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May 13, 2010

Many of Edinburgh’s Indian food fans were weeping into their porridge the morning after Khushi’s restaurant on Victoria Street was badly damaged by a fire back in December 2008.

The very first Khushi’s opened in 1947 on Potterrow and many reckon that the original restaurant may have been the first curry house in Scotland.

Work is still ongoing at the Victoria Street restaurant but the Mohammed family have not let the fire scorch their expansion plans.

On Friday, their new restaurant will open to the public on Upper Craigs in Stirling.

The 70 seat Stirling Khushi’s joins the existing branch in Dunfermline and there are plans afoot to also open in Edinburgh this summer and in Perth at a later date.

Word has it that the new Edinburgh restaurant will open down by Commercial Quay and, in keeping with its Michelin-starred neighbours, will offer a very refined take on Indian cooking.

If you can’t wait until Friday for your curry fix then d’yoga in Falkirk is a 5pm member and, if memory serves, it has a very funky interior that could easily double as a night club.

Curry-loving readers elsewhere know what to do if you must have a massala tonight. Just go to the 5pm restaurant browser, enter your hometown, select Indian restaurants and then choose your favourite pakora-scoffing spot.