not sure if theres a topic about this but on june's issues theres a full page on the chems and their favourite working lunch restaurant..theres also a funny pic :D

i got the paper copy but u can read it online here:

http://observer.guar...monthly/story/0,,2107178,00.html

enjoy!

awesome one apumpkin! so ed n tom like indian currys - damn only if they'd visit here and play!

here's the chems part for the lazy folks in here..

The Chemical Brothers

Tom Rowlands, 36, and Ed Simmons, 37, best known as the Chemical Brothers, at the Star of Bombay

Tom: In 1992, my girlfriend bought a flat around the corner from here and that was when Ed and I started hanging out at the Star of Bombay. Then we both moved to the area too and it became a stopping-off point every Friday night, usually on the way to DJ somewhere.We'd always have a takeaway curry on a Sunday, too. Curry has restorative powers if you've had a big weekend.

We also have a tradition of coming here at Christmas time for lunch with friends. Curry at lunch is a decadent option. It proves that you have nothing to do for the rest of the day. But a friend of ours managed to get the Star of Bombay Christmas card. We haven't made it to those echelons.

I remember my first-ever curry. I was about six years old and my dad took me to Veeraswamy in Piccadilly. There were big Indian doormen wearing turbans and it felt like the most exotic thing ever. When Ed got married, I was his best man, and he booked this whole restaurant out for his stag do. We went go-karting first and I got into a terrible crash but, after five hours sitting in A&E, I still made it here in a neck brace. We've probably dragged all our friends here at some stage. Of people we've collaborated with, Tim Burgess rocked up here a few times and Beth Orton likes it.

The area has changed dramatically. These days, you can't buy milk on Westbourne Grove but you can buy a Joseph cardigan. Ed still lives locally and he was very annoyed when Fresh & Wild went. I moved out to the countryside when the post office closed. Everything changes, but the Star of Bombay has been a constant.

My wife does a good curry, but about the only thing I can make is a chicken-and-avocado sandwich; and Ed even manages to burn water. He used to really hate eating out too. He didn't like waiting for the food to arrive. But as he's grown-up he's become able to eat in civilised company.

We've been offered our own range of noodles in Japan. Most Westerners want to eat Kobe beef or flash sushi whereas we always want noodles. We'll go on Japanese TV and be given a big plate of ramen. We used to live together, go on holiday together, tour together, go in the studio together. There was a time when that caused rows but not so much any more. We don't live or holiday together any more. But we like to eat together and this is where we do it, a lot.

Charlotte Heathcote

· Star of Bombay, 157 Westbourne Grove, London W11, 020 7229 6096. The Chemical Brothers' new album We Are The Night is out now

Nice find! That explains why Steve has to cook all time in the studio (how the heck is he able to engineering :lol:).

Btw, didn't know Ed has already got married...

they meant tom of course.

But Tom's saying this according to the interview...

[...]"When Ed got married, I was his best man, and he booked this whole restaurant out for his stag do."[...]

The Chems make awesome music *and* they have good taste in awesome food.

What more can I ask of my favorite band?? :lol:

mmmm. Indian food. Behold the restorative powers of Indian food - that is so true! stash and I grab Indian food all the time after we've had an... eh hem... big night out beforehand.

As for the institution of marriage - unless Ed got hitched again, maybe Tom was referring to Ed's first marriage.

Hahaha I have to go there then :D

Where do you get info about their private life?? You bastards!!!

There's not much info to be found on their private lives (which is a pretty good thing, imo - glad they aren't tabloid fodder)! Keeps up with the mysterious image of the Bros. It's little bits and pieces here and there like this article that pop up every now and again that reveal little tidbits about their personal lives. Such as, Ed can't cook. Tom ate curry for the first time when he was 6. etc.

So Ed is divorced? :O

From what I heard, yes...

I know waaaay too much about what those guys eat.

Curry. Yum.

I'm divorced too. I feel ya, Ed.

Are there any chemical children for either of them?

or, i guess, they'd technically be acid children.

ba da bump, ching.

hahahahah Ed is just like me in the eating out relm, i HATE waiting for food! and everyone else seems to be getting theres first and grrrrr!!!!!

i was reading somewhere else they went for a curry before playing rockness...

THEY LOVE IT!!

let's hope it wont give them tummy ache before one of the gigs.. ;)

I thought Ed just got married between ptb and cwu, did I miss the divorce news... not that it matters, but it's always interesting to hear about foods, tv, books, etc that they like, plus wierd parts of them.. I enjoy eatting out because it builds up to the meal, but if I'm starving - then its mexican or italian or any other place that gives bread or chips to start

heh - eating a curry now although today it's Thai.

I love Indian food, saag paneer all the way!! I can eat it by the trough loads. I think I even have Indian food listed on my myspaz page, hahaha. But I got the worst heartburn of my LIFE when eating Indian food while pregnant. As it turns out my son loves Indian food now too and he asks for it all the time when we tell him we're going out to eat.

I don't mind waiting for food. Unless we're with stash's mom. For some reason she has the worst luck at restaurants, and the bad luck spills over to everyone seated with her. It happens every single fricken time - if she's with us, we'll be sitting there waiting and waiting and it's like we're invisible, and everyone else in the place has got their food and we're still waiting on getting our drinks filled. Or they fuck up our orders. She's bad luck. :P

Yeah, I feel like I know too much about what Tom and Ed put in their pie holes - but it's just one of those things that makes them "human". Men gotta eat!

As for Ed's martital woes, I feel bad even going there on this board. That's a very personal thing... I shouldn't have said anything here. Someone mentioned something about it on this board, though it was months and months ago. I just hope he's found happiness now with a good woman who will be at his side.