Shahzaad Tandoori Restaurant — Restaurant in Preston

The Shahzaad is our favourite Indian restaurant in the city of Preston. Located centrally on Friargate, close to some of the city's best pubs, the restaurant offers top quality food with some interesting options available.

It should be pointed out that The Shahzaad offers more of a casual dining experience than fine dining and the decor and ambience of the restaurant reflects this. However the restaurant is very clean, comfortable and always warm during the winter months-perhaps too warm some times so avoid sitting too close to the radiators if you get warm easily.

The staff are very friendly and the owner is usually on hand to look after customers and talk them through the option available on the menu.

The restaurant offers Becks Vier on draught as well as cider and bottled lager in addition to a full range of spirits and wines.

The toilet facilities are on the first floor and you have to navigate very steep stairs so be careful especially if you have had a few beers!

After many visits there has only been one occasion where the order was taken incorrectly for one of our group that we were dining with but a replacement meal was offered-other than on this occasion the service has always been quick and efficient with an appropriate amount of time allowed between courses.

Sometimes when visiting late on a Friday/Saturday night some the restaurant can attract guests and the management always try to sit people appropriately and deal with any customers that may get too loud but I hope that the management continue to keep the restaurant at a standard that doesn't put off folk from avoiding dining there later in the evenings!

As well as welcoming new customers regular guests are well looked after with a basket of poppadoms and an amazing pickle tray usually whisked to the table before you can sit down! Of particular interest is the unusual garlic/chilli sauce which is home made daily but be warned-while very tasty it is extremely hot!

A range of starters are available if you are hungry and the main meals are of an excellent standard.

The Pele Pele curry is particularly unusual and is a hot but tasty curry which is recommended-rice/naan bread portions are a little on the small side.

The prices are also very reasonable with £ 25 been the average for starters, main courses with 3 sides and beers as an example price for 2 people dining together.

Overall an excellent Indian restaurant worth visiting for good value,...

I had a very awkward experience since the very first encounter with the staff. Didn’t even bothered to say hello. The menu was average, not cheap not to expensive. But the curry and biryani was horrible. so the food is not reasonable with the price at all. I don’t know how this restaurant have got these good reviews, probably fake or the staffs were different...

Curry sauce is off very poor quality no vegetables or herbs it's just sauce with meat, very disappointed. Chicken must have been old as it was very dry, very bad taste to it couldn't eat it. Anyone who likes proper curry avoid this place. Go to a proper place and pay the same. Staff was nice but if you're looking for nice curry I don't...