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Food court Indian at restaurant prices but without the quality.
Street food vendors would be embarrassed by the super sweet korma that was served up with dry chicken. This place couldn’t be further away from Indian Street food if it tried.
Unilocal wouldn’t allow me to check in, I wish the Unilocal app could have prevented me from ordering.
About as Indian as me and I’m as white as Agatha Christie’s ghost.
Return? What do you think!

Ok, so I am a fan of the food. The menu is not overwhelmingly large but offers a wide range of choices across street foods (the samosa chaat is ace!), biryanis, breads and curries. But oh-​my-​god, the prices. I mean, this place charges the same as a curry house would charge including all its overheads of real estate, service staff, gratuity etc. A garlic naan for £2.95 is just criminal in the food court settings! But the sheer dearth of good Indian options in the area drives one back to this venue over and over again when one craves a good dose of spice and heat!

So I have always seen this place in Westfield, Stratford. But I never tried it. Maybe I am just so used to having duplicate Indian food in the UK. They say Authentic Indian food but it ends up tasting like Bengali. And I guess this one is not very different. I had a platter of kebabs. It came with nice cubes of chicken, some slices of lamb and four cubes of Paneer. It was well cooked just as I would like it. But they ruined it with their sweet sauce. For a person like me who would drink Hot Piri Piri sauce for dessert, the sweet sauce was a complete turn off. I felt like WTF!
I am totally against mixing meat with sweet sauces. So it may not be their fault. But going back to my point. Indians don’t do that to meat. So this again, I have to say, is not real Indian. Please don’t mix sweet chaat sauce with tandoori grilled chicken, lamb or whatever.
My wife had Paneer wrap. She couldn’t eat it. She is pure vegetarian. For some reason her roti smelled a little non-​vegetarian to her. So she took out all the paneer off the wrap and had it on its own. THis place might have been a good chaat place. The sauces they used with the tandoori meat was ideal for Indian chaat food. That might sound weird to non-​Indians. You can read more about
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The good thing about this place is the fresh orange juice and lassi. I’m pretty sure the Chaat would be good. But I haven’t tried it. I’m hoping to give that a try next time.
By the way the prices were okay. Chaat items and wraps cost almost the same. I ordered a platter for sharing, but because I had only myself to share with, I just had to eat it on my own. Very filling indeed.
The kebabs would have definitely tasted great with some piri piri kind of spicy sauce. So for now I give you guys 3 star.

I’ve been here twice. Once because I was excited I’d found a place that served up this kind of food in a mainstream setting and once because I was trying to introduce my boyfriend to this sort of food. To be clear the quailty is ok. It’s reasonable. It’s not the worst I’ve had but it is miles away from the best. You could tell some of the ingredients had been hanging around for a while. Some stuff that was supposed to be crunchy had that slightly stale texture.
It’s alright I guess. Given there’s nothing similar nearby.
At £7 I’d expect a lot more in terms of quality and quantity. I think the guys here are capitalising on a captive audience, there isn’t a lot in the way of Indian food here and like me, many must have been excited to see something that wasn’t the same old «pick one meat and one spicy sauce» style of Indian cuisine. This is just lazy, lazy poorly thought out and an example of how a good idea can be ruined by letting the service/​food element come second to the cash-​cow element.
Add to this a sort of identity crisis. It’s not a restaurant, it’s a kiosk in a food court. So you think for the lack of variety and freshness you’d at least get low price and convenience/​speed. So no low price point. Both times when I paid for my food I got one of those little plastic things that lights up and buzzes when your table is ready at TGI fridays or similar. You take this… find your table in this vast food court because it’s not like they have reserved seating for this place. And then wait. And wait. And wait. And then eventually it buzzes and you make your way through a sea of slow moving people with trays of food… you get to the counter and there is one measly plate half full of stale food and a cup of tea that is barely ²⁄₃ full. And this took 15 minutes to pull together?!
It’s a really poor deal. It’s like you get none of the advantages and all of the inconvenience. I know I won’t bother with this place again.

Like the last reviewer I was sceptical too. I only ordered Chicken Tikka and at £6.95 it was incredibly expensive. Outside the confines of Westfield this is more than double what you’d expect to pay, and more expensive than a large burrito from neighbouring Tortilla.
The food (pre-​prepared) was heated quickly and served with the usual side salad, which was surprisingly fresh and moist given it was 9pm and the winter sales were on.
They’d poured what looked like sweet chilli sauce on the chicken which I was wary of, having sampled some overspill on my veg, but the combination worked well on the chicken and it left a nice tangy taste in my mouth.
Overall it was better than I expected. Not top notch by any means but still not bad. If only it were priced appropriately it might have got 5 stars instead of 4 :)

Another amazing meal here. Though all it was was a bowl of daal. It was fragrant, steaming hot, garnished beautifully with coriander and with a hint of garlic. Just the thing on a winter day… x