Maharani's Hampton Hargate — Restaurant in England

We frequent the various curry houses in Peterborough on a regular basis as well as going into London for the Michelin star curry offerings, add to that half our family originates from Pakistan, indirect way of saying we know our stuff when it comes to this type of food!

After being hugely disappointed with certain restaurants going downhill, rapidly, and increasing their prices, substantially we thought we'd try Maharanis. I'm not sure why but its never really been on our radar.

We turned up last Friday without a reservation and got seated quickly.

To keep it brief, the curries... out of this world. Whatever chef you had cooking on Friday, do not ever let them leave. Unique, tasty and fresh. Not your standard English-ified bland curries like every other restaurant in Peterborough.

Last year we spent some time in Sri Lanka and the food was on-par with that, really unique and special. Keep up the good work.

I would have given 4 stars rather than 5 but the mains are just too good, the reason I'd have knocked a star off:

Pickle tray - No pickle in it! Please add a pickle and remove the weird ketchup. Poppadoms - Slightly stale unfortunately. Glasses - Not 100% clean, slightly off putting.

As I said though, the flavours experienced here are like nothing else in Peterborough, I can't not...

Booked table for 8 at Maharanis in Hampton having previously eaten at their Market Deeping restaurant. Wasn't disappointed, service was excellent, we all had the set menu available on a Wednesday. Excellent value for money. Only letdown by my being served main course 5 minutes after everyone else in my party, this is after reminding them I had not got my main dish. I had ordered chicken Madras, what I was served was a Vindaloo, it was too hot to eat and I did not request an alternate dish as my family had all but finished their meal. It was a good 30 minutes before I recovered any feeling in my lips! They did, however, remove this from the bill. That apart, very nice restaurant, very warm and cosy and great value if you go on a Wednesday. I wasn't put off by this small hiccup, every one of my family enjoyed their meal. Will certainly go again and can...

Excellent service, tasty food. Two curries, two orders of rice, two naan, two starters and three drinks for £63 is decent value too. My only slight criticism would be the Lamb Rogan could have done with a little more spice, it's a 'medium' curry but it just lacked a little something. Same issue with the King Prawn Koliwada starter, menu mentioned it was spicy, it definitely wasn't.

All things considered we would definitely go again. Spoilt for choice when it comes to good/excellent curry houses in Peterborough, but with this place being five minutes walk from our front door,...