2012 is upon us and our nation’s capital is bubbling with anticipation for the year’s big events. This year Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, and after what feels like a decade of waiting the Olympics come to London this summer. However, in the small suburb of Tooting something undoubtedly more refined and cultured than The Games is going to be taking place. This year, my friend, colleague and co-curry enthusiast, Tom Scrimgour and I (Michael Murphy) will be sampling and reviewing all the curry wares Tooting has to offer. Like Paula Radcliffe, we’re going to put our bodies and bowels on the line and run this marathon, for the good of our nation (and because we bloody love curry). Who will come home with the medals? Who will have us making a 100 yard dash to the bogs? Only time, and curry, will tell.
Fans of the genre and locality may well be familiar with the Tooting Curry Club blogspot, which we hold in high regard, but we felt it time the scene got a new lick of paint (a new dip of chutney on the proverbial poppadum , if you will). We hope to, if not better, but emulate and rival this esteemed blog, and give our own take on one of London’s perhaps most underrated cultural delights, and hopefully entertain and inform in the process. Also, as both market researchers by profession, we feel it only our duty to offer first grade analysis and valuable insight into this wonderful scene (albeit with little to no objectivity, and minimal base robustness or data integrity).
So welcome aboard! We hope you enjoy reading as much as we’ll enjoy doing it