The Sabraaj is an oversized portacabin situated opposite the Queen's Hall. It has a distinctly mouldy odour which wears off after you've been seated for five minutes. We were last here eleven months ago, and while the prices have remained the same, (with the exception of the chapattis, which have gone up 5p) this time we weren't as impressed with the standard of the curries.

We should have started with a meat samosa and onion bhajis - but I forgot to order them. For the record, the meat samosas were £1,65 and the onion bhajis the same.

Somehow I remembered to order the main dishes. I had a aloo brenjel, an above average dish consisting of potato and aubergine in an excellent sauce, rich, nicely spiced and thick. The aubergine was cooked to perfection - not the tasteless much you find in some restaurants. The vegetable shahee korma defied its description, however. We asked for a very mild dish, and when it arrived it tasted hotter than every other dish we'd ordered. Very strange, as the waiter made a point of asking everyone how hot they wanted their respective dishes: mild, medium or hot. The dish itself was average, though lacked the usual coconut flavour. The murgh mushroom was fine. The murgh bhuna was not the dry dish suggested on the menu, but was acceptable.

We finished off with better than average coffee at £1.00 a cup (you could even have a refill) and a kulfi at £2.50, which tasted fine but had a strange, grainy texture.

All in all, the meal was above average, but nothing to rave about - we've had better curries here and suspect that we'll have even better ones in the future. Having said that, we'd recommend the Sabraaj to the dedicated curry aficionado as definitely worth a visit.

The Sabraaj is the poshest Portakabin I've even dined in. We came here three months ago and the place stank of damp and mildew. Thankfully it's been given a face-lift since then, and the décor and atmosphere now rivals the quality of the food.

It's not the cheapest curry spot in the city, but if you feel like spending just that bit more for a meal then you'll be well satisfied by the distinctive dishes on offer. We started with onion bhajis (£1.65) and vegetable sabzi pakora (£1.65), and while they were expensive we had no complaints as to the quality. The bhajis were hot and full of the flavour of well-fried onion, while the sabzi, deep-fried chopped vegetables, were milder and filling.

For my main dish I had chana masala. First the gripes: the portions weren't exactly gargantuan for £4.50, and the chapattis, an extra thirty pence each, were small and thin; though they tasted fantastic, you needed about five or six to compliment the curry. (And while I'm griping, the range of vegetable dishes was limited.) But the standard of the dish itself was good; the Sabraaj has a distinctive piquancy to its curries which I've tasted nowhere else: (this was especially evident with the dahl - highly recommended). MichaelH ordered two vegetable side dishes for his main course, and while the sag aloo was fine, he complained that the dahl was as thin as soup and unmanageable with chapattis - a complaint not laid at the main dahl dish. JackH enjoyed his dahl mushroom and the chicken korma had just the right balance of spices. Unlike at most restaurants in Bradford, the waiter asked if we'd like our curries mild, medium, or hot.

A highly-recommended restaurant in the mid-range price-wise. The Sabraaj has a drink's licence.