Top In Town Indian, West End

On Christmas eve I went down to the Coffee Club to have a celebratory yuletide steak or burger.  Unfortunately, it was closed for the occasion.  As it happens, I was going to pick up some Indian food from Top In Town for my parents, so I figured I'd get something for myself as well.  My favourite dish from Top In Town is their chicken 65.  However, Top In Town do not have a set menu.  They just put whatever they feel like cooking on the day into their bain maries.  Apparently on this day they didn't feel like cooking chicken 65, so I was forced to try something else.  I'll provide a little background first.  The first time I tried Top In Town's butter chicken, I found it to be sickly sweet, and basically inedible.  Recently though, I have discovered that Top In Town offer two different butter chicken dishes.  The one I had sampled is their mildest dish for those that do not like hot curries.  The other one is a medium curry which I figured would be more in line with my tastes.  So I ordered this butter chicken and Manchurian chicken (a dish I had never sampled before), as well as some naan.  The naan was massive, but it was also a little flaky, and unfortunately, neither of my curries were particularly saucy.  So I would say that the naan was the least enjoyable part of my meal.  However, usually when I dine at Indian restaurants, the opposite is true.  Luckily, the curries were considerably better.  The butter chicken was probably the spiciest preparation of this dish that I have encountered.  In fact, I wish all butter chickens were this spicy.  As I said before, the butter chicken was less saucy than I'm used to, and what sauce was present had less flavour than I would have liked (other than the spiciness).  This is a slight shame as what little flavour there was was quite pleasant.  With the Manchurian chicken I was not sure what to expect.  It was even less saucy than the butter chicken, but it struck me as the kind of curry that need not be particularly saucy.  When I tasted it, I got a welcome surprise.  It tasted like Chinese food, which I suppose is fitting, given that Manchuria is in China.  I have never had a dish like this from an Indian restaurant before.  I'm not entirely sure what the exact ingredients were, but it tasted similar to Chinese black bean and garlic dishes, which I like.  The chicken itself in both dishes was for the most part quality, only dampened by a little fat and gristle.  Despite the shortcomings I have just addressed, both of these curries were for the most part enjoyable as far as cheap, casual Indian dinging goes.  I would say that overall, this experience confirmed by belief that Top In Town is the best casual Indian restaurant I know of.