Radhuny — Restaurant in Dartford

This was out first outing to this trip advisor recommended restaurant in Dartford. We booked a table for 6 people for 7pm. The restaurant was on a road with double yellow lines, so not ideal as we had to park 3 streets away.

On entering the restaurant, we were led to a nice table with a long sofa and 3 individual seats. There was neon lighting everywhere.

Whilst we waited for our guests to arrive, we ordered a mocktail each and vegetable spring rolls.

The mocktail was nicely presented and the flavour was very refreshing and tasty. The spring rolls very perfectly crisp with a very tasty filling. This was thoroughly enjoyable. After that our guests arrived and some drinks we're ordered whilst we chatted and looked at the menu. We then also asked for 2 Mango lassis.

Then what a disaster.

All the lights went out.

Initially it was felt that it was a local issue which their electrician would rectify. After a while we were notified this wasn't to be. The whole area had a power cut.

The restaurant had no backup generator, just two tiny led ceiling spot lights came on,

So we asked and ordered papad (papadoms) and shared that. We followed this with another helping of papad with a mixture of chutneys and salad.

Our server then advised us that it would be 9.30pm before power would return and started advising guests to pay their bills and go elsewhere.

As we had some light food and drinks, we said we would leave after that.

I then finally rang another trip advisor recommended Turkish restaurant in Crayford to see if they were open and had Power. At that very moment, before he could reply, the lights came on in our restaurant to huge cheers from the few who had still remained in the restaurant, what a relief.

We quickly ordered a mix of thai and Indian food to share. Everything came piping hot and tasted great, without exception.

Everyone enjoyed the very long awaited food.

Unfortunately our server never brought us our Mango Lassis, very disappointing indeed.

Also on the hygiene front, the menus were sticky, they need a throughly good clean.

The restaurant is a fusion of Thai and Indian, an excellent combination suitable for a larger audience.

It certainly was a memorable outing because of the tasty food, but also and embarrassing outing to a degree as our guests were visiting the UK from the USA and being taken to a venue with a powercut and no standby power...

For a long time this was the best Indian restaurant around, unfortunately it's no longer worth visiting.

Me and my family have been coming here on a monthly basis for many years, but the last 2 takeaways have been sub standard and given us all mild food poisoning.

Our suspicions that these weren't isolated incidents were confounded when a group of 4 ate at the restaurant last week.

We were served dirty plates and glasses. With no pre-warning, the food took 1hr45 to arrive with no staff checking up on us in that time. When it eventually arrived half the dishes were cold, the other half slightly above room temperature. The upside was that on this occasion I didn't get food poisoning. Perhaps because I was wise enough to avoid the prawn biriyani that smelt of off-fish.

*A funny side note: After 1hr30 of waiting I politely suggested offering the table a free round of drinks as means of apology. Later in the night the manager reticently conceded and generously subtracted 4 drinks from our final bill (comprising of 2 WHOLE TAP WATERS and 2x half pints of cobra). It is with great sadness that I report this ultimate act of generosity was overshadowed by the obvious attempt to over-charge us on other aspects of the meal.

If this is how they treat their loyal customers, I dread to think how they'd treat the rest the the punters.

It was (mostly) good while it lasted, Radhuni. I just wish we had ended...

Food great, however, mine was cold and the service I received when I collected my takeaway was very poor.

I arrived exactly on time and, despite there being no one else waiting, I stood for quite a while before anyone came over to speak to me.

No problem here, they are a restaurant after all. However, the guy immediately came back with my meal - which I suspect had been packed and ready all of the time I was waiting. The food was cold.

The web menu is also incorrect. If you want a chicken Tikka main, then do not order a chicken Tikka main (even though the web order menu has this option). I did this and got a chicken Tikka Dhansak (which is chicken Tikka in curry sauce).

I showed the guy what I ordered, but he made me pay £11.25 for the extra chicken tikka main (that I had initially ordered).

The only good thing was that they had one ready, so no extra delay incurred for my already cold meal.

It was my intention to switch our weekly takeaway for my family of five to Radhuny as we often end up ordering Chinese and Indian - I may try them once more but phone through the order and make sure they understand what I want.

Good food ruined by poor/slow service leading...