Halal Bites is an Asian run café in the old Copperheads Hotel building (near Salford Central Station). It’s very modern in appearance and approach. The menu is pretty varied and steers it a bit too far away from the format for us to qualify this places as a curry café. The menu features baked potatoes, paninis, baguettes, burgers, pasta dishes, milkshakes and numerous other things that would never be seen in somewhere like Yadgar. There’s no ‘rice&3’ type element at all, just a choice of curry (5 options) and rice for £3.95. This is pretty reasonable. Lamb Karahi was good – slightly sweet and of a consistency not unlike more oriental offerings, however there was plenty of lamb and the taste was pleasant if not all that authentic. The rice was very nice, being subtlety flavoured and well cooked. An additional side salad was a welcome little extra. There wasn’t tons of food – though enough and we didn’t pay that much. Unfortunately bulking the meal out in the usual fashion – ie by adding a roti was not an option in Halal Bites, another sign that it was not curry café. This place is OK – it’s worth a go if you’re in the vicinity but in all honesty This & That 2 being so close would make it difficult for us to find much point in coming here often.
