Akbar's Rotherham Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Brilliant food. Very reasonable prices."
• "The food is absolutely amazing & whatever you leave you can takeout."
• "The masalas are authentic and sans colouring other than the orangey tikka massala."
• "Curries have good flavours."
• "The food is good for sure."
• "The food was absolutely amazing good portions, tasted delicious."
• "The food was nice and reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "Three out of four curries were awful. In particular the abomination was the chicken tikka masala."
• "Food was absolutely horrible, too spicy and the choice of spices they use are terrible."
• "The food was not up to standard, tasting a little like a ready meal from Asda, only three times the price."
• "The prawns were cold and like rubber, masala fish was cold."
• "Terrible food, sent food back as was like water and no flavour."
• "The two curries were oily and tasted nothing like they should."
• "Worse curry I've ever had. 9 of us in party, poppadoms ok. All ordered a variety of curries ranging from mild to hot. None of the meals except a Korma dish looked or tasted authentic."

Service

Pros:

• "Service excellent, food amazing, portions plenty, friendly staff and atmosphere, place clean, very busy so car park fills up quick, well worth a visit."
• "We were waited on by Haider I believe. He was extremely friendly and even cracked a few jokes."
• "The service was second to none."
• "The service was attentive, and the staff members were friendly and accommodating."
• "Manager Haroon dealt with my query quite promptly and professionally."
• "Staff are efficient."
• "Staff were friendly and helpful."

Cons:

• "Will not be going back only thing I would recommend is the food that's it."
• "Naan bread came when our curry was all cold."
• "Erratic service. Jug of water no glasses."
• "Very bad customer service. They mixed up the food what we ordered."
• "Service was bad. One of the waiter comments when questions raised said wasn't his problem."
• "Our waiter was unfriendly and was behaving as though we were his 100th customer of the day."
• "The waiter who greeted us was also rather unfriendly and offered no real apology."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "It is a great place to chill out and your meal can be as quick or slow as you want if you advise the waiters."
• "Nice 'dimly lit' atmosphere in a lovely authentic styled setting."
• "The lighting is really nice too and created a relaxed atmosphere that works well with the full bodied food."
• "The atmosphere is great, nice dim lighting."
• "The ambiance was warm and inviting."
• "Such a warm and cosy feel."
• "Great atmosphere and always full, no matter the day of the week."

Cons:

• "It was so dark we couldn't even see the menu!"
• "Quite a dark atmosphere inside with lit up candles."
• "Making the atmosphere most irritating and unpleasant."
• "Firstly it is dark, so dark you almost can't see what your eating."
• "It took 5 mins for my eyes to adjust to the darkness."
• "It was like a cattle market. Beer was warm. Very noisy. Too dark."
• "Bad ambiance, way too dark and dull."

Value

Pros:

• "Very reasonably well priced too."
• "£87 for 4 people, starters mains, drinks popadoms, excellent value for money."
• "Food is always top notch and decently priced."
• "The food is amazing, so tasty and such reasonable price."
• "Very well priced for the quality of the food."
• "Good value with a wide choice of dishes."
• "Always a nice atmosphere, and good food in generous portions."

Cons:

• "Prices not cheap and example of small bottle of cobra nearly £5!!"
• "Came all the way from London with family to have Akbars, totally waste of money and time."
• "It’s got ridiculously expensive. £6 for a bottle of water! £1 per poppadom and the pickle tray was only half filled."
• "The drinks are rather expensive £3 a bottle (330ml)."
• "The drinks are RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE."
• "I knocked off a star just because it's pricey."
• "The food wasn't great for the price."