Bollyfood Stories — Restaurant in Brussels

Habla Manotas,

Our first experience was a delivery in the summer of 2021. And since it was very tasty and different from what we are used to in Luxembourg we decided to try the restaurant this time. The setting is very colorful. Sadly the place is quite cold (which can harm the culinary experience) even though the heaters were fully on. Maybe closing the door quicker when a delivery service shows up would help? As starter we had veggie samosas and onion bhanji (the bhanji are super delicious 😋). Main course, my wife had butter paneer and me chicken tikka masala (that I asked to be very spicy 🥵, but it was soft 😢). Also it seems that the bowls could be served with slightly more meat or whatever is the main ingredient. All in all, taste wise very good and different than most of the Indian restaurants you’ve tried (just insist for the spiciness if you are up for it). Decoration, they put effort in it with the handcrafted paintings, posters lights and other ornaments. And the toilet seemed okay according to the Belgium standards 🤭. I recommend this place and hopefully they’ll make it till after this covid...

I was intrigued by the concept and having had very little success in finding a decent Indian restaurant in Brussels, was very excited to go here. It’s a fairly cosy restaurant with quite a wide selection of dishes to choose from, all fresh and tasty. However the dishes lacked spice despite asking for medium spiced tikka masala. Staff were friendly but rushed off their feet, which resulted in Naan breads arriving five minutes before the curries. Starter sharing plate was tasty but a bit expensive for the amount of food given. The restaurant was also really cold, so not particularly pleasant to sit in. Overall I think it’s a nice concept for sharing food with friends but for me, it lacked real Indian food...

Ordered rogan josh, paratha and chicken popcorn on Deliveroo.

What a complete disappointment.

The rogan josh (comes automatically with rice) was insipid to say the least. It lacked flavour. It tasted like it was straight out of a plastic container! I asked for very spicy but what I got was mild (I’d hate to imagine what their mild version tastes like).

The paratha was average. The rice was super greasy.

Oh and they didn’t send the popcorn chicken. But based on the quality of their rogan josh I am glad (but of course I got charged for it).

Forget this place. My recommendation is to try Ganesh on rue du Bailli. They are closed Mondays but food is pretty good and...