love the staff, love the food, love the menu, Im a fan can you tell by the love :)…read more The manager is great and very helpful. The wine is good and the coffee is great. The only think I didnt try was the dessert and I was too full. Great atmosphere in there even though they were renovating. I dont live in Belfast but cant wait to go back.

Well I thought I'd previously found the best Indian in Belfast but the Bengal Brasserie certainly…read moregives it a run for its money. This fine dining restaurant was an excellent evening out. The restaurant itself is nicely appointed with a modern/posh vibe, great for a first date if you are looking to impress (But possibly not score with your curry breath) or for bringing a client out to a nice place to chill for the evening, away from town. Ok down to the nitty gritty, what's the food like? The menu is very extensive with a great range of fish and veggie dishes, as well as all the usual meat dishes you would expect from an Indian. I had one of the specials (It was either Crayfish or Langoustine) Ko-Rathi with a garlic Naan and some pilau rice. I have to say it was cooked to perfection and absolutely amazing. I'd order it again anytime. On a side note we also had the poppadum's to start with. It was a very generous portion and the four dips were divine. My friends had various other dishes which I sampled and they were just as tasty as mine. We had a reasonably priced bottle of Pinot Grigio to help wash it all down. Finally for desert we decided to try the Indian Doughnuts. Heaven in a dish. They are little balls of alcohol soaked dough served on a delicious ice cream. A superb end to a fantastic meal. The place was on the upper side of reasonable but considering the quality its worth forking out for. (We also got a free shot with our bill which was awesome!) Overall i'll definitely be back. 5 Stars!

I'm not a huge fan of Indian takeaways, I prefer pizza or maybe even chinese and this place did…read morelittle or nothing to change my mind about my favourite fast foods and take aways. There are quite a few decent indian take aways in Belfast, in particularly the Bengal Brasserie that is also on the Ormeau Road. The food I got here was cold, greasy, not really all that tasty and a bit overpriced. I wasn't too pleased with how long it took for the stuff to be delivered either. It took way too long and the guy who delivered it wasn't too friendly when he finally got to our house. No good and not really worth even trying out.

Zeera is the sister restaurant to the Bengal Brasserie and upon hearing this we decided to give it…read morea go (being huge fans of Indian food!) The menu is pretty much the same as Bengal so we went for a chicken madras, chicken vindaloo, poppadoms, naan bread and saag aloo. all the usuals. The delivery did take a while but as it was sat night we didn't mind as most places are pretty busy. The food came and was hot which is good but the one downside is that they were pretty greasy I no many dishes do contain some oil but being a frequent sampler of Indian Cuisine I knew they had over done it here. The flavours were good and the meal wasn't bad but in a city with many great Indian takeaways and restaurants there are many places I would order before coming back here! Not bad, but not remarkable!

Really delicious curry! We wanted to try a new Indian takeaway and so glad we went for here. The…read morerogan josh and the dal masala side dish were so good. staff are really friendly

From the owner: There's no place like Bengal Cottage in Belfast because we serve fresh and authentic Indian curry…read moreand kebabs.

My husband said this is one of the most authentic Indian restaurants he's been to. We sat down for…read morea quick bite, we didn't order much as it was getting late into the night. The staff was overly nice, each and every single one of them. They noticed we were desi ourselves and made our food "desi style", oh boy was it spicy! The chef and the customer sure likes a challenge. The menu has a lot to offer. Great spot for really well don Indian cuisine. Royal Tandoor Platter 5/5 -(chicken banjara, malai chicken tikka, seekh kebab & tandoori monkfish skewered and cooked in a clay oven), great option if you're not too hungry, you can ask for a small bowl of rice to accompany this Lamb biryani 5/5 - a lot of meat, the rice was so fragrant Goan Seafood Chowder 5/5 - hearty, flavorful, highly recommend Hot chocolate fudge cake 4/5 - can't go wrong, exactly what you expect, don't think it is made in-house though

Couldn't resist this restaurant. Just up the road from our hotel. Modern Indian restaurant-- No…read morereservation but they managed to get us a table got 4. Our server was exceptional steering us in the right direction as not to order too much food. All the food was delicious with the correct amount of heat and spice as requested. The manager even provided us with a round of shots. Not your traditional Irish food but well worth a visit.

Kebabs. Kebabs. Kebabs!!!…read more If you love kebabs this is a great spot! Tikka Tikka (shockingly) is an Indian Take Away restaurant on the Ormeau Road and is the haunt of drunk students swaying home after a night on the town! It's certainly a nice change from a curry chip from a Chinese. I adore Indian food and this place is certainly somewhere I'll visit again. The menu is really quite extensive and I love getting a mix of bhajis, samosas and pakoras to go with my kebab...yes I am a pig but when it comes to Indian food..more is better....especially as there's always some left for breakfast!

You know exactly what this place is going to be like as soon as you see the name and you see that…read moreit is a 'curry and kebab house'. To paraphrase, it does exactly what it says on the sign. It is a haunt for late night revellers and students after a few pints who want to eat a nice, big kebab and chips on the way home. I have recently cut out the kebabs but in my day I woke up a number of times with a half eaten kebab by my bed and wondered what was happening to my life. In here the staff are friendly and will treat you like a regular if you are in often enough, like most kebab shops. The kebabs and curries are nice enough, just not world beating. For me, the perfect kebab is from Piccola in Bangor but this place certainly isn't the worst I have every had.

Met a couple of Belfast friends at their favorite local Indian spot for dinner here & could not…read morehave been happier with the service, food, & the atmosphere. I got a spicy curry dish, some somosas, & a cobra beer. It was the perfect pairing. Staff were great & did not care that our larger party spent a good amount of time here enjoying each other & the food. Looks like an unassuming little place from the street but is moody & well decorated inside. I'll be going back next time i visit Belfast for sure!

Amazing atmosphere and food! Would definitely come back. We…read morehad a very large party reservation and we were greeted with warm smiles and were promptly served drinks. Food came out in a very timely matter and was spectacular. No complaints other than the fact we were the only ones in the restaurant and there didn't seem to be any background music so it felt a bit empty.

Ordered takeaway dinner from here as both yelp and Google recommended it as best Indian in the area…read moreand after my satisfying meal, have to agree! We got a stuffed paratha, a roti, Dahl makhani with rice, and lamb with spinach. It cost £22 incl delivery and that was so reasonable, because the food was delicious! Not a lot of oil at all in the food and I could smell saffron in the rice. The dal was really lovely with a nice spicy kick. The lamb was super tender, and it's a real mark of superior cooking when the spinach is fresh! Plus we got x2 papads and cucumber salad as well!! Our food was delicious and the price was great so totally recommend and it's absolutely worth a repeat visit. Note: #227 of Yelp 100 challenge for 2016

Great food and love the spice for the authentic chicken masala. Will definitely come again. Easy…read moreparking across the street in the neighborhood. Very nice owner or manager. Huge portions.

It could be a fairly alright 3 star on a good day but I opt for 2 stars. First we were crammed…read morecheek by jowl into a window table for 2, so close to other diners that their conversations were audible without our having to work at it. The family to my left were critical of the food but told the waiters it was 'lovely' on the four occasions I heard them being asked. This also annoyed them. There was also a dispute between them whether to go for a pint to 'Laverys' afterwards. The father clearly wanted to, his wife and daughter were lukewarm & hostile respectively and the son in law or potential in law was too polite to decline. So they unhappily agreed to disagree and went off two by two. When the male waiters (no female wait staff) attended the tables either side of us their elbows were inches from the side of my head with their movements occasionally forcing me move sideways. One waiters' derrière was 2 inches from my butter chicken a few times. Hardly a romantic setting. Once wedged in we got 2 'complimentary' pappadams with 3 dips. I asked for a Nepalese beer only to be told they don't have any so I ended up with an over-priced Singha beer, most likely brewed in Carlsberg's Russian plant that distributes to most of Europe. I imagine if these folk really are Nepalese they'd proudly flog their Khukuri beer and Hinwa and Dadaghare wines. I got the small one at £3.5 which works out at £6 a pint. My wife got a mini bottle of white wine at £4.5 which is £18 a 75 ml bottle. The young waiter who said his only job was serving booze did suggest I'd be able to get some Nepalese beer in London, but I thought it was a tad far to go for a beer at 8pm on a Saturday night in Belfast. It's a well overpriced place, with my paneer cheese starter at £6 when £4 would be fair. My butter chicken main was £13 when a fair price would be £11. They do that deception where meat is cut into cubes to give the impression of plenty, bulked out by copious cheap sauce. The menus don't mention that chemical food colouring is used. I'm not a fan of these food colourings, so I'm disappointed when I see vividly red food being served up. I'm also peeved that the use of chemical colourings is not mentioned on the menu either. My paneer starter had 5 pieces of almost tasteless cheese in a lightish batter, with a smidgen of hot sauce staining the plate, a morsel of lettuce, a sliver of carrot & a cucumber slice. My butter chicken was near scarlet, packed with sugar, with small chunks of equally bright chemically red chicken. My wife had an overpriced chicken pakora starter (3 battered bits should be £2 cheaper) with a similar smear of hot sauce, morsels of carrot, lettuce & cucumber. Her overpriced main (£17) was meant to be a sizzling dish but it wasn't. Not that we minded, as sizzling just means that the very hot iron plate on which the food sits is drizzled with cold cooking oil. Again this main was bulked out with lots of fried onions with some shards of green pepper made to look a generous portion, but there wouldn't have been £3 worth of meat on the plate. The boiled basmati rice was perfectly cooked, the small vegetable curry accompaniment was watery and lukewarm. The nan bread isn't nan bread as it's too thin to be proper nan: so it it's a crisp bread, probably 20p to make the dough turning into a £2 price tag. The service was effusive, nearly as sugary sweet and artificial as the butter chicken but when I know I'm being ripped off I don't tip. We'd paid handsomely for two 'free' pappadams with dips. We were asked at least three times about our food. I said read my review but I guess I wasn't understood. We paid near £53 for a two course meal for two with a small drink each, so it was well overpriced once it went above £40. I suspect it's just another Pakistani restaurant which has come up with the wheeze of Nepalese cuisine and the ancient romantic Kathmandu as devices to overcharge and how. If this is dining in times of austerity I'd hate to see their price structure if we ever see good times. Back to M&S butter chicken - wonderful for a factory made meal and without artificial muck too.

Have eaten in Kathmandu Kitchen twice now and it is nice. Visually this is a dated restaurant and…read morewas chilly on my first visit but much warmer second time round. I found the food pleasant, but spice levels too high for my taste. Having tried mains of Chana Masala (chickpeas) and Vegetable Bhuna I found them much spicier than I would have preferred. These usually are mild to medium dishes and indeed were marked as medium spiced on the Kathmandu Kitchen menu - but they were fiery hot. Also, be careful when ordering, as the vegetarian dishes sometimes seem to contain paneer - so if you are vegan you will have to be aware of this and specify no paneer cheese. Complimentary poppadoms were a nice touch.

I didn't know this place existed until we got a flyer through the door earlier this year and…read morethought we'd give it a go being huge Indian food fans. The menu offered all the usuals... so that's what we ordered. I got my usual Jalfreze and my partner a vindaloo along with onion bhajis, bombay aloo, saag aloo and naan bread! The food arrived within 30 mins which was great and it was all cooked to perfection, the saag aloo was especially great! I was delighted to find another Indian restaurant that offered high quality food at a really competitive price and bring it straight to your door so you don't even have to change out of your PJ's on a lazy Sunday evening! Yay!!

I'm visiting Belfast for work and this is the first place I find that's close by and open late on a…read moreFriday night based on previous yelp reviews. Well, I just left again... 2 times in 3 days. Need I say more? The aloo bringal was yummy, the sag chicken was delish but the chicken jalfrezi gave me life!!! I'm sure I'll be back before I leave...

DATE OF VISIT: Tuesday 24 May 2016…read more MENU: Indie Spice have superb menus including sit in, lunch, takeaway and pre-theatre with a full range of Indian dishes available. Vegetarian options are extensive. FOOD: Fresh, delicious and in large filling portions. Had poppadoms and dips for starter, matter paneer main, and sides of pilau rice, roti bread, mildly spiced mixed vegetables and bringal aubergines. Food was fantastic. There's a small selection of ice cream based desserts. DRINK: Fully licensed, selling wine, spirits and beer. Sauvignon Blanc at circa £14 was excellent. The complimentary Baileys Irish Cream and Sambucca liqueurs were a lovely touch. COST: Very reasonable, our bill was around £45 for 2 people. Given that this included poppadoms, one main, two vegetable sides, rice, bread, one dessert and a bottle of wine we thought this pretty good value for money. SERVICE: Lovely as we felt well looked after but not rushed. RESTAURANT DECOR/ AMBIENCE: Clean, comfortable and modern with vibrant purple and rich pink colours. Vibe was mellow and relaxed. Indie Spice seemed very quiet when we arrived early at 5pm on a Tuesday but filled up quickly over the next couple of hours. IN SUMMARY: Excellent Indian restaurant to which I shall return so I can try the pre-theatre and lunch menus. Would be perfect for a meal before going to see a play at the nearby Lyric theatre.

Indie Spice on the Stranmillis Road is the first of the three Indie restaurants in Ireland, all of…read morewhich are owned by one man, Tariq Salahuddin, who moved to Ireland in 1982. This is the only one I have been to, but as far as I know they are all quite uniform so it shouldn't be to much of a problem! The décor is quite modern, lots of use of colour in the terms of fixtures and fittings which takes the harshness off the heavy steal chairs and dark leather padded booth seats. I'd heard a lot of mixed opinions on this place. Some people thought it was the greatest of all Indian restaurants, whilst others have declared war on it, trying their best to make sure no one has to experience what they thought was an all together rubbish night. Deciding to make up my own mind, I went one evening with an old girlfriend of mine to see what Indie had to offer. As I've mentioned before the décor is fantastic, cannot fault it. The décor was all but important by the end of the meal. In terms of price, most Indians are quite expensive in Belfast, but Indie takes it to a whole new level with the menu dividing and pricing everything, by the time you've constructed your meal from the massive selection available, the hopes of a movie afterwards becomes a prospect that could lead to financial ruin! The food was quite nice. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal and so did my company. We did however have a problem with the staff. They weren't particularly rude or unhelpful with our orders, but our seats were quite near to the register. A quieter moments, they would gather round the till and scream and shout to each other. They weren't doing this to annoy me (I hope!) but having 5/6 people standing right over you whilst your trying to enjoy the meal you made after carefully studying the mammoth menu was a little irritating. The food is really nice, so take advantage of their takeaway facilities and enjoy in front of East Enders instead of sitting in the restaurant listening to the staff spoil the plot!