Namaste Delhi — Restaurant in Aberdeen City

I was very lucky this weekend to grab the last space on the Namaste Delhi Indian Cooking Class, a great opertunity to see first hand and up close how fresh Indian food is prepared.

The restaurant has, I believe, just been open for one year. Situated on Bridge Street it within easy access from the Train and Bus station.

Style of food is North India and served Tapis style.

The cooking course invited eight member of the public into the kitchen. This was a brave move, but I have to say I had nothing to worry about, the kitchen was spotless.

The cooking course started with an introduction to a selection of Indian spices. Two types of Chile Spice, one hot and the other mild. The main staple spices terurmic, cumin, coriander, gara masala, to name a few along with some Gram Flour used to make Onion Bhaji.

To get started we watches how the bahji was prepared and sampled some Masala Tea. Once cooked with fresh spices came the yeast test, they were a delight and a great start to the rest of the morning.

Next to be prepared was a Taka Dall, two types of lentals along with some of the fresh Termric and a little Chilli were set aside to cook while the temper sauce was created with garlic, spices, onions and towards the end some tomatoes. After the lentals had been cooking for quite some time the temper was added and set aside to rest. I had been thinking that this looked a bit thin but when it had time to rest and was served wow it was great

As the main course was stared, a very simple chicken curry, the rice was started also. The chicken curry sause was created using very finely sliced onion a quantity of spices and set to cook. It was at this point I realised I was just not cooking my onions for long enough, brown was the order and brown they were, releasing all the natural suger and flavour. Some tomato was added to this mix along with Garlic and Ginger, yes, this late in the game, designed to bring out the flavour towards the end of the cooking peocess.

Rice has been cooked but to add yet more flavour a gee and cumin seed mix was added to a small pan and cooked briefly, this was then added to the drained rice, what a wonderful smell.

To top off the final part of meal some nan bread was prepared and as we retired to the restaurant to wait eagerly there was a palatable air of anticipation.

The meal was brought to the table and it was smiles all around, the curry smelt wonderful and tasted fantastic, light and full of flavour, not to spicy, the rice complamented the meal very well, and the Nan Bread was very light and delicious.

One of the team watching did not eat meat and had a delightful spinish dish.

All in all this has been a great experience, I was delighted to see the care and love that went into making the food. I had not eaten in this restaurant before but I can assure you I will be back for the full experience.

A great day and thanks to all the staff...

We are regular customers at Namaste Delhi and thus it hurts to have to leave this review.

We had the most disappointing experience we have had form any takeaway last week from this restaurant. We usually order home Delivery and order was not being accepted on the website, phoned 3 times and no staff answering. We’re entertaining guests and had bigged the place up to them so thought we would drive in to see if open. They were- they charged us more for our takeaway order from restaurant than home deliver as they initially did not give us the free starter for orders over £35. I pointed this out and it was rectified.

We got our order home and were given no dips or sauces for pakora. 2 out of 4 dishes were indible with the korma in particular which should contain chicken breast consisting of a chicken leg with almost no meat on it and a split sauce, the lamb rajhastani had so much oil on it we had to siev it out.

As previously stated we have loved this restaurant for a number of years to I attempted to call them and speak to staff directly and again no answer. I then sent an email which has also been ignored and am thus having to resort to leaving this review. Extremely disappointed at this treatment of a...

The food was lovely, such a shame the service didn't match it. Walking in we were a table of 8 it was a Groupon deal, emailed 3 weeks previously to say although the deal was for two tables of 4 would they mind sitting as all together didn't hear back but not a problem or so I thought, so we arrived I explained I emailed earlier asking for us to be seated together, so he sat us at two tables back to back, so we asked if we could push them together (plenty room) was met with a very abrupt no that's not allowed! He then talked through the menu again with attitude we ordered but some of the dishes we picked we more than the £5.95 limited allowed so was told we needed to pay extra, I responded with yes sure not a problem, he snapped yes well I'm telling you, just so so rude. Can't fault the food really was good but won't be back sorry, to many other wonderful Indian restaurants to go to with equally if not better food and way better service, shame was quite excited to try here, heard good things about this place, they have not only lost my custom but also the several other people I...