Tuk Tuk Indian Street Food Reviews Summary

Category: Indian restaurant Edinburgh

Address: 1 Leven St, Edinburgh, EH3 9LH, United Kingdom

Phone: +441312283322

Rating: 4.3
based on 361 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "All of the food was delicious and very well presented."
  • "This is probably the nicest indian food I’ve eaten and I’ve lived here for 2 and a bit years."
  • "The lamb curry on the bone was genuinely one of the best curries I've ever had."
  • "The food was freshly made and tasted fantastic, the lemonades were refreshing!"
  • "Food was excellent. Said to be tapas style but quantities were still good."
  • "I particularly recommend the butter chicken and the lamb biryani - they were some of the best I've ever had."
  • "Bengali Fishcakes were an absolute delight, really delicious & I'd definitely get them again."

Cons:

  • "As an Indian I was very disappointed with the flavour of the meals."
  • "Saag Paneer however wasn't quite as successful - a little too salty for my taste."
  • "Food was pretty average and made for lighweights than proper Indian food."
  • "Dishes with spinach sauces were so, so bland with no real detectable spice or range of flavour."
  • "Chicken wings were average, no real flavour."
  • "Every dish was just full of ghee and that was all u could taste."
  • "The Tarka Dhal was not very flavoursome, and the portions were rather small."

Service

Pros:

  • "Very friendly staff, the young lady who looked after our table was cheerful and nice."
  • "We were served by kirti on this occasion who was prompt and considerate."
  • "The staff is very friendly and attentive in the face of the pressing crowds."
  • "Our waiter who was incredibly friendly and attentive on what was a busy Saturday evening."
  • "The staff were very attentive and helpful, lovely atmosphere."
  • "Staff were super attentive."
  • "The service was very good, the menu was small but well thought out."

Cons:

  • "It is bring your own booze which just attracts a bad crowd."
  • "The staff were also very despondent and not very friendly."
  • "Service was terrible, first they criticised our order 'like we didn’t know what we were ordering', then waitress was too pushy for us to write a good google review on her service."
  • "Our waiter was very good but we found it incredibly rude that his manager was watching over our table and kept telling him off in front of us."
  • "None of the waiters were taking orders or did not show interest in the same."
  • "At one point the manger came over to our table to question why we were not ordering drinks."
  • "Service is a bit slow (especially when they are busy)."

Value

Pros:

  • "Price was very reasonable (£70 for 4 of us(No drinks) and We were well stuffed by the end of it)."
  • "Food was delicious and good value for money."
  • "Excellent value for money. Everything was delicious and if I have another meal there I will order the same!"
  • "Considering what we had to eat, I thought the bill was extremely reasonable."
  • "£55 for 4 of us also excellent value along with a bottle of white and few beers bought from the Sainsbury’s down the road."
  • "The food was delicious and came at a reasonable price."
  • "You must try this place it’s well worth a visit and very well priced."

Cons:

  • "We were then advised by the waiter that the manager will be applying a fee onto the bill for a takeaway container."
  • "Portion size was small."
  • "Had to pay £1 for takeaway containers which is ridiculous, you should be encouraging people taking food home and discouraging wastage!!!!!!!!!."
  • "They have a BYOB policy but the non-alcoholic drinks that you have to purchase with them are very overpriced."
  • "The food was pathetic. The portion size was really low for the price."
  • "The curry was sweet I mean not just hint of sweetness but sweet as a desert!! curries are not to be sweet period!!"
  • "The portion size was really low for the price."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "While upstairs and the restaurant area was clean and tidy, the toilets downstairs need a thorough cleaning."
  • "The Bollywood booth in the corner was a nice touch with a retro flavour."
  • "The atmosphere, decor and music were so great."
  • "The decor is super cool inside and the atmosphere was very nice!!"
  • "Ambience is brilliant with posters of Bollywood movies and quite spacious."
  • "The interior decor is absolutely gorgeous."
  • "It's a bigger place than it looks from the outside with nice ambience."

Cons:

  • "It is also very noisy so if you wear hearing aids like myself it is a struggle to hear people around you."
  • "It did get very busy and loud (in part due to a lot of tin on the walls) towards the end of our visit."
  • "The restaurant was so loud and echoey probably because it has no soft furnishings."
  • "Also it's very noisy and difficult to hear anyone. NOISE POLLUTION!!!"
  • "A very popular Indian restaurant that's loud. And noisy."
  • "The space around the toilets could be kept a bit more cleaner though."
  • "Wash rooms floors were very slippery, couldn't step at all."

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