Desi Kitchen — Local services in Newark and Sherwood

We stopped by the Welcome Break nearby but almost everything was closed apart from BK, which we didn't want. So we googled for what what was nearby and found this place. We definitely liked the staff and open plan and clean kitchen. Food was also cooked very quickly and well packaged and piping hot, and a decent price. We took it away (back to the Welcome Break!) to eat. Unfortunately, for two out of three of us, the main meals weren't quite to our taste and so we didn't finish them. We saw they contained almond, but didn't expect almond to have been used to THAT extent - making the korma and the tikka masala very dense (and very similar) and VERY sweet. The garlic and cheese naan was good and very big, but not very garlicy. The garlic and coriander naan was not very garlicky either, meaning it didn't have much taste in the end. The chicken was tougher than I would have liked, perhaps more noticeable because of how dense the korma was, but that's maybe a matter of preference. The free poppadoms, however, were the best I've had - crisp and tasty.

If I lived locally I'd give them another try, but wouldn't order the same things unless the recipe for those items...

Yesterday evening we decided to check out the new takeaway on Fernwood. I had to nip to the shop so went into order, the staff were nice and friendly, and I like the open kitchen setting they have. We love Indian food and many of our friends have already had a takeaway from here – it came highly recommended. We ordered a Chicken Makhani, Chicken Dhansak with Pilau Rice, Saag Paneer a cheese Naan and a Garlic Naan. The food was delicious and although I like mine spicier I know that if I ask they can add a little more kick. We got some free Popadoms with mango chutney and onions (Free things always make me happy!). The food was great and I highly recommend, the only disappointment was the Naans, I don’t know if they don’t have a tandoori oven but they were very stodgy and didn’t taste as I would expect a Naan to taste. This being said I would recommend the food as with the exception of the Naans the food was...

Order was over £50. The chips were covered in salt and as a family we like our salt but this was way to much it couldn’t be eaten. Even mixed with the curry sauce all you could taste was salt. Contacted the restaurant who asked for the food back so we sent it back to them, receive a phone call from the manager being completely rude and disrespectful stating there wasn’t much meat sent back meaning we had eaten 70% of the food and tried to argue it was all mixed. Of course it was all mixed to try and take the taste of salt off. Half of the naan bread was sent back it was dry but soggy, the tikka masala was more like korma. Despite us sending the food back the restaurant are refusing to refund. Absolutely disgusting food and customer service. We have basically given the restaurant £50 for nothing as food was sent back. DO NOT USE THIS RESTAURANT AS YOU WILL BE...