The Shehnai Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Scotland

Not the worse Indian in Fife, but pretty close. Was looking forward to this based on the strength of the reviews, unfortunately our experience didn’t match these.

Summary- Very expensive and fairly dire food.

Atmosphere:The place was pretty tired and grubby all round- the children’s highchair was filthy- covered in old rice and dirt- which we had to clean ourselves.

Food- really poor. Starters: chewy, popadoms that tasted like they were from the day before. Tasteless, and borderline rare tandoori chick tikka. Mains: some of the base sauces were actually tasty, if very odd - the green herb chicken was the strangest and most unpleasant, we’ve ever had. The issue is the meat- the lamb was blatantly mutton- chewy, disgusting and inedible. The chicken was either rubbery or close to rare.

Would...

What a difference a year makes, we only go once a year and normally not one complaint on food or service, last night though, was like it was another restaurant, normally get offered a "doggy bag" for the food not eaten (you get loads) but last night we got "we don't do this at the weekend" but they did eventually, when we went to pay the bill, we were going to leave quite a good tip as we normally do, but (after working it out) is was just short of 15% and I was told "it's a 15% tip and a government rule to leave 15%, was soo annoyed he only got half of the tip we were going to leave. Wont be back, attitude was awful, and last night they seemed to be only interested in the...

So, it didn't ok good. The staff started off not to understand that only some people wanted poppadoms, irritated one of the group by making ordering more difficult than necessary, one dish was startlingly over red, and the garlic bread just as surprisingly green, and the two big green chilli chunks on top of a not very hot dish was a concern, as was the need to hunt for the rice in the coconut rice (just call it coconut?) ... BUT ... when you ate it, the food and flavours are really good. Someone really cares about the tastes, their balance, and this is good food, well made, and a real...