It's all matter of time...

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Mill Road is the most "ethnic" of Cambridge roads. Just off it, up by the railway bridge, we have Kingston Street. This Bangladeshi restuarant (99 percent of "Indian restaurants" in Cambridge are Bangladeshi) is on Mill Road and this is the side on Kingston Street.

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Kami (Kamran) of Kami's restaurant in Hills Road, Cambridge.

I was walking along Hills Road this afternoon when Kami ambushed me! He then dragged me into his restaurant and asked what I was doing in his neck of the woods. I had just been to the dentist (ouch!) I told him. He offered all sorts of things, which, sadly I had to refuse on the blasted dentist's orders. "Next time!" I promised:-)

Anyway, here he is looking all relaxed as we chatted. I've known him ever since he's had Kami's, and that's going back ten years. In fact, I have known this place when it used to be Ali Baba's (Arab run) and Sultan's (Turkish run) before that (twenty odd years back). Kami has just sold his business and is planning to open a proper Persian restaurant in Cambridge. "With a proper tanoor (oven) and genuine Iranian menu," I joked. Of course!

He's checked out space at the newly opened Grand Arcade in the city centre but it is way to expensive to run a business from there. I think Cambridge city centre will be dominated only by the big players from now. Sad! No wonder all our city centres are all looking the same. Kami's other problem is one of staff. If he's to open an authentic Persian restaurant he's going to need real chefs from Iran. And that means a struggle with the Home Office. I wish him good luck with his new venture.

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The Gandhi restaurant in Regent Street, Cambridge.

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Explore: Apr 17, 2008 #117.

"The light of the moon is shamed
By the beauty of your face.
And here I am, half in, half out of my body -
Lost, lost in the longing for union."

This is from a ghazal of the poet and Persian mystic Hafez Shirazi who was born in the city of Shiraz, Iran in 1310.

For my new "Cambridge Restaurants" set:-)

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