Date of Visit: 30/1/26 (Friday)…read more With my wife and grandchildren (2). Bill: Pre-Snack Meal (poppadoms - and tray) Quite a different selection of "Pops" - £5.89 - Realy enjoyed. 3 x Kozhi Kurumulagu - £15.89 each - £47.67 Boneless chicken, cooked in a black pepper based sauce with onion, ginger, garlic and turmeric. Everyone enjoyed. 1 x Seafood Biriyani - £19.95 Rice, prawns (only 3), king fish (2 small pieces), Mussels (none) and Squid (none). Really tasty sauce with a bit of spicy kick. This had been recommended to me by a work colleague. I didn't mention the missing items at the time as I was with my grandchildren. In hindsight, I should have done. 1 x bottle Viognier - £31.75 - Good wine and well chilled, with a proper ice bucket. Bill Total - £113.51 All the staff were very friendly and attentive. Nice ambiance. There evening service starts at 18:00, but we arrived just before that time and they were open and other customers were already eating. I would return, but I'd mention the missing items about the seafood biriyani. Apart from that I'd order it again as I loved the flavours.

Very satisfied with my visit to Kayal. The food was delicious, service was excellent, and the…read moreatmosphere was lovely. Special thanks to Ebin for his polite and caring service. Highly recommended food place in Leicester! One of the best restaurant in Leicester.

Positives: Nice atmosphere, Reasonably priced and pleasant attentive waiters/waitresses…read more Negatives: Food was very spicy even the Korma felt excessive and Drinks took a while to come

A local took me here for dinner. I didn't quite like the basement location, but the good food (…read moreBritish Indian) made up for it.

Great food here for a good price. They were not able to make the dish I initially wanted because of…read moreallergies, so I had the potato and spinach dish instead, which was almost the only thing I was able to eat on the menu, and it was really tasty! Wish I could cook spinach like that! I always like to try the chili paneer if I see it on the menu, this one was according to my liking - the spices and sauce and firmness of the paneer, mmm! It's a nice option for dinner as well as lunch. The staff were nice people and very accommodating with my allergy requests and took precaution with cooking methods. The ambiance is low key, but nice. My wife decided to go for a Blue Hawaiian drink, for some reason she seemed to think that would compliment a veggie south Indian lentil dish, as you do....I'm all for fusion and experimenting, it just looked too funny with all the traditional food and a tall blue glass umbrella drink next to a pot of brown dal. The brother in law said it looked like drinking half a bottle of toilet bowl cleaner.

We went there for dinner, me being a meat eater was reluctant as to what I would enjoy eating,…read morehowever I was pleasantly surprised with the brilliant quality and taste of the food. We had a full plate with several dishes within them, they were authentic, delicious and well priced food. I do recommend the paneer. The staff were wonderful and very welcoming, the décor was slightly dated, especially from front of house, but the food makes up for it. All in all, an excellent experience, and a definite visit if you enjoy Indian food and want a vegetarian dining experience.

Recommended by locals! Looks like a worn out bar from the outside, end of the road, well hidden!…read moreBut dont let it fool you! They serve amazing indian food! Starters mixed grill, had medium spicy chicken, great flavours, fresh ingredients, spiced! Came with rice and naan bread as standard! Worth to try!!!!

Really nice, old English style pub. The food is Indian and very nice. The bar and drinks is also…read morevery good. Can be very busy.

A tiny take-away that does big food!…read more This little take-away is barely there, but it has a huge customer base. You can find customers often queuing on the pavement to be served. They serve traditional and wholsome bengali/indian food. You can buy a meal for two for about £5. The servings are very generous and will definitely fill you up. The staff are friendly too and often add a complimentary extra to the order.

This place is excellent if you want a hot box of delicious curry and you're in a hurry. Friendly…read moreservice from people who know their Indian cuisine combined with reasonable prices and a selection of wonderful flavours is hard to beat! If you're new to this they're usually pretty helpful in guiding you to the right solution, and they're also quick. The way it works is fairly simple; you ask for what you want in your box (up to two types of curry, two types of filler and chutney). For example, you might want chicken tandoori and lamb rogan josh with rice and naan bread and the sweet chutney. They put it into a box, stratifying the contents (so it goes rice then lamb then naan then chicken then chutney, usually) and you go home and eat it. You can get any one of three sizes for £4 to £6, and there are other combos and options too. As a bonus, if you live out near Evington they've just opened a branch that opens late!

Best Vegetarian in the WORLD! I've been here twice and I…read morefeel like I should come a lot more often. The restaurant itself is beautiful, the interior is filled with art and culture, there's a Royal Enfield on display, and an indoor waterfall. The food is great, prepared really well and is . The staff are very helpful and polite, the food is always prompt. My dinner was great, I started with some paneer pepper fry and for mains I had a Herb Special Thali, Oh it was great! And finally for dessert I had a traditional dessert, called Payassam. I would definitely recommend this wonderful place and i hope to be back soon!

Looks tiny from the outside but there is a lot of seating space as you enter. It was a Wednesday…read moreevening when we went and I'd say half the restaurant was full, which is a good sign given that it is located on a prime spot in the city centre alongside plenty of other restaurants. The food was a tad bland but presentation and the general taste were good. We also ordered a mango lassi which was nice. The thali was ok.. I would recommend trying that if you are unsure of which curries to order but if you can make a decision I'd just go with the separate ones as we only really enjoyed about half of the curries given to us in our thali. The spinach dosa was a slightly different taste to your usual masala dosa worth trying at least once. The only thing about this place is the staff don't recommend any dishes even when you ask their opinion several times! "Everything is nice" which kinda doesn't help narrow it down but fair okay to them!

I really wanted to like Chutney Ivy. It's a swanky looking place, with a nice looking menu…read more Unfortunately, the experience didn't live up to our expectations. We checked it out online first and saw that the set menu (described as a feast) looked pretty varied and great value. Unfortunately, we arrived and found the price was about £5 more (to be fair, they honoured the web price), but ordered anyway. There was nothing wrong with the food itself, although it wasn't anything better than any other curry place in Leicester, but it just took sooo long to arrive. I think we were waiting 1 3/4 hours for our mains and when we did get them it wasn't particularly 'feast like'. The feast is replenished as an when required, according to the menu, but the waiters looked pretty shocked when we asked for more. What of, they asked. Everything! was our reply. The waiting staff were pretty friendly, though, and the food itself was alright, so maybe 2 stars is harsh. But when you consider that the list price is around £22 just for the food in a city that has some of the best curry in the country, they'll have to try a lot harder to survive.

I visited this restaurant with a friend who had been given a voucher for a banquet meal for two as…read morea present.I was very impressed with the quality of the food,as unlike most so called indian restaurants,this one really does serve authentic indian dishes.It is by far the best indian restaurant I know in Leicester and I have tried a lot.Even better,they accept Taste Card which means two eat for the same price as one person.The place is attractive too,not a rough curry house. BigChristoff

Lower end price and sadly quality. The salad offered with my main and starter was limp and…read morecertainly past it's best. If you can over look these basic errors then the food is average. The most alarming thing was being charged £1.30 for a Coke and then having a can put in front of you. More effort please! Don't let the signs about award winning fool you. This place is average at best with terrible service and salad.

Great Place to eat, friendly staff, good atmosphere, the food is always to a high standard, and…read moreprobably the best pickle tray in Leicester.

Eating Indian food in Leicester is as common as eating a burger in the States…read more This was an impromptu "I'm hungry" stop, between shopping and going to the cinema. We ignored the sushi place next door that serves sushi rolls on a conveyor belt (what??) The space in here is quite nice, almost fancy looking. I felt a little underdressed, but the staff didn't seem to mind. I ordered a bellini (peach and champagne) drink. When it came, I saw that there was this massive (like 65%) concentration of peach puree at the bottom of my drink, with the champagne foating atop. When I stirred it, it tasted...gross. Too sweet. Too peachy. They were nice about it though, when I told them I couldn't drink it for those reasons, and opted for what my friend was having. A glass of zinfandel. When they returned with the glass of wine, it was a completely different color than my friend's...and thus a totally different kind of wine. I hated being THAT person that keeps sending everything back...but..it's not what I ordered! 3rd time's a charm. They came out with the right glass. The food was very tasty and the perfect portion. I ordered the chicken tikka masala with basmati rice. The chicken was tender and succulent. When the bill came, they had not included the first 2 drinks, which was very accomodating of them. I'd give this place 3.5 stars if I could. The location is convenient if you happen to be in the area shopping. I don't know if I'd go out of my way to have dinner there on a regular night (if I lived in Leicester).

Visited Mem Saab, located within the new Highcross shopping centre, with a group of ten friends at…read morethe weekend. I was massively impressed with this place - unusual in the sense that it's a very stylish and modern Indian restaurant. We arrived minus a couple of our friends, and stood in the cocktail/champagne bar area sipping our drinks while a pianist tinkled away on a grand piano. Once seated, we were had some popadoms with three lovely dips. Not radioactive in colour like they are in some places. And a good few beers. The main courses were some time coming, and we probably could have done with a few more popadoms in the interim; but, when they did arrive, they were fabulous. My fish (cod) bhuna was delightful, rice nice and fluffy, and naan breads tasty. Total bill was just £20 each. Plenty of food and beers. No desserts or coffees. Highly recommended.