Zara's — Restaurant in Doncaster

This review is based on 1 visit, however other family members have visited previously.

First impressions were great. We booked in advance for 6pm on a Friday night for 6 adults, 1 child (4 years) and 1 baby (4 months). There is free onstreet parking and it wasn't busy to find a space. There is however no disabled access to the building. 2 steps to get in and then a further step once inside to get seated.

There are tables up and downstairs, I've included a picture of the upstairs to give you an idea, I believe there are 12 steps so be warned if you struggles with them at the toilets are also upstairs. The toilets are fantastic. The are labeled by Gender however it isn't necessary as they are just lockable rooms with all facilities available inside with the exception of a baby change (slightly oversight on their part.)

Food, so I'm a vegetarian but I got the opinions of my family too and they had meat options. We all agreed the food was 9.7+ out of 10. They had Okra in the Vegetarian Options - this was a big winner for me. But it was let down by the aubergine, it just doesn't need to be in a curry. The meat was plenty, in no way stingy.

Portion sizes were adequate, can't complain at all. Rice is enough to share if you're having bread to share too. We also shared onion bhaji between two, which was plenty to start.

Soft drinks were pretty expensive for being out of bottles but it is what it is. They had fresh juice for our 4 year old.

Alcohol, they had Cobra was also available on draught along side wine and a good...

We dine at the restaurant regularly and the food has always been of good quality. However we had for the first time a takeaway. I f I could have rated no stars I would .We spent £35 and the food was dire .Ordered 2 onion bahjis to start which would have been lovely but stone cold .Now to the mains. My husband had Zaras special with chicken .Mushed up pieces of chicken in dry sauce .mine was worse .Chicken makhani cubes of processed chicken in a sickly sweet thick grainy yellow sauce .Egg pilau rice was green in colour peshawari bread raw in the middle. Absolutely disgraceful for a restaurant that are proud of their authentic dishes .I worked out to eat the same food in the restaurant would have been £6.00 if have lived in tickhill I.would have taken this £35 bag of rubbish back because it went...

Been here a few times with the family and never been let down.

Normally go on weekdays so it's not too busy, but it does get a fair few in on Fridays and weekends so might be worth booking a table beforehand. Always go for chicken korma; always enjoy me meal, though I wish the portion sizes were a bit bigger as I sometimes leave fancying some more snap.

In terms of grog, I'd usually go for Kingfisher at Indians, but they've only got Cobra on draft so I have that here. Still a proper good pint, and they do have other booze (such as Kingfisher) in bottle - I just prefer draft beer. Price always seems reasonable, and service is good.

If you go around Christmas / New Year expect to hear one of the strangest Christmas albums imagination could fathom...