Bay Of Bengal — Restaurant in Scotland

I normally love this restaurant and service is always fantastic. Portion sizes are always outstanding …. But tonight I waited nearly an hour and a half for my delivery. The driver said it was just made….. definitely not in my opinion as it was definitely not piping hot.

To be honest, I think it was chucked together… the madras sauce I could have made myself in the time I waited . It is watery and the chicken is tough! The chicken tikka I ordered…. Well where is the chicken? It’s covered in onions and I dare say it couldn’t even fill an infant. Oh… and there were very strange crunchy bits in it… like it had been dropped on the floor and there was dirt attached to it.

£20 down the drain as it has gone in the bin!! Absolutely disgusting tonight! So disappointing. I won’t be...

20 minutes late, missing the pilau rice, pakoras were cold. Started it anyway, but it turned out that the bhuna had the taste and consistency of wet cardboard, and without any pilau rice I had nothing to go with it. The biryani similarly lacked the taste I expected from countless others in the past - the veg curry sauce that came with it was indistinguishable from the bhuna sauce.

I sometimes wonder why people I know dislike Indian food; maybe they just ate here. Absolute waste of £26.50. Maybe eating in is better, but I'm unlikely to risk the money again. I'll take the drive into Edinburgh for a superior...

Booked in here for first time as was within walking distance of parents house who we were visiting. Went in at 4pm to see if they could cater for wife's gluten and dairy intolerances, which they could so we got the last table for 6pm. Their Naan bread is made with chickpea flour so she was well happy. Service from front of house staff was very efficient and friendly. Our food was excellent, plentiful and flavoursome. Bring your own alcohol obviously kept the bill down, so we were happy with costs. They were turning people away at the door who had not booked, so we asked for the bill to give them an...