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Yummy Brummy
Daily Express
|October 04, 2025
- and, as Rai had promised - left us feeling pleasantly sated but not at all uncomfortable.
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We'd headed to Birmingham for our curry-themed break by train.
Services with Avanti West Coast are quick and slick, with up to three an hour from London, taking as little as an hour and a quarter.
There are also direct trains from Glasgow, Preston, Edinburgh and Manchester.
As an added perk, our trains were part of Avanti's swanky new Evero fleet - quieter and roomier than previously with wireless charging points and greater legroom.
Our base in Brum was The Grand Hotel which - like curry itself - is a city stalwart.
Opened in 1878 by pork-butcher-turned-property-developer Isaac Horton on swanky Colmore Row, its former guests include Bob Dylan, King George VI, The Beatles and Tom Cruise.
This story is from the October 04, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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