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."