I have heard a few people describe this place as the best Indian restaurant in Brighton. Whilst I…read moredon't think I've eaten in enough to warrant corroborating that statement, I can say I ate here recently and it was pretty damn good! What I particularly like about Shahi Tandoori is that it is split into two quite separate spaces, one side is the restaurant and one is the takeaway. This is genius! There's nothing more annoying than people wandering through while you're eating to pick up their order, letting a draft in and spoiling the ambiance of the restaurant. Well Shahi has it covered. Food-wise, the side dishes are all great...I particularly like the Bombay Aloo, the Sag Paneer and the Onion Bhajis- delicious! I can also recommend the Vegetable Balti and Chicken Tikka Masala. Since this place is just around the corner, we often pop down to pick up a few side dishes to go with a home-cooked curry and they never look at us funny, despite our paltry order! I like them.

You can never have enough good quality Indian restaurants (so says I), without doubt Shahi Tandoori…read moredeserves to be added to that category. It's located in an odd place at the bottom of Ditchling Rise, because of the location you might never have come this way, I really would recommend it though. 'Shahi' is a little bit cheaper then the more central Indian restaurants (and take aways, they do both). The food is also of a very good quality; I had the rogan josh and passanda, both of which I could eat 7 days a week. The area isn't the nicest, the decor is a little dated, but it's a fantastic place filled with Indian charm (and food).

A tasty little place this, that gives you the option to enjoy a meaty meal or a varied veggie…read moreplatter. The food's top notch which ever option you go for, but its not my favourite buffet, or even Indian buffet, as the quality isn't immensely better for the extra bit of money that it costs to eat here over (for example) Me Old China or Bombay Lounge of North Street. Still, if your in the are looking for some tasty Indian grub, you can't do much better than head here for the 5 hour lunch time happy hour!

The non-veggie version of the Bombay Aloo restaurant. The…read moreformula is the same - a fixed price, all you can eat buffet with steaming pots of curry to help yourself to as often as you like. If you prefer veggie, then you can opt for a vegetarian only buffet, if not then you pay a little extra for access to the meat dishes. The meat curries are fine, altlhough nothing special, so in general, I would stick to the Bombay Aloo, where you'll get more choice of veggie dishes in a nicer environment. However, the tandoori chicken wings are absolutely to die for, so this place does merit the occasional visit just for them.

The Bombay Lounge has been doing a mid-week buffet charging £5.50 a head lately, that runs up to 5…read morePM. My friend and I arrived at 4.58, and stayed until just after 6, and they were happy for us to do so, which meant we practically had a dinner at the place. And the food on offer was tremendous quality too, with a couple of different meaty curries, in addition to the vegetarian options and Sag Aloo, with a well stocked salad bar, naan and a few extra additions to bolster the buffet nicely. I'd recommend going earlier in the day though, as although the food was delicious, it was clear that we were the last people to dig into it, before they prepared for the evening surge. The lamb curry in particular was a joy for the taste buds, and comes with my greatest suggestion. My dinner partner still maintains that takeout curry tastes better, but there's nothing like being submerged in a well presented restaurant, and being presented with such a strong variety of food at such a good price. The Indian equivalent of Me Old China.

Cheap-yes Good-NO!!!!…read more Take 50 jars of Tesco value curry sauce. Chuck a load of bad quality meat in it. Cook for 4 days. Divide into 5 serving dishes. Mix different coloured food colouring into each one. Leave it all under a heat lamp for a week. Now open for business!!!! Ate here once, completely unchildfriendly with awful food which all tasted the same-crap. As authentic as Indian food cooked without Indian spices by a dog with no legs. It's a pity I have to give this review one star to post it

My second stop on my food tour around Brighton was at this adorable Indian restaurant. It was more…read moreupscale and had a classy vibe to it. I shared a vegetarian curry with rice and it was delicious! One of the best Indian curry I've had. The service was fast and the restaurant was not that packed when I went. The lights were a bit dimmed so you can have a romantic feel to your dinner date.

Not the best indian food in the world - but great if you want a quick relatively cheap meal. It's…read moredefinitely one of the better options in Preston Street. I've only been there a couple of times but both times the staff have been extremely pleasant and helpful. The restaurant doesn't get packed and has a nice relaxed atmosphere. I think that they do a take away service (but will stand corrected on this).

Akash is, like so many places, an average curry house with little outstanding qualities and even…read moreless in the way of faults. Whether you eat in or takeaway you're guaranteed satisfaction, especially because the prices are so reasonable. It offers all the usual dishes and a small but good range of beers and wines. It's certainly worth a try if you live nearby but there's nothing about it that trumps my local curry place, which is much closer. On a special occasion there are better places to go but if you're in search of a good deal then it would almost certainly prove to be a good choice. Also, it's good for students as they offer a 10% discount to NUS card holders.

Without a shadow of a doubt the worst Indian restaurant we have ever visited. Appalingly slow to…read moretake our order (two tables arriving after us had their order taken before us!!) I had to return my chicken korma twice, the first offering was watery, bland and totally devoid of any redeeming features at all. Remarkably the replacement was even more disgusting, just the same stuff with some thickeners added and possibly a few spices thrown in. I got the impression the staff just didn't have clue about any of the skills in running a restaurant. Just avoid this place at all costs.

Having heard such good things about this place, I was fairly surprised by the barely above average…read morequality to price ratio. Per head you're probably looking at spending upwards of £15, which is fairly standard, but having entered with high expectations my evening was a little soured. I think you need to understand that despite it's grand façade, Ashoka is in the mid-range market for Indian restaurants. For example, the food is by no means poor but due to the décor it feels more like a colonial Indian as opposed to a traditional Indian restaurant. I can't help but think that Ashoka are selling themselves short by opting for this more restrained interior/ atmosphere. Despite its aesthetic shortcomings I had no complaints about the meal. As a takeaway, Ashoka is perfectly good, as they offer free deliveries for every order over £15 and a 10% discount on orders over £12. As such, I'd be more happy to recommend Ashoka as a takeaway than as a restaurant but if you like your local Indian to have a more British feel, then you'll probably enjoy it.

This 'authentic' Indian restaurant didn't really much out of the ordinary. I came here and had a…read morechicken biryani, despite being sold as a medium strength curry, it was unfortunately rather mild. As mentioned by Mike, from the outside, Ashoko looks quite well polished and sophisticated, but the inside fails to be that, while also failing to invoke the memories of a traditional Indian restaurant that has too often been replaced with these quasi-European 'lounges'. The food was ok, it just left me feeling like I could have been better served elsewhere.

Really held out for giving Surma the benefit of the doubt because it used to be my favourite Indian…read moretake-away but unfortunately we're through. I don't know whether it's changed hands or something because each and every time I've ordered from there recently there has constantly been an issue. This time around I ordered a lamb tikka starter which is normally moist and delicious but the pieces of lamb were actually black. So overcooked and burnt I couldn't chew it. Lucky to still have teeth... They also forgot my poppadoms and mango chutney. My chicken kori had obviously been really sloppily made as it came with the hugest chunks of onion and pepper - they were just quartered and thrown in. Brighton is now officially RUBBISH for take-aways. Gutted.

Expecting me to say yes, I had a couple of friends offer to cook for me this evening... But…read moreinstead, I told them we were getting a curry. Disappointment turned to joy, and I was told we had to go to Surma Tandoori, which is my flat mates favourite curry house. Having had three years of expirience with the place, he should know, and assured me that the food was the best on Lewes road dispite several people raving about Bhindis just a little way up the road from there. We trusted his judgement, perused the reasonably priced menu (plenty of curries with rice for £5.20 - £7.00 as well as all the norms) and took our wares home with us, shivering against the wind. I've got to say, I was very impressed... It's restaurant quality stuff at prices that aren't breaking the bank. Nan's were fresh and fluffy, packing the right amount of flavour, and I was informed that the Bajji were damned good (the fact he wouldn't give away even one suggests he meant it). I thought about giving a 4* rather than 5, but seeing as no one else has, and the place seems to be run by such a grand family I thought I'd push the boat out! Now excuse me, as I think I may not be able to resist my leftovers after all...

Having always been a lover of a damn good Ruby, imagine my surprise to discover this little gem…read morenestled up in Fiveways not two minutes from my front door. Proclaiming itself to be Undoubtedly the Best Indian Take Away in Brighton & Hove, I couldn't possibly let it get away with a claim like that without putting it to the test, could I? And you know what? They may well be right... Having been steadily working my way through the Agra's menu since September, I haven't yet found a bad dish. Their curries are tasty without being overwhelmingly spicy and unlike a lot of curry houses, their meals aren't swimming in fat. But do they pass the ultimate test that of the non-soggy onion bhaji? Of course they do. I even order double so I can eat them to next day. Lush. The only downside (if you live anywhere other than right on top of it, like me) is that it doesn't deliver. And I must admit, it's for that reason that on a cold, rainy night we have gone elsewhere for our Friday night curry fix to save ourselves from changing out of our pyjamas and donning waterproof jackets to walk the five minutes there and back again. But when the weather is fair enough for us to shake off our laziness and venture out to collect our order, we've never had to wait more than half an hour, even after 8 o'clock on a Saturday night. Their prices aren't bad either a fair few dishes come with rice included in the price at no extra cost compared with other places, which saves a few pennies on side orders. Having been unable, thus far, to sample every curry house in all of Brighton & Hove I can't comment definitively, but as far as a good Ruby goes this is definitely one of the best you'll find.

Agra probably has to go down as one of the better Indian takeaway's in Brighton. All of the food is…read morefreshly made on the day, and I think you can taste that in the food. I have yet to meet anybody with a bad word to say about Agra (that even includes vegetarians). I personally have only positive things to say about everything i've eaten here. I normally order the chicken passanda and the lamb tikka, both of which are as good as i've had anywhere else. I'd definitely recommend Agra if you're looking for a new curry house.