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Monsoon Indian Restaurant
- Address:
- 135 Melbourne st, North Adelaide SA 5006
- Cuisines:
- Indian
- Sun hours:
- 12:00 to 14:30, 16:30 to 22:30
- Sun
- 12:00 to 14:30
16:30 to 22:30 - Mon
- 16:30 to 22:30
- Tue - Sat
- 12:00 to 14:30
16:30 to 22:30
- Sun
- 12:00 to 14:30
16:30 to 22:30 - Mon
- 16:30 to 22:30
- Tue - Sat
- 12:00 to 14:30
16:30 to 22:30
MONSOON, ADELAIDE’S FINEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC INDIAN RESTAURANT situated in the heart of Melbourne Street. The elegant and unique MONSOON was established in 2006 with one simple aim to serve authentic, home style Indian Cooking just like Indian Mums would make.
Indian Mums make nutritious dishes, with robust flavours and rustic undertones. At Monsoon we serve similar cuisine but ensure that the flavours are well balanced and that the presentation is contemporary. ‘We believe that food should not only please the palate but also the eyes.’
The skill of using Indian spices comes out not only with knowing what spices to use, but also how to use those spices enhance flavour and add that “ZING” to the food, and it is these spices that make Indian cuisine so distinctive.
The chef at Monsoon is Masters of controlling the blend of these spices to prepare for you would be the most authentic Indian Cuisine you’ve ever tasted!
Monsoon’s Chef believes “The Greatness of food lies in the honesty of its ingredients”.
Indian cuisine is as diverse as its culture, regions, languages, and its climate its history can be traced back thousands of years. Every region of India brings its own unique dishes and subtle variations to popular dishes. The experience of being in MONSOON restaurant is blissful as the eatery specializes food from every part of India north, south, east, west, and allocated best chefs from the country to run the establishment.
Special Private Function Room Aviilable.
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PLACE YOUR ORDER
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Entree
Veg entree's served with mint chutney-
Vegetable Pakoras (5 pcs)
Spinach, cauliflower, potatoes, onions battered in spicy chick pea flour and deep fried
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Paneer Pakoras (4 pcs)
Home-made cheese, marinated in spices, coated with chick pea flour batter and deep fried
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Samosa (2 pcs)
Crisp triangular pastry filled with a mixture of potatoes, peas and lightly spiced with ginger, cumin and deep fried
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Allo Tikki (2 pcs)
Aloo tikki is mashed potatoes and vegetables patties served with tamarind chutney and mint chutney
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Monsoon Vegetable Platter (For Two)
A selection of two pieces of each: samosa, vegetable pakora and paneer pakora
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Tandoori Delights
Tandoori delight's are served with mint chutney and kachumber salad-
Dill Mushrooms
Mushrooms marinated in fresh dill and ground spices, then cooked in tandoor
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Panner Tikka (4 pcs)
Home-made cheese marinated in yoghurt, herbs and spices, rolled on skewers, grilled in tandoor and served with grilled vegetables
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Achari Chicken Tikka (4 pcs)
Tender pieces of chicken fillet, marinated overnight in pickle masala yoghurt, and roasted in the tandoor
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Monsoon Tandoori Chicken
Full chicken marinated overnight in yoghurt, fresh coriander, ginger, garlic and spices, roasted in the tandoor
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Garlic Seekh Kebab (4 pcs)
Minced lamb blended with garlic, and spices skewered and grilled in the tandoori oven
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Ajwainee Fish Tikka
Tender fillets of barramundi fish marinated in ajwainee flavoured and spices
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Jhinga Kali Mirch (Black Pepper Prawn)
Prawn marinated in black pepper and cardamom flavour with garlic, ginger, yoghurt and a combination of our special spices
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Monsoon Non-Vegetable Platter (For Two)
A medley of two pieces of each: achari chicken tikka, garlic seekh kebab, ajwainee fish tikka, jhinga kali mirch (prawn)
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Mains - Poultry
all our curries are gluten free and may contain nuts-
Butter Chicken
Boneless pieces of chicken grilled in the tandoor and cooked in a creamy sauce of cardamoms, tomatoes, and delicate spices
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Murg Lababdar
Boneless pieces of chicken cooked in chopped onion, tomatoes and blended with mild aromatic spices and honey
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Chicken Vindaloo
Boneless pieces of chicken cooked in ginger, garlic, and Monsoon's special vindaloo sauce
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Palak Chicken
Boneless pieces of chicken marinated overnight and cooked in fresh spinach gravy, fenugreek and mustard seeds
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Chicken Zalfrazie
Boneless chicken marinated overnight in whole exotic spices, then cooked with onions, tomatoes and seasonal vegetables
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Chick tikka cooked with diced onion, capsicum, coriander, green chilli and chef's special spices
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Mains - Beef
all our curries are gluten free and may contain nuts-
Kerala Beef Curry
Boneless pieces of beef cooked in onion and kashmiri chilli, coconut and curry leaves blended with spices
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Beef Vindaloo
Boneless pieces of beef cooked in ginger, garlic, fresh ground chillies, Monsoon's special vindaloo sauce. Hot!
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Beef Korma
Boneless pieces of beef cooked in cashew nut gravy, blended with freshly ground spices. Very mild
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Beef Zalfrazie
Boneless pieces of beef cooked with onions, tomatoes & seasonal vegetables, nice n' spicy
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Beef Saagwala
Boneless pieces of beef cooked in fresh spinach puree, blended with a selection of fresh herbs and spices
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Mains - Lamb
all our curries are gluten free and may contain nuts-
Lamb Rogan Josh
Boneless pieces of lamb cooked in onion and kashmiri chilli blended with spices
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Lamb Korma
Boneless pieces of lamb cooked in cashew nut gravy, blended with freshly ground spices. Very mild
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Harayali Gosht
Boneless pieces of lamb cooked in fresh spinach puree, blended with a selection of fresh herbs and spices
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Buna Gosht
Diced lamb and minced lamb flavoured with cardamom, cassia libs, mace, cloves, whole red chilli with onion, ginger & garlic paste and garam masala
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Lamb Zalfrazie
Boneless pieces of lamb cooked with onion, tomatoes & seasonal vegetables
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Lamb Vindaloo
Boneless pieces of lamb cooked in ginger, garlic and Monsoon's special vindaloo sauce
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Mains - Seafood
all our curries are gluten free and may contain nuts-
Madras Fish Curry
Fish fillets cooked with mustard seeds, coconut, curry patta, South Indian spices
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Fish Zalfrazie
Barramundi fish fillets cooked with onion, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and seasonal vegetables
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Fish Vindaloo
Barramundi fish fillets cooked with ginger, garlic, freshly ground chillies and Monsoon's special vindaloo sauce, hot, hot
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Prawn Masala
Monsoon chef's special recipe
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Prawn Zalfrazie
King size prawn cooked with onion, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and seasonal vegetables
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Monsoon Chef's Special
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Chilli Chicken
Boneless chicken cooked in onion and tomatoes with green and red capsicum, green chilli, and spices
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Beetroot Lamb Shank Curry
Meaty lamb shanks cooked with beetroot, tomatoes and onion gravy, combined with herbs and spices to make it a special dish
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Kaju Masala
cashew nut cooked with rich onion, tomatoes and cashewnut cream gravy with spices
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Paneer Chilli
Homemade cottage cheese cooked in onion and tomatoes with red and green capsicum, green chillies, and spices
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Prawn Goa Curry
Prawns cooked with coconut and cashew nut gravy with Indian herbs and spices
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Mushroom Makai Taka Tak
Mushroom and corn kennels cooked together with onion and tomatoes based gravey
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Goat Masala
Chef's special, North Indian style
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South Indian Kitchen
All the dosa's served with sambhar and mint coconut chutney-
Plain Dosa
Traditional rice flour and lentil flour pancake
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Masala Dosa
Traditional rice flour and lentil flour pancake filled with zeera aloo (cumin and potatoes), onions, peas and fresh coriander
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Paneer Dosa
Traditional rice flour and lentil flour pancake filled with home-made cottage cheese
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Tandoori Dosa
Traditional rice flour and lentil flour pancake filled with tandoori chicken tikka masala
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Keema Dosa
Traditional rice flour and lentil flour pancake filled with minced lamb masala and spices
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Vegetarian Kitchen
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Daal Makhani
Creamed lentils tampered and seasoned in ginger, garlic and mild spices, butter and cooked overnight on a slow fired tandoor
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Yellow Daal Tadka
Yellow lentils cooked with aromatic spices, tempered with cumins, turmeric and whole red dried chilli
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Paneer Tikka Butter Masala
Home-made cheese marinated overnight in yoghurt and spices, skewered in tandoor and then cooked with rich onion and tomato based cream gravy
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Malai Kofta Dilbahar
Home-made cottage cheese and potato dumplings, stuffed with sultanas, almonds, cashew nuts and cooked in mild cream
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Kadai Paneer
Pieces of home-made cottge cheese, marinated and then sauteed in a kadai (Indian wok) with onions, capsicum, green chillies, herbs and spices. Served in a mini kadai
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Palak Paneer
Home made cottage cheese cooked in fresh spinach and onion gravy
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Methi Malai Mattar
Fenugreek cooked with spinach, peas and chef's special recipe
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Subzi Zalfrazie
A variety of seasonal vegetables delicately flavoured with fresh herbs, tomatoes and spices
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Baigan Bhartha
Whole eggplants roasted in the tandoor and cooked with chopped onion, tomatoes and Indian spices
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Channa Masala (Chick Peas)
Garbanzo beans cooked delicately with fresh onions and tomato spices in a true punjabi style
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Gobi Aloo
Fresh cauliflower and potatoes, cooked with fresh ginger, tomatoes, coriander, herbs and spices
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Breads (All Cooked In Tandoor)
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Naan
Leavened bread cooked in the tandoor
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Butter Naan
Leavened multi layered bread
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Garlic Naan
Leavened bread with garlic topping
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Vindaloo Naan
Leavened bread with vindaloo sauce topping
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Tandoori Roti
Wholemeal unleavened bread
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Keema Kulcha
Bread stuffed with spiced mince meat and fresh spices
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Onion Kulcha
Plain flour white bread stuffed with spiced onions and herbs
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Lacha Parantha
Multi-layered bread, each layer enriched with butter
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Cheese Parantha
Plain flour bread stuffed with paneer, cheese & coriander
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Peshawari Naan
Plain flour bread filled with cashews, almonds, raisins, coconut
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Punjabi Parantha
Bread stuffed with potatoes, peas, coriander
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Choice of Basmati Rice
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Basmati Rice
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Saffron or Zeera Rice
Rice flovoured with saffron or cumin seeds
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Kashmiri Pulao
Basmati rice cooked with almonds, sultanas, cardamoms, saffron and fruit cocktail
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Navrattan Biryani
A vegetarian treat, basmati rice cooked with seasonal vegetables, saffron, nuts, mildly spiced and served with raita
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Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Basmati rice cooked with boneless tandoori chicken, nuts and special herbs and served with raita
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Mughlai Mutton Biryani
Basmati rice cooked with boneless lamb pieces, nuts and served with raita
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Seafood Biryani
Basmati rice cooked with barramundi fish fillets and prawns with a variety is South Indian spices & served with raita
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Accompaniments
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Papadums
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Raita
Fresh yoghurt and cucumber mildly spiced with peper, coriander and cumin powder
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Kachumber Salads
Diced cucumber, onions, tomatoes and carrots tossed with special Monsoon dressing
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Chutney
Mint, coconut, mango, mixed pickle (charged per serve)
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Drinks
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Soft Drinks
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Lassi
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User rating Overall 8.3 -
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Overall 9 - Food 10, Value 8, Speed 9
Fantastic Meal, Great Sauce, Perfect amount of heat :) Naan Bread dipping goodness (Chris - May, 2013)
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Overall 8 - Food 9, Value 7, Speed 8
Very tasty, seemingly authentic Indian food.
A few specialty dishes all good. I keep coming back to it. (Stefan - See my reviews (10) - February, 2013)
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Overall 8.7 - Food 10, Value 8, Speed 8
Back again A+++++ (Judy - See my reviews (17) - January, 2013)
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Overall 9 - Food 9, Value 9, Speed 9
Again, food is amazing and if I try other places I always come back to this place as they are the best! (Judy - See my reviews (17) - December, 2012)
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Overall 9.3 - Food 10, Value 8, Speed 10
The Chicken Zalfrezi is amazing. We order nearly once a week from this place these days and they are always on good time (usually 10-15 early) and always send sms confirmations. Drivers are friendly and we're never had a bad meal yet. (Judy - See my reviews (17) - December, 2012)
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Overall 10 - Food 10, Value 10, Speed 10
10/10 for these guys. Great food, great delivery times. I've ordered about 5 times now and have tried other places on here but these guys are by far the BEST. A++++ Best Aloo Gobi, Rogan Josh and Chicken Jalfezi around. (Judy - See my reviews (17) - May, 2012)
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Overall 10 - Food 10, Value 10, Speed 10
The spices and flavours here are better than any other Indian restaurant I have been to in Adelaide (See my reviews (10) - January, 2012)
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Overall 6.3 - Food 5, Value 5, Speed 9
Delivery was really fast but it means little if the food is average. The entrees were dry and tasted ordinary, the lamb shank was chewy and gristly, but the chicken dish was quite good. Can't say I'd use them again. (Gary - January, 2012)
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Overall 9.3 - Food 10, Value 8, Speed 10
Food excellent, we all enjoyed our dishes (November, 2011)
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Overall 9.3 - Food 10, Value 10, Speed 8
I absolutely love Monsoon!! My partner and I have been their so many times now, while also indulging in their food via deliveries,, We have always found their service to be great. Time of delivery does vary, but we have never had too long. Usually have to wait much much longer for pizza.
Their food is second to none - samosas are never too oily, pakoras are delicious, and the other food is to die for. V generous servings and when I dine in, I just HAVE to get the to die for dessert the dumplings (Milk dough dumplings?) - Absolutely delicious. Never had better Indian food and service in my life!! (Matthew - February, 2011)
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Overall 9 - Food 10, Value 8, Speed 9
good delivery service, not fast.
Great traditional Indian flavours with a few twists.
Recommended (Stefan - See my reviews (10) - January, 2011)
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Overall 7.7 - Food 9, Value 7, Speed 7
The food is always lovely and full of flavour. (Bec - January, 2011)
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Overall 9 - Food 10, Value 8, Speed 9
Great food, very generous sizes. Plenty left for tomorrow (See my reviews (10) - January, 2011)
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Overall 8.3 - Food 9, Value 8, Speed 8
Great flavours a few unusual but tasty dishes (Stefan - See my reviews (10) - December, 2010)
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Overall 8.3 - Food 9, Value 7, Speed 9
great food chicken vindaloo and tikka and sometime they deliver superfast (xx1984 - See my reviews (2) - November, 2010)
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Overall 4.7 - Food 5, Value 4, Speed 5
I tried this restaurant for food.Good, but what to say the food filled my stomach.Slow in delivery .Will require all my efforts to come to this restaurant. (See my reviews (5) - November, 2010)
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Overall 4.7 - Food 5, Value 4, Speed 5
It taste good even if lamb is mixed in chicken tikka. Slow moving delivery. Need good professionals to manage the food. (Obama - See my reviews (8) - November, 2010)
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Overall 8 - Food 9, Value 7, Speed 8
Yum (Matt - See my reviews (4) - November, 2010)
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Overall 8.3 - Food 9, Value 8, Speed 8
Food and Delivery speed was great, except people should avoid every item under "chef's special". (george - See my reviews (3) - November, 2010)
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Overall 6.3 - Food 9, Value 6, Speed 4
good food except when they mixed lamb in chicken tikka and chicken in buna gohst, slow delevery. all the breads are good. (xx1984 - See my reviews (2) - November, 2010)
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Overall 6.7 - Food 8, Value 8, Speed 4
Great food but a bit slow to deliver (Chris - See my reviews (8) - May, 2010)
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Overall 9 - Food 9, Value 9, Speed 9
Great food, great service and very speedy delivery. Highly recommend ordering from this restaurant. Especially loved the tikka chicken and dosai. (Dion - See my reviews (7) - April, 2010)
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Overall 9 - Food 9, Value 10, Speed 8
Food was excellent service was very professional . we will be go back. Gary & Trish (singh - March, 2010)
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Overall 9 - Food 9, Value 8, Speed 10
Overall great experience but food was a tiny bit salty for us. Wouldn't stop us from ordering again thought. (Victoria - March, 2010)
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Overall 5.7 - Food 3, Value 6, Speed 8
Duck v disappointing; other food good. (Tisha - See my reviews (3) - March, 2010)
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Overall 7 - Food 10, Value 10, Speed 1
was 50 minutes late so i was an angry eater (9pm it arrived) but the food was fantastic. (Lincoln - March, 2010)
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Overall 7.7 - Food 7, Value 7, Speed 9
Great service and prompt delivery. The food was fresh and well prepared and quite good. (Justine - February, 2010)
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Overall 6 - Food 5, Value 4, Speed 9
Didn't like it (See my reviews (3) - February, 2010)
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Overall 8.7 - Food 9, Value 8, Speed 9
Very impressed with the quality of the food. A nice change from the usual players. Loved the lamb shank with beetroot and the chicken with spinach- both very tender and flavoursome. Yummy naan bread also. Will definitely order again. (Taryn - See my reviews (11) - January, 2010)
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Overall 9.7 - Food 10, Value 9, Speed 10
Best Indian meal I've ever had.. was sick of having same butter chicken rogan josh and korma and heard about this place from an Indian friend... there was so much to choose from and everything was delicious. Excellent customer service, lovely meal and great value of money.. (Simone - January, 2010)













