Wagon Express — Restaurant in Sheffield

We had a very unfortunate visit to this restaurant on the Friday of the Easter weekend. The purpose of the visit was to have a beer and enjoy a curry - regrettably, neither of these things were possible.

This restaurant does not have an alcohol licence (this is worth noting before you visit) and this information is not easily obtainable from the their website.

After reserving a table, we arrived to an almost empty restaurant but were told there was a delay for food. There was only one member of staff taking orders and she spent most of the time eating.

After finally coming over to take our order (after around 20 minutes) she again said there would be a delay for food. We placed an order for several things from the menu, expecting poppadoms to arrive at the table fairly quickly.

After a further 30 minutes, the lady said she would check with the kitchen to see where our food was. However, after a further 25 minutes, the lady came over to say our order was 'lost' but that she definitely put it through the till. She asked if we wanted to re-order or leave. At this stage, it became clear that they had no intention of serving us any food so we decided to leave (without handing over any money) the now empty restaurant at around 9.30pm on a bank holiday weekend.

The waitress informed us that they were extremely busy in the restaurant and the only chef on was struggling to complete all of the delivery orders.

Interestingly . . . another table did arrive while we were seated and they were served starters very quickly. We watched them complain about the quality of the food and refuse to pay the full amount. Perhaps we were lucky not to receive any food after all!

Had they been honest at the start we wouldn't have wasted over an hour and a quarter sitting drinking off-licence purchased beer.

Thankfully, we found another restaurant the other side of town called Seven Spices Balti which was a much more traditional Indian restaurant that served alcohol and quality food. Go there and avoid...

The fascia seems quite typical and unassuming for a busy street restaurant. The inside is a mix of pretty normal seating options but bright vibrant street art on the walls.

More importantly, this was one of the best Indian meals I've ever had. And service was great. The menu is an awesome mix of more traditional dishes and street food as well as some more "local" style options for the less adventurous.

I had the Gosht Biryani. Its the best Biryani I've ever had. Period. Its tasty, the spices aromatic and balanced, and the meat is tender. I also had paneer tikka and a peshwari naan. The paneer portion was generous with big pieces of marinated paneer cheese, and also the spices were also perfect. The naan was just the right size and freshly made the proper way, instead of a big soggy-after-being-in-packaging takeaway style one, and tastes fantastic.

Oh I also had proper desi chai brewed in the milk like it should be, that was seriously nice and I so enjoyed it

I enjoyed all of I had had a great chat with my server who took really good care of me

This place used to be something else until recently- it really deserves more attention, you should absolutely check I out and bring people you really like so they can enjoy this gem on...

Went to this place on friday night thinking the reviewes are genuine. But, to my utter disappintment the food was below than average in fact if there was a word to describe the worst i d put it here! I dont know how are these guys even claiming that they know indian food...( since 1971....what a lie!) anyway, we ordered paneer makhni and dal makhni n asked it to make spicy so the chef decided to add red chilli powder over the top (clearly he s just some newbie) it was literally made from ready to cook pack from asda and i m not even hyping u could tell...just boiled tomato added in the spices( mind it that chef din evn bother to cut it in pieces). Coming to daal makhni ( it was made from chana daal) which self respecting and aware indian would make daal makhni from chana daal...when i asked the guy, "r u sure this is daal makhni?" he said yeah...this is how we make it....! What do u mean this is how you makr it ? Like who is ur chef ? Is he asda guy who gives you ready to cook at half cost so you guys just boil it and serve it thinking ppl wudnt know....i would give -100 ....no wonder the place was empty on a friday evening! What a pathetic food , terrible! I d rather starve than eat at...