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10 years ago
We're relatively new to Indian food, but had an excellent tandoori and an amazing curry.
6 Park Lane
Reading RG31 5DL
United Kingdom
0118 942 7788
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http://www.zyka-reading.co.uk
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What time does Zyka open?
Zyka opens at 5:30 PM on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
What time does Zyka close?
Zyka closes at 11:30 PM on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.Zyka closes at 11:00 PM on Sunday.
Mon-Sat 5:30 PM - 11:30 PMSun 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Does Zyka serve alcohol?
Yes, Zyka serves alcohol.
Does Zyka have parking?
Yes, Zyka has parking options.
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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 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!
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Not just a takeaway, it is an eat in restaurant too, and very nice. Restaurant is clean, tidy and…read morecomfortable, quite stylish. Staff are very attentive and efficient. We have eaten here many times it is one of our favourite restaurants. Thursday and Sunday evenings are special promotion evenings set menu for £7.95 excellent value. Child friendly too, always a bonus.
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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Great food
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 :)
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.
Take-out menu.
Here is their take-out menu. It's very similar to their dine-in menu.
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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Our favourite Indian restaurant in the Wiltshire area. They are always very friendly and you can…read moreorder ahead online to pick up at a time that suits you, which is great. We've tried various curries and sides from here, including the korma, butter chicken, rogan, jalfrazi, biryani, veggie curry, sag aloo, and a few different naans. No complaints about any of the flavours with these curries! Their peshwari naan is packed with coconut and sultanas and goes really well with the more mild curries. They usually give us extra papadoms when we order them too. For takeaway, I'd recommend booking online if you want to eat early as they are often very busy at opening. We will continuing being regulars here!
A cold, wet, windy October night I was on the hunt of something warm, filling and tasty to eat…read more Enter stage left the Tale of Spice. And old pub converted into this fabulous Indian restaurant and takeaway. A full car park which is always a good sign, diners packed into the dining room noshing away at bowls of golden curry, fluffy rice and fresh crisp naan breads. There where four of us and we had booked because quite honestly you have to. I'd be very surprised if you got a table if you'd just walked in off the street. Again another very good sign. We where greeted by a friendly member of staff and shown to our table. Drinks orders where taken and poppadoms brought to the table. The pickles that accompanied the poppadoms where delicious. Not too sure if they where made in house or not I'm guessing not, but either way they tasted good. We did have starters and with quite an extensive collection there is a lot to choose from. I had the king prawn butterfly. A deliciously perfectly cooked king prawn fried in golden breadcrumbs and served with a small side salad. For the curry then, I had a lamb rogan josh. Quite a mild dish with only a little spice added. To accompany that I had a keema rice and a couple of chapattis. The rice dish is enough for two to share as the curry itself is quite filling. But it was a lovely accompaniment. Not too overpowering with the spiced meat and not too overloaded with onion they got the balance just right. The rogan josh was delightful. It's the first time I've had it and I was impressed. Delicately flavoured and packed with tomato and onion. The sauce was really tasty there just wasn't enough of it to dip the bread in. The meat itself was nice a little tough for my liking but still very nice. The chapattis where beautifully cooked, fresh and hot strait out of the tandoor they where perfect. Not too small you think what's the point. And not too bit you think what am I going to do with this? The meal was finished off nicely with complimentary liquors. We decided not to go for dessert because we'd had such a good meal there was no more room. The service in this restaurant is very good. The staff are friendly, polite and helpful. They are only to happy to recommend a dish to you especially if you a first time curry eater. The restaurant itself is very contemporary, spacious and inviting. I'd highly recommend this place to any curry lover or someone who wants to go to a curry house for the first time. I shall definitely be going back in the not to distant future.
Excellent service! We had the chicken biryani and the Goa fish curry. Both were delicious!!…read moreEveryone around us seemed to really enjoy their meals. We would definitely recommend this restaurant
This place was lovely. Very clean, but the magic was in the dishes. Spice balance just what I would…read moreexpect from a fine UK indian food experience. The highlight was the fresh butter naan. Freshly baked and just the right balance of chewy crispy and buttery. Made my day! You won't be disappointed.
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The food was amazing.. the best curry I've had since arriving in the UK from the US ... quick and…read morefriendly.. I highly recommend
My favourite Indian restaurant in London. Seriously. It looks like a standard family restaurant…read more But the food is so damn good. I have lived in Gurgaon, Mumbai and Hyderabad, and this bangleshi and Indian restaurant are on par.
My salsa friend Hilary and I didn't really have a dinner plan when we went to the salsa party in…read moreFrimley last Friday. Once we had located the venue for the party, we headed off towards teh town centre in search for food. I spotted Cinnamon close to our dance venue and dived in to park. Although we didn't have a reservation, we were seated quickly. They had made an effort with Christmas decorations but there was a slightly strange wall which appeared to be covered with tin foil We went with one of the waiter's suggestion - nawab tawa lamb as well as choosing chicken makhani and sheek kebab. We paired this with pilau rice and a puri The curries were wonderfully and expertly flavoured. The makhani was sweet but the fenugreek came through nicely. The lamb was a good contrast with more earthy flavours - I'm thinking cumin and/or coriander. The sheek kebab was also nice with a slight kick of chilli to liven up the tastebuds The only slight disappointment was my mango lassi which still had undissolved granules of sugar but the flavour was right This was an unexpected find and a bonus great start to our top evening of dancing. If we come back to this area to dance again, I'd be very happy to pop in here again for another meal
Great food, great people.. Easily one of the best Indian restaurants / takeaway in the area.read more
I have been coming regularly to Uxbridge for work in the last few months and I always planned to…read moretry some Indian food, as UK is real mecca for Indian cuisine on this continent. I left a choice of cuisine for the evening with my colleague, and I settled on choosing the best place to go. This place had some good reviews on some other websites, so we decided to try it. The restaurant is quite nice, light and has some cool water bubble decorations with light going on. We started with some poppadoms, garlic naan bread. All of those came with some sauces, that were really nice - especially lime pickle. Afterwards it was time for our mains - lamb madras for my colleague and Tawa lamb - local specialty. Medium spiced dish with herbs and lamb. The food was very tasty and well spiced, but just enough. Service was extremely attentive and waiter checked a few times, if his recommendation of Tawa dish was a good match. After getting our bill he offered a glass of some liquor, which was a nice ending to our meal. If you are ever lost on the way to London and find yourself in Uxbridge then it is definitely a very nice place for some Indian food (I am not an Indian food expert thought).
As far as your local Indian restaurant goes, Javitri feels nice and modern. The restaurant has a…read morelovely relaxed atmosphere and although we visited on a Tuesday evening, I have no doubt it would have the same vibe on a Friday or Saturday. The staff are really attentive and the food felt like it came out promptly (hard to tell though when you start eating those papadums and can't stop until the mains arrive!) I ordered a chicken korma with rice and a saag paneer. This was the first time I tried a saag paneer and I was not disappointed; creamy cheese with spiced spinach was beautiful with my korma sauce. The main reason I have given 3 starts is because the chicken was very dry. I could only eat 2 or 3 pieces, and so did other people in the group I was with. Since I have eaten in restaurants and takeaways with such good moist chicken in a korma or other curry, this was a bit disappointing. There was a large group of 9 of us and the staff accommodated us really well as we weren't sure how many of us would turn up from the onset. They also had lovely little extras like hot towels, mint chocolate with the bill, and our bill came to £15 each including a tip. I will visit again and hopefully can improve my rating for the chicken!
My friend took me here on my last night in London as it is near her home and she knows I love…read moreIndian food. Apparently this restaurant is under new management. I have to say, everything we had was delicious and spiced perfectly to my taste. I had Methi Chicken, Bombay Aloo (came out different than I'm used too but still good) and Peshwari Naan and plain rice. I had enough left over to make another meal the next day. Of the 4 Indian restaurants I went to in this general area, this was my favorite. Also, the service was very attentive and quick.
Recently open went with my friend the best food in town friendly staff with discounts best ambience…read moredefinetly worth a try!!!!!
Met an old friend that i hadn't seen for 35 years here…read more It was a Wednesday night and it wasn't very busy in there but they sat us right by another couple of people which was not great as there was quite a few open tables. Had a couple of Cobras, chicken shaslick, chicken jalfreizi, peshwari naan, bombay potatoes, potatoes with spinach, pilau rice and pompadoms. It was good to be honest but it was quite expensive compared to the old days. As I only come in here every time I come back to England every couple of years its barrable but probably wouldn't come in here that often based on the price.
This is not called Great Bookham Tandoori because it is GREAT. It is not socalled because it is…read morebetter than the Bookham Tandoori, it is so called because Bookham is formed of Great Bookham and Little Bookham. The latest place to get a beer in Bookham, the Bookham Tandoori does both eat-in, takeaway and deleivery. I have been here a couple of drinks (never sober) and found the portion sizes to be satisifiay and the menu just a little bit left of centre. So there are spicy dishes I have heard are reccommended, but I have had a very nice Korma here and another curry which was not a dhansak, but I can't remember what it was butit is creamy, mild in spicy heat and contains pineapple. It is my drunk friend. They are friendly and quick on the service late at night. I have heard tis is because the owners live north of London and therefore have to drive some 90 miles home each night to Luton. Not sure if this is true or villege myth, but I will go along with it. If you go here, and you should if in the area one night. Do ask them and let me know via the medium of Qype.
Nice butter chicken and garlic naan, friendly team and chief, very authentic taste, open expect…read moreMonday
The best butter chicken you ll ever eat in London. Goes well with the huge butter chilli garlic…read morenaan. Trust me its the proper delhi taste :D
Always a great curry and the food is very consultant. It is the only place I go locally for Indian…read morefood. Owner is really friendly and always recognise you. Can get pretty busy on Friday and Saturday night so I would recommend to book.
Best dansak ever and tarka Dal, chicken korma, chili chicken tikka masala, chicken Balti, Bombay…read morealoo, and chicken tandoori was all amazing and the garlic naan was literally the best ever! This place has been consistently amazing and the atmosphere is one of kind! So friendly and a beautiful garden!
Classy and contempary Indian food. The starters are all very good, though personal favourites are…read moreking prawn butterfly and a bbq lamb puri type dish, which is gorgeous. Though the onion bhajis are also delicious! All dishes are nicely spiced and balanced. Service good and a good wine list
Contemporary indian food. No complaints from myself or my family. Enjoyed our food here just after…read moreChristmas.
Pleasantly surprised!…read more I went for the lamb biryani which was actually nice. I also tried the chicken tikka which was equally pleasant. the Garlic naan however is exceptionally chilli, so watch out for that! Try their chilli sauce and the onion sauce, both very nice and not too spicy. The food is good, but it's not exceptional, so yay, I'm a fan.
Great yummy food Very less use of oil in Biriyani which is…read moregreat Freshly made and right amount of spice Salad and mint sauce is great too Quantity /portion.. Just perfect
Food was great. Owner is fun and involved with each guest. We travelled from Victoria to this place…read moreand it was worth. Did you read the walls? Ask them about the story behind.
If in London and craving North Indian Punjabi food, this is your spot. The service and decor are…read moreclassic, and the food will for sure satisfy. Make sure you order the butter chicken.