Shirley Spice — Restaurant in Metropolitan Borough of Solihull

A very rare Tuesday night curry for us. It wasn't planned and found ourselves here on our way back from Warwick purely by accident. It was only around 6.00pm and unsurprisingly very quiet, however by the time we left at around 7.45 pm it was completely full. That must tell you something as in my experience it's a very rare thing for a curry house to be full midweek. It is not a small restaurant either. Despite the popularity the service and food didn't suffer, all was very good and difficult to fault. The old school sheekh kebab was possibly the stand out dish for me. The wife loved her dupiaza, my naga was nice but a fraction bitter. The sides were OK, no complaints. The other reason for it being busy could possibly be the great value fixed price 'set' menu. This is a complete misnomer as it basically allows you to choose any starter, main and a side, although there will be a surcharge for king prawn and some of the specials. Finally ice cream or fried banana to finish, plus coffee if you still have room. Given its popularity I guess it doesn't need any more reviews, but credit where...

AVOID!!! We visited shirley spice last week and we were very disappointed with the food - the waiter comes over within a minute after serving the curry, before we'd even tried it so we just said its fine. After tasting, the curry itself was tasteless and the "peshwari" naan was dry and stale with no flavour, I didn't eat much of it and left hungry. At the end we complained about the food but the waiter was very rude and began to raise his voice, shouting at us and speaking over us, trying to intimidate us. It was empty apart from me and my friend we are two young girls. He then walked off laughing to himself, he didn't seem to care about our complaint. Staff were clearly talking about us in their language which we found really rude. Wont...

Been here about 6 times in last 2 months and always found it good service and good food. Tonight was awful….waited 1.5hrs for a starter then a further 40 minutes for mains (over 2 hrs altogether for our mains.). It was just as slow to get our drinks and, worst of all, we got no apology or acknowledgement from staff. The unbelievable lack of an apology cheesed us all off. We are very local but won’t go there again because of the rudeness and lack of appreciation for repeat custom. Finally, to add to it all the food was definitely below par with two of us leaving a considerable amount. Really disappointed as we thought we’d found our...