School of Spice — Restaurant in Borough of Spelthorne

If you are a member of the LGBTQ community, and are looking for a place to eat with your partner. DO NOT dine here.

The whole experience at this restaurant was odd and subpar. Not to mention the discrimination that my partner and I faced while we dined here, by the WORKER.

First, they did not allow us to order any food until we had ordered drinks, and received them… We had never experienced this before, anywhere, so it was a bit awkward to start with. Not to mention the workers here don’t seem to have a sense of customer service orientation, and it felt like they were doing us a favour. My mother-in-law was not hungry, and did not want to eat. They told us that even if she didn’t eat, there was a £15 fee just for sitting, so she was forced to order something from the menu. I am not sure if this is normal in England and the UK since we are from Canada.

The food is okay, and could honestly improve in taste, and portion size.

The WORST part of this experience was at the end of our meal. The waiter asked how my partner and I know each other. Not sure how this is any of his business to begin with. I told him that he is my boyfriend, the waiter corrected my answer to “friend” I once again stated the word to make it clear. The waiter laughed in our faces. When I asked him what was so funny, he told me that since he is muslim it is not allowed for two men to be together, and that it may not be funny for us, but it is for him… I immediately defended my lifestyle, the same way he was defending his. And to laugh at a paying customer, just because of their lifestyle is NOT OKAY, ANYWHERE. I asked him to please respect us, the same way we respect his beliefs, and he did not seem to care about his actions, and did not offer an apology for his rude and disrespectful manner of behaving, not just because we are customers, but to two...

We popped in for diner after being at Thorpe park and not knowing the area at all we just googled Indian restaurants. The service was great , very friendly and attentive staff so 10 out of 10 there … but unfortunately the food was absolutely terrible .Probably one of the most bland and flavourless curries I have ever had .

We ordered 3 different curries and when they arrived all looked pretty much same colour and texture and no surprises there they tasted the same : bland. The chicken in the curry were thin slices , normally get big chunks of chicken in a curry . Not a lot of sauce either . Ordered a portion of onion bhajis , 2 very small ones , usually we get 4 big chunky onion bhajis when we order . The chapatti was literally just one in the portion, we obviously go to very generous curry houses because we always get 2 in a portion.

Curry portions were small too, we normally feel stuffed after a curry , not this time .

The bill was handwritten and difficult to read but it came to £78 , that was for 3 different chicken curries ( in the menu they were around £12.95 each ) , 1 side of onion bhaji, 1 roti , 2 pilau rice , 1 large beer and 1 coke . It seems quite pricey for what we had . We regularly go to dishom and pay not much more than that ( food not drinks , obviously drinks are much more expensive in dishom, just comparing the food bill tho ) for a much better curry experience. Nevertheless we still left a £10 tip as like I said the staff were incredibly hard working and friendly and very attentive such a shame the food let it down . I ll go somewhere else next time we...

The worst resteurant experience ever! I usually don't write reviews but todays night was just unbelievable! They sat us nex to group of people 15-20 for birthday party which was ok they were loud but could handle until one guest starts shouting she needs more prosseco ( instead of ordering with their waiter ) I did ask for them to keep the noise a bit down due to also having a dinner and wanted to speak to my family. The situation escalated to a point where two people from the group came over to my table interrupting me during my dinner to have an argument. Raj the waiter or resteurant manager came over to us clearly explaining that they booked table 3 weeks ago and we walked in without booking so we should just accept the fact after being rude and unprofessional he gone over to other table and hug the guest cleary showing they were mates so why showing respect to ' walk in guests '. ofc by end of night we paid around £90 for a dinner with shocking customer service by Raj and average food , shouting for 2 hours to be able to talk to my family ! Oh and forgot to mentioned as they will reply that they offered us different table to move to ,but guess when - when we were half way through our main course :) to avoid disappointment on your visit better pop in to Mumbai square...