This place was recommended to me by a local "foodie" so I decided to give it a try despite its having no reviews. When I walked in there was only one table occupied. No one else came in during the hour or so I was there.
I arrived and was immediately offered poppadoms with chutneys and pickles, which I accepted. The bread was hot and crisp, with little taste, and the chutneys were unremarkable. I did not care for the pickles.
I did not know what to order and accepted the waiter/owner/maitre 'd's suggestion: a "medium" spicy dish. I had asked for spicy Indian about a week ago at Oxford and suffered the entire next day, so I decided medium would be OK. He said the dish was one of their best.
It came and I was unimpressed. It was fairly spicy without being very tasty, There were a few chunks of chicken, but it was mostly a pretty lame sauce. I asked for chips instead of rice and they were freshly fried, crispy, frozen pre-cut potatoes. They had probably frozen for quite a while since most of them stuck to each other.
To this point the review would probably be 3 stars, but this place lost every ounce of credibility when they presented me the check. It had a charge for £2.80 for the poppadoms, etc. When I asked about it, the sleazy guy said "I asked you and you said you wanted it, that is what we charge for it." Well, this is the kind of stuff that is typically included with a meal for free, as it was in the restaurant in Oxford, and I told him so. Finally, he offered to take if off my bill and presented me with another version where he rounded my £9.25 meal up to £10. I let him have the 75p. And also let him have this review.
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