Admiral Akhbar's Tandoori Cantina
Admiral Akhbar's Tandoori Cantina is Bristol's only Star Wars-themed Indian restaurant. It is noted for its unevenly-executed Bangladeshi specialities, its impressive collection of low-grade Star Wars memorabilia and its almost entirely unreadable menu.
The restaurant was first set up in the the mid 1990s by Akhbar Hussain and has since become a favourite with students from the local university. It was originally named simply Akhbar's, until Hussain happened to be watching the 1997 special edition re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy and had something of an epiphany. From then on he became, much to his wife's dismay, an avid collector of memorabilia and the restaurant was formally re-named to coincide with the opening of The Phantom Menace in 1999. He had hoped to get local actor Dave Prowse to formally cut the ribbon dressed as Darth Vader, but in the end had to settle for a five-foot two impersonator who turned up drunk and tripped up over the threshold, breaking his light sabre in two as he did so.
The job of sourcing memorabilia has now passed on to Akhbar's son Mo, who
