Bilash Premier cuisine — Restaurant in Cannock Chase

Decided to go for a last minute curry tonight and having driven past our first 2 choices - both being rammed we settled on The Bilash.

Big mistake…

No visible signs outside to say take your own drink, and alcoholic drinks still show as available on the menu? Ps. Soft drinks all priced at £3.35!!

Poppadoms ok, crispy and light. Sauce & salad trays ok also, no pickle option though like other local Indians.

Mains;

Chicken Tikka Jeera - ok, thin sliced chicken in a nice sauce, no real heat or garlic kick though as described, sauce had no body. Quite watery.

Chicken Tikka Makhani - awful, loose watery sauce laced with coconut - more like a korma, but worse. Queried this with the waiter who simply shrugged his shoulders and said ‘this is Makhani’.

Chicken Tikka Masala - nice, however it wasn’t a masala by any means. It was red in colour, creamy, and again coconut, sauce was quite thick, much like a makhani should be, but certainly not a traditional tikka masala.

Soggy naan bread, pilau rice and chips ok but a portion barely went between 2 people, poor for and £3 really.

Sat waiting almost 15 minutes for the bill, only 3 tables including ours in the restaurant - easy to see why our first 2 choices were full and this was so quiet.

Overall experience very poor, won’t...

On Sun 4th Dec went online and ordered a meal from Bilash Abbots Bromley (same company). Paid £37. Got a message an hour or so later saying order declined yet money was taken. Eventually got a phone no and spoke to a manager who informed me that the Abbots Bromley branch had closed. Therefore, why did they take my order and money. Have lost the money, they won't refund. Had a nasty phone call from the manager who insisted the money had been refunded into my account the same day. After speaking to PayPal and my bank they confirmed that they did refund the £37 by echeque however that was declined due to insufficient funds in their account. Luckily, PayPal at now going to sort it. The dam cheek of it is the manager told me never to order from them...

Just attempted to eat a Lamb tikka wrap. Didn’t manage it. Very greasy. Not at all like any Tikka I’ve ever tasted what there was of it. Just the taste of ‘grease’. Chips were the cheapest make of oven chips possible I think as well. Soggy and practically uneatable. tasteless too. They forgot the ice cream and on re delivery, it was found to be a two tablespoons of ice cream in a tub version. Not the regular Size tub shown on their advertising. Keema naan Passable, beer too. A small kingfisher. Two poppadoms and two not quite sure of filling Mini pakoras. For 12 Quid ? not so sure. Won’t be ringing them back anytime soon. Will stick to my regular Curry house. Shame really as I wanted to try what looked like a nice rice box. Won’t be...