Little India Ashby — Restaurant in North West Leicestershire

Good Asian cuisine is difficult to find in Ashby. The best effort was made by Asiana Spice (and a previous incarnation a few years ago) a few doors up the road, whatever happened to them?

Anyway, Little India ... had a takeaway, chicken tikka masala and chicken pathia. Both were essentially the same dish, in flavour, presentation and neither were as they should be.

CTM ... each place has a different interpretation admittedly but Little India's naff ... chicken not marinaded, lacking flavour, sauce sweet and lacking spices ... poor effort of a very basic dish.

Pathia is an interesting dish, full of flavour, with heat, sweetness and a sour edge ... Little India decided to do naff, bland, no heat, no sour ... "hey let's just do 2 x CTM, who will find out?!"

I can't believe the people of Ashby are so easily pleased and misled by poor flavour and bland food ... the more people accept this shizzle, things won't change ... Do we not deserve great food and high quality?

Ashby could be a place for delicious, destination food, worth travelling for ... some may not agree but I'd travel for the Bulls Head Repton, Je Ja Jees used to be good, not been for years, Taj Mahal in Leicester was THE place for a great curry, sadly no longer here ... the Island takeaway in Wolverhampton has the best Fish, chips and Irish curry sauce ever ... similarly Oregano's pizza in Wolves is also ace .... So yes I'd travel for this food ....

I was in Ashby and sad to see Asiana Spice no longer there, I now realise I wouldnt travel 20 metres down the road for Little India

** Little India have replied … hurray!

Extensive reply - great! Sadly not really addressing the problem. Words are one thing, improving the food is another. Less time on Google, more time in the kitchen, working on the food.

Presentation does not refer to plate or dumped in a bag no … ingredients, spices, basics. So yes both dishes were very similar. I know what dishes typically taste like and subtleties involved. I’m def not going to teach you to cook, that’s the principle behind paying professionals - in theory to do the job better than me … you didn’t, hence the review.

And yes the tendency is to share bad experiences morso than good ones … sadly that’s the way social media works. Great places spread by word of mouth and we take good experiences far more readily than we do bad ones. So yes … reviews do work that way. Bingo.

However, don’t take offence, don’t throw idle accusations and be ‘funny’ take it on the chin that someone wasn’t happy and determine to cook food that no one can legitimately complain about. Simple solution.

And that CTM did not have marinated chicken in. The pathia lacked only three things … sweet, sour and a little heat … you know, the things that make the...

Updated review: Have left the original comments but we've been back a couple more times and sadly have found the curries to be way too sweet without exception which is a shame, sometimes the spice is dialled down too much, the sauce can also be gloopy. The people are still lovely but wanted to share our experience of the curries in case it's not to your taste.

Original review: Was initially unsure whether to try Little India due to some mixed reviews however after a friend recommended it we decided to give it a go and are so glad we did. The venue itself is small but pleasant enough, looks like there has been a recent refurbishment. Staff were friendly and attentive, there was also a steady flow of regulars which is always a positive sign.

We started off with some poppadoms and chutneys which were tasty. We then shared a couple of starters, the chicken tikka was particularly good. Curries were not too bad had a chilli spinach and lamb which was reasonably spicy. My wife had the tikka masala which she enjoyed although I tried it and it was a touch sweet which I think was the coconut cream. Either way, service was good, and the price was very reasonable. It's a BYOB place although they serve their own soft drinks so there's a cover charge if you bring those in. Overall happy and we'll...

I hope this feedback is taking into consideration and not as negative criticism. We had lamb curry with rice and naan, such a disappointment it was. Curry was not spicy at all, sauce was more like tomato sauce, rice and naan was nice. The drink we had was strawberry “champagne”, it was super sweet, we left half bottle. The place, it has been clearly remodeled, we sat next to a mirror that was itself covering a door , that did not close properly and had a massive draft coming through, so we end up changing seats. bathroom; temperature was like in the North Pole, obviously they are aware of the issue as had several heaters around the restaurant. Service was not great the waiter was confused of where sit us, as we ordered to take away but then decided to have it in. For our surprise the bill; we paid £15 for take away but because we decided to stay in they added £5 extra with no awareness of it, plus £5 of “champagne “. The space, cutlery, table runners are clean, even the waiters wearing a black trousers and vest with white t-shirt, but despite the effort of them trying to deliver a posh service, clearly neither the place or food is ready for. I will not come back. Ps sorry I did not...