Akram Kashmiri Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Highly recommended the kashmiri fish either as start or main. You won’t be disappointed!"
• "The tikka and cheese naan was the best my husband has had in years (and he’s had many!)."
• "The butter chicken, paneer madras and chicken and spinach were all delicious."
• "A very popular balti resteraunt. Very friendly staff and nice fresh tasting curries."
• "The large peshwari naan was delicious, sweet (maybe honey on top?!) and big enough for 3 people."
• "The food is very good and the spice levels are consistent."
• "Great food.. Especially try their mutton chops for starters and mutton shashlick for mains."

Cons:

• "Would not recommend Akrams at all."
• "Good reputation but didn't deliver the 3 times i went!"
• "Curry wasn't the best, have eaten in restaurant many times and really enjoyed it, but takeaway food is not of the same standard."
• "The sauce was nowhere near authentic, I have had better curries from the supermarket, my coriander naan was stone cold and stale."
• "The food was awful, grey and in the case of the Rogan Josh it was just a tray of onions and nothing else."
• "The curry I had was bland and lacked umph!"
• "The food is absolutely terrible greasy popadoms all the food just looked like a grey stew tasteless greasy alfalfa mess."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff were courteous and pleasant."
• "The staff are really good and you'll never have to wait for service."
• "All waiters are extremely polite and well mannered."
• "The receptionist guy is one of the best front of house people I have ever seen. Very efficient and polite."
• "Staff always welcoming, service excellent and food delicious."
• "The staff were so polite, friendly and on hand anytime you needed them."
• "Staff were really friendly and knowledge about the foods served."

Cons:

• "Quick service but with the impersonal feeling of pack them in and get them out."
• "Staff were very irritating, we just wanted to be left alone to eat and chat and they kept changing water jug asking if we had finished food that we were still eating and generally just made us feel uncomfortable."
• "However on last visit, I ordered 2 regular glasses of coke,and they were £3.60 each !?!I was appalled in fairness."
• "One VERY RUDE member of staff was enough to put me off going there again."
• "They took 2 of our parties plates away why they were at the loo."
• "The waiters were either trying to push us to order or just ignored us."
• "Waiters kept looking at clients eating and asking them if they have finished...They were still eating."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "It's definitely our new local."
• "The atmosphere and the food was great!"
• "You are greeted by a really nice shop front neon signs etc nice decor inside."
• "It's nice and bright and modern and the whole experience was fantastic."
• "Nice atmosphere chilled."
• "Nice relaxed atmosphere good staff very friendly."
• "The food here is really delicious."

Cons:

• "The atmosphere was very loud with drunken people."
• "Then on seeing the chef's cooking on way to car park (the kitchen door's open) their aprons were filthy."
• "The loud background pop music was not helpful and did nothing to add to the rather vulgar atmosphere of the place."
• "Walking in it definitely did not look like 5 star restaurant."
• "The whole restaurant is empty and still they provide you a table right next to the toilet entrance."
• "Toilets a mess, seat broken and door lock broken."
• "Table cloths will add a lot of warmth to that place and will make feel welcome."

Value

Pros:

• "Really nice food at a reasonable price."
• "Good value."
• "Very reasonably priced and value for money."
• "Bring your own booze kept the bill, four mains/naans/rice to £50."
• "Akrams give good portion sizes at a fair price."
• "This restaurant is really good value for money."
• "Prices were very reasonable. Cannot fault anything, will be returning in the future."

Cons:

• "I think it was too overpriced for what you got."
• "I can't see us going back because at £20 per head the meal was very poor value for money."
• "Very expensive for the meal £115 we had."
• "For £15 for a balti I expected to get fresh king prawns."
• "Late night takeaway and frankly we paid £26 for 4 puppadoms."
• "No card payments allowed and no NHS discounts 'because its December'."
• "The prices are really expensive."