WE HAVE a feast for the eyes today in the form of pictures snapped in decades past of Brighton restaurants.

In our main picture, a man one can only assume is the proprietor of the Indian takeaway behind him stands proudly in the centre of frame.

Is this Mr Shahi?

Perhaps he could get in touch and let us know how business is.

We can see other Indian restaurants to which this newspaper sent photographers in the 1980s.

In another of our shots we can see the inside of the Kashmir restaurant, an image taken in 1986.

It might not be immediately obviously that this is a photograph from 30 years ago.

The decor, with wooden partitions and elaborate wallpaper, is the kind of thing one might still find in one or two Indian restaurants today.

What might give away the date on which the photograph was taken is the facial hair and hairstyles being sported by the serious men in the photograph.

The older man, seated, who bears an unmistakeable air of “owner” in a smart three-piece suit and bow tie, seems to be sporting a haircut made famous by an American comic of the day.

Surely he went into the barber and simply said: “Give me the Chevy Chase, please.”

Those ’taches are definitely Eighties’ style – and check out the fashions sported by the couple walking past Noori’s restaurant in Ship Street.

The popular restaurant is still there, one of the longest-standing curry houses in Brighton.

And from Indian cuisine to Italian – or actually, American – we can also see the opening of a new branch of Pizza Express in Brighton, in 1991. Even a city famous for its multicultural gastronomical delights had to start somewhere