A steel tray of curries, rice, flatbread and cooling sides that Bristol adopted as its own, complete with a reusable steel tiffin-tin takeaway ritual all of its own.
Bristol's thali habit began with a cafe in Montpelier serving festival-style Indian food on compartmented steel trays. The format grew into a small local institution, winning Observer Food Monthly award notice, and its reusable steel tiffin scheme, where a £20 tin buys your first takeaway and endless refills, became a small piece of Bristol food culture in its own right, years before packaging-free shopping went mainstream.
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