Thapas — Restaurant in Amber Valley

This was our 2nd order, made on the strength of the excellent food that we received the 1st time, and it included some of the same dishes that were particularly good last time. It was, however, nowhere near as nice, with the dishes much more lightly spiced (by which I'm referring to the range of spice flavours, not the amount of chilli). Worse, though was that most of the dishes were this time highly and unpleasantly sweetened. The worst offender was the Paneer Pasanda, from which we salvaged the paneer before binning the sauce as inedible. The Special Daal was not far behind it for unpleasant sweetness, and the previously delicious Vegetable Kadai was fairly bland and underspiced. It was only the starters and the brinjal bhaji that were anywhere near the quality of the food in our 1st order. I don't know if there was a different chef on duty or what, but please, please, please, Thapas, do not sweeten savoury dishes, and increase your fragrant spices...

Certainly not the same as our last visit. The food was just edible. We were the only ones in on a Saturday night, should have told us something..... we ordered two mains and both dishes looked exactly the same, both had loads of onions in but not much else, one was a chicken dish and the chicken looked pre cooked and warmed up, the other dish was chicken, king prawn and lamb, one prawn, the same pre cooked chicken and didn't notice the lamb. There should have been peppers in one dish but didn't see those either. I could have made a better curry but when you go to a restaurant and pay restaurant prices you do...

Outstanding! We'd seen that Thapas had just opened and decided to give them a try for a takeaway. Rather than order fully from the takeaway menu they were kind enough to recommend a dine in seafood dish for my wife which she suggested was one of the best curry dishes she has had in a long time. I went for the butter chicken which was delicious and my son had the Nepal chicken which again he suggested was absolutely lovely. I especially liked the mixed starter and the dumplings will we ordered again. We shall certainly be returning. Thanks team Thapas and wishing you the best success with...