Brick-Lane Brasserie | Best Award Winning Indian curry house in London Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Our server, Jay, was friendly, knowledgeable, and went above and beyond to ensure we had a delightful experience."
• "Good service, good people and very nice food."
• "Warm, welcoming atmosphere thanks to the smiling, friendly staff who made a huge effort to accommodate our group."
• "I’m very impressed with the customer service, I was celebrating my birthday at this restaurant with my wife and the owner went out of his way..."
• "The waiting staff were very attentive and selected great dishes that met our needs."
• "the staff were attentive even taking photos of us with our meals."
• "The staff are very friendly and welcoming."

Cons:

• "Very unfriendly and confusing waiter."
• "I got SO tricked by the reviews... the staff inside the restaurant were awful. They threw our cutlery on the table and asked 'what drink do you want? you got a free drink right? what drink?'"
• "The service was helpful but inconsistent."
• "Because they persuaded us to enter the establishment we thought the service would be good yet it was gone as soon as we entered."
• "The service here is also EXTREMELY poor!!"
• "Service was good, the waiter who initially served us was not familiar with certain allergens."
• "The service was poor - they charged us for the pompadour sauces that they brought to our table without asking or disclosing that they costed extra."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The Meat Thali I ordered was simply outstanding, with each element bursting with authentic flavours and expertly cooked meats."
• "The curries both excuisite."
• "The food is great. If you're a tourist and you want to try one of the famous brick lane curries - this is where you go."
• "Highly recommend the chicken biryani and the grilled lamb chops that was bursting full of flavour and the meat was extremely tender and juicy."
• "The food is just right with the sauce and oil and their bhaji dishes are out of this world."
• "Food was tasty, starters ordered were vegetable samosas... Side dish of Tarka Dahl was the absolute STAR OF THE SHOW!!!"
• "The flavours were amazing in the Lamb Razala recommended by Jay."

Cons:

• "Otherwise food itself is not that good, unreasonably overpriced and its quite brazen to charge so much."
• "The food then arrived which was of small portions, dry and didn’t taste or look fresh."
• "The food was alright but nothing special, staff handled the service well but many orders went missing."
• "The food was at best indifferent. Tough lamb, OK but not brilliant Tandoori Prawns, a bit better Chicken Goa, tasteless paneer."
• "Inauthentic flavours, false (paid) reviews, sky-high prices for what it is, not award winning at all."
• "The food is bellow average and most of the dishes we tried were too sweet."
• "Got back to the site and opened both containers only to realise that this was not a curry, but diarrhoea in a bowl."

Price

Pros:

• "They gave us a much better deal than our old curry house (monsoon) offered this year."
• "The pints were great value."
• "Prices were dropped 20%."
• "With an offer was very well priced."
• "Very reasonable price too & we got 20% off plus a free round of beers."
• "Food was good (you may even consider vey good at this price point) and managed to get a great deal from the doorman on our Friday night visit."
• "For £10, you'll get a starter, main course, rice, naan and a beer..."

Cons:

• "Very good food but extremely expensive and pushy staff."
• "Food and drinks are overpriced."
• "The biggest rip-off was 5.95 for a glass of lassi!"
• "It was the perfect amount of food for 2 people however extremely overpriced for what it was."
• "They charged 3.5 GBP for a glass of Diet Coke, must be a maximum of 150 ml."
• "The food was overpriced."
• "£50 for lunch for 2 was well overpriced for the standard / amount of food we had."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The setting is above average for the Whitechapel end of brick lane."
• "You must visit if you are in London, and if you are a local, you should have already been there."
• "Very friendly team and welcoming environment!"
• "Unlike other curry houses the restaurant offers a calm environment."
• "The atmosphere was good too. Will return when next in the area."
• "The restaurant was immaculate, clean tablecloths, glasses cutlery etc.."
• "The decoration of the restaurant was so nice as well as the food."

Cons:

• "The music was really loud."
• "The place is crammed packed with people and you can barely have a conversation."
• "The music was really loud and the food took a really long time to be served."
• "Inside it is very crowded and quite busy."
• "It was BOILING HOT in the restaurant despite it being a wintery night."
• "They packed us into the room downstairs which was way too small for the number we were."
• "The music was so loud we couldn't talk to each other."