Asha's Indian Bar & Restaurant Reviews Summary

Category: Indian restaurant Birmingham

Address: edmund house, 12-22 Newhall St, Birmingham B3 3AS, United Kingdom

Phone: +441212002767

Rating: 4.3
based on 382 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "Service was real polite and helpful."
  • "The members of staff are extremely helpful and accommodating for ad hoc requests."
  • "It's beautiful and the service is great."
  • "The service was brilliant and swift."
  • "Staff were 100% professional and friendly."
  • "The service was very friendly and fast."
  • "Service was excellent and prompt."

Cons:

  • "The service was quite average and needs a lot of improvement."
  • "Service was ok as I have had to ask myself for wet wipes/ finger bowl after long wait."
  • "The service by the staff was extremely poor."
  • "The orders were taken very late but we were asked to leave in the middle of our dining because they needed the table."
  • "The service was not at all attentive, it was awful."
  • "The service was awful. They were so slow to take our orders & the food took forever to come out."
  • "Service was a bit slow with waiters being a bit unattentive."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The lamb and butter chicken!! Superb."
  • "The gravy was excellent."
  • "The main dish Chicken Dhava Curry and Chicken Biryani was excellent."
  • "Each dish had its own distinct flavour and the spice was perfectly balanced."
  • "The food was some of the most amazing cuisine I have tasted."
  • "The kadhai paneer was a flavor explosion."
  • "The Chicken Tikka Masala was up there with the best curries I have had."

Cons:

  • "The food is way overpriced and doesn’t even do justice to Indian food quality."
  • "The food was vile the worst biriyani I have ever had in fact I couldn't finish it neither could my husband."
  • "The Biriyani what we ordered lacked taste and aroma."
  • "The famous chicken tikka masala did not have tikka pieces and was more like butter chicken."
  • "Food was ok but overpriced since our last visit."
  • "The food was not tasty, wasn’t spicy."
  • "The food was quite underwhelming and disappointing especially given the expensive price."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "It's beautiful and the service is great."
  • "The restaurant was beautiful and very busy with a lovely atmosphere."
  • "The ambience was very cozy and nice."
  • "Atmosphere was lovely had a private side room, fab!!!"
  • "The food was beautiful and tasty with quick, efficient and friendly service, in a restaurant with plenty of ambience."
  • "The ambience was very cozy and nice, it is very spacious."
  • "The ambiance added a perfect touch to the evening."

Cons:

  • "The place was noisy and full of large, rowdy parties and lacked any ambience."
  • "The place was extremely busy, very dark and hot."
  • "Also, bathrooms can be cleaned more regularly - did not have a pleasant smell."
  • "The restaurant is a lovely place to be, but it did get quite noisy."
  • "Whenever I've been in there though I've always felt it was lacking a little atmosphere."
  • "Its loud and it’s cramped."
  • "The atmosphere tends to be very noisy, even early in the evening."

Value

Pros:

  • "You definitely get what you pay for here."
  • "The prices for the spread were very reasonable as well."
  • "Was expecting a huge price at the end of the meal and was very surprised, I mean very."
  • "Very reasonably priced too for the sheer quality of food and service you get for your money."
  • "This was certainly value for money."
  • "Pricey but good value considering the ambience and the quality of food."
  • "Reasonable prices."

Cons:

  • "In a nutshell massively overpriced charged me over £100 for 2 meals no alcohol purchased this was just for two standard meals… absolute ripoff."
  • "Visited here last week and was fairly disappointed... very expensive (£22 for a tikka masala)."
  • "Very expensive. At £23 for a main course of chicken or lamb, with 6 pieces in each, not worth it in my opinion."
  • "Quite annoyed I paid double the price for Indian food and it turned out very bland and bang average."
  • "I didn’t feel the service was worth the 10% service charge they put on."
  • "Eye-watering-ly expensive place."
  • "The bill was £137 for the above, which is very expensive for a curry and 4 cocktails."

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