Ashoka Finnieston — Restaurant in Scotland

A little background first, this was our go to restaurant back in the late 80's and 90's my daughter used to sit in a high chair eating her fish fingers and nibbling on our chapati, pashwari nan and crispy paratha. This was when it was run by Charan Gill (before he started his empire) his sister and brother. There were queues outside to get seated some days the place was so popular. They had a great chef and the food was always excellent. Back to the present, my daughter had craving for a chicken korma and haggis pakora from Mother India's Cafe, turns out that they don't deliver to our address but Ashoka west end delivered to our area. It's been 20years since I'd last eaten there Nostalgia kicked in and i asked her to order me a chicken patia and a peshwari nan my comfort food from back in the day. Claire ordered told it would be 1 hour 15m, i made coconut rice while we waited, don't like takeaway rice it's always so hard. Got plates ready. Order arrived 1 hour 23m, it was in a dinky little paper carrier bag, no plastic bags anymore, When i looked in the bag and saw the two little white styrofoam burger boxes it didn't bode well for the rest of the meal and so it proved. The nan looked big like it had been in a tandoor but the plastic container with the korma the sauce was sloshing about and when i took out my container the sauce was watery. I knew that this was wrong Patia sauce is always thick sometimes gloopy, claire said that the korma sauce should be creamy but not runny. After she ate the chicken, (the chicken in both meals was good restaurant quality) told me that the sauce was flavourless when i tasted it it tasted like lentils ,no taste of spices or cream, bland. My patia was swimming in a sweet red coloured gravy, I poured most of the gravy away kept the chicken. When i took out the nan to reheat, it was a weird pink colour. they had spread the nan with what i think was a red almond paste and put it in the tandoor, it hadn't risen and it wasn't fluffy and soft. I want my saltanas and coconut back I paid for them. The veg pakora was nice but it tasted more like an onion bahji as the only taste that i got was onlon and at £5.25 for 5 pieces not great value The haggis pakora was 6 pieces for £5.25, I tried one, soft and mushy didn't taste of anything and i like a nice black pudding. Claire says the haggis tastes so much nicer at Mother India's Cafe. The worst takeaway food we've ever had, only the veg pakora was aceptable. This meal cost claire £35. If the owner wishes to tell me what went wrong he can contact me through my email and i will take the...

On Saturday, we ordered from Ashoka directly, as we know that Uber and Deliveroo can charge participating restaurants a lot. Well, I'm never doing that again, and I surely won't be back at Ashoka.

Our delivery was supposed to reach us within 60 minutes (although it said 15-35 on Uber Eats). It took 1h35, and three phone calls. The traffic was light (12-minute drive showing on Google Maps at the time). First, we were told the driver had just pick up the order. Then we were told the traffic is horrendous (it was not). Then we were told that heavy rain was causing the deliveries to be slow. There was no rain, and even if the weather was different in Finnieston and Gorbals (which is unlikely), it's impossible for that area to be experiencing Biblical rain that made it hard to drive through when 3-miles down the road there was no rain.

The person on the phone kept asking me if I'd ordered via Uber Eats, which makes me think that Ashoka is fully focused on deliveries from that service and ignores their customers who order directly. When I said I'd be complaining and that I'd like my money back, I was told I could email them. Three emails later (it's been 5 days now) I received no response, not even an acknowledgement or an apology. Any other restaurant would refund the money or at least offer a voucher. Not Ashoka.

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Disappointing food and certainly not value for money. We ordered takeaway from here last night and were looking forward to it as the menu looked really good. We paid over £30.00 for 2 veggie starter, 2 vegetable mains and for two of the world's smallest chapatis. It was soooo disappointing!!!!!! We have been really loyal customers to Mother India for many years but recently their standard in their Dining Inn restaurant have really slipped therefore we were in the market for a new haunt and we thought the Ashoka Finnieston would fit the bill, but it fell very short of the mark. Our vegetable pakora portion was very small, the pakora was tasteless and the starter tandoori Paneer was bland, bland, bland!!!! Our main course of vegetable pardesi and the mixed vegetable porayi was tolerable but a bit of an amateur cooks attempt at best. Waiter who took our order was a bit too " cool for school"...... The only redeeming factor of my experience were the two lovely waitresses who I had a good chat with. Won't be back..... Expensive and lacking in quality would be my summation of...