Standard Bengal — Restaurant in England

🕓 I visited Standard Bengal on Friday 30 August 2024 in the evening. I was with two other people. This was my first visit.

📍I used Google Maps to find the restaurant, which was easy and led me straight to the right place.

🅿️ I parked in the street nearby the restaurant - parking was easy.

🍽 The restaurant comprises of one medium sized main dining area with plenty of tables with full table service. The restaurant was bright and clean.

🤗 The team were very friendly and welcoming - the service was very personal and attentive - we got everything we expected in good time and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

🍛 Between us we enjoyed various dishes including poppadoms, chicken and lamb Tikka Masala, onion Bhaji, Keema Naan, mushroom and egg fried rice. The food arrived hot, was well presented and tasted really good. There was a good selection of food and we found something that appealed to us easily.

💷 The food was very good value for money, we paid less than £20 each including drinks.

⭐️ Overall we really enjoyed our visit and would definitely come and visit again.

⏳️ We spent around an hour and...

I don’t like to be lied to. I don’t like to be tricked. And I don’t like restaurants that do both to me. We booked online for Standard Bengal’s Wednesday night banquet advertised on their website at £11.95. It also provided a 25% off voucher marked usable Monday to Thursday. When we arrived we checked with the waiter that the Wednesday Banquet was available. We were assured that it was but at £13.95 (trick #1). We checked we could also use the 25% discount voucher and got him to check with his boss. He returned assuring us the voucher could be used (trick#2). We decided to order on these assurances. The meal was fine but when the bill arrived, we were then told the voucher was invalid! We asked to see the manager but he, unlike his employee who checked with him, stood firm and said NO 25% DISCOUNT. After a lot of arguing over being misled and lied to, we paid the bill in full. So BEWARE! Do not trust that the voucher on their website will be honoured. Do not trust the price on their website to be correct. Expect to be lied to and tricked. We were. We shall NEVER visit that...

First night in town yet again here for business. First things first find an Indian. Found the Standard Bengal walked in and was greated straight away by a very friendly face. Great start... Had a great chat and made to feel very welcome; ordered my usual Lemon Rice and Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi with Peshwari Nan. Great meal and at last a restaurant that the Lemon rice actualy tastes of Lemon and the nan is the best nan I have ever had. Hats off guys; great service, great meal.

You have to pop in here for a meal; If I was a local, this would be my...