To wonder why West Indian food isn't as popular as other cuisines?

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I've always been a fan and living in NW London there is a huge variety of restaurants on my doorstep. Yesterday I took the DDs (ages 2 and 5) out for lunch, we went to my favourite West Indian restaurant and shared curry goat, jerk pork, plantain chips and dumplings with coconut water for the DDs and a rum punch for me (at 1pm ).

The restaurant wasn't as busy as the Chinese across the road or any of the other restaurants we passed. The West Indian takeaways weren't as busy as other take-aways and whenever I have a take-aways with my friends they want Vietnamese or Mexican. My colleagues tend to hold meetings or the Christmas 'do in Italian or Japanese restaurants. When I suggested we hold the 'team building' exercise at a West Indian restaurant everybody was a bit . Why hasn't it taken off in the UK like other cuisines?! Tis fab! Or is it really popular and I just have really boring colleagues and friends? IMO Chinese is very same-y and can be too sweet, but it seems to be the most popular cuisine in the UK.

piggy I thought I had cracked it with mutton but there are only 2 types of butchers here, the ones that the uber rich people use (organic, locally sourced and hand knitted) and they dont sell mutton, or the halal. Everyone else uses the big 4 and they dont sell it. There used to be a normal butchers but they went out of business about 5/6 years ago :(

The search continues.......

Because Brits have no taste in food. Look at your meat pies.

Maybe it's the restaurant? Even exotic restaurants can have cheap pre-made stuff.

Curry is definitely a hit or miss. Good curry is amazing. Bad curry will cleanse your intestines.