Samrat St.Albans — Restaurant in St Albans

Had our first meal (at home) from Taste of Nawab St Albans after reading a number of very good reviews. I must say that the food was very tasty and we will be ordering again. In fairness I think I should mention a couple of things that didn't quite hit the mark. We first tried to order via the on line function on their web page and this took us to deliveroo. We found that our order would have been over £10 more expensive (including a delivery charge even though they say free delivery!) for the same order if we had continued with deliveroo, so we called the restaurant directly and this went fine (I'm not a deliveroo expert so this may be the norm of course). Another slight problem was that we called early (17.50) as I have read that the restaurant does get busy and orders can take a while to be delivered and we wanted to have dinner at 19.00 /19.30 or so. I was told it would take about 45-50 mins to be delivered. Anyway it arrived only 30 mins after I called ie 16.20 which usually wouldn't be a problem, but being only 15min into my 0-5k run presented me with a bit of a dilemma! The food was good (apart from the vegetable samosas not being vegetable and being meat! and the naan bread being tough!) To round off, I will be ordering again and the restaurant did call later in the evening to ask if everything was ok, which it was - I'm getting free vegetable samosa...

We ordered from these guys on Deliveroo. They accepted the order with an estimated delivery time of 19:30 and then as soon as they accepted the order and changed the delivery time to 20:40. I phoned the restaurant and they said they couldn’t do anything about it, that deliveroo set the delivery times, and we would just have to wait (2 hours!). Phoned deliveroo and they told me the restaurant sets the delivery times and that they shouldn’t accept deliveries if they are going to be delivering them so late, deliveroo were very helpful and cancelled the order. I’m sure the food is great, and definitely don’t begrudge a place for being busy, particularly at the moment, but accepting orders that’ll take 2 hrs and then blaming deliveroo is unacceptable. We ordered from our usual, the Chili...

We have had a few takeaways from here and the food has been excellent. Decided to try the restaurant and were not disappointed. The restaurant is comfortable and pleasantly decorated. Quite small compared to some other restaurants in st albans but worth a visit The staff were efficient and attentive. But top marks go to the food which was the tastiest indian meal we have had in a very long time. We had chicken tikka bhuna which was full of flavour and a good amount of chicken and then from chefs recommendations the nawabi special which was slightly unusual but one we would definitely have again. The accompaniments were also of a high quality- fluffy nan...