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8 years ago
Been there multiple times and every dish there is so good. The garlic naan with butter chicken and chilli chicken is the best ever. Always my fav restaurant read more
12 years ago
Biryani could be better but the butter chicken was great. Seems to fill up though so arrive early. Very authentic food and a nice ambience.
74 kings road
reading
Reading RG1 3BJ
United Kingdom
0118 958 5111
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http://www.pappadamsreading.co.uk
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The service and food is excellent!This is my favourite Indian restaurant in Reading....it's a hard…read moreone to beat. The coconut is delicious.The staff are lovely,with quick speedy service.
Where to start? Let's keep it short. I had a king prawn starter with a garlic chicken main. Boy it…read morewas excellent! The service was very friendly and fast, and the setting pleasant. Reasonably priced to. Your looking at more than £20 a head. Definitely recommend!
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 is fab especially the saag paneer and mushroom bhajii. Excellent telephone manner and…read morespot on delivery time by friendly driver, the chicken korma is tasty and the best bombay potatoes I have ever tasted! This is a regular take away for me, at least once a fortnight if not more yum!
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.
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Here is their take-out menu. It's very similar to their dine-in menu.
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 :)
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!
This was the first Indian restaurant I tried in London and it did not disappoint! I've been told…read morethat the Indian food in London is super authentic, and while I've never been to India myself, I can totally believe that the Indian food here is very authentic. We did family style, so everyone ordered a dish and we just grabbed a bit of everyone's food. We got biryani, butter chicken, korma, and everything was great. My one advice would be to get the basket of flavored naan. They have a selection of Naan breads and they were all delicious. Service is a bit slow, but they also have a lot of customers.
I'm the biggest fan of herbs, spices and flavors and this place definitely hits the spot! My friend…read moreand I shared a few dishes and still had plenty for leftovers. Don't know exactly what it's called but we started with the chip like crackers to dunk into the 4 sauces that was already in front of us. Each sauce was unique and had a different flavor profile so I never got bored of eating the same thing. We also each got naan which I highly recommend the chilli cheese naan! We also shared the karahi paneer which was cheese mixed in a curry with a ton of spices and paneer shahi korma which was a tomato based curry. Each one was super flavorful and delicious! While it was vegetarian, we were more than full with the carbs of the naan. I highly recommend this place. One of the best Indian places I've been to!
Great staff, Great service, Great food, Great Beer!!! You should definitely eat here if you are in Reading!!!
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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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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My family and I have been coming to Hong Kong Garden for as long as I can remember, at least 20…read moreyears! They do the best chips going, I've never found a place that beats them! The cod is fab, the batter just right and they do a large Chinese takeaway menu too. I now live in Cardiff, but whenever I'm home, I'll go to this chippy! Best in Reading!
Awful service, bordering on the downright rude…read more Everything such as the rice and curries all microwaved- ugh!!
nice restaurant, food is okay, staff are friendly. Have tasted better food though, although the…read morerestaurnt is quite nice
Great place - love the pizzas and dough balls with garlic butter - they are devine…read more The Fiorentina pizza is also amazing - whenever I go there I try to make myself go for something different, but end up getting this every time because it is so yummy. The staff are always lovely and attentive and I think it's great that the kitchen prep area is open so you can see the pizza's being prepared. Even better now with their 'credit munch' deal - 50% off! Fantastic.
One of the better ones and way better than Riverside in our view. Can be busy at peak times which…read moreinevitably will slow down service, but staff are friendly and make a good effort to be attentive.
If you live anywhere near Shepperton you will already know about 'The School of Spice'. It has a…read morevery good reputation and is nearly always busy .Well, I am not a hot curry eater so I cannot personally attest to the quality of the Vindaloos at 'The School of Spice' but I want to put on record that these friendly people make the best Chicken pasanda I have ever tasted.I used to live in the area and having food from here was a real treat. On the cuisine of this restaurant alone my son chooses 'Indian ' as his favourite food.Even though we were not in there every week and usually opted for a takeaway rather than eating in, the very friendly staff at 'The School of Spice' always made a fuss of my son, giving him treats along with our food.The owner always comes over to say 'hello' and have a chat. I can't recommend this restaurant enough.Try it!
This place has always lived up to standards and I think it has been the best in the area. I would…read moresay definitely within the lockdown during the COVID19 pandemic.
Tamanna's restaurant is not easy to find. It is above a chemist shop on Station Road in Ashford…read more There's a car park opposite behind a newly renovated antique shop. Take the side door next to the chemist and a steep staircase up to the restaurant. Tamanna's is just what you want from a restaurant; excellent food, helpful and friendly staff, and a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. We had chat and pakora for starters. These were fresh and tasty. The main courses of lamb balti and chicken tikka with a spicy sauce. It was delicious and vibrant. A great night out.
I discovered curry here when my Grandpa first took me at the age of 14. I thought it was the…read moregreatest place ever and still do. This fantastic little restaurant is in a really small old building that has tons of great feeling about it. All the ceilings are low with exposed beams which is quite a juxtaposition from the often comic 90s ballads being pumped out the sound system. They do a wide range of dishes, most of my family is veggie and they always seem to find something they fancy. If you are in the area and fancy a curry head in here, I doubt it will disappoint you.
For a town that is smaller than a US TARGET or KMART store, (HEMA in the netherlands) Wokingham has…read moresome surprisingly good food. The Sultan Balti restaurant was completely empty when we sat down for two people. In the States, this would put me off, but this seems to be the norm here. The food here was great. extremely flavorful and well cooked. We had the bread appetizer (like naan) and coliiflower veggie dish along with a chicken curry, all great dishes. will be coming back if I ever visit wokingham again.
Pink City is mainly a take-away Indian restaurant although there is a small restaurant at the rear…read more It will not win any prizes for decor, but the meals are pretty good here and the prices are reasonable. The staff are helpful and polite and friendly. There is a wide choice on the menu.
Stopped in for some take out while staying at an Air bnb down the road…read more We were hungry and at first overwhelmed with the variety of options! Staff was very helpful in recommending dishes for us. We definitely over-ordered but leftovers are no problem. Everything was super flavorful and delicious. Affordable and friendly atmosphere- can't go wrong at Polash Tandoori!
The food was delicious, the service was attentive, and the ambiance was warm and comfortable.read more
A great Indian restaurant with trendy decor and cool staff. Open every day.read more