Namak Indian Dining — Restaurant in Bristol

Since opening in 2022, Namak has won a host of awards, and that’s not a huge surprise when you find out Owner & Head Chef Harris previously co-owned Rock Salt and worked for Dishoom. Dishes are inspired by the many the regions of India, with familiar flavours alongside unique signature dishes. We tried a mixture, including:

🤍 Poppadoms, homemade chutney & pickles 🤍 Lahsooni Scallops & Prawn 🤍 Beef ki Shaami 🤍 Onion Pakora 🤍 Murg Makhani 🤍 Chicken Dum Biryani 🤍 Chicken Masala Dosa 🤍 Dal 🤍 Peshwari Naan 🤍 Garlic Naan 🤍 Gulab Jamun

Embarrassing confession time… I’d never eaten a biryani before my trip to Namak! 🙈 I’m a creature of habit and usually always get a bhuna when I go for Indian. But if you’re going to try one, then of course it has to be when it comes with an edible lid that you have to cut open! What a spectacle (and it tasted great too) 🤩

Similarly Mr E.E had never had a dosa before! I’m a big fan though which is why we ordered one, and that was probably our joint favourite dish. I’m a dal obsessive and that was probably my other favourite - I pretty much demolished the lot by myself 😅 Madame is a garlic naan fanatic, and when I asked her what she thought it was a ‘two thumbs up, best naan ever’ from her 👍

Service was great, they had Wiper & True available and B was loving the animals painted on the walls and the foliage on our tables 🍃 Next time I wouldn’t take her as even the toned down Makhani wasn’t quite mild enough for her, but if you’re a spice lover like I am you’re in...

We only liked their Brinjal sabji but I had very high expectations due to the reviews plus awards on their wall but unfortunately the food wasn't up to the standard. My daughter loves the authentic dosa and sambhar but the sambar was sweet like sugar which the server said it was north Indian taste and am Gujarati who disliked that sweet taste just imagine. Hence if you have a sweet tooth more than us go there and namak(salt) had less of namak. You will also go out with Indian masala infused in all of your clothing due to cringed space and lack of good quality kitchen exhaust system. We had travelled from South Wales for a special occasion mentioned during reservation but won't make it again as the service and food isn't special. They have hard working servers for a busy restaurant which I had noticed their main customers are non-Indian as after the experience I realised that if Indians go there they won't be back again...

Starters were amazingly good , great taste and presentation but the main courses were disappointing and at £14-15 each, very expensive. I ordered pork chop vindaloo but they came back and told me they had run out of pork chops so suggested lamb instead? I ended up with Lamb vindaloo which wasn’t anywhere near hot ( spicy) enough for me. The Lamb curries my friends had were bland and the sauce was thick and stodgy. The prawn/ Mango curry was bright green and not very fruity. We all left a large portion of our food. Rice was good but it should be shouldn’t it? Service was friendly but they seemed very busy and there were delays in ordering. Lots of take aways going out the door made it a bit busy and it wasn’t very relaxing environment. Sadly we were dissapointed with Namak. Guess we just expected such high standard and it didn’t achieve. Sorry. Next time we will order a selection of...