Armaan, Exquisite Indian Cuisine Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Great meals, I'm no food guru but all 8 people enjoyed their meals."
• "The food was totally delicious."
• "Truly great food and a top notch veggie selection!"
• "The food was wonderful with generous portions."
• "The food is like a normal Indian but elevated with extra taste and flavour."
• "The food was perfect - a variety of dishes were ordered and everyone was happy with their food."
• "The food was superb."

Cons:

• "I've never had tikka masala that looked as red as that did. It resembled tomato soup."
• "We got chicken tikka balti and there were only five pieces of chicken that were hard and chewy."
• "Food was cold and found 2 entangled hairs."
• "As a result the food feels rushed. The onions on the starters weren't cooked enough and the lamb pathia wasn't to its usual excellent standard."
• "The lamb was as hard as a brick, Nan was stone cold and after working all day ended up eating some toast."
• "The only thing on the English menu is omelette or chicken nuggets tried both but they are equally poor served with dreadful chips and a limp salad."
• "The butter chicken was nothing resembling a butter chicken."

Service

Pros:

• "Excellent service."
• "Nice local Indian restaurant with extremely friendly service."
• "The staff were spot on, attentive and courteous."
• "Absolutely amazing service buy the 2 young guys that served us tonigh."
• "The staff are first class, very attentive, nothing is too much trouble, very polite all the time."
• "The staff were fantastic and very attentive."
• "Staff very polite and professional."

Cons:

• "Food was good, but the service wasn't the best."
• "The service was very slow, but worth the wait for the dishes."
• "Terrible service! Patronising and very unhelpful."
• "Then waited 1 HR for the starter and then another hour for the main course after complaining to one of the many managers. Everyone was a manager! Yet each of these managers openly discussed the fact that nobody knew what they were doing."
• "Our table of 6 waited 1 hour 30 minutes for food and that's not OK."
• "The service was chaos."
• "We waited for at least 45 minutes for our main course after our starters."

Ambience

Pros:

• "From the moment of stepping into Armaan, it was extremely appealing."
• "The restaurant is a nice modern stylish looking place."
• "Very welcoming."
• "Buzzing atmosphere in big, clean restaurant."
• "This place has a lovely ambiance with gorgeous background music."
• "The restaurant atmosphere is sophisticated and classy."
• "Nice airy surroundings, and we liked the booth seating as it's cosier."

Cons:

• "Dine in is far superior to delivery. Unfortunately our evening was spoilt by an unruly party of parents who were drinking beer and very unruly kids."
• "The noise in the restaurant was too much for me."
• "Who wants a DJ blaring out music when you’re having a meal?!"
• "Decor tired and felt like a busy cafe."
• "It had a feel of a school canteen Hall and the service wasn't great."
• "The only thing that let it down was the noise level, music on far too loud given how busy it was, we couldn't hear each other talking."
• "All four of us have been ill within 12 hours of eating the meal."

Value

Pros:

• "The price surprised me for how cheap it was."
• "The prices are also reasonable."
• "Just had an amazing meal here. The food was outstanding and the service was second to none. Very reasonably priced for such a great meal."
• "Great food, nice atmosphere, easy parking."

Cons:

• "It cost £63.80 for 2 x double gin and lemonades for me and my friend."
• "The only complaint I have it cost £15.95 for and double Manchester Bee parma violet Gin with Lemonade, you can get a bottle of this for £12.00 from home bargains or B & M, I know they put money on drunks but this was ridiculous and very greedy."
• "We left about 12.00am as Mike was working but tell you the truth we also ran out of money for drinks."

Delivery/Takeaway Service

Pros:

• "Ordered a takeaway. I love flavor but not so much heat in a dish. Rang the order though, for collection. Absolutely perfect."

Cons:

• "Ordered takeaway, waited 1 hour and 30 minutes for delivery."
• "Ordered a delivery, lied to after 1 hr 15, said was on way. 2 hours later, driver arrived with cold food."
• "Ordered delivery. Said 65 minutes but was almost 2 hours."
• "Ordered 1 hour and 49 minutes ago and it still had not arrived."
• "Had our meal ruined from having a takeaway just setting our food out and realized the main wasn't in my bag only my husbands."
• "Every time you come for take out they get the order wrong and expect to go back and pick the rest up will not be using this restaurant again this is four times now."
• "Very poor service will not be having take out again from this restaurant."