Bhuna (Medium)
Lal Jomi Redland

Lal Jomi Redland

2, Harcourt Rd, Redland, Bristol, BS67RG, BS6 7RG, United Kingdom

Asian • Balti • Indian • Vegetarian


"(Now Cardamom Bay) Nipped in early Sunday evening to collect a takeaway. The place was empty, apart from staff. Collected a chicken rezala, pilau rice and plain naan. The rice was quite nice, the curry average, but ok. Bit greasy, but passable. Though for the cost of the takeaway £16, I expected something much better. Then we come to the naan if I can call it that. Usually light un colour, fluffy with just the right dark areas that are slightly crispy with a slight hint of sweetness. And usually teardrop shaped. This was none of these. It was circular, grey in colour and soggy and spongey. Yes, unbelivable, I felt I needed to wring it out it was so limp and water/oil laden. It looked totally unappealing and just tasted of nothing nice. I suspect that because they were so quiet and it was early, they hadn 't bothered to fire up the tandoor oven, as this 'naan ' had never been near one. Heaven only knows how they made it, but they managed to make something so simple and normally delicious turn out so bad I only eat a small part to see if it tasted as bad as it looked: and it did. The rest in the bin. I expected there might have been the odd table taken and people in and out for takeaways but it was quiet, poss because people won 't pay top dollar for sub standard food, made by amateurs. My visit was the first in quite a few years, since it used to be Lal Jomi. But I thought I would give it a try. Will be many many years before I return here if ever."

Lahori

Lahori

United Kingdom, M12 4NN, Manchester

Fish • Halal • Coffee • Chicken


"Before going there, we called the restaurant and asked the manager if they can host a table of 22 people, they were more than happy to say yes. So, we all went there and after placing the order for starters and mains this is how it went. It took them 45mins to serve the starters and when the food came, chicken tikka was cold and seekh kebab were hard, we ordered 7 mix platters for starters and only 5 arrived at the table. For mains, we had ordered 5 sajji (only 2 came), 3 lamb karahi and 3 chicken karahi, they served 4 karahi’s (2 each) 40mins after the starters had been eaten, they served karahi’s and then naans came 20mins after the karahis! Some of the guests on our table started eating their karahi with fork! The service was shocking x10, my dad and I kept taking turns to nudge the manager for food delay as guests were being impatient. The manager was too busy making waffles and cookie doughs for Just Eat orders! After 2hrs of hassling with the manager and food delays etc, we asked the manager if he has any desi dessert, he said he has nothing apart from ice cream which was not even made and said he can make a cookie dough but will be 5mins delay on each guest, which asian restaurant serves cookie doughs and waffles to the elderly? Anyway, we asked him to make ice creams which he started from scratch and served after 20mins! To top off the horrible service, food everything, I asked my dad to see off the guests into their cars because there was no way I was paying the full amount which by the way came to £437.98! My cousin and I asked the manager to compensate for such poor service and food, he said he can only bring down 10%, we then said it should be 30% off atleast he then started shouting at us and tried putting the shutter down at the restaurant and said he’ll find my dad and ask him to pay in the car park infront of the guests to embarrass him yes these were his exact words! Anyway, then it annoyed my cousin and I and we said calm the hell down, we will be paying but told him how inconsiderate he was being. We were about to pay then he started talking rudely to my mum and my aunty which really annoyed us and that’s when we told him to get his act together! We ended up paying 10% less. He also threatened to call police used some islamic terms on us etc etc. We also said to him if he could not serve a table of 22 people, then why did he say yes, it would have saved us an embarrassment infront of my sister’s in laws! Please DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE. IT’S A JUNK YARD! Parking has no lights, no bays, there is garbage everywhere. Toilets are broken and dirty, service is shocking and food comes with ALOT OF DELAY."