww.nawaabs.net

Opening hoursMonday to Thursday 5.30pm to 11pm, Friday and Saturday 5.30pm to midnight and Sunday from 4pm to 10pm.

ChildrenWelcome

Disabled accessYes, via a back door

The bill£53.65

Would you go back?Yes

NAWAAB has become one of Huddersfield’s longest-established Indian restaurants and many will have long forgotten that this imposing building on the corner of Westgate and Half Moon Street used to be a bank.

It still maintains some of that austerity and grace inside – most notably the large pillars – but softened by a huge mirrored wall that’s so big it’d keep a ballerina happy for hours.

And with the plush carpet, posh curtains, chandeliers and comfy upholstered seats, Nawaab has maintained it’s classy appeal.

The menu used to be so wide-ranging you’d need to plough through something akin to a book to choose your meal – a daunting thought and an even more overwhelming task.

Now it’s been streamlined onto a double-sided menu – but it’s still pretty big.

When my wife Ruth and I arrived the restaurant was quite full for a midweek night in the bleakest of midwinters.

By the time we’d got onto our main course we were virtually the only ones left. Was it something we’d said?

Thankfully no. It was something the early bird menu said.

It’s available every day from 5pm to 7pm and you can choose any starter, main course and accompaniment such as pilau rice or chapatti for £9.95 per person – and that includes tea or coffee. The early birds were away off back to their nests.