We came by the Purple Poppadom on a family visit and it was far and away the best food we had in…read moreour four days in Cardiff. It serves elevated Indian cuisine that is beautifully made and creatively presented. This isn't your standard Indian take-out. The dining room is casual but stylish, the cocktails were terrific and the food top notch. Service was very welcoming and efficient. Had we been hungrier we would have gotten the tasting menu with the wine pairings. Highly recommend.

This is easily one of the best meals I have ever had, anywhere in the UK. This is Indian dining…read moredone well! Go as hungry as you can so you can try everything! For starters, we had the Aloo tikka chat (5*), the Bombay chat (5*) and the creamery (4*) plus poppadoms with the trio of dips. For mains our table had: Chicken Nawabi - easily the best dish I have ever tasted. The chicken bhuna in this dish is NEXT level. 5 stars does not do this plate justice! 5* Tiffin sea bass - their signature dish and also delicious! 5* Nadal khozi curry - fragrant, deep flavours. Probably one of the best curries I've ever had but it had tough contenders in the other plates! 4* Raman Akhbari - the lamb leg with mash. Amazing. 5* For dessert we had chocomosa anand and the grilled pineapple dish. Do not think you can share played as the portions are small. The little choc filled pastry delights were melt-in-the-mouth crispy parcels filled with warm melted chocolate, on a bed of caramelised banana. These guys are outstanding. Do not let the exterior and street fool you. This is memorable.

Quick and inexpensive take-away. Good chicken tikka massala; most lamb dishes are quite good as…read morewell.

Awful customer service - rang up since the food hadn't been delivered after an hour, suggested a…read morediscount for the inconvenience and was shouted at down the phone - very very rude defintely wouldn't recommend this place Avoid at all costs

Great food and lovely staff. Dine in or order a takeaway from there most weekends. Best Indian…read morearound.

We are so glad we stopped by here. Upon walking in, we were promptly greeted and told to sit…read moreanywhere. After ordering, our food came out very quickly. Since I could never pick just one dish, I opted for the Chai Street Thali. The taste of the daal and the curry took me right back to India.

Really nice modern but authentic Indian spot with tons of vegan options. I stopped for lunch and…read morefound it hard to choose from all their nice-looking options. I decided I'd ultimately get the vegan thali (£13.90) so I could try a bunch of dishes. The thali came out in about 10-15 minutes, and let me say that this was a very high-quality thali -- none of the dishes seemed lazily thrown together, or like cheap versions of a better dish; I apparently got their A game. The main dishes included a delicious daal, a spicy veggie curry, a very spicy chole (chickpea curry), and a spicy potato curry. This was served with white basmati rice, bread, and pappadams. Huge amount of food and all delicious. Very comfortable environment, good service, and a super central location. This was a great find.

Excellent food. Great prices. Some of the best Indian food I have had in the UK. Worth the walk…read morefrom city center.

I have a confession to make - I have only been here once and that was after imbibing a little more…read morealcohol than is recommended. So while my review maybe slightly tinted by drink fueled exuberance I still believe it to be fairly accurate. We entered the restaurant to be welcomed by a smiling waiter who seemed more than happy to accommodate our loud party of 8. It was one of those evenings that hadn't been planned and we were looking for the nearest Indian restaurant to the water hole we'd been refreshing ourselves at and Janata Palace was that restaurant. So we didn't expect much as none of us had heard of it nor had it been recommended to us. Anyhow I had Chicken Boona which was one of the best I can ever remember tasting. I wasn't the only one in my party who thoroughly enjoyed their meal - we all did plus the service was polite, cheery, swift and welcoming. I haven't been there since but I certainly intend to just to see if it lives up to my tipsy memory - i'm sure it will as one of our part did drink anything and he loved it.

See, they are at it again! It's the multiple name game being played on Albany Road... come on down!…read moreBut at least the Tandoori Mahal Balti have integrated all of their names into a string that helps identify it for what it does, which is more than can be said for Yaus House, Chinese Kitchen, Chop Suey etc etc... In fact, they have practically created a sentence, how coherent is that? All they need do now is throw a verb at it, and Bob's your Uncle, (or, Kumar is your first cousin once removed, who you might be marrying if your parents can scrape enough dowry together to make love a reality!). Bah boom! Excuse my slight consternation... but I feel that someone should tell these businesses about the importance of clarity and unique identity... Ah dam it.. they all need a lesson or two on branding! It's becoming increasingly important to distinguish one business from another. With the advent of the internet and subsequent emergence of social media, where user content is paramount, it is easy for a business to be misrepresented beyond all recognition, and banished into the realms of obscurity, purely and simply because people will easily give up trying to make sense out of the disparate information, and will order their takeaway from the simply defined business with a coherent description of what's on offer. The irony is that multiple mentions should actually affirm the business, but if they are all saying different things and using variations on the name, it makes a nonsense of everything! That aside, Tandoori Mahal Balti is a rather fine traditional Indian Restaurant and takeaway, that is very reasonably priced. Service is great, and the staff are as friendly as you like. The Good Eating Guide have seen fit to award them with a certificate of 'Outstanding Achievement' which is displayed in the window alongside the 'Roll of Honour' certificate from Master Chef, (whatever that may mean!)

I've had about 10 take aways from here and eaten in three times (not on the same night) - only once…read moredid I have a problem with my curry (it was slightly cold) the rest of the times it was very nice indeed. The service is efficient the staff friendly and the atmosphere is warm. It's always quite busy - testament to the how nice the food is. I'm not claiming it to be the best curry I've ever had but its certainly tasty and worth the money.

For many years I lived just along the street from The Cinnamon Tree, and for many years my walk…read morehome was made magical by the aromas pouring out of this place. In Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', Charlie stands outside and just smells all the chocolaty goodness. This is exactly what you have to do outside The Cinnamon Tree. Although slightly pricey, the food is prepared and presented to a high standard and is invariably delicious. I usually stick to a safe Korma, but the expressions on friend's faces tell me other dishes are pretty good too. This restaurant has a good reputation for its service, which, through my experience, is very well deserved. This is an excellent place to have a get-together; it's just out of the centre of Cardiff, so feels a lot more intimate. It should, however, be noted that Monday-Saturday The Cinnamon Tree is closed from 2pm-6pm between their lunch and dinner service. Take-away is also available, and must be tried!

Cottage Tandoori is a really popular Indian takeaway on Splott Road. It is a particular favourite…read moreof mine for a number of reason. Firstly, I tend not to go to any Indian takeaway or restaurant that hasn't got a tandoor oven, (and this one clearly has, or else it would most likely be called something else...!?!). I love all the food that is made in a tandoor oven, with my particular favourites being tandoori chicken and nan bread. This option will set you back less than £6.00 and is the second reason why I like this takeaway so much... the prices are really competitive! Lastly, the portions are massive and so you really get value for money. I have, on more than one occasion, ordered one meal for two at Cottage Tandoori; something that is entirely feasible unless you are excessively hungry, or just plain greedy! (Although it has to be said that the food is very moreish!)

My biggest problem with Panama is its uninspiring decor - I would eat in rather than take out if…read moreonly it wasn't so ugly. If you don't care too much about the look and feel of your eating environment, however, or if you prefer takeaway, Panama is a really good choice. Their chef was trained in Bangladesh and dishes up cuisine originating both from India and north east Bangladesh. His very own onion bhajis and veg samosas are well worth trying, and both the biryani and tandoori dishes I've had from here have been very tasty. If you're after a bargain, you can go for a huge set meal deal for one, costing £10.95 - it includes pappadom and chutneys, choice of a starter, choice of a main course, plus pilau rice and any naan bread. And if like me you avoid eating in and grab takeaway, there's a very decent 15% knocked off the bill - while for students there's a *further* 10% discount with an NUS card! Bargain.

Well I do love a curry an this is up there in my top 5. I love that its cheap, had huge portions…read moreand do amazing biryani. Its apparently been there now since 1976 and is still going strong. I think its let down by the decor of the restaurant itself. If they funked it up I think they could easily get away with charging higher prices so maybe its a good thing. Service is very friendly, I guess that they have lots of regulars because the waiter was chatting away to couple of tables like they were family friends. Take-Away available but you have to pick it up.

I don't know how impartial I can be about Indian restaurants, as I always favour the ones that have…read morea tandoori oven, which the Himalaya Tandoori Restaurant obviously does! In fact, it ticks most of the Indian cuisine boxes! And, if you read the signage, you'd be excused for believing that this Tandoor house was at least three different businesses.. but at least you would appreciate the range of food on offer! The main hoarding sign reads Himalaya Tandoori Restaurant, whereas the protruding sign is entitled New Himalaya Balti Cuisine, and if you let yourself loose on the internet... well... you'll scoop up a few other variations on the same theme... bless 'em! Like so many eat-ins that offer a take-away service in Cardiff, Himalaya Tandoori Restaurant is doing everything to ensure the upkeep of throughput. The recession has seemingly hit this town hard... or the people of Cardiff seem less willing to trust in the future, and so they have tightened their belts accordingly. People are eating out less these days, and small low end restaurants like this one are seeing a significant dip in custom, perhaps with the exception of the higher end establishments. Usually patronised by people on a low to midrange income, even the take-away side of small restaurants have been severely affected. Thankfully the Himalaya are doing okay, and are offering enough special deals to coax their loyal customer base to prize their wallets from their pockets. Students get a 20% discount if they eat in, everyone can eat as much as they want for £6.95 between 6.00pm and 11.00pm on a Sunday, and they offer a whooping 30% discount on menu prices for take-out meals when you come to collect. And the food

I haven't eaten in here (I have never visited inside the shop in fact because my boyfriend went to…read morecollect it) but I had some food from there under duress. He really wanted it - however, had I seen the state of this place (which I saw when I came to take my pictures for this week) I would have fought a lot harder. So, given that, I was surprised (and am further surprised having seen quite how dingy it looks) how nice the food was. It was quite stodgy but absolutely delicious. Definitely not a light meal for the weight-conscious. For a blow out, though (which we all need sometimes) it was great. Don't let the, quite frankly, skanky - sorry, but I can't think of a better word - exterior put you off. The food's pretty good.