Cafe Masala — Restaurant in England

Cafe Masala is the best Indian restaurant i have ever tried.We have been using our regular Indian restaurant in Westcliff for nearly 10 years, but a steady decline was noticed. many of the takeaways seemed to be swimming in oil hardly any meat,i mentioned this to the owner hoping it would rectified, it wasn't our last meal there i had to use paper kitchen roll to soak it up and half the meal vanished in front of my eyes. enough was enough. so we have been searching for 6 months for another restaurant. So far we have tried 5 others without success, until tonight.I hardly know where to begin to tell you how happy we were trying this restaurant, at first i thought it was a little expensive compared to others, but i have to say it is great value. If you looking for cheap regular curry try elsewhere, if your looking for amazing food, generous portions this is the place, the amount of lamb in my Lamb Dansak was astonishing, my chicken Bhuna was the same, the flavours just blew me away, fresh, vibrant and no any excess oil , the naan bread was still fluffy even though it was a takeaway. easily the most tasty Indian food iv'e ever had. At last i can look forward to Indian food again, i can't wait to try the...

Ordered via JustEat at 5.40pm, before heading to see a show at the Cliffs Pavillion. The app said it would be delivered by 6.50pm, fair enough its Saturday night.

At 7pm we called to see where it was to be told it was being bagged up and would be 10 minutes. Called again at 7.15pm to be told it was our for delivery but theres two deliveries to be made.

Called again at 7.30pm, we gave our address and was then asked what we wanted to order! We explained after 1 and 50 minutes we want to cancel the order as our taxi had arrived to take us to the show.

At 8pm just as the show is starting my other half got a call from the delivery driver asking why we arent opening the door! We informed him that it had been cancelled as it had taken 2 hours and 10 minutes for an order of four currys, four rice and three bread. Absolutely shocking.

We have ordered from here in the past and really enjoyed the food. However we wont be using them again as this was appalling service and now we have to fight with JustEat to get our money back as the food was marked as...

Such a lovely experience.

Came for my mother's birthday with a party of 7. Was greeted very warmly, chairs pulled out under the table and offered for our jackets to be taken.

The lovely man with the hip glasses asked us for our drink orders whilst another young waiter came around the corner with poppadoms and chutneys after requested.

Mains and starters arrived with custom requests for how chilli we'd like all sauce dishes to be as well as if we wanted them to come together as a table.

Hot plates and hot trays were placed and then came the food... WOW. All the flavours and authenticity was there; the condiments and curries were ON POINT.

Then came dessert. The banana fritters and coffee floats were lovely and as you'd only expect from a lovely local South Asian restaurant, the birthday cake was that finishing touch my mother adored on her special birthday.

Thank you to the team at Cafe Masala and I would above and beyond recommend this establishment to everybody in and around Essex. A true...