Indigo Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Bury

The wife, myself, & the parents went to “Bury’s Biggest Biffet” yesterday evening (7pm Saturday)

This restaurant has been going for many years 10+. However this buffet style is a relatively new addition, within the last 6 months.

The restaurant is as you would expect for any Indian restaurant. Rather dark inside with fish tanks and low level LED lighting. They have some window seats so you can look out onto Manchester Road whilst you tuck in.

Straight away we noticed that the restaurant was at maximum capacity. It was extremely busy, the friendly staff sat us down in a small waiting area just inside the door whilst they arranged our table. After around 10 minutes we were escorted to a table. (We did pre book)

It was busy but no drinks orders were taken. We were asked if we wanted poppadoms. Initially we weren’t asked if we wanted the lamb chop starter. However halfway through our meal a member of staff did ask, and after await and a second ask, we did get served the lamb chops. Understandably there was no menu however the communication with the waiters wasn’t great.

The food

The curry on offer was of a good standard, especially for a buffet. As you know taste seems to drop off at an “all you can eat”

My favourite was the Chicken Tikka Masala, both creamy and sweet with the chicken being nice & tender. The butter chicken was also a hit with me. They also had a good range of differently cooked chicken starters including chicken tikka, and deep fried chicken pieces.

The wife (vegetarian) had the Bombay Aloo she said it had lots of flavour had nice big chunks of potato. She said they only had two veggie curry options, so wasn’t a great variety. However the veggie picky bits were nice including deep fried cauliflower and deep fried lentils 👍

My dad had a pint of Cobra beer £5

My mum absolutely loved the lamb chops 👍

To be served lamb chops at your table is a real winner in my book. No other “all you can eat” I have ever been to serves food like this to your table 👍

For desert, they have a good choice of ice cream and cake. We all had the ice cream, it just your standard stuff really but was perfectly acceptable.

Overall

I wouldn’t come back here on a weekend. Especially not a Saturday evening. It was horribly busy. The tables and chairs are two close together, you can’t get round easily. Expect your bum to end up in someone’s dinner. It’s also to hot, I know it’s busy but the air conditioning needs to be better, it’s almost unbearable. Also they allow prams, which make the tight space even more tricky to navigate.

We all thought it was abit pricey for what was on offer.

£20.99p X 4 + 1 pint of beer = 88.96

On weekdays it’s £19.99 pp.

Thanks indigo, you...

Today was my 1st ever visit and Inshallah not my last to Indigo Indian Restaurant in Bury Manchester. The greeting from the front of house was spot on humble polite showed myself my Disabled Son and my nephew to our table and upon my request that my son is a wheelchair user we need open space they seated us on a big table with ample of amounts of room for my son to manoeuvre easily. Next came our waiter for the evening young gentleman with abundance of respect and great table manners took our drinks order explained how we approach the buffet area and if we needed anything else to ask at free will. Shortly after this the head of the house the elder of 5 brothers came to greet us and gave us complementary Mango Lassi on the house which by way was absolutely spot on not to sweet and the texture and taste was great. As our evening came along I was then greeted my the next brother of the manager of front of house who gave us the house specials LAMB PLATTER consisting of LAMB CHOPS WITH MUTTON MALAI SHEEKH KEBABS and OMG they were super delicious. I will admit that these were much better than Akbars, Lala’s and Mumtaz Lamb Chops and SHEEKH Kebabs that I have tried. The evening went on the waiters were professional and excellent I would like to put my heartfelt applause to the staff that went above and beyond to look after my son and nephew during our visit thank you very much guys. Lastly I will say their food quality was 5 stars Starter Main Desserts all excellent my request would be please do go and enjoy an evening at Indigo Restaurant in Bury and indulge yourself and try some of the finest cooking we have ever eaten for yourself. Thank you once again Ingido Restaurant in Bury we will see you...

Unfortunately worst experience I have had going out to eat. We decided to give it a go after seeing reviews but we actually felt like it was a catfish!

We got seated upstairs where we were shown a small selection of a buffet and were told that desserts were downstairs, fair enough.

Everyone helped themselves and I was actually shocked that 9/10 things were not refilled. Fruit was not refilled at all, all my child wanted was watermelon lol. We had to ask a member of staff for watermelon, hoping he would refill the buffet but no. He bought a small starter plate of just watermelon and put it in the empty buffet.

After a big disappointment in the selection of food being served upstairs we decided to just go get dessert, the vibe downstairs was very different! We most probably would have had a better experience downstairs because we decided to look at their buffet and I was so annoyed that they had a better variety of food downstairs! Upstairs we had limited currys and downstairs has about 5 extra currys and everything filled to the brim, smoking hot.

I feel the upstairs was very neglected as no refills were done and not the same food being served upstairs. I was totally disappointed.

Maybe the owner or manager should be over seeing the whole place? Not just serving ice cream from behind a worktop. Very moody didnt even smile.

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