REASONS TO VISIT DEWSBURY No. 2 – NEHARI AT DESI NASHTA

September 2026. Dewsbury.

It’s worth coming to Dewsbury just for the Refreshment Rooms, of course, but just as instructive to wander round a former mill town of 61,035 souls on a weekday,

wonder how long the artwork has been on display,

and see barely another soul in a town of commanding architecture. Halifax looked a bit like this 30 years ago, before regeneration/gentrification.

The Little Germany quarter of Bradford feels similar to Dewsbury,

but Bradford has rather more pubs, I only really noted the Black Bull now the JFK is no longer.

In fact, I’ve rarely been in a major town with fewer open pubs, cask or keg, and the lack of a Spoons is telling.

Just as well the Refreshment Rooms opens at 10am, but the best looking Pakistani breakfast cafe closes by 2pm, so I need to dash past the Minster,

and across the Calder to Desi Nashta.

It’s not on the Curryheute list, but this is the place to come for your breakfast curry.

Ignore the menu;

go straight for the slow-cooked Nehari with chappatis, a wonderfully tasty dish.

As Minha says;

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5 thoughts on “REASONS TO VISIT DEWSBURY No. 2 – NEHARI AT DESI NASHTA”

  1. I went to Dewsbury once. What a thoroughly depressing town. That said the Refreshment Rooms is very good, and near the train station for a quick exit. In fact if one arrives by train you need never see the town. Oh and a friend once got stabbed there.

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    1. Oooh a very rare recc for an Indian place in my now hometown. I’ve been there a few times, and thought them average, even though they are on the RM curryheure list, so don’t go there anymore. Imho its spice culture for ‘normal’ curries, although thats not as good as it once was, on my last 2 visits.

      The only place in Harrogate we think is any good is Illam, South Indian, so far removed from a traditional ‘curry house’, but great, esp the fab dosas.

      I might try that particular Nehari curry one day when Mrs Rich is away, just to see…

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  3. Well I moved to Halifax in 1989 and my three young were born there.

    I don’t think that its looks have changed so much since then, but Calderdale – along with Kirklees – abruptly de – gentrified last May.

    Who’d have thought that Yorkshiremen – of all people – would vote to crash their house prices?

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