We last visited this restaurant well over eighteen months ago, and then we wrote that it was: "... a good, above average curry house... Overall, the Panyam is another of those perfectly adequate restaurants which fall into the three star category."

Well, things have gone down hill since then. The place has shrunk, consisting now of only four tables, and is largely a take-away establishment serving pizzas, burgers, kebabs, etc.

We started with chicken pakora (£1.50), onion bhaji (90p), and mushroom bhaji (£1.00). They were all above average, with the mushroom bhajis standing out: excellent, highly-spiced batter and fulsome, mouth-watering chunks of mushroom.

If only the main courses had been as good. I had a dreadful dish: my balti vegetable paneer had a glutinous, bolognese consistency, hardly any taste, and the paneer was overcooked and bland. I had about six mouthfuls of the mess and gave up. The vegetable pathia was no better: it tasted mainly of tomato ketchup, and then it began burning in a most unpleasant manner. Likewise, this dish was cooked to a pulp. The aloo chana was described as, "a bland, nondescript mush: very poor." The balti tikka masala was better: good quality chicken but a little too salty. Best of the bunch was the chicken and spinach: while the spinach was nicely spiced and juicy, it was a little overcooked, and the chicken was described as unsophisticated, and a little stringy.

All in all we'd advise our readers to avoid this one. There really is nothing to recommend the Panyam when there are so many better restaurants in the city.

(All dishes are served with a choice of chapattis or rice.)

The Panyam is a good, above average curry house which suffers from being next door to the excellent Darbaar (reviewed last week). It's smaller and cheaper than the Darbaar, (though excellent chapattis or boiled rice are included in the price of each curry) and the service is friendly and efficient. It serves a varied menu of curry dishes, as well as pizzas, burgers, southern fried chicken and kebabs.

We kicked off with fine starters: onion bhaji (90p), mushroom bhaji (£1.00), and samosa (£1.00). The bhajis were of a very high quality, fresh, crisp, and full of flavour. I ordered a meat samosa by mistake, but the carnivores amongst us reported that it was better than the usual samosas on offer in the city.

The main dishes were a mixed bag. I had my usual daal mushroom, and though it was a perfectly average example of the dish, it was a little too tomato-flavoured, and the daal lacked individual flavour. On the plus side, all the vegetarian side dishes made as main dishes cost only £2.80. The balti vegetable paneer scored highly, a rich, substantial dish with a good variety of mildly spiced vegetables, served with a mouth-burning hot pepper. The chicken tikka dopiaza was well flavoured but nothing special. The aloo matter was merely average and a little bland, the aloo chana bhuna likewise.

Overall, the Panyam is another of those perfectly adequate restaurants which fall into the three star category. It's cheap, cheerful, and the starters and chapattis are excellent - while on the night we dined there the curies were variable. It's certainly worth a visit for the curry completist on the quest to do every Asian restaurant in Bradford.

(All dishes are served with either three chapattis or boiled rice.)