Coriander Restaurant- Indian & Bangladeshi Cuisine | Reserve A Table & Dine With Us — Restaurant in Manchester

Update August 2025

Three years later and the trauma still lingers — as red as the curry base

Five stars.

Because it’s rare that a meal haunts you for years. I came here once. Just once. That was enough. I still think about it. Not fondly. Like a kitchen-based flashback scene in a gritty Channel 4 drama.

My karahi arrived bright red and full of sugar, with three bits of chicken and two peppers, as if the chef was trying to ration ingredients for the next pandemic. Every curry tasted the same — mostly because they probably were the same. Red sauce. Big pot. Choose your protein. Rebrand accordingly.

And then there was the gulab jamun. £4.90 for two cold, dense spheres that had clearly just been exhumed from a fridge and handed to me like an afterthought. No warmth. No syrup. Just sadness in spherical form.

Service was a fever dream: plates whisked away mid-bite, waiters leaning over us to clean the table while we were still seated. This wasn’t hospitality — it was passive-aggressive hovering disguised as efficiency. During COVID, no less. We sanitised our hands. They sanitised our dignity.

The vibe? Whitewashed, literally and figuratively. Not a single Asian diner in the place, which is usually your cue to lower expectations and clutch your pint of Cobra like a stress toy. The five-star reviews here are a sea of “Toms” and “Claires” raving about how “light and fresh” it all is — code for “didn’t burn my tongue or challenge my worldview.”

This isn’t a curry house. This is a gentrified condiment factory, built to milk the Chorlton coin from people who think cumin is exotic and believe coriander is a brand, not an herb.

Take my word for it: Spend half as much on Wilmslow Road and actually taste South Asia.

Five stars. Because I still remember. Because it still glows red in my nightmares.

February 2022

Three pieces of chicken two peppers in a red sauce full of sugar is unacceptable for £10

All of the curries taste the same A tip for everyone, curries shouldn't all be red, especially a Karahi. Usually places like this have a huge pot of red sauce in the back, they just add stuff to it depending on what you've ordered.

Also paid 4.90 for warm gulab jamun and received two cold dense balls that had just come out of the fridge and were not fresh.

This is the type of place where the waiters are taking plates before you've even finished eating, leaning over us and wiping the table while we ere sat there! This isn't good service, it's poor and made us feel uncomfortable especially during COVID.

This place is milking the chorlton coin, its one of the worst curries I've ever had, and my party of 6 including my 11 year old son agreed.

When you go for a curry and there isn't an Asian person in there it's usually going to be rubbish (look at the names of all the 5 star reviewers on here 🤣)

Take my word for it, pay half the price and eat better on...

We came here cause we saw the rate is good so we’re expecting to have a nice Indian night. We were really disappointed of the food quality which is way overpriced with a very small portion, and the service is not acceptable. We’d ordered few dishes to share, one is chicken tikka masala and another one is mixed seafood. The chicken tikka is unexpectedly terrible, the colour is yellowish, it tasted very sweet and a bit sour, we doubt that maybe they serve us with a korma instead so we asked the waiter if it’s chicken tikka, we said we never taste with this very sweet flavour in anywhere else, he claimed that he’s been working in Indian restaurant for 20 years&this’s the taste, he insisted that we should have order a spicy one instead of this if we don’t like this taste…the seafood is very stinky which the frozen seafood is so smelly and the sauce is very sweet…we’d order the second naan which hasn’t come for a long time, we asked the waiter to follow up, he repeatedly said the chef said that we had already get 2 orders but we said we never get the second one, he insisted for awhile that we already received 2 naan but we explained we are still waiting for the second one, then he said he will check, he came back after and apologised that it is misunderstanding this we need to wait a bit more of the naan. We paid for more than 100£ which we could have just get some M&S Indian food for just 30£ for 4 people that taste 100times better! It is the worst Indian I ever had in my life…very...

Been to a thousand indian restaurants thought this was going to be nice reading some of the reviews...How wrong I was!....... Extremely disappointing food. Started off optimistic, nice fresh look to the place, friendly staff. Unfortunately it ended there. The main courses were extremely bland, tasteless. I opted for the Chicken Tikka or shall I say tasteless chicken tikka served with a wanna be Karahi Sauce which turned out to be a bland tomato sauce with a pepper in it. My friend opted for the chicken masala, had better out of a packet from the supermarket years ago when I was a young lad. Really really poor quality Indian food. Rice slightly over cooked just to add to the experience.

What made it worse was when the waiter came over to check if everything was ok, I informed them the food wasn't that great and was lacking flavour. He totally ignored my comments and shrugged it off. Absolutely pointless asking! There's far far better out there than this place.

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