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8 years ago
Been there multiple times and every dish there is so good. The garlic naan with butter chicken and chilli chicken is the best ever. Always my fav restaurant read more
12 years ago
Biryani could be better but the butter chicken was great. Seems to fill up though so arrive early. Very authentic food and a nice ambience.
74 kings road
reading
Reading RG1 3BJ
United Kingdom
0118 958 5111
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http://www.pappadamsreading.co.uk
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Yes, pappadams serves alcohol. Beer & Wine Only
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People searched for Indian 104 times last month within 15 miles of this business.
The service and food is excellent!This is my favourite Indian restaurant in Reading....it's a hard…read moreone to beat. The coconut is delicious.The staff are lovely,with quick speedy service.
Where to start? Let's keep it short. I had a king prawn starter with a garlic chicken main. Boy it…read morewas excellent! The service was very friendly and fast, and the setting pleasant. Reasonably priced to. Your looking at more than £20 a head. Definitely recommend!
Amazing selection and service. It is not difficult to find great Indian cuisine in England but this…read moreis a great spot for fine food and great service! Chicken Tiki Masala is perfectly balanced an delicious. The garlic naan is rich and fresh! Amazing selection and service. It is not difficult to find great Indian cuisine in England but this is a great spot for fine food and great service! Chicken Tiki Masala is perfectly balanced an delicious. The garlic naan is rich and fresh!
Brilliant food! We…read moreopted for a takeaway from this restaurant on a Friday night when we couldn't be bothered cooking. We ordered a selection of starters, mains, rice and naan to share and I enjoyed all of it. The mixed starter was a lovely way to try a few different dishes but not be too full before the main courses. There are no pakoras on the menu which I did find a bit disappointing, but it did make us try something else for a change. We ordered a few different dishes (can't remember them all!) but we definitely had both the Butter Chicken and the Garlic Chicken and a Dahl, all were full of flavour and got demolished! The restaurant was clearly very busy, both with sit in diners and take away orders, yet our order was ready about half an hour after we phoned it through. Would highly recommend giving this place a try.
The food is fab especially the saag paneer and mushroom bhajii. Excellent telephone manner and…read morespot on delivery time by friendly driver, the chicken korma is tasty and the best bombay potatoes I have ever tasted! This is a regular take away for me, at least once a fortnight if not more yum!
Food was amazing! Service was a bit more leisurely than we usually like but it was a lovely evening.read more
The reason this restaurant doesn't have many ratings is because Europeans post to Trip Advisor, not…read moreto Yelp. Hopefully Americans will see this post and realize that. On Trip Advisor, this restaurant had over 230 ratings with a rating of 4.5/5. My wife and I had the Chicken Masala, a chicken curry dish, a cauliflower potato veggie, and a coconut and almond naan- Peshwari Naan. And it was all excellent. Give this restaurant a chance. They have friendly, great service with delicious food. It was a welcome change from the "typical" English food that we had eaten while in London.
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Here is their take-out menu. It's very similar to their dine-in menu.
I love going here when I'm craving indian food (they also serve Thai food but it's not as nice and…read moreisn't their specialty). When I do go I prefer sitting in since the atmosphere is nice with the music and the presentation of the food but if you take out as a student you get 15% off. Some of the dishes are served with heating candles underneath so it stays nice and hot throughout your meal. It's a bit unassuming on the outside and usually not very busy but it is 5 star rated and very clean. The dishes are around 8-9 pound for mains. If you go on Tuesday (Curry night) for 9.95 you can get a starter (I love the chicken or lamb) main, vegetable dish and either rice or naan (I believe they make the best naan out of all the indian restaurants I've tried in my area) The garlic naan is so delicious! Sometimes I just get some naan from there on my way home because it's so great. I wish they made them bigger since they're roughly the size of a personal pizza from pizza hut, so it's expensive on its own (about 2 pounds). They do loads of special offers so check out their website for them and some photos of the place. It's really close to the university, only a short walk from the Shinfield Road entrance.
Sizzling Spice is good value. I enjoyed the Sunday buffet for 8.95BP. The buffet offered vegetarian…read moreas well meat dishes. The chicken korma was excellent. Naan, hot mango chutney and raiti were among the extras. A cold Kingfisher on tap topped off the experience. Service was excellent. One server became irritated with me when I used the dessert dishes for my sauces - they were strictly for dessert! He did not hold a grudge and I had to chuckle at the situation. I'll be heading back to try the butter chicken.
Garlic naan
The yummy sauces they serve with the poppadums when you first sit down
Heated dishes :)
The food was nice and came out pretty quickly. My favourite bit of the evening is peshwari naan,…read morejust delicious!! So was my fish curry. Keep in mind that two peppers on the menu is still pretty spicy. The restaurant itself is very spacious, good for group bookings. They have quite a few vegan dishes too.
Delicious! The food takes a long time to come out, but it's worth it! We had two lamb dishes and a…read morevegetarian. We ordered veggie and lamb samosas to start. Samosas were average, the main dishes were excellent! Highly recommend the lamb rice!
This was the first Indian restaurant I tried in London and it did not disappoint! I've been told…read morethat the Indian food in London is super authentic, and while I've never been to India myself, I can totally believe that the Indian food here is very authentic. We did family style, so everyone ordered a dish and we just grabbed a bit of everyone's food. We got biryani, butter chicken, korma, and everything was great. My one advice would be to get the basket of flavored naan. They have a selection of Naan breads and they were all delicious. Service is a bit slow, but they also have a lot of customers.
I'm the biggest fan of herbs, spices and flavors and this place definitely hits the spot! My friend…read moreand I shared a few dishes and still had plenty for leftovers. Don't know exactly what it's called but we started with the chip like crackers to dunk into the 4 sauces that was already in front of us. Each sauce was unique and had a different flavor profile so I never got bored of eating the same thing. We also each got naan which I highly recommend the chilli cheese naan! We also shared the karahi paneer which was cheese mixed in a curry with a ton of spices and paneer shahi korma which was a tomato based curry. Each one was super flavorful and delicious! While it was vegetarian, we were more than full with the carbs of the naan. I highly recommend this place. One of the best Indian places I've been to!
Great staff, Great service, Great food, Great Beer!!! You should definitely eat here if you are in Reading!!!
Seats only 25 people. It's small but comfortable. Jagat, The Chef is also the Waitress. Perfectly…read moreseasoned food. I feel like I'm back in Nepal and my Mom is cooking for me. I highly recommend.
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An absolute gem of an indian restaurant away from the town centre…read more The food is absolutely delicious - never once been unhappy. Recommend highly
In the restaurant the food and service has always been great…read more The delivery service was fantastic too. The old menu had the 'Oriental thali' if you fancied a blow out and you liked a variety of foods this could not be recommended enough. In the restaurant I struggled to finish the meal, as a take out I always had something left for the next day. My only regret is that local parking is scarce and I now live too far away not to drive. When I lived close this was a regular haunt now it is somewhere for special occassions.
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This place is amazing. The staff was friendly and the food favorable. Check this 0lace out and…read moreenjoy.
Good value but service and inconsistency of product let it down. So for a reasonably priced…read moretakeaway on a good day then its fine. Other thing is some dishes are way too salty so I wish they would reduce the sodium content. Also sometimes the prices on display are incorrect and then they charge more, when questioning them they say the prices changed but then update the signage and let the customers know. So do verify any prices prior to ordering.
Authentic South Indian Indian food which seems to be popular with those from Andra Pradesh although…read moreyou often see people 2 or 3 ordering 1 dish and sharing between themselves. The service is average and the food is mostly good but not that great on our most recent visits. It's really more of a cheap looking cafe standard place (horrid damaged glasses, no tablecloths, old worn furniture, etc) than restaurant standard but their prices are quite steep for what they're actually serving up. Toilets are not too pleasant!
Lovely meal with some truly fantastic flavours! I had a fish starter and a Nepalese main course…read morewith king prawns, both were very tasty, but I was very glad of the sparkling mineral water! Totally full on the two above mentioned plus a plain pilau rice and the traditional poppadom and pickles. Phew!
Lovely flavoursome food, wide choice of dishes and drinks. Very reasonable as we went on a weekday…read moreand had a set price. Great staff too. Will visit again.
If you live anywhere near Shepperton you will already know about 'The School of Spice'. It has a…read morevery good reputation and is nearly always busy .Well, I am not a hot curry eater so I cannot personally attest to the quality of the Vindaloos at 'The School of Spice' but I want to put on record that these friendly people make the best Chicken pasanda I have ever tasted.I used to live in the area and having food from here was a real treat. On the cuisine of this restaurant alone my son chooses 'Indian ' as his favourite food.Even though we were not in there every week and usually opted for a takeaway rather than eating in, the very friendly staff at 'The School of Spice' always made a fuss of my son, giving him treats along with our food.The owner always comes over to say 'hello' and have a chat. I can't recommend this restaurant enough.Try it!
Great place - love the pizzas and dough balls with garlic butter - they are devine…read more The Fiorentina pizza is also amazing - whenever I go there I try to make myself go for something different, but end up getting this every time because it is so yummy. The staff are always lovely and attentive and I think it's great that the kitchen prep area is open so you can see the pizza's being prepared. Even better now with their 'credit munch' deal - 50% off! Fantastic.
One of the better ones and way better than Riverside in our view. Can be busy at peak times which…read moreinevitably will slow down service, but staff are friendly and make a good effort to be attentive.
Fantastic, authentic Indian cuisine served in a modern way. The food here is consistently…read moreoutstanding, offering an excellent halfway point between authentic Indian food and what we westerners expect. The service is always good and the guys here are happy to let you linger over your Cobra and poppadums as long as you like before embarking on your journey through the epic menu. This makes for a lovely, relaxed night out in Chalfont St Peter with great food and great company. Highly recommended.
Before I leave this review may I add that I have sent the following letter to Raj Darbar's contact…read moreemail address and have received no reply. I was willing to negotiate however with no reply from the management what more can I do. Maybe now I will get a response? For the attention of the manager. Order Number: 174644504 Dear Sir/Madame, On 12th July at 21:09 I ordered a takeaway from your restaurant; unfortunately the delivery did not arrive until 22:20 - leaving us waiting an hour and ten minutes, I did received a call from the restaurant at 21:57 to inform me that their was a slight delay but was informed that the food would be with us in ten minutes, however it arrived 23 minutes later! I live 10 minutes from the restaurant so I am flabbergasted that it took that long. When the food arrived the Chicken Korma was lukewarm, the breadcrumbs that the king prawn butterfly was covered in were over cooked, resulting in it tasting like burnt toast and certainly not worth £7.90. The oil that the Onion Bhaji's were cooked in had soaked through the two brown bags that they had been put in; leaving the contents of the takeaway greasy. The Poppadom's were soggy - may I add that most Indian restaurants give Poppadom's and the appropriate condiments to customers free for orders over £20, I have never had to pay for them from any other restaurant, so under the circumstances I would expect them to be edible. Overall it was a very unsatisfying meal, leaving my partner and I still hungry. As this was the first time I have ordered with you I am very disappointed with the level of service I received from your premises, as a result I would like a full refund of £26.45 to my card that I paid with online. Yours faithfully, Katie Cook
A good Tandoori restaurant in the center of Hook. The food is of very good quality at very…read morereasonable prices. Definitely worth a try.