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    Leftbank Restaurant

    4.0 (1 review)
    Open 7:00 am - 10:00 AM, 12:00 pm - 2:00 PM, 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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    Roshni's Riverside Restaurant - Family friendly

    Roshni's Riverside Restaurant

    3.6(17 reviews)
    1.4 miStaines
    £££

    There are quite a few Curry houses in this area but Roshni's is a cut above all of them for sure…read moreand easily rates a solid 4* I have been here more than a few times and they are consistent in everything they do. Their service is spot on and they are always checking back with you on all aspects of your scran, bless 'em. As is the Brit way, a curry is the final port of call after a few scoops so post riverside beverages at the Ship we yomped over the bridge to Roshni's and ordered up; the prerequisite Poppadoms and relishes Gosht Hydrabadi Biryani Samundari Rhaja Jhinga accompanied by sides of Saag Paneer, Onion Bhajjis, a round of Tandoori Roti and a couple of bottles of Kingfisher The Biryani & Jhinga were exquisitely spiced, the vegetable sauce was light and fruity and the Bhajjis cooked to perfection, not the usual soggy mess you find elsewhere. The only slight disappointment was the Roti which was not as soft and doughy as it should be. If you are an aficionado of things spicy then try their phenomenal Phaal. If it is too hot for you then you are just 20 yards from the river ..... Cost per head on this visit was £25. VFM for such a posh spot even if we are talking Staines! They are currently offering a 'buy 1 Main get one free' offer. Why are you still reading? Go snaffle it up !!

    As a visitor from USA, I was just at this place on business and thoroughly enjoyed it!…read more Location - right in Staines a few minutes off the motorway and from the Runnymeade Hotel. Parking - Hey this is the UK. You know what that means. Food - Excellent indeed. Chicken Tikka Masala was good (have to have a real non indian dish). Rogan Josh was great as well as the fish, samosas and beef. Everything that we had was very, very good indeed. Service - not bad, at all, but we were there late and I think they wanted to go home.... They "advised" us of this in the nicest way. Ambiance - Nice, clean, modern. roomy and great decor. This place is a classy place and good for large parties as well! I would come here again in a heartbeat

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    Ascot Orientals

    Ascot Orientals

    3.0(2 reviews)
    4.0 mi
    £££

    We decided to try Ascot Oriental on the strength of Hardens. We had some friends visiting and…read morewanted to take them out somewhere a bit more special than our usual Chinese (Beijing in Horsell or Guildford) and we couldn't get into Thai Terrace at short notice. From the menus on Ascot Oriental's web-site, we thought it sounded like they did something a bit different with more interesting ingredients than the run of the mill. Sadly the menu descriptions were where the positives ended. Service was OK-ish. Our tea was replenished quickly but there was zero warmth or sense of being welcome. At the end they plucked the bill folder containing (my card - sticking out so that they could see) the table without looking at us and whisked it away rather than bringing the machine to the table. When they realised it was a card, they tried to take it to a different table and have them pay for our meal :-) Errors like this can happen but this was just symptomatic of the way the staff (including the proprietor) went through the motions. We chose the mixed hors d'oeuvres which consisted of seaweed, vegetable spring rolls, sesame prawn toast, chicken satay, spare ribs and some gyoza type pork dumplings. All standard fare bar the gyoza. These were basically OK but nothing special. The problems (which became themes throughout the meal) were quantity and value. This starter was £9.50 a head and had precisely one of each item (part from seaweed of course). Each spare rib was about 10 cm long and must have come from skinny pigs. The sesame prawn toast was a quarter slice of toast per person from a particularly small loaf. The amounts were so small that we and our guests felt uncomfortable and awkward lest we were depriving someone else - hardly the special occasion for which we had hoped. We followed this with crispy duck and pancakes. This was fine and as one would expect but at £12.50 for a quarter duck on the pricey side. They do a number of more interesting sounding mains, but it seems the skill is mainly in the menu writing. Sauteed lamb with ginger and spring onions was tasty. The fillet beef in oyster sauce was also tasty but fillet steak strikes me as a needless indulgence when meat is being marinated anyway especially as this pushes the price up to £16 for a small dish. Other dishes were OK (nothing more) but noticeably on the small side (even the Singapore noodles). A special note must go to the Thai green chicken curry. Now, it's possible that this is more authentic and those that I have had before have not been, but it was IMHO dreadful. It wasn't green, and had barely any flavour save that of coconut milk (had they run out of green curry paste?). I didn't spot any mini aubergines or anything else which would suggest Thai green curry. Unfortunately this was another abject lesson in what we've known for a long time but occasionally forget. Food in some of the more affluent parts of Surrey is typically poor value and often of low quality. If you're in this area try Siam Gallery in Virginia Water for Thai which is a bit better or hoof it to Beijing in Horsell for mainly Chinese (with some Thai dishes) where we eat regularly without disappointment - I'll get to writing a review for that place sometime, but try the Sunday buffet (which is actually cooked fresh to order but all one price - excellent).

    This in my view is the best Chinese restaurant in the locality. Fabulous soft shell crab and cod…read moreloin with yellow bean sauce, more sophisticated than a run of the mill Chinese, but reflected in the price too........ very nice tables in the conservatory if you have a party of 4+ Good, attentive staff who - just as in all Chinese restaurants - are quick to top up yr wineglass !

    Yangtze Peking Restaurant - Menu

    Yangtze Peking Restaurant

    3.6(14 reviews)
    4.1 mi
    ££

    Staying locally and we decided to have Chinese delivered after a long day of sightseeing. The host…read morehad left a menu for Yangtze and it looked pretty good! Read some reviews and for the most part everything looked pretty good except a couple not so great ones for dining in, but all in all good food was the consensus! Used the website to order and get another 10% off- which is always a great incentive! Prawn crackers as I had spent over £25- always a nice touch, and free delivery as we were within the 3 mile radius!! Double bonus! Food arrived before the predicted time, which was appreciated as it was later and we were all hungry! Dishes were hot and super tasty! Very similar to my Chinese back up north! If we're back again, we will def order from here again! A++

    My cousin and his wife live around the corner from here and joked that we should take them there…read morefor dinner so we could order from the mysterious Chinese-language menu that is only shown to Chinese guests. In the end, we decided to take them up on it, on the night of the final of the World Cup. When we walked in and asked for the Chinese menu, we were initially told that there is no such thing (mind you, we were speaking in Mandarin, but are Caucasians), but after insisting it miraculously appeared. The waiter was clearly not happy serving us from this "secret" menu, but my cousin knows the owner, and when he came around, all went more smoothly. Our food came in due course, and was all surprisingly good. In fact, the people at the neighbouring table, who were ordering from the English-language menu, even asked what our dishes were, since they did not appear to be from their menu, and they looked infinitely better than the slop they were served. When we left, we took the Chinese menu back to our flat and I translated it into English for the owners to use with future guests who want to try some authentic Chinese dishes. We'll see if they follow up with that! The comments about the atmosphere are spot-on, by the way. The management clearly does not waste any money on installing an appealing décor.

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