British Indian. Delivered.
Curry Mile was created with one simple idea: to bring the British Indian curry house we grew up with to the UAE.
Founded by a Brit, born and raised in Manchester, Curry Mile's roots go back long before the brand itself. With over 25 years of experience in British Indian food, it's a cuisine that has been part of life for decades.
Curry Mile opened its first kitchen in Dubai in 2020, but choosing the name didn't take long. It was inspired by Manchester's famous Curry Mile — a place synonymous with late-night curries, glowing restaurant signs and generations of British Indian food. For anyone who grew up around British curry houses, it's a culture all of its own.
Curry Mile was created to bring a little piece of that culture to the UAE.
A British curry house in the UAE
British Indian food is different.
It's the food that evolved through decades of Indian restaurants and takeaways across Britain. The Friday-night curry. The familiar menu. The poppadoms before you've even decided what you're ordering. The naan that's probably too big for the table.
Chicken Tikka Masala. Korma. Madras. Vindaloo. Pilau rice. Onion bhajis. Proper naan. Familiar sides, sauces and portions.
Curry Mile isn't trying to reinvent any of it.
It's here for the dishes Britain fell in love with — cooked the way Curry Mile believes a proper British Indian curry should be.
And from the beginning, getting those flavours right mattered.
Sometimes the ingredients had to travel too
When Curry Mile first opened here, finding the right ingredients wasn't always easy. For the first three years, many of the core ingredients used in the kitchen were flown directly from the UK because suitable local alternatives simply couldn't produce the flavours Curry Mile was looking for.
Over time, exceptional suppliers have been found closer to home, but some things still aren't up for compromise.
The oversized poppadoms are one of them.
The large curry-house poppadoms familiar to anyone who has ordered an Indian takeaway back in Britain simply weren't available locally in the same way. So Curry Mile still brings them over from the UK.
It's a small detail.
But Curry Mile was built on small details feeling right.
From one kitchen to thousands of curries
What began with a single Curry Mile kitchen in Dubai in 2020 has grown into something much bigger.
Today, thousands of curries leave Curry Mile's kitchens every week, with the brand consistently highly rated across the UAE's leading food delivery platforms.
But the numbers have never really been the point.
The overwhelming majority of Curry Mile's customers are British expats. For many of them, ordering Curry Mile isn't about discovering a new cuisine.
It's about recognising one.
Opening the bag. Breaking the poppadoms. Pulling apart a naan. That first spoonful of curry. For a moment, Dubai doesn't feel quite so far from Manchester, Birmingham, London, Bradford, Glasgow or wherever home happens to be.
That's why one of Curry Mile's earliest messages was simply: Welcome Home.
And this is only the beginning
Curry Mile's ambition has always been bigger than a single kitchen — and ultimately, bigger than curry alone.
The long-term vision is to build the British food brands people miss when they move abroad. The foods that don't necessarily need explaining to someone who grew up in Britain because they already know exactly what they're looking for.
And wherever life in the Middle East takes them, Curry Mile would quite like to come too.
From Manchester to Dubai. And from here, who knows.
British Indian. Delivered.