Aroma Coffee House & Desi Restaurant — Restaurant in Birmingham

Aroma review

Been a regular here of recent (ordered 3 times before, first time on just eat). Honestly wasn’t as impressed as I’ve been in the past.

Platter (£12.99) - bear in mind it has a flavoured rice (akhni pulao), this was at the bottom together with everything else and it was all covered in a saucy channa which changed the flavour of it all. Shame it couldn’t be separate or at the least on the side. Surprisingly the peri peri chicken was the least spicy out of the other items I ordered (fiazi, samosas, curries) and was quite dry (as though it had been pre-cooked). The serving of channa was far more than both the separate individual portions of curries I ordered which I’ll detail below!

Chicken samosas (£1.49 for 2) - normally a big fan of these but they’re not as they used to be. They’re now full of potato, extremely spicy and quite salty.

Beef bhuna with kichuri (£6.49) - this used to be a large container of rice and about a third of a small container of beef bhuna. The large container has now turned into a small container and is no longer value for money.

Akhni pulao (£5.49) - still happy with this - served in a large container and is fairly mildly spiced so the children can happily eat this.

Chicken Karahi (£4.99) - Shame the listing didn’t state it was on the bone - it’s basically less than half a baby chicken with lots of onion, served in a small container. Comes with a paratha. Not value for money.

Meat bhuna (£5.99)- again about a third of a container and served on the bone (which wasn’t mentioned). Comes with a paratha. Not...

do not come here and go somewhere else. to start, the people there had some attitude, the lady who appeared to be a waitress mocked my family members when they were ordering, seeing that she was laughing to herself at some of our selections. next, the general atmosphere of the place is quite literally filthy. there were stained walls, holes, rips and damaged furniture; it looked cheap and disgusting. one concern was that the tables still had leftover food like it was never cleaned and the walls were covered with nasal mucus. i lost my appetite just seeing how the place was in terms of cleanliness. following on, the silverware and cups. absolutely gross. they looked as if they didnt wash them ever since the first customer has used them. my mom even had to ask one of the staff to wash the glass again. finally, talking about food, it wasnt all that bad. however, i will say that they did add an unnecessary amount of spice when it wasnt listed on the menu: usually food places dont add any chilli peppers or extra seasoning unless you ask afterwards or is listed. seeing that there were two young children as well and still provided food that they couldnt handle was concerning. in general, the food hygiene wasnt exactly the best. my sister found hair in her food and it wasnt hers, considering the hair she found was short which meant it belonged to the person preparing the food. please get this place checked out by the food standards agency and actually hire...

Very poor standard desi breakfast Paratha round up in ball bean were bog standard beans from just spice up a bit omelette was okay really lack flavour to it eat desi tea smallest cup and took time coming wasn't great eating breakfast experience plus to hear over top loud speaking lozzell Bengalis who not eating just for the volume for the place service was very poor the kid came with spoon ? How eat the breakfast told give me knife and fork found owner of guy service me very arrogant have a bit customers service needed finally note do really need people hanging around not eating by the counter talking about over seas business very loud whole of lozzell can hear them eating area need clean found piece of rice on table definitely wasn't great Bangladesh breakfast time sorry no offence for price I paid expect better service and breakfast wasteful...