Dipali Cuisine - Bangladeshi & Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Blaby

Went to dipali on Tuesday 4th March with family (15 of us) meals were good but when it came to paying the bill they had added it up wrong, we worked out approx £20 over so we were not happy about that. As we were leaving my niece noticed outside up high above the window it said they offer a set menu Sun-Thur for £16.95 offering any starter any main with naan or rice. We were not offered this set menu, only given the main menu when we ordered, we hadn't noticed the sign outside when we entered as it is quite high. When we questioned with them, why had we not been offered this set menu at the time of ordering, their responce was "you should of asked" why should you have to ask, we didn't know they did it, surely it should be up to them to offer the set menu to the customer, one of the men that we were talking to even laughed ! After much arguing we were offered £5 cash cash back at this point i laughed at him, they then offered £10. We did ask when ordering if the Balti curry comes with rice or naan and were told NO, even at that point we were still not offered the set menu. With us being a booking of 15 people we would of chosen the set menu and saved approx £30 and all of us would of had starters. We will never go back there on principal as there attitude was absolutely appaling, why have a set menu if you're not going to offer it and make the customer aware of it. AVOID THIS INDIAN...

Absolutely shameful.

We went here a year ago and didn't enjoy it, but thought we'd give it another chance. Was probably worse this time. If you're looking for a decent Indian it would be more worthwhile to wait for the 85 bus into town.

We ordered butter chicken, which was just thinner korma and not even stirred through properly; Lamb nihari, which had no depth of flavour, just a spicy tomato base, not a nihari by any stretch of the imagination; and matar paneer, which was just the generic curry base you get with a poor biryani with "some" paneer and a pile of peas.

Note the word "some" here, we had 2-3 pieces of paneer each (two of us), 4 very small pieces of chicken tikka, and 4 small pieces of poorly cooked chewy lamb. So not only was it poor quality overall, it was poor quality.

This time it we ordered to take away. Took 40 minutes (one would hope to cook the lamb properly... alas) and the staff were not very welcoming or friendly.

We gave them a second chance......

I feel I should be even here: a Friday evening visit didn't start well - parking was an issue and when we finally got into an impossibly empty restaurant (at 9:50pm), the elderly gentleman who received us insisted on placing us (my wife and I) at the most undesirable set of seats in the house!

OK, so moaning out of the way, now on to the food: extraordinarily brilliant. I had the Duck chilli starter followed by a mixed tandoori and pillau rice was washed down with a pint of Cobra beer. My wife had the chicken pakora then lamb biriyani and a glass of red wine. The service was great (not the elderly gentleman) and the bill for two came to shy of £60: an excellent end to an excellent evening!😀

Ps - the men's toilets are brilliantly decorated fresh and very well kept! Can't speak for the...