Kismet

It's a Bengali place, but I think the food still largely fits the UK curry pattern. Today's lunch was the "fairly hot" chicken pathia, which wikipedia tells me is a UK curry, not from the subcontinent.

Regardless, it's tasty, but not exciting: it's sour, sweet and hot, but also kind of thin: I think it's primarily a tomato-based curry, but there's nothing to it other than just five hunks of (fairly dry) chicken breast floating in a sea of sauce: no potatoes or other veggies, say. I had it with garlic naan, which I do like, but I kind of wish there were more to pick up with the bread!

This place has existed for quite a while, and is a spinoff of a no-longer-controlled-by-them restaurant on Phillip Street (my lunch companion suggested that we should actually draw a map of which restaurants share origins with which other ones).

Having gone many times, I can note that I really should just stop getting the lunch curries: a tastier lunch, for example, is the mulligatawny with a handful of onion bhajia, say. I'm not sure why I always get curry with garlic naan.

I had: chicken pathia with garlic naan
I paid: Well, I didn't; my companion did. But I think he paid $24 for his lunch and mine, and he had a lassi
Verdict:
Speed: Good, and it usually is. We had a lot to talk about, but the food probably arrived within 8 minutes or so.
Quality: Not bad, but not brilliant. I'd prefer it if their meat curries were more veggie-heavy; it otherwise feels kind of like a few hunks of meat in soup.
Value: I don't think it's great, honestly: the cost of putting together the various curry sauces isn't that high, as they don't include expensive ingredients. And there's not a lot of meat in the meat curries, either. That's part of why I don't go all that often.
Would go back: I go roughly every few months, and I expect that'll continue.