Aasim Indian Restaurant (Former Taste of India) — Restaurant in Great Britain

Food was good when they opened but now it is rubbish. Served worst Rasam & Rasam Vada. Both dishes remade with hell lots of black paper. I need to mention here that Both rejected dishes were severed with same food with added missing spices. Still it was not good. Theses guy is not ashamed that he is serving non sense. My wife orders Rava Masala dosa (of course so called South Indian restaurant). It was raw , thick and absolutely out of order. We rejected it. Just to add to the insult these guy was trying to cheat us by charging £ 9.50 for Vegetarian fried rice which was clearly mentioned in Menu @ £5.95. His argument was its special. Ok agreed special but did we ordered special , NO. Above it’s not mentioned on Menu. Not a single item is priced @ £9.50 So here you are these Idiots running restaurant business in UK same as in INDIA. Cheating...

This is a relatively new shop in Southend-on-Sea and they have others in the East End of London. Therefore I was quite excited to know that at last we could finally get some decent Indian food in the area.

The food when it arrived was very tasty and exactly what we expected. We had a mixture of meat and vegetarian dishes with a nan and some chapatiis. The chapattis were not as expected and expensive for what they are. The rest of the food tasted good at the time and enjoyable.

What was not expected or enjoyable was the fact all three of us who are the food had belly aches the next morning and not feeling too great. Now I don't know what it was attributed to as I did not eat the meat dish but the chapattis, as mentioned were poor so not too sure.

So that is the bottom line so one has to make up their...

I agree we do need something like this in Southend and we did, it was sitas Indian restaurant (in the same property)and was replaced by a taste of India.

However the prices here are far to high for a town like this, fine if your used to working in London and used to the high prices for food but not when your a local.

£8.95 for a starter is to expensive. The menu doesn't give any idea of portion size, I'm not paying £3.95 for 2 somasa, I wasn't impressed with the food when a friend ordered in, mine alone cost nearly £30 just for a starter, main and a bread, no meal options available, small portions and I know how easy it is to make a dosa as I do so often. so charging over £5 for one is simply a bit cheeky. If I want a taste of India I'll ask my mate from India to cook and learn...