Naan & Co — Restaurant in Bristol

The Bristol Raj has now re-opened. This was our first visit after the easing of lockdown but we have been many times before. Firstly, they have deep cleaned and have removed the table cloths so they can wipe down between customers. They wear face masks when serving you and have a visitor book running as required by the policy. The restaurant was sadly empty and needs your support.

The food. Sorry to hear previous poster had a bad experience. Honestly, apart from Nutmeg in Clifton, which is significantly more expensive, we find Bristol Raj to be the most consistent and flavoursome. You just need to find your favourites and then you're in curry heaven!

We had the Raj Murgh. Yes, it didn't quite meet the description and was sweet, but was full of large pieces of marinated chicken beast and had a tamarind based sauce with fenugreek finish. It has mango chutney in to thicken, not MSG, and tasted lovely. It was mild, not the 2 chilli rating, but they can easily fix that.

The best for me is the King Prawn Chilli Chingra Murg (I think it's called that). Large succulent prawns, beautiful sauce laden with finger chilli, it's like a chilli minefield! My fave yet.

Drinks. They have Kingisher on tap and also have bottles of other drinks. They are also fine with you bringing your own!

In summary, we think the Bristol Raj is far better than others locally. It's a very basic venue but the prices reflect that. You'll get very good quality food and a...

I'm really not a fussy eater, but given that the order came to a total of £31, we expected the food to atleast seem fresh (even if not), hot, returant standard quality & packaged semi-neatly.... we wont be buying from here again, here's why:

Tandoori selection did not look half as fresh as the image on the app & the texure was dry as if it was over cooked or reheated. Also, a good handcul of onions covering the top, to the point we had to remove the onions to know what it was.

chips were soaked in oil and cold.

salad came in a small white plastic bag with the handles tied (a small version of the kind of carrier bags you'd collect food in from a takeaway); and only included one single, quarter slice of tomato, 1 slice of cucumber, quarter lemon and plenty of grated iceberg lettuce.......

the curry sauce tasted watered down and could clearly see a layer of oil - too much oil, again!

Chicken Biryani rice texture was like value supermarket rice... I assume it was probably reheated, and perhaps why the texture seemed so cheap...

As an Indian, I'm disappointed. Although the madras chicken was descent, I ordered a garlic naan and it was 3.15 pounds for garlic naan and to my surprise it was just one piece and that for that price is totally not justifiable. Not sure if it's just in the UK but for 3 pounds, in India you could buy maybe 5-10 of these at that price. Plus, there was no hint of garlic on the naan. Moreover, I ordered the raita and was looking forward most to it but it was just a big container filled with yoghurt which is clearly not raita. Disappointed that this restaurant having an indian cuisine has failed to research what raita actually is. Don't get me wrong. The madras was quite alright, it's just the little things that matter and I was not happy to see the quantity and lack of research/awareness of dishes. Service was quite quick, and food was still heated up which is nice. I don't mean to spread a bad word but I do need to mention the truth as an Indian and...