SOMETIMES you just know that you are not taking a risk when you play that old favourite game of menu lottery.

You pick up a leaflet from a takeaway and you just know that it’s a winner — so I knew that calling Blackburn’s Khyber would mean a decent feed about half an hour later.

The Whalley Range shop proudly boasts that it is Blackburn’s leading curry house “since 1966” so that makes it even more surprising that, having looked back through my files — this isn’t just thrown together you know — I haven’t actually reviewed the Khyber before.

So hungry and with Lancashire Telegraph readers to be kept informed I went straight to the back of the menu, bypassing the wide range of curries to the kebab section.

It had to be a special kebab, a tempting mix of lamb, chicken and Seekh in a naan.

Sure enough, the kebab arrived within 30 minutes and it was a mammoth meal. In fact, there was so much it took me an age to eat it — and that is not my normal to be fair — and every bite was top drawer with a chilli sauce that was slightly cooler than nuclear but still offered that back of the mouth kick.

OK, it is slightly more expensive than the town centre takeaways but when the feed is top notch, you can’t complain about that.

VERDICT

  • Taste: 8
  • Temperature: 8
  • Speed: 7
  • Value: 7
  • Choice: 7