Aagrah Tadcaster - Kashmiri Restaurant — Restaurant in England

This review is for the food only. However, being an establishment that's offers Halal dining, I have also mentioned a few other things that people will find helpful. Food is average at best. All chicken dishes taste the same. In starters, the fish pakoras were hard and didn't taste right. The seekh kebabs were good though. And so we're the chicken tikka botis. Lamb chops were acceptable. Quite a few deserts on the menu were unavailable. Naan and roti were fresh. Chicken in chicken palak was under cooked. Credit to the staff who took it back and took it off the bill. We visited the establishment on our way back from a long journey and had another 120 mins of travel left. We were running out of time for Asar prayer so had to visit the place. A few things to note... No place to make wudhu as the toilets were not really clean. We made wudhu in the car park after using the toilets. No place to offer salah inside. Not even an office. There was music being played and the place serves alcohol. The staff did turn off the music at our request and seated us in a corner where we could offer salah next to the table on our own mussalah. They did not mind that at all. So full credit to them for this. However, it's worth noting that the place was almost empty with only a few other covers. We stayed about 2.5 hrs. Prayed Magrib and Isha there. Had it not been for the rain and the need to make wudhu/toilets on a country road, we would not have eaten there for reasons...

Haven’t been to this aagrah for a couple of years I normally go to the chapel Allerton branch , but after all this time they recognise me was very nice and friendly , I only got takeout but the food was amazing, I can’t understand why it so quiet I will defo be going and eating in. This what I said after my first time of going back after a bit away but I had a chance to get a takeaway from them again and this time not so impressed I ordered Lamb chops main course with rice and a kema buna the buna was very nice but the chops when I normally order them I get a least 7 but this time I only got 4 which you get for in the starter and one of the chops was just the bone no meat so only 3 really when I rang up to say something about this I was told it was the chefs discretion how many they put in “what” so let me understand you put your prices up from £10:99 to £15:99 charge me way too much for delivery and give me less chips than if I had ordered the starter lamb chops and when I challenged this the guy on the phone in my opinion come across as tho he didn’t care and was rude not good Aagrah I’ve been a customer for 30 years and told so many people about you so I have to drop the stars...

The Aagrah chain have won many awards for their food, and though their Tadcaster branch is not quite as excellent as those in West Yorkshire it is still far better than the other Indian restaurants in York. The decor is a little tired but the food is so good that you probably won't care. Awesome flavours and good portions - the fish dishes are especially good whilst the Chefs specials are really worth checking out (their take on Murgh Achar is sensational). Service is consistently good and the atmosphere on a busy night is great.

On busy nights you will want to book ahead, and keep in mind that the restaurant is on a very fast and busy stretch of dual carriageway, so you will need to approach from the York side to turn into the car park (it's quite a short run-off, so brake early). When leaving the restaurant you'll have to turn left and head to Tadcaster where you can turn back across the A64 if you need to...