Ignite Bengali & Indian restaurant — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

We chanced upon this restaurant on an unplanned evening, being an Indian as well as Bengali myself I was quite excited about the prospective dinner. Staff was extremely friendly and welcomed us with a smile, got us a table even though it was a busy Friday night. We orderd chciken dhansak, egg fried rice and aloo bhaji. Here’s my take on the food. The masala in the curries were undercooked and heavily tomato based (uncooked tomato) which is far from how Indian or Bengali curries are in general. The authentic dhansak curry is extremely aromatic with a variety of masala along with different kinds of lentils, and when fully cooked the lentils and the vegetables are completely mixed, none of which happened here. Similarly with aloo bhaiji, first of all Aloo Bhaja in Bengali means fried potato(either slices or small sizes), secondly even if this Aloo Sabji, the size of the potato (too large!) and the uncooked tomato (again too large pieces!) just threw me off completely. The chef should look into the cooking as this is far from authentic curries (to the other people who mentioned they have had a LOT OF CURRIES and this is the best curry - guess they never had a good Indian or Bengali curry). I want to reiterate in the fact that the staff was extremely courteous, welcoming and friendly, so 5 stars to the service.

To the management and chef,I hope you do better with the food and ensure you are serving people authentic food since you are representing two extremely rich cusines , all Bangladeshi people I know happen to be amazing cooks, I am sure you can do better....

We got a takeaway from Ignite on Sat 8th Feb. It was after the Scotland vs England six nations game at Murrayfield, and when we went to collect the staff were friendly and attentive despite the restaurant being packed to the rafters with rugby fans in various states of sobriety (or otherwise).

The food was nice and fresh with generous portions. However, I've had many Indian meals during my 30 years on this planet, and this sits perfectly in the middle of my curry rankings. It wasn't bad by any means, but I've also had many better. I do have the privilege of living near many of London's best curry-houses, and am a regular visitor to many of Birmingham's best too, so maybe I'm a curry snob, but its...

I don't even wanna give this restaurant one start.very arrogant and rude staff who don't have manner to talk with their costumer. Should appoint well trained staffs...This restaurant is very avaricious. All they care about is money.. every person needs to spend £18 even in group. We are not allowed to take a light meal.. Such a pathetic rule and when we tried to ask further about the rule he was like this is not a local restaurant behaving as if it was 7 star hotel and started to treat like no money then you can leave. What a of pathetic mannered staff.. -ve star for...