Delhi Divan Alrewas — Restaurant in Lichfield

I'll start with the positives. It was mid week and the place wasn't full, so at least we could hear one another. The decor is improved since my last visit and is pleasant enough.

I ordered an Apna Special and Chicken Tikka Garlic. The chicken in the Apna Special was Tikka (so the chicken was cooked independently of the curry) and was very hard and dry. The sauce was very hot (temperature-wise, not spice) and the chicken was luke warm. Inconsistent heating (or more specifically, reheating) really disappointed. The chicken tikka was barely okay.

I'd recommend having the chef visit local competing businesses (unless all local competition is rubbish, in which case go visit a very successful place) to see what they do differently with their food. Taking shortcuts and using Tikka in all chicken dishes isn't a good move as it gets cooked twice... I'm not a chef but know this.

Service was okay. "Thank...

It was a few years ago but found it quite good value and the food was excellent. Just a note. There are never many cars parked in their car park, wether using the restaurant or the takeaway so why the hostility towards anyone using it? Many signs have been addled to it's surrounding border to discourage using their carpark, 'Diners Only' not very community spirited I must say. I was approached by someone quizzing me as to why I was walking over the carpark the other day.I was dropping something off to someone who had parked there for about 5 minutes. The restaurant was closed at the time and it was the only car in the whole carpark! Fortunately the car then went off as i was quizzed. Putting that aside, I wpuld like a few cars parked outside my restaurant as it would look more inviting. An empty car park, even when your open does not encourage business!...

This has to be the worst dining out experience me and my partner has ever had. We turned up as the restaurant opened, we was the first couple to sit down and the starters took 2 hours to come out while take away orders was flying out the door. Food was great but then we had to wait for our mains which was another 40 minutes? When the mains arrived, there was a black beard hair on my missus's plate and a huge long black hair in my meal, food was undercooked. It was an absolute joke. Would not recommend anyone dining here. Joke of a resteraunt. Definitely will never be returning.

There was a couple that sat next to us for their 50th anniversary and they left before we did because of the ridiculous wait times. We sent them to a different Indian restaurant that we know of so we can only hope that they had a better experience there than they did...