Taj Mahal Restaurante — Restaurant in Santander

I've visited many Indian restaurant's over the year's but last night's visit to the Taj Mahal Santander was the worst by far the service by the waiter very poor didn't seem interested in his job, for starters I had prawn puri the prawn sause was ok but the puri was soggy no crispiness to it the wife had popadom there was only one with a little chilli and mint sauce price 1€ most Indian restaurant's give you 2 or 3 free, for second course I had chicken Madras and my wife had chicken curry both dishes extremely salty not very nice at all and the nan breads not cooked enough. We asked for white wine but no wine list was offered but the wine was decent still had to ask for a cooler for the wine. The restaurant is very nice and clean inside with clean toilets but as for the food forget it the people who run this establishment should pay a visit to the Indian restaurant's in the Raval district of Barcelona or visit the curry mile in Manchester they would learn how to cook and run an Indian restaurant. I would give it a score of 1 out of 5 and that was for the wine. The bill for two people came to 38€.

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I went for lunch today and was very disappointed. Only two sauces were served with the poppadoms (no mango chutney) and very little of both. We ordered prawn puri and vegetable samosas, both of which lacked any real flavour. Both the curries we ordered had a thick layer of grease floating on the top (it's nearly midnight and I've still got heartburn) and the chicken was tough and dry (the chicken tikka in one dish was better). No rotis or chapattis were available but the garlic naan was okay. The mushrooms in the mushroom basmati rice were clearly out of a tin. I mean, what would it cost a restaurant to use fresh mushrooms? Being from Bradford, curry is probably what I miss the most from home but sadly this...