The Mosque Kitchen Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Authentic, delicious food that caters to both meat eaters and vegetarians at a very much affordable price."
• "The curries themselves are full of flavour."
• "Lovely soft chicken in a nice mildly spiced curry."
• "One of the best curries I've ever had!"
• "The tikka masala was great. Also, get yourself the garlic butter naan. So yummy."
• "Delicious curries (we had the mushroom, the chicken curry and the aubergine curry) they were all full of flavour and quite spicy and reminded us of our trip to India."
• "The food was hot and very tasty, and the naan bread was fluffy and fresh."

Cons:

• "I don't know how people find taste in their tasteless food, they are too expensive."
• "Chicken curry was very watery, chana masala was essentially chickpeas in curry flavoured water."
• "Tastes ok, Curry's on the bland side."
• "Curries are not properly cooked. Undercooked chicken and awkward spices."
• "The chilli chicken wasn't very chilli at all."
• "2nd rate curry (chicken had no flavour or texture, curry sauce was watery and lacking in flavour)."
• "Chicken tikka curry -Runny and bland."

Service

Pros:

• "Warm hospitality."
• "Lively capable staff ensure that you know what is coming, is what you are going to get, and when you get it, you are going to enjoy it."
• "Staff are friendly and I feel comfortable."
• "Service was decent, even though they were clearly short staffed."
• "Staff were very friendly. Definitely would come back."
• "Staff was friendly. The atmosphere was very welcoming."
• "Staff are kind too."

Cons:

• "Does a fantastic job of the low cost, low value, no frills experience. Bit of a dingy place, staff picking their nose and looking very fed up."
• "The servers need to learn how to serve gently and responsively!"
• "Service sucks. We went there to order a shawarma to take away. Say hi to the guy who looked at us and continue preparing a pizza without answering."
• "Staff have no clue what’s going on, they don’t even know what’s on their own menu."
• "Worst service I have ever had stuff need some customer service classes."
• "The server appeared disinterested."
• "Unhelpful uncommunicative member of staff behind the food counter."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Great value."
• "Overall, this place is inexpensive and filling."
• "It's affordable and modest dining. You get what you pay for."
• "You can get a big plate of curry served buffet style for under £10."
• "Fantastic vegetable curry for five pounds, very good value."
• "Generous portions at cheap prices."
• "For the portion size you get, the prices are very cheap."

Cons:

• "Only complaint is the prices on the board seem to have no correspondence with the prices you're charged and they also keep upping the prices!"
• "Also got charged £6 for something that was £5 on the menu, but was already running late so didn't bother to press."
• "£8 for barely any chicken (two small spoon size chunks) on a small portion of rice. Not good value for the money and mediocre quality food."
• "Prices higher than they used to be, but large portions so still fair enough."
• "I am giving 1 star because I found the food to be way overpriced given the quality of the curry I was eating."
• "Not that cheap either....£30 for 3 cold items....."
• "They are too expensive as I get one chicken biryani with little bit curry on top not for 5 or 7 or 8. But for ten pounds."

Cleanliness & Hygiene

Pros:

• "The seating area is basic but very clean."
• "It's canteen style, not a super fancy place. It's got plenty of space for groups."
• "It’s clean and basic inside the shop with wooden floors, tables, and chairs."

Cons:

• "The public toilet is dirty."
• "The toilet begs for improvement."
• "The only single toilet / wash facility for the whole restaurant was in a very poor state of cleaning."
• "AVOID AT ALL COSTS! This restaurant does not adhere to food safety and hygiene standards."
• "The Mosque's Management has put the prices up, but persistently fails miserably in keeping the public area spotely clean."
• "Sadly the general lack of elementary hygiene persists."
• "The front door's glass panes, the door frames are greasy, and dirty, there is a general feel of lack of hygiene in the public area."

Atmosphere & Experience

Pros:

• "Really amazing food with very local but homemade feel to it."
• "You're not coming here for silver service, ya fussy big poultis - you're coming here for a free and easy, in and out, unencumbered dollop of lovely Indian food."
• "The kind of place you go to on your own because it's affordable and the portions are huge. You almost certainly wouldn't bring guests here."
• "Mosque kitchen for me is a place where you can take a whirl away from your daily routine in Edinburgh and feel laid back."
• "Very popular with locals, myself included. Big open spaces and lots of seating available."
• "Really friendly place."
• "A great place to eat during the festival or before taking in something at the nearby Festival theater and especially handy for students and those of us on a budget."

Cons:

• "The webpage and store clearly says they are open until 10pm. They refuse to serve me anything they might have left over and were not exactly sympathetic."
• "Food looked unappealing, tasted bland and was lukewarm."
• "It has a canteen atmosphere, not many customers on our evening visit and some tables were not very clean."
• "We had to finish our dinner in exactly 9 minutes as they close by 9:30 PM and even if you are in before that, you have to finish by 9:30 and they literally start taking the chairs off around you making you feel like an idiot."
• "The vibe of this restaurant isn’t good either."
• "The decor isn't fantastic so be prepared for plastic chairs, outside eating and pigeons fluttering by."
• "Pigeons crawl all over the tables, which are oddly sticky anyway."