Spice Essence Indian Bangla Restaurant — Restaurant in England

Lovely, tasty and fresh Indian takeaway (there is a small restaurant which looks nice but we didn't try it). Dropped a star as I was told 30-40 minutes for a pickup, after I arrived (about 35 minutes in), I waited a further 30 minutes. I didn't particularly mind, but a simple apology for my wait or someone occasionally keeping me apprised of how my order was doing would've been nice, rather than each of the front of house staff asking in turn my name to find out where my order was 🙈. I talked to a couple of fellow customers while I was there and unfortunately it seems my experience on Tuesday 24th August 2021 was shared by...

Agree with user Devendra Gajipur. The food was not fragrant or tasty in any way. I also think that if you are not familiar with Indian spices, the food might be just about 'exotic' enough to tolerate: The main dishes tasted all the same (and very bland). The samosa that I ordered didn't come with any sauce, the dough was just ready-made filo. Drinks weren't even chilled. The staff wasn't very interested, maybe because it was a slow evening? I always used to brag that, compared to other countries outside Asia, you at least could always trust the Indian restaurants in Brittain to get a decent tasty meal. I...

We are staying just outside of the town and our B&Bs food is frankly pretty poor so we decided to have a look round elsewhere for food, we chose this place based of its reviews.

Food was lovely and excellent value for money. We had the set meal for 2 and neither of us eat lamb, the staff were very accommodating and can’t really fault the service it was quick and polite.

Things to note: when we visited they only took cash, it’s also set back off the street so it took us a minute or two to find!

Would recommend to anyone, we really...