Zaika — Restaurant in Scotland

We are visiting Edinburgh, and this was our last night. We’d done our research on restaurants using Tripadvisor, and Zaika was highly rated. So we went with high expectations, and zaika exceeded these. The food was simply fantastic - poppadoms warm and crispy, relishes included a spiced Onion , which was exceptional. We skipped starters and had the Chicken Karahi, and the Home made chicken curry. Both were prepared to our choice of heat and both were packed with authentic flavours and ingredients. It is far too prevalent these days to have reconstituted meat in a curry. This was definitely chicken breast meat, and lots of it! The price was really reasonable,and there was no corkage charge. Big bonus. We hoped for a special final night and that’s what we got. Top fare, very comfortable surroundings, a great experience. Better than other restaurants we’d visited this week (that appear higher in the tripadvisor ratings)! Zaika staff were very welcoming. We can thoroughly recommend this restaurant....

If I could give this place a zero I would. Bombay aloo was vile, it had some sort of funky taste going on... This should be potatoes cooked in a tomato sauce with some spices. - This was not the case, potatoes were hard and the sauce was disgusting.

Special fried pilau rice tasted like bell peppers - vile.

Garlic naan bread is just a cheap piece of naan with garlic butter spread across it. - Please note that garlic naan is supposed to have actual pieces of garlic in it, not butter.

Vegetable baji was freezing and pretty flat and disgusting. No vegetables, just onion.

This place is most certainly not an authentic Indian so I would definitely advise you to avoid this place if you're looking for a real Indian meal. I could've done better and I'm Irish. This was the worst Indian meal I have ever had, an insult to my taste buds and I will never ever order from here again. Waste of money - food went in the bin.

I can't fault everything, the spiced onions and poppadoms were...

Food was mediocre at best. What is not good is the constant bombardment of marketing texts from the company. Replying NOTXT to the number provided only seems to confirm that you are an active number so everyday you get their teatime specials... Have repeatedly asked them to stop sending texts tried blocking etc and it keeps on coming. I think I may start calling them at peak times and telling them what I’m having for tea to see if they like it. They got my number through JustEat.

Update even after repeatedly asking not to be contacted and blocking... Yup they change their number...