Best Indian - Oh Calcutta

* This restaurant is a category winner in Viva's Ultimate Takeout Food Award winners 2003.

If you wait for a quiet time to visit this place, you'll be waiting forever. The flow of people in the doors is relentless. And it's not hard to see why - quite simply it's fantastic.

We're a little ashamed to admit we haven't graced Oh Calcutta before now. It's easy to get stuck in a rut with Indian food: you find a local place you like and stick with it. But if there was ever a reason to venture to a new spot, this is it.

There is a wide ranging menu featuring dishes from northern and southern India, including old favourites such as butter chicken, lamb rogan josh, and beef madras.

Our favourites were onion bhaji (slices of onion coated in chickpea flour and fried) and the prawn malabari.

The best curry in town - any way you like it.

Cost: Main dishes range from $11.90 (vegetarian) to $19 (seafood and meat) and come with steamed rice. Naan and roti are between $2.75 and $3.95.

Viva also recommends: Shahi, Herne Bay and Mithai, Birkenhead