Last night we finally dined at the newly opened Mama Masala Glengormley . My 5 year old daughter,…read morewife and I dined and we were missing my 9 year old, who was at a friends party but gave us strict instructions to bring her back a pepperoni pizza!! I've dined in the original Mama Masala Londonderry (owned by the same owners) and really enjoyed it so was looking forward to tasting the food! I've been following the journey of this new restaurant avidly (Metamorphosis ) and have written about the Story. Whilst we looked at the extensive Indian and Italian menu we nibbled on fresh, crisp poppadoms served with three sweet dips/chutneys. The menu was a very well thought out and well designed one and there were plenty of dishes to choose from!! We chose Vegetable samosa and garlic prawns to start and my little one wanted her chicken nuggets and chips!! My wife also had a mojito which she said was delicious. The presentation of both the prawns and samosas was very elegant and appetising. The 2 large king prawns were served butterflied, with tails on and in a rich, garlic sauce and were amazing. The three filo samosas looked a bit oily and when we cut into them discovered they had meat in them. We flagged this up and the staff were very apologetic and the proprietor Gagan personally served us fluffy perfect Punjabi vegetable samosas. These were exactly like one gets in Punjab itself and delicious suffice to say!! The portion size and taste of the nuggets and chips was excellent. For main course my wife opted for the chicken penne and I the rara gosht with Mama Masala Nan. When these were served it was quite literally a "wow" moment. The pasta was served in a large dish, the lamb in a deep oval dish and there was plenty in each. What really struck us was the authenticity, the very generous quality meat content (chicken breast, lots of tender chunks of lamb interspersed with minced lamb or keema) and the flavours!!! The pasta was in a creamy, yet not too heavy sauce with a nice touch of sun dried tomatoes and basil. The rara gosht is certainly one of the best Indian dishes I've ever had, even my wife loved it and she's not a big lamb eater. The nan was soft, full of flavour (Chillies and coriander) and was ideal with the lamb and pasta!! The dish was full of flavour and spice and not oily or sweet or artificially coloured. This was the real McCoy!! Our waiter remembered that we had ordered a pepperoni pizza to take and he duly presented it to us as we were leaving. The venue was superb, the staff were tremendous and the food was exceptional. I can now say that this will be a firm favourite of ours and is highly commended!!

Not just the best Indian food in Belfast but the best Indian food I've ever had! We were…read moreimmediately sat and had very quick service. The food was so flavorful and very well priced. I wish I could take it home with me to the states!

I've known the Archana since the late 90s but really started going in the early 2000s after…read morevisiting their market stall several times. Archana has the greatest vegetarian range that I have ever seen on an Indian menu and quite possibly the greatest vegetarian range of restaurants in Belfast in general. The vegetarian selection is even sub-categorised into potato dishes, pulse dishes etc. Favourites of mine would include Burta (aubergine) and Raj Mah (red kidney beans). On my most recent visit, I had the Dal Chilli. Sometimes I have meat but the veggy options are too interesting for the enquiring omnivore to ignore!

Outstanding Indian food, the best we've had in a long time…read more The lamb madras had an amazing blend of spices with the perfect level of heat. The kahri was sweet and packed with vegetables, exactly what we were looking for. Fantastic naan too.

Not a fan. I've heard some superb reviews about how out of this world The Khyber is. I was sorely…read moredisappointed. Not once, but twice did they get our order wrong. It wasn't like it was that difficult, there was only two of us, we both ordered the same thing, and they didn't get either right...How does that even work? I thought, OK, maybe they're having a bad day. So after a while I decided that everyone deserves a second chance, the next time we decided to order take away, they got that wrong too. The food was ... ok.... by no mean standards. The naan bread was dry (big disappointment) and the korma wasn't quite how I would expect. I'm a huge Indian fan so I was gutted when all this happened. i would love more excellent Indian restaurants around the area. I wanted to give the place a chance but now I'll stick to The Kinara thanks very much.

so, if you haven't worked it out already that I love my grub, am as greedy as a child in a sweet…read moreshop but also on a diet, you know now! Why does the big god of food send down these amazing places like the Bokhara - is it just to tease me? Indian food is my favourite and I'm sure your man up there knows that! The Bokhara is one of those Indians i save for special occasions because if I didn't I'd be in there every single night. This Indian restaurant was recommended to me by a friend - he is also rounded in the waistline so I knew that he wasn't kiddin' when he said it was awesome. I don't want to go on about the menu as it is just your typical Indian food menu but the food is fresh, the spices are clearly tasted, the portions are generous and the ambiance is lovely. If you go on a Sunday - Thursday between 5pm and 9pm they do four courses for £25.00 per couple - you couldn't beat that with a big stick! Go, eat, tell them big Ger sent you, they know who I am!

I went here for a quiet Sunday evening meal and wasn't disappointed. We shared a starter and two…read moremain meals all of which was really tasty and good quality. The staff were friendly and were happy to help with making our choices. Decor is a little dated but that's not what you're there for. I would happily go back and would recommend to anyone.

Without a doubt one of the best Indian restaurants in Belfast is Zafron Restaurant…read more It has a varied selection of different foods at good prices and the food is consistently good as is the service. The decor in the restaurant needs improving , but I think the food makes up for it. Also the food is fresh and packed with lots of flavour, not the watered down sauces that you get at some restaurants. Overall I think its definately worth a trip down to Zafron Restaurant.

This was our first and last time at this Pakistani restaurant. It advertises itself as offering…read morehealthier, authentic Indian food so we decided on takeaway. The overwhelming taste of my chicken makhani was sickly sugar sweet. This amount of sugar in this dish cannot be healthy or authentic. I mean this dish was a dessert. This is meant to be a rich butter chicken dish nuanced with warm spice. That means for it to be authentic it should have butter in it. It should have spices in it. If there was butter in it I certainly couldn't taste it, nor did I see any butter oil. If it had spices then sugar killed any spice taste. Marks & Spencer sells a mass produced, industrially made, butter chicken which is far more tasty than this rubbish and by a long way. It's much cheaper too. It doesn't pretend to be something it isn't. The tandoor style chicken in it is in good ratio to the butter makhani sauce and it's not sugar laden. My take out makhani had no curry hit at all, no discernible spice at all, no warmth not even a hint. It cost £8.10 (£9 less 10% discount booking on line) and it was just a vile sugar rush. For the chicken in this makhani dish to be authentic it is meant to be marinated in cream, yoghurt and spices for several hours. This chicken wasn't. The spices for an authentic butter chicken dish usually include garam masala, ginger, garlic, lemon (better still lime) pepper, coriander, cumin, turmeric and a bit of chilli. I couldn't detect a scintilla of any of the above but I do recommend the M&S butter chicken to those who cook or serve in this restaurant and I advise they use far less sugar in their makhani, tikka masala and korma. I would have settled for a bit of fresh ginger and fresh lemon juice, just something that would at least cut the unhealthy, cloying sweetness. I just thought as I went to the food bin; here we go again; another so called authentic, healthy restaurant where literally no expense is spent, with the cheapest food being made by the gallon including the generous use of cheap artificial food colourings yet priced as high as they think they can get away with. So to be much more accurate the menu should say artificially coloured red chicken breast pieces in a quarter pint of artificially coloured sugar solution masking as a 'sauce' which may or may not have traces of garam masala, ginger, garlic, lemon, pepper, coriander, cumin, turmeric & chilli. There was about a quarter pint of liquid 'sauce' in the carton. This 'sauce' solidified when it went cold. If they have a tandoor oven here then they didn't use it to cook the chicken or the nan bread. The plain nan bread (£1.60 after discount) was pretty darn good. It was a good size and well heat - blistered under a hot grill, but not in a tandoor. The photo shows that the chicken breast meat was an unnatural vivid red to mimic marinade & tandoor oven cooking, so they know what they aren't doing sufficiently enough to pretend that they are and charge accordingly. There are a number of chemical dyes used to produce vivid red: Allura red (E129), an orange-red dye; Carmoisine (E122), a red colouring in jellies; Ponceau 4R (E124), a red colouring; Quinoline yellow (E104), and Sunset yellow (E110), both colourings; and Tartrazine (E102). The near £9 price tag for my main included boiled, artificially coloured pilau rice or a plain grilled nan bread. It was disconcerting too to find that the sugar solution 'sauce' was a weird yellow/orange colour: almost Bart Simpson yellow. I imagined Homer Simpson eating this served up as the colour would be perfect. He'd say 'Oooh sugar' I've attached a photo. It looks well in my food bin where most of it finished up. My guess is that the 'sauce' was constructed by mixing the artificially yellow korma and artificially red tikka masala sauces together. My wife and son each had a dry chicken tikka main at just under £8 so their artificially red chicken breast pieces were the same as mine. Again no tandoor was used nor harmed in the production of what my family described as really awful food. The tikka chicken had some sliced translucent onions, a tad of fresh coriander bits, and a light film of vegetable oil pooled in the bottom of the containers. This chicken tikka is meant to come with a vegetable curry. What they each got was a container of red watery liquid (food colouring again?) with some overcooked cubed potato and pre frozen green beans. Like my dish each container had about a quarter pint of vivid red liquid. It looked as awful as it tasted. I've attached a photo. It's also rare for us to leave most of our food but quite frankly this was rubbish. My boiled rice order was perfectly cooked and tasted wonderful. This was an experience we'll never again repeat. So I asked what everyone thought of the food. The verdict was: terrible. It's not often we are all in agreement, but we all know muck when we see it and we know when we are being ripped off.

Very poor service. Delivery time was over an hour. We phoned to see what the delay was and were…read moretold "Oh we don't normally deliver to your area". Fine, except there was no mention of this on the website when we ordered. And we had had ordered from them before, more than once.

Really great place if you are in the mood for a spicey change to Irish fare…read more Lovely, clean, modern and well lit establishment. Comfortable seating and a super friendly staff. The family are Nepalese in origin and offer speciality curries from their home and the usual options seen in Indian restaurants. I had the Special Kathmandu Curry my partner had the Himalayan Curry. Both were excellent. The portion sizes were very adequate. Our host confided that the Himalayan Curry is their best offering in his opinion! Great, moderately priced, enjoyable evening.

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.

The best indian food ive ever had. Proper Asian food prepared in a traditional Asian way..... Great…read moreportions & gratis prawn crackers & sauces with all main curry meals. Ive had many great indian meals from Londons famous Brick Lane curry houses & this was even better than anything ive had there. The only gripe i have is the fact that the cooks do not wear hats & it would be so easy to end up with a lovely long hair in ones chicken madras! And if that happened id never return !!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 05.12.14 The food and service is as good as ever & now the staff wear hair nets. Did they read my review i wonder. One particular girl who works in this restaurant is just lovely, very pleasant & always has a nice friendly smile.