Himalaya Restaurant (Licensed) Reviews Summary

Category: Indian restaurant Birmingham

Address: 1716 Bristol Rd S, Rednal, Birmingham B45 9QD, United Kingdom

Phone: +441214534336

Rating: 4.6
based on 159 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food was hot, fresh & very tasty."
  • "The food was all top notch, very good indeed."
  • "Food was tasty, good portions and reasonably priced."
  • "The jalfrezi was nice and not too hot! Sag Aloo & Bombay potatoes were very flavoursome."
  • "Starters fresh & tasty, main course Chicken Tikka Masala Balti & Chicken Tikka Pathia Balti, served in the traditional balti bowls, generous portions & really tasty."
  • "The food was stunning (great quality and portion size)."
  • "The food was excellent. We had seafood dishes and will definitely be returning to try other things on the menu."

Cons:

  • "Chicken baltis are one of my favourite dishes and I've had them at many different venues, including abroad. I have to say this is the worse balti I've ever had."
  • "Take away food arrived cold, king prawn curry had no king prawns in it just a bowl of horrible so called curry."
  • "Food was extremely watery..naan bread was not very nice either.. we had lamb and chicken curries! for the money absolutely not good, whatsoever.. disappointed much."
  • "Main courses both cold no flavor chips cold rice cold nan bread ok chapaties cold and doughy we never touched it."
  • "The chips were saturated oil - they were so heavy and literally soaked in oil."
  • "The vegetables in the curry were mushy and the curry sauce in both of them were pasty, bland and resembled baby food."
  • "Butter Chicken tasted worse than a Β£1.00 microwave meal. Tasteless, bland, and unappetising."

Service

Pros:

  • "Everytime time we go we recieve impecable table service, the staff will bring food to the table and plate it up there for you."
  • "The service was fantastic as the staff were so attentive and friendly."
  • "The staff are very good and friendly, plus the service is bang on."
  • "Service was friendly and relatively quick considering how busy the evening was."
  • "The staff were very attentive to us and apologetic about the delay."
  • "The service was excellent, friendly and timely."
  • "Service was great the staff were friendly."

Cons:

  • "Rubbish food and service and one being given feedback that the food was really bad."
  • "Booked a table for 2 tonight said not busy that's fine, complete waste of time 20mins after seated they said want a drink? After 45mins and can now start to see other customers were complaining as well no starters or main courses appeared."
  • "VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED service food very slow 2.5 hours."
  • "service food very slow 2.5 hours because there were 9 of us the range of good Starters Mains Extra’s the food was a poor standard."
  • "When advising of the disappointing 2 of 7 means they were defensive and argumentative."
  • "Barely listened to their own waiter and dribbled out jargon even after I reiterated what the waiter had said."
  • "Unfortunately 1 star is the lowest possible."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "Nice decor inside."
  • "The restaurant is clean and very well maintained."
  • "Outstanding restaurant, polite staff and very nice food. The atmosphere is really relaxing and always has heating on in there."
  • "Ambience and furniture etc were very tasteful."
  • "Considering current climate (covid) we felt so comfortable in your restaurant."
  • "Lovely surroundings too with everything very clean and well presented."
  • "A bustling Saturday night, lots of families in, nice mood."

Cons:

  • "My only concern was the noise from other tables. It was so loud we couldn't hear ourselves talking, and the staff didn't tell them to be quiet."
  • "Only downside for me was the chairs became very uncomfortable half way through."
  • "Ambiance: clean."
  • "The pilau rice just tasted like boiled rice with a yellow food coloring."
  • "The curry and balti tasted the same and there was no real taste to any of them."
  • "Rice served in horrible white plastic bowls. Lemonade & soda were flat."
  • "The chutney was pureed 😩"

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