Great service and lovely food. Good ambiance. We had papadums, Gobi Manchurian, lamb chops and gol gappa for starters along with Mango lassi. All of them were excellent! Added on coconut fish curry and chicken butter masala for entrees. All very good. Will visit again for sure! read more

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Great food overall. Service was mixed--one of them was funny, enthusiastic, and clearly liked people. The other seemed agitated and annoyed all evening. The birthday gulab jamun was cute but cold and dry (come on...). My friends ordered the rest of the food so I'm not exactly sure what we got but it was delicious. Great cocktails! read more

Horn Please had been on my list for some time and finally when I found myself wondering "where can we go for dinner tonight?" it sprung to mind as somewhere that wasn't going to be overly expensive, fussy and was also within walking distance of home. 15 minutes there and back helped to build the appetite and also burn a little of the food baby off afterwards. There's no bookings at Horn Please but we got seated straight away on a big communal table. Don't let the idea of that turn you off though, it was fun and felt like one big dinner party even though it was really only the two of us on our corner. The entire venue is a little rowdy and noisy, but I really liked the energy here. Perhaps not the best place for first dates, but for seasoned couples I think it's a great dinner date option. Apparently the menu changes regularly. When we were there we enjoyed the pappadums with "the works" of six things to dip in to - a condiment lovers idea of heaven! We also tried the yoghurt kebab which was a kind of cheese/yoghurty fried puck of dense deliciousness. I'd never really had anything like it before. Delicious, but quite filling. You've been warned. We were urged to try the chicken tikka and I'm glad I did. Super juicy, well seasoned and accompanied with a zingly salad of leaves and pickled fennel. I could have walked out then and there quite satisfied but we'd ordered curries. The goat curry was densely spiced and beautiful mopped up with a naan bread. The "dry" butternut squash with coconut was a lovely contrast but these two dishes alongside rice and naan defeated us both. We were treated to sticks of spiced kulfi icecream to finish. Apparently the food had taken "too long" by their standards so it was a gesture to make up for it. Honestly we hadn't found the service noticeably slow, but it's great when a business cares so much about customers that they want them to walk away saying what a great experience it was. This tiny gesture said so much, and now it ensures that I will forever more order the icecream - it was excellent. Pro tips: BYO wine for $10 corkage. read more

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How could it have possibly taken me this long to get to Horn Please? I'm genuinely disappointed in myself. We were in the area after a nearby house inspection and decided to duck in for quick dinner - who can be bothered cooking in winter, am I right? After glancing over the menu I decided we simply must have the Gol Gappa, which had no description other than "A favourite Indian snack". It was one of those meals that was so crazily presented that everyone else in the restaurant stared at it when it was placed down in front of us. Six shot glasses full of various coloured liquids with crunchy little bites on top. We were instructed to pour the shot into the cracker. It was deelish and super tangy. I think just one or two might have been enough as by the third one the flavours became a bit much. We then grabbed the roasted cauliflower, which was by far the highlight of the entire meal. It tasted a bit sriracha-y, was warming but not too hot, and just bloody delicious. I could have eaten the whole plate if my partner had not rudely decided he wanted some too. HOW DARE HE. We finished up with the goat curry, which we went for based off the Yelp reviews. I didn't LOVE it, but I didn't mind it either. It was VERY hot and filling. The staff kindly gave us a container to take it home in. The wine list is limited but the beers are exceptional! Oh, and the beer fridge is self-serve, just pop up and get whatever you want. read more

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This is somewhat unconventional Indian food very friendly staff and reasonable prices. We arrived around 8pm on a Sat night without a reservation and only had to wait a few minutes for a table. It was full and very loud - not a place for a romantic dinner as you'll be shouting across the table at your friend. We tried out their version of nachos. I liked the "salsa" part but didn't care so much for whatever was being used as "chips". The samosas on the table next to us looked gorgeous so I regret my decision. We had butter chicken, black dahl, and garlic naan. All of the dishes had nice flavors and were a decent size. The staff was friendly and attentive. read more

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Someone needs to introduce this place to spices; I've had mashed potato with more flavour. Lamb curry was as tasty as a glass of water and naan was flaccid and dull. Rice was pretty good, though. I know Australia doesn't do Indian food well but not many places do it this badly. I'm going to have to start making trips to Dandenong again to get something worth eating. read more

Great value for $ (all you csn eat for $20). Awesome service. Average tasting food. Minimal alcohol selection (no spirits). Glad i did it once. read more

Nice little place, nice tasty food, waitstaff are ok, friendly and helpful, this isn't the kind of place I'd normally attend as it's a bit too casual for me, it can be loud but hey that's just not my thing. I don't like the way your served your food if you choose the buffet, you don't have portion control and it's hard not too feel like your wanting too much or too little. Lots of groups and that's always a good sign and has a good reputation around the area. read more

As im indian I didnt like the food at this place at all. The service was really bad, I considered that the waitress was not paying full attantion on our table as we wer only indian people sitting there. Now you cay judge that why they have no indian clients at all. We found the food was not fresh at all and lamb rogan josh was too salty. Its just good for the people who likes indian food with aussie style NOT AUTHENTIC INDIAN at all. read more

Dropped by here after seeing the other yelp reviews, and am so glad I did! I adore Indian food, but this is so unlike your normal local Indian restaurant. A huge variety of craft beers, amazing atmosphere and insanely delicious food. Sometimes I feel a little uncultured for always ordering butter chicken, but it is a favourite of mine and it was particularly delicious at Horn Please! The trio of naan breads was also delish. For east/south siders, try visiting the sister restaurant in St Kilda, Babu Ji. read more

We tried this place on a Sunday which was the $20 all you can eat curry night. The curry on offer included a lamb korma, butter chicken, beef madras, a goat curry, punjabi khadi, dahl, a pumpkin and coconut curry and an aloo gobi. Each dish was delicious, authentic cooking that tasted great! I usually loathe butter chicken but this one was lovely, a perfect blend of creaminess and spice. The South Indian goat curry was appropriately spicy and the lamb korma was wonderful. In fact everything was delicious. The service was good, very prompt and friendly wait staff. Of course the buffet was largely self-serve but they asked if everything was alright and were attentive to our drinks needs. We will have to try a la carte sometime soon, but on the basis of the 8-9 dishes we tried last Sunday, Horn Please is going to get a lot of our custom. read more

India rolls into town - Horn Please, North Fitzroy Southeast Asian, Mexican, Texan. If we have learnt one thing about the Melbourne dining scene, it's that it is partial to trends. As waves of restaurants all offering the same style of cuisine open up across the city, we ask time and time again - when will Indian food be in favour? We are not even asking for a proliferation of curry houses, after all, it is about quality and quantity. The reason Touche Hombre, Radio Mexico and Chingon can all peacefully coexist is because they are good and they each bring something yummy to the table. Anyway, trends and whether or not the city is saturated with places wanting a piece of the latest must-eat fad are topics of discussion for another post. We just want a decent curry, especially after being spoilt for choice during our five years in London. We have found a few good places, Curry Leaf in Elwood has its moments, Kake Di Hatti in Brunswick East is a cut above and easily cheaper, while our absolute favourite has to be the awesomely excellent Discover India in Yarragon, which blew us away with its curries - infused with fragrant and flavourful roasted spices- crispy naan bread and authentic chai. Worth the two-hour round trip from the CBD, honestly. We have been planning to visit Dhaba at the Mill on Kyneton's Piper Street for some time (we are guessing it will be reaping the rewards of a name check in the latest The Age Good Food Guide) and had a taster when we caught their food truck at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival last year. So, when we heard owners Jessi and Jennifer Singh were opening a casual, street-food style eatery in Fitzroy North we scooted up there quick- quick. Horn blaring. Forget the gaudy gold picture frames, moving waterfall pictures and flock wallpaper so typical of some curry houses, this place manages to make kitsch look cool with overly colour-corrected studio portraits, Hindi proverbs splashed across the bar area and Bollywood films projected on the high white walls. Staff are super-smiley and quick to help, and we kick off with papadams with the works - fresh mint, date and tamarind, and sweet mango chutneys, alongside chilli sauce and mixed, tangy pickle. Non-greasy, crispy papadums (4 of them) and a great range of dips - from the slow-building, intense heat of the chilli sauce to the cooling zing of the mint chutney. Brilliant beer food - speaking of which, the papdi chaat - billed as 'the Motherland's version of nachos and salsa' - offer pretty easy-eating, too. These puffed potato chips are smothered with cooling raita and sour green chutney, sprigs of coriander, studded with chickpeas and pomegranate seeds, and shreds of ginger. Addictive and healthier-tasting than their sour-cream-and-cheese-covered corn chip siblings. No complaints - could always use a little more heat, but then that's just us, and the fact that - of course - these dishes have to appeal to the masses. Which probably brings me to my only gripe - while the two curries we ordered were really tasty, they did lack the va-va-voom of a really authentic, straight-from-India dish. I wanted to taste the roasted spices, I wanted the heat and the finger-staining sauce. Have the Singh's fine-dining background conditioned them to cook curries for Aussies, as opposed to curries for hardened curry fans? As I said, the Kyneton lamb simmered with fennel seed, cardamom, bay leaf and cloves (the rogan josh) and goat curry made according to a 'classic village recipe' were good, I would order them again in a second and without a doubt the meat was outstanding - slow- cooked, tender and top quality - that is definitely not always something you find at your local neighbourhood Indian. It's just that it all felt a bit safe. Curry, but not as we know it. Oh, and the naan was very fresh and fluffy (again, not as we know it, but in this case that was no bad thing!) It reminded us a little of London's Dishoom - touted as a 'Bombay Cafe in London', which for all its chat about 'sweaty taxi- wallahs' had all the trappings of a chain restaurant - a concept just waiting to be rolled out on a high street near you. I don't for a second imagine the plan is to open Horn Please 2 next week (and anyway, Australia has managed to avoid replicating the clone culture of the UK) and this is obviously an opening borne out of passion and perfectionism, and is not about making a quick buck. The fact is, just as the food at Chin Chin isn't rough-round-the-edges Thai home cooking, the food at Horn Please is a little more refined than bubbling-on-the-side-of-the-street food. Not a problem, just an observation. We like Horn Please, and will be back to try more (especially as the menu changes every few days - that means heaps more daily-cooked curries to try). The end of meal kulfi (ice cream on a stick drawn from a frozen metal cone - see above) and wine list focusing solely on the Macendon Ranges only helped seal the deal. read more

You have to come here. If I thought that was enough to convince you I'd stop there. But I know you need more right? We came here for a ipa vs curry event for good beer week. We weren't sure what to expect other than great beers and curry. It's not often I prefer the food to beer. And it's no disrespect to the brewery concerned, because their beers were PHENOMENAL. But I just couldn't help from stuffing my face. The first course was Indian nachos. Don't ask, just try. You will never forget them! I wanted to knock scott out just to steal his serving!! Next up was some fresh veggies/salad on a pappodam. So fresh, tasty and full of flavour. Next up was a samosa, full of potato, pea and spices. A lot of times samosas can be dry or too greasy or too bland. But this one was amazing and i paired it with some of the delicious chutneys that were on offer. Let it just be known that after 3 courses and 3 beers, I was pretty much full already. But given how amazing previous courses were I couldn't stop now. Next up were 2 veggie curries (or 3 if you were a meat eater), with rice and amazing naan bread. By this stage any hope of walking home had gone out the window - i'd be lucky to waddle home. Last up was cinnamon icecream that was so tasty, creamy and fresh that I couldn't not finish it. Horn please gave us an amazing night of food that ill never forget, mostly because of my inability to move or eat anything else for about 24 hours! But seriously, the staff here were just so passionate and friendly and helpful it was a refreshing change in Australia. Normally I don't tip in aus,but I just had to at this place as the staff just made the night, In Addition to the food, exceptional. They obviously care about their customers and want to ensure they enjoy the food and have a good time. Even though I was here for an event, they have an amazing selection of craft beers on the line up normally and word on the street is they do all you can eat on Sundays. I think I've eaten all I can for awhile, but I will be back here and if you know what's good for you, you will go too! read more

This review is based on coming to Horn Please for a Good Beer Week event, so hopefully my experience was on level with a regular night. We went for a five-course India vs India meal, which was Indian food being paired with Bridge Road's IPAs. The food we had was simply amazing and if a regular meal there is anything like this was then you will be in for a treat. First course was two plates of "snacks" that alone would have been enough to have me leaving satisfied. A beer-infused peanut salad and an Indian take on nachos were really quite amazing and like nothing I'd eaten at an Indian restaurant before. Next, a delicious vegetarian samosa the size of a small child. Crispy, gooey and potatoey...yum! Third was a tandoori chicken dish that was full of some amazing flavours and left me ready to go and curl up in a corner for a nap before containing with the feast. Curry was next and just because we hadn't quite eaten enough, we were served three different curries (butter chicken, lamb an beef) along with rice and some of the best naan I've eaten. This was all finished off with a choice of cardamom or cinnamon kulfi, that was thick, creamy and tipped us over the edge from "I'm so full!" to "Oh my god I can't move, somebody call an ambulance!" As for the service, and once again, this may have been a special case due to the event that was on, but it was faultless. Everyone was friendly, helpful, prompt and kept both our plates and glasses full all night. My wife is vegetarian so the chef came over a couple of times to ensure that she had eaten enough and stayed to chat a little both times. Horn Please will definitely see a return visit from us, perhaps for their Sunday $20 buffet. I don't think we could possibly eat more at a buffet than at our first visit, but I'm up for the challenge! read more

Sensational! Best Indian food I've had out of Mumbai. Tandoori chicken was amazing, as was the lamb rogan josh, the crab tikki, and the palak paneer. Good beer selection and reasonably priced wines by the glass. Service is excellent - attentive without being overbearing. Leave a little room for the homemade ice cream to finish. It's amazing. read more

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I've never been to India. However, I did live in London and Manchester, which gave me pretty high standards for Indian food. So when people say, "hey let's go for Indian food". Well. Let's just say I'm usually pretty damned meh in my response. However, with strong assurances in place I decided I needed to give this place a crack. Sunday is "Locals Night", which involves putting on a buffet. $20 for a very decent selection of curries. (Note: To keep the prices cheap it's cash-only). Despite the appeal of the buffet I went for the menu. Perhaps it's because I'm not a local, I felt that would be cheating? Or I wanted to load up on Samosas and Naan? Maybe the latter. We ended up grabbing Samosas, Lamb Rogan Josh, the Horn Dahl, a single Naan. Doesn't sound like a lot, but the two of us were rolling down the street afterwards. If you've not got a big appetite, a couple of starters and a single curry will do the trick. They also have a very, very decent selection of beers. Very decent. The smaller local breweries are represented, and in number. I had a Stone & Wood Pacific Ale. Very unique tasting beer that went stunningly well with the hot curries. The more I write about it, the more a winner Horn sounds. I'll definitely make the journey back. read more

One of the best places I have been to for a long time. The tasting plate is great. The dessert was amazing. Owner is originally from San Fransisco and the place has just been open a month. We will be going back for sure. read more

We went to celebrate an Indian friends Birthday and we told them clearly that we are celebrating someone's birthday, while booking the and at check-in. Restaurant refused to increase the spice level, their stated reason was that they cater to an Aussie clientele and the food was premade. Premade? That should knock off a star right there. We are at a restaurant that serves premade food and does not wish to alter to India customer's palette even when that alteration was as easy as adding some pepper. I accepted that reason and didn't argue to that. Apart from being mild, the food was good. The white people sitting on the adjacent people got a great treatment, it seems it was someone's birthday and the restaurant decided to make it special for them by placing an Indian style royal turban on their head, bringing a cake and a candle. The Indian style turban was clearly to create a surprise wow factor for Aussie/white clientele. The restaurant claims to do that for all customers but nothing of that sought was done for us, our experience was a bit below average, our order was served late than usual and clearly treatment met to us was different. It was becoming clear to us that everything at the restaurant was geared towards white people, be it the mild food, their refusal to make it a bit more spicy, the special birthday treatment for the white people who sat on the adjacent table, the Indian style turban. And I don't have a problem with customizing the user experience to your target audience. The problem was that we were given a far inferior experience. The restaurant didn't do anything special for my friend and our service was late. While checking out, I asked them if it that white people get a different treatment at this place. The restaurant manager shouted back at me that I was being racist. So here I was being called a racist because I called out a difference in behavior towards us and other white people at the restaurant. They were unapologetic, abusive and indifferent. They told us that we didn't need to pay without showing any willingness to understand what we felt. We insisted and paid the full amount. But a review is due. read more

Very good ambience and excellent food. But drinks are too expensive. Overall a great experience.

Delicious, Fantastic. Some of the best Indian Food I've eaten out of Delhi. Portion sizes are huge. Value for money. Any wonder you're always so busy. read more