Author Archives: Hector

Hector is home – Yadgar!

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Hector

Köln to Yadgar, one ‘short journey’, and well worth it A half hour delay coming back from Köln was better than thousands have endured elsewhere across Europe this weekend.  On collection at Edinburgh Airport there was Curry-Heute on Hector’s mind… … Continue reading →

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Wenige Ente Curry

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Hector

The Bombay (Am Weidenbach 21, 60676, Köln) is most certainly the first German-Indian restaurant where I had a Curry that actually impressed. This was therefore not a new discovery but a return to the tried and tested. Negotiating the snow … Continue reading →

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Govindam, in a snowbound Köln

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Hector

Govindam, the Vegetarian restaurant at Barbarossa Platz, (Roonstrasse 3, 50674, Köln) is the place Hector headed for in November. It does not open late. This was to be Hector’s first  Curry in a Vegetarian Restaurant in some twenty years. The … Continue reading →

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Glasgow – Papa Gill’s (Yoker) : Hector Naypals

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Hector

Hector’s House is without Marg and refrigeration this evening.  No, putting the food outside in the ice cold West of Scotland weather  is not an option – I am not feeding the local fox.  Papa Gills (2376 Dumbarton Rd, Yoker, … Continue reading →

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Glasgow – Ten Chaps and Chapattis at The Village

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Hector

Unbelievably this was Robin’s first Village visit, he arrived and waited outside The Villagio. Hector was two minutes early, Mr Boyd and Jonathan were already inside.  Let the records show that the person who had to travel furthest was there … Continue reading →

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Dining In, or Mother’s Indian Sunday

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Hector

Marg had a sneaky first visit to The Den at Dining In (1347 Argyle St, Kelvingrove, Glasgow) a couple of week’s ago.  Dining alone and going for a Curry, two simultaneous historic events.  The choice of venue was therefore on Marg’s … Continue reading →

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Chilled Pyraser, Hot Curry-Heute

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Hector

“O’ zapft is!“ The Fass has not been in the fridge.  ‘Warming’ the Bier was not necessary.  The temperature in the entry vestibule to Hector’s House has not been above zero all week.  The Chaps and Chapattis are assembled to … Continue reading →

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The Village : on the third day of…

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Hector

3 French Hens may be traditional : Hector will not be having Chicken! Dr Stan and Hector change the tried and tested Friday evening autumn formula and revert to a rendezvous at The Village (129 Nelson St, Glasgow, G5 8DZ).  … Continue reading →

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It’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht…

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Hector

This is proof that the culinary tastes of Hector and Marg do stray beyond the best food in the World.  Yesterday on a day in which the snow kept coming we decided on a return to one of Glasgow’s finest … Continue reading →

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Yadgar! Has it really has been three weeks since the last visit?

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Hector

The Minus 7, on a very cold day in Glasgow This is the penultimate Saturday afternoon Curry-Heute rendezvous of 2010.  Today Robin joins the ‘The Cleek’ (sic), the man who possibly eats more Curry than Hector.  He has heard us … Continue reading →

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