Solid three stars for my first visit. It's a kebab house. It also serves up pizzas, burgers, chicken. It wasn't my choice to be here, it was voted as worth a try as we haven't any quality driven Chinese takeaways in town.
I ordered 4 take away kebabs on freshly cooked Nan bread - not done in a tandoor sadly but in a large electric oven that is also used for pizzas and pitta breads. The kebabs were £7 each. The pitta option is cheaper.
I got 3 mixed meat kebabs with salad and garlic sauce and one chicken shashlik kebab with salad, garlic sauce and chilli sauce for me.
The portions are huge and the food was actually tasty but I erred by assuming my shashlik would have chicken tikka pieces so I was surprised and disappointed to find just plain chicken. Tikka would have made it far better.
I could have enhanced the taste by asking for fresh red chillis as well as the chilli sauce. I saw some fresh scotch bonnets but not tonight thank you.
The salad was only raw red onion and lettuce leaves and no sliced tomatoes which is also disappointing. The onions would benefit from being soaked in ice water for a few minutes after slicing to take the rawness away.
I'm not a big fan of chicken but I don't eat the torso sized, shaped, cheap mince meat that rotates vertically on a metal spit against a gas flame as I don't know what's in it and I simply don't trust the producers.
This place used a long knife to cut the slices of lamb mince so the cuts aren't too thin - I've seen places use an electric shaver type contraption so the shavings are sliver thin.
As a first visit the interior was scruffy and a tad run down - a lick of paint and a bit of maintenance would go a long way, and the prices on the menu board had changed upward so I was billed more than I thought it would be - I've no issue with the prices but the menu board should be updated as it's a pretty basic requirement.
Staff were friendly and as it was New Year's Eve darn busy. The service was impressively fast. I might go back but not soon. read more