Banjara — Restaurant in Ashford

We were excited to try this after reading the positive reviews and the starters got us off to a promising start. However our mains were definitely not spiced enough. I had a bhuna which had no heat at all (meant to be medium) and lacked flavour. The lamb mulli on the other hand was so oily and sickly that it left both of us feeling quite nauseous after just a couple of bites. on finishing the meal they asked if it was ok and we said yes apart from the lamb dish, and they could see that we hadn't eaten much of it at all. This would have been a good point to offer to discount that dish, but we were charged full price for the meal. With how good the reviews were we wondered if it was their second chef, rather than head chef, who prepared this as it was a quiet Sunday evening. If this is the case then it could be worth some additional training for the second chef. On the plus side, we did think it was reasonably priced, the portions were good and the starters, rice, naan, poppadoms were good. But the main dishes definitely disappointed. I have taken my bhuna as takeaway though and will add my own spices at home. Edit - the bhuna smelt so bad on opening the fridge this morning so it...

I was really looking forward to trying out some authentic Indian/Bangladeshi cuisine for our weekend trip over at Camber Sand with my family. However that came to a huge disappointment, the dishes deviated from the authentic taste. There was hardly any salt sprinkled on any of the dishes which made the dishes flavourless. I can't understand why the chefs are not trying the food before they have them prepared and ready to serve. Surely they lack the craft of a skilled cook.

Worst part of the experience after going through my bill by which I have never encountered any other Indian restuarants was to be charged for the condiments that came along with my papadoms. It is the standard of any Indian restuarants to serve condiments as a complementary along with the Papadoms.

If you are going to charge for something, you shouldn't serve it on the table if it hasn't been ordered and then have the customers scratching their head thinking what the extra charge is for. I found that to be low in courtesy and embarrassingly stingy.

Overall I found the staffs to carry a polite and respectful...

It was really disappointing with food. Had a lot of hope to get authentic flavours, but rather than that, I got a chance to experience hospital food (absolutelybland food). I'm not trying to be harsh, but the chicken tikka biryani had absolutely no taste. Rice was like barbecued. Did not feel it was fresh rice. Keema naan had like the least filling I've ever come across.

Pilau rice was soggy and could not even taste it. Chicken chaat and aloo chaat has less salt, so the flavours didn't even come out.

The best food from tonights menu was the poppadoms and it was the star.

Sorry, but I had a lot of expectations from you guys when you pay nealry £60 for 7 small dishes.

Note: reply to the comment from the shop.

Sorry, we took the food home for a reason, and the answer for food being cooked for british taste still dont clarify as the opinion was actually given by my british partner. Sorry, I forgot to clarify that the food needed to...