I'm probably going to stop reviewing this place for a good while as I was the last person to leave…read morea review just a few months ago. It's very simple for me. The food here remains top notch and the portions generous. I phoned the order in which is unusual for me; I usually just turn up but it saved me waiting 25 minutes. Has they still been on Monaghan St and Maya cafe was open I'd have gone there for a great cappuccino. This time we got the meal deal 3 at £24 but it was topped up by £2 due to my order choices (no fish just chicken based mains) but I've give. Up arguing over price hikes. I suppose I was inclined to do a review here having just recently experienced a truly dreadful Bangladeshi restaurant in Letterkenny. The latter deserves promptly closed down with the former deserving of support in this most challenging of times.

Unreal food. Kebabs are banging and the rice is great. The staff are kind and are keen to explain…read morefood ingredients and specials. Great place and great food

Exellent food, excellent service. Could not be more pleased!read more

By far the best restaurant in Monaghan! The food is absolutely amazing here and never disappoints…read more The menu has so many great options and the prices are extremely reasonable. Its always busy here so it is worth reserving a table before you go. The decor is really lovely and very comfortable. The only downside is the service can be very slow probably because the staff are always rushed off their feet.I didn't remove a star for this though as the staff are always so nice and they almost always throw in a few extra side dishes and a drink on the house. I've eaten here both in and takeout many times and never have been disappointed.

Ordered takeaway dinner from here as both yelp and Google recommended it as best Indian in the area…read moreand after my satisfying meal, have to agree! We got a stuffed paratha, a roti, Dahl makhani with rice, and lamb with spinach. It cost £22 incl delivery and that was so reasonable, because the food was delicious! Not a lot of oil at all in the food and I could smell saffron in the rice. The dal was really lovely with a nice spicy kick. The lamb was super tender, and it's a real mark of superior cooking when the spinach is fresh! Plus we got x2 papads and cucumber salad as well!! Our food was delicious and the price was great so totally recommend and it's absolutely worth a repeat visit. Note: #227 of Yelp 100 challenge for 2016

Great food and love the spice for the authentic chicken masala. Will definitely come again. Easy…read moreparking across the street in the neighborhood. Very nice owner or manager. Huge portions.

I enjoyed my first visit to Safa. Service was excellent and wine good, in particular the Soave was…read moremoreish. But the wine list in-restaurant is different to that detailed on Safa's website. Would be good to see it updated. I visited with 3 friends and we started off by sharing crisp, crunchy, fresh poppadoms. Unfortunately the accompanying dips were a little lacklustre as there could have been a bit more flavour to them. My Vegetable Pakora appetiser was delicious and my main of Ponnier Bhuna good but with a slightly strange bitter taste. My side of Mushroom Pilau Rice disappointed as it lacked mushrooms, being more of a mixed vegetable rice. Probably room for improvement in food flavours required for me personally. One of my dining companions thought the meat in her Goat Korma tough. Another that her Vegetable Madras not spicy enough, though on sampling it I thought it had quite a kick but could have been more flavourful. A nice little restaurant visually, but very quiet on a Friday evening with few other tables occupied so ambience was low. Nonetheless, our visit overall was a pleasant experience, enhanced by the friendly staff and great service. Probably a 3.5 star spot for me personally.

Safa has a great city centre location above the historic Kellys cellars, with a bright, modern…read moreentrance including glass banister as u head up to the dining area. The warm and welcoming L shaped dining area has plenty of room for groups, parties or pairs. Delighted to find cobra on tap it's so refreshing and great accompaniment for a spicy curry. Our visit was part of a group event, we where served poppadoms and dips while our meal was set up on chafing dishes for a buffet style service. I was disappointed to find basic options of foods to showcase Safa. Although what we did have - veg pakora, pilau rice and a chicken dish was nice. I was hoping to have a little more variety of main meat or veg options and maybe some sides saag aloo or naan to experience the offer. I would try here again as I know this style of event is different and sometimes difficult to cater for with so many taste buds!

The best indian food ive ever had. Proper Asian food prepared in a traditional Asian way..... Great…read moreportions & gratis prawn crackers & sauces with all main curry meals. Ive had many great indian meals from Londons famous Brick Lane curry houses & this was even better than anything ive had there. The only gripe i have is the fact that the cooks do not wear hats & it would be so easy to end up with a lovely long hair in ones chicken madras! And if that happened id never return !!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 05.12.14 The food and service is as good as ever & now the staff wear hair nets. Did they read my review i wonder. One particular girl who works in this restaurant is just lovely, very pleasant & always has a nice friendly smile.

This place is one of the two favourite of people's Indians at Ballyhackamore…read more Got a delivery for 8. Mine came to £11. I got Chicken Pasanda with pilau rice and a peshwari nan. They also send popadoms free with 2 dips. One spicy. The mint was lovely and a good consistency. The Pasanda chicken was lovely. Tastes like a mix of korma and tikka. Was a red sauce. Good amount of chicken for an Indian. It was nicely marinated. Nan was thick,fluffy and moist. They have an great menu and helpful descriptions of food on the Just East website. Delivery was well timed.

We just can't get darn good curry in Newry sadly the new(ish) Güru is truly awful. We did really…read moreenjoy Spice of India but being nickled and dimed there just became tiresome. So it's an 80 mile round trip for tandoori chicken tikka with thick korma sauces a peshwari nan and a pilau rice. It was tasty. They offer complementary poppadoms and dips that we always enjoy. One sparkling water one glass of rosé. £50. The staff appear to be completely different from the folks there previously but nevertheless eager to please and always smiling. A word of caution though if parking outside at teatime. It's an urban clearway until 6:30 or 7pm each evening and the traffic wardens know they can sucker drivers - a real money earner for Belfast city council. Don't give them the satisfaction.

Great waitstaff' very attentive. The monkfish dish was fantastic. The tikka appetizer was good too.read more

My husband said this is one of the most authentic Indian restaurants he's been to. We sat down for…read morea quick bite, we didn't order much as it was getting late into the night. The staff was overly nice, each and every single one of them. They noticed we were desi ourselves and made our food "desi style", oh boy was it spicy! The chef and the customer sure likes a challenge. The menu has a lot to offer. Great spot for really well don Indian cuisine. Royal Tandoor Platter 5/5 -(chicken banjara, malai chicken tikka, seekh kebab & tandoori monkfish skewered and cooked in a clay oven), great option if you're not too hungry, you can ask for a small bowl of rice to accompany this Lamb biryani 5/5 - a lot of meat, the rice was so fragrant Goan Seafood Chowder 5/5 - hearty, flavorful, highly recommend Hot chocolate fudge cake 4/5 - can't go wrong, exactly what you expect, don't think it is made in-house though

Couldn't resist this restaurant. Just up the road from our hotel. Modern Indian restaurant-- No…read morereservation but they managed to get us a table got 4. Our server was exceptional steering us in the right direction as not to order too much food. All the food was delicious with the correct amount of heat and spice as requested. The manager even provided us with a round of shots. Not your traditional Irish food but well worth a visit.

Met a couple of Belfast friends at their favorite local Indian spot for dinner here & could not…read morehave been happier with the service, food, & the atmosphere. I got a spicy curry dish, some somosas, & a cobra beer. It was the perfect pairing. Staff were great & did not care that our larger party spent a good amount of time here enjoying each other & the food. Looks like an unassuming little place from the street but is moody & well decorated inside. I'll be going back next time i visit Belfast for sure!

Amazing atmosphere and food! Would definitely come back. We…read morehad a very large party reservation and we were greeted with warm smiles and were promptly served drinks. Food came out in a very timely matter and was spectacular. No complaints other than the fact we were the only ones in the restaurant and there didn't seem to be any background music so it felt a bit empty.

It was one of those evenings where I felt the Gods were conspiring against me. We'd planned to go…read moreto this place early evening for the first time on a living social deal. My date, my wife of 36 years. I couldn't get the coal fire to light at home, I'd left it late eventually succeeding just in time to add slack to back the fire up, close the air vents and leave for our meal. I blamed Andromeda; now I wasn't looking for the temperature of the nuclei of the blue snowball planetary nebulae but a shade above 15c would have been nice before we went out into 2c. Anyway as ever I digress; this deal was about £20 for two. The rating reflects this fact: we were the only diners and had 4 four excellent, fresh cooked, plain poppadoms with 3 fabulous dips; mint, spicy & mango chutney, the dips remained on the table to use with the two mains, two portions of rice (boiled & pilau), two side salads, two naan bread (garlic & Peswari) and a choice of two glasses of wine or beer. My wife took both quarter bottles of white wine on the deal (menu price £3.50 each) I had a 660 ml of ice cold cobra (£4.75). I'd be much happier had there been real ale choices but realistically this place is in a small village in the countryside and probably has no demand for my predilections. There were a few meals not on the deal - steak (I wouldn't have steak in an Indian) and tandoori king prawn dishes: fair enough. We both opted for the mixed grill served with vegetable curry. So rather than two veg curries we asked if one could be korma, this was no problem. They use a gas tandoor. The naan breads were very good, the two sauces were good with both containing similar vegetables, a mix of fresh & frozen vegetables. The mains were above average to good with a quarter of skinless chicken, tandoor chicken and lamb pieces and a piece of seekh kebab. The main alone would be a score of three. Being picky: the chicken quarter should have been deeply scored with a knife to allow the spice flavours to penetrate the meat to the bone, some lemon juice and garlic shards should have been added to the marinade as these make a big difference and add extra fresh lemon juice just before serving (or put a piece of lemon on the dinner plate), cut down on the red food dye and on a positive note, the balance of salt and spice in the lamb seekh kebab was just right. The quality of the naans, willingness to let us choose our sauces, the friendly attentive service and the cracking deal warrant excellent. I wouldn't have liked to pay the near £14 full menu cost for the mixed grill main as it would have been expensive for what was on the plate and I'd have been less generous in my rating. Then out to freezing point; a clear dark sky with Andromeda plain to see, as was Alpha Andromedae on its North East edge. The car radio came to life, radio two with a charming Michael Ball, as we drove off to 'Perhaps Love' John Denver & Spaniard Placido Domingo (means peaceful Sunday) one of our all time favourite songs. Then the angelic tenor Art Garfunkel singing 'Bright Eyes'. This was No 1 when our first son was born. Andromeda was smiling on us after all, lighting our way and our memories home over wet country roads. All we needed to top this winter night was John Denver singing 'For You' so at the push of a button off went the radio and on came John. If you have never heard either of these two songs go on you tube. They really are worth 10 minutes of your day and play loud. And home to a warm fire. Thanks after all Andromeda.