Zayka — Restaurant in London

Admittedly as a currently displaced Monty’s customer from South Ealing finding another curry house on the area for the time being is necessary. The nearby Tandoori Villa didn’t hit the mark and Zayka was next on the list as it’s been around a while.

The welcome was friendly and the staff attentive throughout. The price of the food was a shock to the system though. Mains were about £12 and £7 for a sag aloo was not great value.

The butter chicken was ok, but some of the chicken was a bit chewy. The rice and naan were pricy and pretty average too.

For the price the food was pretty average l, whereas I’d have expedited it to be exceptional which it wasn’t.

The main reason for 3/5 was the service and the effort made. For the money I wouldn’t return, but I wish them all the best.

Reply to owner: Appreciate the reply. The food wasn’t quite to my tastes generally either and was quite pricy, so not sure replacing the dish would’ve helped. It’s obviously a popular place though so it works for plenty of people. I’m just giving my thoughts on my experience and the price vs quality in my opinion as a lay person across the whole piece. Again, the service was very kind and friendly so just giving an unbiased opinion of...

Not the best thing since sliced (naan) bread.

Went here with my partner hoping for a lovely south Asian dining experience. It turned out that the only decent thing on their menu was the poppadums. We were disappointed by the mediocre and uninspiring starters (tikka paneer and shami kebab), literally just a few pieces of dry meat and paneer slapped onto a plate with a wedge of lemon. The main courses (lamb Kashmiri and prawn dhansak) were both overcooked and bland, as was the peshwari naan bread and mushy mushroom pilau rice. When attempting to raise our issues with the food to our server, he became rude and defensive towards my boyfriend and I, and he insisted that our food was bland because we had selected "mildly flavoured" dishes; he then went on to tell us that we should have ordered something different if we wanted a better tasting dish. In the end we returned all the food and only paid for what we ate; soon after we left and ordered pizza from Santa Maria's just down the road, which was delicious unlike Zayka. I wouldn't recommend this place to anybody who loves food or values good customer service. I have had better tasting microwave dinners from Tesco's, in...

This is the worst over priced Indian food I’ve had in a VERY long time. I ordered a portion of samosas that were so small (you only get 2 pieces), which is crazy because you’re basically paying £2 for a tiny Samosa when you can buy a box of them for £2. Then the waiter got our the mains order COMPLETELY wrong, he was not paying attention and in the end he just looked blank and kept repeating the name of the wrong dish he served and didn’t even bother to rectify that mistake. The vegetable rice was bland, the naan wasn’t as fresh as it should be and don’t even bother with the portion size of it all. Not worth it at all, I recommend going to an Indian restaurant...