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With quality food, friendly staff, quick service and excellent value for money, Nando's is a great place to eat. Don't expect identikit, pre-fab restaurant interiors which are usually a staple of the larger chains; each restaurant is tailored to its local surroundings and customers, offering up a unique restaurant experience to go with the equally unique taste of legendary, Portuguese, Peri-Peri chicken.

Your peri-peri chicken, when the chips are down so to speak, is a fresh A grade chicken that has never seen the inside of a freezer, but having made the supreme sacrifice is butterfly-cut, marinated for 24 hours in a secret brew called - you've guessed - peri-peri, and is then cooked to your choice over an open flame.

There are, of course, many variations on this broad theme, numerous plays on words such as Nando's experi-perience, peri-peri good reasons why you should eat at a Nando's, and all one hopes is that for their sake chicken never goes out of fashion. New Nando's are opening all the time, peri-peri quickly in fact, the spicy bastes become hotter and more daring, and the full platter offers a whole chicken, large chips or spicy rice and Nando's salad or coleslaw.

Since chickens are vegetarian it seems logical you can order veggie or bean burgers and patties, and still feel the heat from the peppers. All in all, Nando's is hotly recommended for those occasions when you have a large following of permanently hungry children, or adults even, to keep happy - the only thing taken really seriously is the quality of those peri-peri good chickens.

Nando's is a place for bright people who love to laugh and love to eat, and is guaranteed to spice up your taste buds. Their fun approach to life means that when you visit Nando's you can fully relax without the airs and graces associated with more starchy dining out.

For the location of your nearest Nando's restaurant and a host of details about menus, parties and drinks, a click on their Website will reveal a Pandora's box of information.

Few restaurants can boast of winning a string of awards, but the Indian Ocean Restaurant in Ashton-under-Lyme has plenty of them in its kitty including the British Curry Awards for the 'The Best Indian Restaurant in the North West' for 2007 and 2008. The pioneering kitchen team strive to bring authentic regional cuisine to diners in the Tameside area preparing a range of dishes from across the sub-continent.

In true Indian style they present various culinary cultures from different regions, so diners could enjoy a raan-e-khyber, lamb shank slow cooked in a Punjabi-style masala sauce of onions, garlic, ginger, tomatoes and finely chopped green chillies, or the zesty Afghani chicken or lamb with red and green capsicums. More traditional tastes are evident in korma, dhansak, bhuna, dopiaza, tikka masala and jalfrezi dishes. A commitment to providing vegetarians with ample choice is demonstrated in dishes such as aloo channa, curried potatoes and chickpeas garnished with coriander, and tarka dal, lentils cooked and sizzled in garlic sauce.

Indian Ocean also caters for a range of specialist diets, including nut and gluten allergies, and there are menus to suit every mood and occasion such as the party, takeaway, and terrace menu that includes a selection of barbecued dishes.