Shish Mahal says the sauce was improvised in its own kitchen in the 1970s, for a bus driver who sent back a dry chicken tikka, and that is the birthplace claim Glasgow has defended ever since. Eat it there, or take it at The Noble Public House as the Glasgow Pie, which folds the same masala into roti.
Chicken tikka masala.
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- Shish Mahal Restaurantvisited
The house claims it improvised the sauce here in the 1970s for a bus driver who sent back dry chicken tikka.
- The Noble Public Houseverified
Serves the Glasgow Pie, which is chicken tikka masala in roti, off its own signature list.