Annam Tandoori — Restaurant in Den Helder

Don't go in; overprized, and just not good; the other 1 star reviews were right and I regret not having bothered to check reviews before going in. If you care to read about how I came to conclusions similar to other reviewers who gave 1 star, below is my (short?) story of what transpired besides the sweat from the overly spicy rogan josh haha.

In principle, the atmosphere was good.. the tables, the colorful reversed umbrellas covering the lights on the ceiling.. the wallpaper with dishes.. nice. We were the only customers though (surprisingly so on Saturday evening prime time); not very lively. The woman serving us was kind and asked where we came from - Texel but we live in Amsterdam... and if there are any Indian restaurants in Amsterdam...(#@$??) ..eh.. yes there are :-) We didn't look at the menu but ordered chicken rogan josh and because chicken saag was not something she/they were familiar with (!?) I told her that we'll have chicken danzak because I thought - as I told her - it had spinach in it as well. No idea why I thought so - because it doesn't .. but unfortunately she didn't correct me at that moment.. so when food was served she said "the danzak doesn't have spinach.. you thought it had spinach in it".. which obviously is not very customer friendly since it is stated after serving it. I wonder why the cook didn't level this with her when she forwarded the orders - knowing what we wanted - so she could come back to suggest an alternative or 2 confirm if it's still what we want. We were too hungry to let such thoughts play a part since food was already served at that point and we were hungry. I did ask to go easy on the spiciness (rogan josh is supposed to be spicy) but even so, here it was waaaaaay too spicy. The danzak on the other hand had waaaay too much sugar in it...and pineapple. The garlic naan was - as others commented also - spread with garlic paste (!) and I found that cheap, disgusting and unacceptable. She retorted that I knew what I was ordering. That came off as impolite. We ate because we were hungry but we couldn't enjoy it at all. At the end the waitress was kind enough to ask if we enjoyed the food so I decided to be honest and direct and say what I thought of the food (not very good or enjoyable) and credit to her for coming back later saying she told the cook because I hope for innocent walk-ins, that they show a willingness to improve themselves. For 2 not so well prepared dishes.. - not doing anything with expressed wishes - 1xtra rice, a disgusting garlic naan and 2 tonic drinks costing €57 in total.. it's clearly overprized. Even in a touristic city like Amsterdam they don't dare to ask these prizes yet offering better quality. Impossible...

We went a month ago while coming back from Texel island. Ceylon food may be good but We ordered traditional Naan, tandoori chicken and frankly it was Pathetic.Naan was baked in microwave instead of tandoor, it was basically not very cooked paratha. Tandoori chicken was full of red color and without proper Indian spice. My suggestion - please either hire authentic cook who knows Indian food or just rename your restaurant to Ceylon cuisine. It’s such a rich cuisine and if you cook it well, probably customers will enjoy that more instead of serving food which you don’t have expertise in. Hope you take my feedback in a...

I went here today after coming from Texel. I thought that let's try Indian food after long time but it was bad experience. We ordered Naan and I think they were "microwaved" and tandoori lamb + chicken tandoori were also not good. Lamb was medium rare and for me it was oki but for my parents it was not, they even didn't mention anything on menu. Also the prices were not oki, we paid 140 Euro for 4 people's food. Veg-biriyani and mangoe lassi was oki. Also I think tandoori items were bit fresh as there was less flavour.

But the mistake that I made was that I should have given the comments there...