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Café Shan provides a clean simple environment and cheap, no-nonsense, well-prepared Bengali cuisine. The service is friendly, the menu fairly extensive, the portions generous and the toilets clean and well kept. Although food can take a while to arrive, an excellent and filling meal can be had for as little as £12 a head. A long narrow corridor-like space, end on to the street with a fascinating, tall and hypnotic water feature half way along the left hand wall and the end wall used for the non-stop projection of Bollywood Trailers and what appeared to be an Indian consumer channel, a combination that lends a nicely surreal touch to one's evening. Although the restuarant is not licensed they are happy for one to bring one's own bottle of wine. (BYO as the Australians call it.) All in all a good low profile location for a cheap, discrete and unpretentious lunch or dinner. IM
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