Light of Bengal Liverpool — Restaurant in Liverpool

Haven’t been here for must be twenty years and to be honest my expectations weren’t great ! How wrong I was ! A few people had mentioned to me that they had really enjoyed the food so I thought I would give it a try. We went on a Sunday evening, it was very quiet in the restaurant but lots of people picking up takeaways. Restaurant has been completely renovated and looked lovely . Service was excellent, nothing was too much trouble. Food was really good. We had poppadoms for starters . One of my major gripes is that many Indian restaurants think that one spoonful of chutney is sufficient for three poppadoms but we were provided with an abundance of dips that thankfully weren’t rationed. I had tandoori chicken exotica for main and my friend had chicken tikka. Not many places do tandoori chicken in a curry and it’s my favourite . Curry was excellent, well spiced and plenty of chicken . Naan breads were really good too . Thank you very much , we had a great night and I definitely won’t be leaving it twenty years...

Perhaps better to order with tracking through deliveroo, just eat etc. than do the restaurant a favour and order directly. Regular calls after 90 minutes, 2 hours and staff on the other end of the phone kidding us that it's going to be there "any minute" and had left the restaurant. Clearly hadn't left at any point whilst on the phone to the owner who was blatantly lying to us. It turned up piping hot 2.5 hours after the order placed, not lukewarm as you'd expect if it's been sitting in a car/bike for 45-60 minutes. Would have much preferred some honesty here. Food was fine - nothing to shout about...

Really generous portions and a huge selection of authentic dishes! Staff is super attentive and very friendly, will definitely be back!

Edit: not sure what happened within 2 months, or perhaps we made a mistake of ordering takeaway from Light of Bengal rather than dining in.

The food delivered was devoid of much taste we remembered from our previous visit, and the lamb was EXTREMELY tough to the point where my jaw started to hurt mid-meal. On top of that, we ended up paying £40 for two curries, rice and naan. This seems like a lot, considering next day we spent £29 for a meal for two in the...