WORST EVER
I'll start with the only positive, The draught Kingfisher was fine, however my wife's first glass of wine was nasty (her second was better).
With hindsight alarm bells should have rung with The Masala Grill being the only Indian restaurant in Havering that takes the Tastecard on a Saturday night.(I wonder if the use of said card contributed to the appalling quality of our meal?)
Nevertheless we had all been working all day and just wanted to grab something to eat, surely can't be that bad, how wrong I was!
The papadum were clearly cooked sometime earlier..not that crisp and not warm. The mango chutney was none of the sort, just a syrup (blended to within an inch of its life to make it go further).
Two of us ordered Chicken tikka biriani, the chicken pieces, when we found them, were no bigger than a five pence piece, were hard and tasteless,definitely not freshly cooked.(Recycled?).
Vegetable curry... tasteless (although it was as requested madras hot).
My wife chose Karahi Chicken, served lukewarm on a skillet,( the waiter didn't have to warn us about the skillet being hot...it wasn't). She commented it was just Chicken casserole!
But worst was my son's(he's 19 and insisted I didn't "make a fuss") Lamb tikka masala. The meat was absolutely appalling he couldn't even cut through it much less chew it, it made him physically gag! He was certain that it wasn't tikka.
Oh and the Bindi was without doubt from frozen ... mushy.
Despite my son's protestations I would have said something during the meal but no one asked how it was until the end.
Which was when I let rip!
If the excuse for an owner does attempt to reply I've no doubt he will say that we ate most all of it, well yes, we were there,we were hungry and with the exception of my son's was not inedible, just bland, very poor quality and badly cooked.
I have eaten Indian food literally all over the world,with many 'interpretations'. I can honestly say this was absolutely THE WORST I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED.
I own a local business and be sure that 'word' will be put around as well as posted on all social media. read more