Taste of Spice — Restaurant in England

Collected an order from here as family locally use them regularly. Food was average (fresh but not in line with temperature indicated on the menu and i felt was a little bland, all up. To be balanced, I had one of their specials so it can't be compared to my locals, but certainly would be classed a spicy per the menu).

Biggest disappointment was their attitude to customer service. Order was £56, discounted for collection down to £50ish. I wanted to pay with my debit card and was told by owner/manager "it's £56 then", as he turned his back on me and walked away. So apparently the discount is for cash, not for collection? Ok.

Then got a condescending lecture with a large helping of attitude on how they pay card fees.

If you're paying £6 of fees on an order of £56, you're being taken for a ride by your provider. If you don't have enough baked in to an order of £50+ to cover card fees, you need to review your pricing or be clearer that your discount is for cash.

Very disappointed by the attitude and have made sure all my family and friends locally know my thoughts. I won't be back out...

Avoid this place if you want to live I had ordered my food and collected it sat down to eat it and within 2 mins it was gone The lamb vindaloo I had contained 1 potato cut in half and 5 slithers of meat drowned in some sauce clearly not vindaloo then I had some pilau rice that was cooked hours prior and reheated I know this because I eat rice all the time so I undestand the life cycle. Of rice. Next up my partner had a chicken korma with coconut rice and the rice again was reheated but because of the coconut milk the rice when opened was all stodgy and un edible, the korma looked more like a buttery chicken sauce with no taste at all as if they just poured a whole tub of yogurt in the pot and just graced it with a slight presence of flavour and within 1 hour my partner was projectile vomiting in turn I had to clean up the mess not the job I had in mind! Honestly in my opinion these are a bunch of dudes mass producing low rate curry's not even cooking the spices off its just a bit of waste of time and money anyone who says different are clearly eating the wrong type of Indian food...

We ordered a takeaway (for collection) 18th March. The gentleman taking the order was very friendly & at the restaurant he and the other staff were very welcoming. This was our first visit to the Taste of Spice and it certainly will not be our last. The food was fabulous, I have a few favourite dishes I tend to go for, however, I tried something completely different; the chicken balti bhuna tikka and I was very pleased, the sauce was really tasty and the chicken was delicious. The price was very reasonable too, especially as we had left-overs for lunch the following day. We will definitely be back, we don't live in the area, but we work out of a haulage yard in Duston and The Taste of Spice will be our "go-to" restaurant / take-away when we spend time in the yard. (Sorry no pictures, the food smelled so good we got stuck in and forgot to take any...