Riding Wine Co — Restaurant in Thanet

Streets has a lovely atmosphere and the staff are incredibly friendly, however.

I don’t know what culinary crime I committed to deserve this bowl of misery, but this so-called Wild Garlic Tarka Daal was an insult to both garlic and daal. First of all, the “wild garlic” must have gone into hiding because it was completely missing in action. If there was even a hint of garlic in this dish, it got lost somewhere between the watery consistency and the charred aftertaste.

And let’s talk about that burn—someone clearly scorched the spices and thought, “Yeah, that’s flavour.” Spoiler: it’s not. It tasted like someone threw a handful of curry powder into a campfire, then tried to rehydrate the ashes with hot water. The result? A thin, soupy mess that lacked texture, depth, or any kind of soul.

This wasn’t daal. It was spiced dishwater with identity issues. An absolute failure on...

We were really well taken care of despite there being an unexpected shortage of servers. The food was incredible with a great depth of flavours and freshness. The bhajis were the best I've ever had and everything else was a new dish to me so by default they're the best I've ever had too. The drinks were also really well selected, kept and presented. Coming here for a meal was definitely a great idea but I can just as easily see myself popping in for a bottle of wine on the way home (maybe just stop for some bhajis) or stopping in for a drink or two (and maybe a couple of orders of bhajis). The evening wasn't entirely without issue but the technical difficulties were ironed out with good humour. The only regret I have is not...

Food quality is excellent. Portions are much too small. We were told the starters were best as two plates between two people to share but the onion bhaji was one single bhaji. We were told the rice was three people per portion. One portion was around three quarters of a portion per person! The curries were supposed to be shared but again, one portion was less than a regular one person portion. When ordering drinks we weren’t being listened to. If we ordered multiple of one drink, we only received one of each and had to ask a second time for the rest. Paratha is amazing but order 3 times more portions than they tell you to! Definitely expensive for how much food should be ordered for...