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I've been to Curry Leaf twice now for lunch. They have a lunch special, from which you choose one starter and one main course and this is served with rice, nan and a bit of salad for £5.95.

I went for the onion bhaji and chicken tikka massala both times and thoroughly enjoyed it. The onion bhajis are very nice, and it's a great meal for the price.

However, I think the food does reflect the price. Lunch is fine, but I'm not sure if I would take someone there for dinner, though perhaps this is unfair. I've only seen the lunch menu, I would imagine there is a lot more varaition on the full menu.

A great pub tucked away in the small village of Ings near Kendal.

They have a microbrewery on site where they produce just delights as 'colliewoobles' beer and 'A bit of ruff'. they also specialise in selling other beers brewed locally.

The food is really good and reasonably priced, I would especially recommend going on their steak nights where you get to select your piece of steak to be cooked.

It's a dog pub though, so expect furry friends under tables or at the bar (most are very well behaved though). I look forward to a meal here every time I'm in Cumbria.

The Highway has unfortunately now closed and looks like it's going to be turned into a housing development.

Although not the nicest pub in the world, there were a lot of friendly regulars and often events going on there.

A loss to the community.

Another one of my favourite bookshops. They have a a specialist medical section, including a great section on Epidemiology and Medical Statistics which is where I spend a lot of my time (yes, I admit it, I'm a geek), and you can find most books from the LSHTM reading list in stock.

They have quite a big fiction section as well though and although it's a little disorganised and hard to find things, due to lots of little cubby holes and secluded parts of rooms, there's actually a lot here if you have the patience to look.

If you don't have time, the staff are very helpful, and can quickly tell you if a book is in stock or not. I really like the personal comments that waterstones' staff write about various books around the store.

I've spent many a lunch break in this shop.

I went to this Indian for a Christmas night out with a very large group and I must confess I wasn't overly impressed.

The Christmas menu was limited,we had a mixture of starters which included onion bhaji and chicken tikka - this would have been nice if it hadn't been cold.

The serving of the starters was also very weird. They first gave us all plates with the token gesture of salad which all restaurants seem to think is compulsory, so of course people started nibbling on the odd p[iece of tomato waiting for the real food. They then took the plates away again a few at a time and served up the starters (which were now on hot plates in the same room as us) and returned the plates - not necessarily in the places they started in.

For main, I went for the save option of Chicken Tikka Masala, but I also tried the Prawn Bhuna. While pleasant enough neither of them particularly rocked my boat, neither did the side dishes.

We had to ask several time for drinks, getting a jug of water for the table seemed impossible. In defence of this, as I mentioned we were a very big group (30+) and service would probably be much better if there's only a few of you.

While the decor and facilities looked nice and the atmosphere was good, I'm slightly concerned by the loose cabelling hanging down from the ceiling in the ladies toilets...

I would go back if someone organised a big gathering there again but to be prefectly honest, I'd be organising dinner somewhere else.