The name of this restaurant gives a clue that it serves Nepalese cuisine. To be honest, looking at…read morethe menu, it's hard to tell to tell the difference from Indian food After the obligatory popaddoms, my friends and I ordered the only obviously Nepalese dish on the menu, chicken momos. Th dumplings were yummy, containing well seasoned flavoursome meat and served with a lovely contrasting sweet sauce Unfortunately, that was the highlight of the meal. Our 2 main dishes of lamb shank and king prawn curries tasted too similar. The meat of the lamb shank was disappointingly tough where normally, slow long cooking renders it fork-soft There are better options for Indian food in the area

Wow! Just Wow! This is possibly the best Indian / Himalayan food I have ever eaten. Incredibly…read morefresh with flavours that I have only previously imagined. Sauces are subtle and flavoured so authentically that your taste buds instantly transport you to Nepal, where the cuisine finds its inspiration. Really tender chicken and prawns that are just melt in your mouth! Can't rate the food here highly enough. Everest Spice is family run and everybody who works here seems to care, and maybe that is the difference. By far my favourite restaurant in Surrey, and maybe in all of the South East!

During my time in Epsom, I've seen the town change a lot and the Upper High Street area has lost a…read morelot of old stalwarts over the years like Iceland. Shama's Indian restaurant had been a regular haunt for locals on this site for many decades - I always remember it for the diamond shaped menu on the wall with the wonky writing! Cheap and cheerful Indian dining would sum up its food. Khan's took over this site last year and the decor is certainly much more contemporary and they've added the ability to open out the front of the restaurant on nice days. It has a sister restaurant in Lavender Hill, London. My friend and I were sad to see an institution like Shama's go after so many years but we were excited to try this new place. The menu is more conventional than somewhere like Cinnamon Spice in town. Unfortunately, the food didn't live up to the new decor and we found the flavours a bit bland and the dishes didn't really stand out from one another. That's a real shame as the staff were really nice and we were offered a complimentary liqueur at the end of our meal. Sadly, first impressions count and I can't see myself returning here in a hurry, not with Cinnamon Spice down the road.

A comfortable place. A great local spot with the cinema across the street it is part of a great…read morenight. The pickles to begin with are tasty and a great way to start the spice party. Sadly the spice party was a little lacking. I had a jalfrazi and it could have been a lot Spicer. Non the less it was very good

As time goes on, I'm having to travel further afield to find new places to eat at and Yelp about…read morebefore my salsa lesson on Friday evening. Tonight I went over to west Ewell. Tamarind Spice occupies the site of the much-loved White Castle Indian restaurant in Ewell. The refurbishment has left the new restaurant with a modern look with split level dining and purple mood uplighting This modern touch extends to the ordering with the waiter using a futuristic touch screen portable device. My mango lassi and popaddom were a good standard and should be the basic minimum for any decent Indian restaurant. It's the condiments which make the popaddom experience and the ones here did the trick. I started with king prawn puree. The puree wasn't perhaps straight out of the fryer, being a little chewy rather than totally light and crispy. However, the king prawns on top were great, not overcooked and having a nice blend of herbs and spices for a kick. There were quite a few interesting and new dishes in the specialities section. In the end, I settled for the lamb shatkora, described as a spicy dish from Bengal cooked with exotic citrus fruit, even though the waiter was unable to identify the exact citrus fruits used. Strangely, despite the restaurant name, there is a distinct lack of tamarind mentioned on the menu. The dish arrived with a lot of generous chunks of tender lamb. The sauce was well balanced with the citrus flavour being well balanced with an aromatic woody base. Only slight problem was in obtaining my bill and paying, with the many waiters being great at serving the food but not so keen to collect the payment! A worthy replacement for the White Castle

I usually leave reviews to Yee! Do not get the time to review all the eateries as I am to busy…read moreupdating and surveying !

Friday evening means a search for pre-salsa food and my salsa friend Hilary and I decided to try…read moreBlue Mint - a takeaway menu for this place had dropped through her door recently Blue Mint describes itself as a contemporary Indian restaurant and the decor has certainly been updated from the previous Indian restaurant on this site The decor is modern and bright and it was impressive to see the restaurant's monogram on the linen, plates and salt & pepper cellars on the table. My mango lassi was nicely flavoured with mango and not overly sweet. We decided to order some chef's specialities and eventually plumped for the roast duck delight and the Blue Mint lamb shank. The main meals did take awhile to come out which is a good sign, I suppose, that they're cooking it from scratch. However, it did result in us having to hurry a bit with our meal as we had to go to salsa. The lamb shank had a generous amount of meat and a lovely deep concentrated flavour to reflect its slow cooking roots. The roast duck delight was slightly spicier and also contained ground lamb and a sprinkle of hard boiled egg as a garnish Overall an enjoyable meal probably meriting 3.5 stars for the food but the slow service did force me to round down to 3 rather than up

During our search for a decent curry house, we went in Blue Mint for an after-work dinner last…read moreyear. We were the only people in the restaurant (I guess it was early), service was friendly enough, food was average but the floor, tables, furniture and general surroundings were sticky, greasy and grimey. Ofcourse one would hope that behind closed doors, the kitchen would be immaculate, however I doubt that is the case. Certainly enough to put me off my food. Food is actually not bad, but the whole dining experience is important to me.

After our last attempted visit, things could only get better for Paprika…read more Friday night means pre-salsa food. It was a sweltering hot evening and we noticed that Paprika had tables set up outside on their deck and the door was open. Despite our bad experience previously, we decided to ask to look at a menu and it looked promising. So we took a table outside. My mango lassi was exemplary, packed full of mango flavour and the chutneys with the popoddams were yummy. We decided to go with some unfamiliar dishes - the chicken paprika and a lamb dish whose name escapes me. Both were full of flavour and well enjoyed. During our visit, we spoke to the manager about our previous experience and he was very apologetic. They're also going to post a menu outside from this week. So a reprieve and we look forward to trying more dishes here.

I first visited Paprkia a few days after it opened back in 2006. Being a bit sceptical on trying…read morenew places, I thought I would give it a try and have never been to another Indian restaurant since. Located in the heart of Ewell Village, the atmosphere is amazing with extremely friendly staff waiting on you hand and foot. I would definately recommend this place to anybody who would like to try Indian cusine for the first time, or even if you are a regular and just want to try somewhere a bit new and different. If you have never had Indian before, my personal recommendation is the Chicken Korma with Pilau Rice - very tasty and not at all spicy.

I am an occasional visitor to Epsom from the USA to visit family, and always head for one of the…read moreIndian restaurants in Epsom. They are very variable in my view, but for take out, I have not found any better than The Spice Hut. Seeing it has no reviews yet, I wanted to start the ball rolling. Note this is for take away only, but if you want generous portions, large chunks of meat, and really tasty sauces with aromatic spices, then give this place a try. This week we tried the Chicken Pasanda and the Haryali Chicken, the latter I would especially recommend for it unusual blend of mint, spinach and coriander. If I had to make a slight criticism, it would be that perhaps the sauces are sweetened a little too much. But overall I would happily recommend this take out.

Sometimes you walk into a restaurant, and just get a bad feeling. This was one of those times. I…read morewalked in with my husband, and the two members of staff (one male & one female) just looked at each other, for about 30 awkward seconds, before coming to seat us. Despite the door of the restaurant being open, it was almost as if they didn't want customers. So we instantly got an uncomfortable feeling of being unwelcome. Then the female member of staff came to our table and proceeded to undo our napkins for us - had we come in with our 3 year-old son, and had she been opening his napkin, I could've understood.....even thanked her. But she was opening napkins for 40 & 47 year-olds ! Hmmm, how do you tell someone that you'll open your napkin if & when you'd like it, and...well after you've ordered your drinks & meal ? The same member of staff asked if we'd like drinks, without giving us a drinks menu - so I asked for one. My husband picked something straightforward it seems, by choosing a Cobra. I asked for a 175ml glass of rosé. The manager (sorry, I'm assuming, but this member of staff did appear more senior) then came over to us to explain that he didn't have the rosé that I'd selected, and asked me to choose another wine. He said he had both other rosés on the drinks menu, so I picked one of those. 8 minutes after bringing my husband his Cobra (but, with him unable to 'chink' with me, feeling unable to drink it), and lots of rummaging & rustling later, the second (younger) male member of staff delivered a glass of wine to the table. The glass was not 175ml - but 250ml instead - and it was RED wine ! When I said that the glass was larger & red, rather than rosé, the chap mumbled that they didn't have the second rosé I'd chosen, so they just decided to bring me a glass of red instead !!! At this point, we walked out of the restaurant, neither of us having touched our drinks..... I wouldn't recommend this eatery, at least until staff have undertaken a lot of customer service training.