New Mills Cuisine — Restaurant in High Peak

Two things I would like to say before I'll post my review. I had have been given two free pappadoms. Also my order was bit over 11£ but I was said by one of the lads serving / taking orders 'just call it a 10'... It doesn't affect 5 stars ratings i have given them. If you want know why read below. 😉

It was a bit of a journey for me from High Street to them. No worries I said to my self, afternoon look great, sun is shining. All well. After placing my order ( garlic naan, chips and Sharkora lamb) my order was ready in about 10-15 minutes. And please keep in mind it was Saturday afternoon. Busy as always as everywhere with takeaways in NM. Waiting time was OK and no complaints here.

And then I had quick smell of what's inside my bag and I made it home in just under 5 seconds. 🤣 Let's start with naan. For those whom saying size doesn't matter try this naan. It is by far the biggest naan I have had in New Mills! And that's included on kebabs too. It was well made, dough had time to mature and garlic was well spread so you didn't have patches of plain naan anywhere.

Chips where OK. And I don't want to sound like I'm disappointed. After years of perfect, we'll made and cooked chips, that looks like taken from McDonald's advert, those one where fine. Bit over cooked, don't look perfect, but taste is what matters. And those where perfect in thier inperfection. Mind you I was a bit greedy. Chips didn't go well with this dish. Rice probably would be better. But that's my opinion.

And Sharkora. My first time with this dish and it was exceptionally well cooked. I could easily separate flavours of lime, bay leaf, garlic, ginger, green peppers. It was not blended into one pulp with meat. Each ingredient was added perfectly so it could develop and open to add to whole dish. Meat was well prepared. Portions where big and chunky. Again size does matter!

If that was not my first but fifth, tenth, fifteenth visit there I could easily call this place my favourite Indian takeaway in NM. It wasn't sadly. It was my first but I know now not last. Next time I'm sure I will not get any chips and I'll probably skip naan for a rice. But I know that whatever I'll take it will...

Food was ok, no problems. We found that apart from the one member of staff (in an Xmas jumper, I’m sorry I didn’t get your name) were quite unfriendly. It almost felt like they really didn’t want to be there. We were given the wrong bill (much more than we had ordered) which was sorted by staff (totally understand that mistakes happen) however, when we were then given the correct bill, We mentioned to them that we had paid £40 cash deposit as requested. They came back to us and basically said we had to prove we had paid it. We had kept the receipt but it was at home, personally I would expect a restaurant to have made a note of the deposit. They actually asked us to go home to get the receipt. My husband and uncle were just going out of the door leaving myself and step daughter at the table when a different member of staff found our £40 deposit, stapled into a diary with our name in the top. Sadly we ended up feeling like we were being accused of lying about having paid the deposit. Maybe make sure all deposits are recorded next to the booking in...

After so many recommendations its such a shame it was so disappointing. Staff are very pleasant and very helpful. But the lamb chops were so tough I couldnt eat them the passander is definitely not the best. And the masala was just so red. Lots of sauce ,very little meat in both dishes.The chapati was like eating chewing gumI'm putting it down to it being a takeaway though why that should make a difference I'm not sure. The restaurant only had two tables in so cant even say it's because they were busy It's not the cheapest curry place around so I really did expect better. Haven't decided yet wether I will give this a second chance. The poppadoms were very nice though. And complimentary. I was also offered a drink on the house while I waited. So as I say cant fault the service,but then that's not...