Indian Lounge — Restaurant in Wales

Had a very poor experience on my first visit to Indian Lounge for a takeaway this week and shan't be returning. I initially arrived at the main entrance only to be told I was in the wrong place to collect takeaway orders and was immediately shooed away in the direction of a cold damp annexe opposite that was being used a storage room for tables and chairs. A sign on the window simply said wait to be served, so I sat shivering in this storage room for around 15 mins til a waiter in the adjoining restaurant finally noticed me and asked if I was being served. I hurriedly paid the bill, collected my food and left - a very poor start to the meal, and a terrible and very unprofessional first impression. In fact I'm shocked that any restaurant business would treat its takeaway customers so badly. That said, my wife and daughter enjoyed their meal of chicken tikka massala and pilau rice, but the same could not be said of my meal. My shish kebab starter and keema nan both went straight in the bin as the lamb mince was putrid and clearly off - definitely not fresh. My chicken tikka korai was tasteless and the vegetable fried rice had huge clumps of vegetables in oily rice that tasted rancid. I'm a big fan of Indian cuisine and regularly eat at Indian restaurants across the UK, and have to say this was one of the worst experiences I've had. All in all a terrible experience that left me fed up, hungry and out of pocket to the tune of £55. I won't be back and unfortunately can't recommend...

Local to the area and got a takeout. If it was just my review would be one star but partners meal was apparently nice (tika masala) . start with the good. Onion bahjis nice, nans nice. The bad; -meat samosas filling had nice flavour but the somosas had soggy and saturated bottoms in a really bad tasting oil. Chicken pakoras,. 4 strips in a takeaway box probably equivalent of half a chicken breast for £3.85 and they were in soft batter, over dry chicken on the inside and tasteless. Chips- soggy, cold and hard all at the same time! The worst by far was my lamb phall. I love spicy food but this was just wrong. Didn’t taste anything like a Phall and was horribly bitter to the point I couldn’t eat it. Just tasted like they dumped a load of raw powdered spice with no aromatics or flavour into a different curry. Had a curry from here a year or so ago and it was lovely so maybe I just picked a bad night but I won’t be going again. I could possibly put some of the ‘soggy’ comments down to it being a takeaway but I live down the road and was there at the requested pick up time. There’s no excuse for the god awful flavours though. Paid close to £50 for two people and was truly disappointed. Oh and the prices offline are either wrong or they over charged me. I’m all for local business but really missed the mark on in...

A disappointing takeaway that was so poorly lacking in flavour and texture that it wasn’t edible.

We were surprised by this underwhelming experience given we’ve had takeaway twice before in the last 12 months and found it to be ok and the “better” Indian of the area.

Sadly based off similar reviews, looks like the place has taken a turn.

We ordered three meals and the best we can say about any of them is the accompanying poppadoms and the dips which had a bit of oomph to them.

There was no flavour to any of the dishes, everything was dripping in oil and the meat was overcooked to the point a steak knife would struggle to cut through it. Sadly, none of the meat had been marinated.

Remove the chicken from the chicken korma we ordered (as a safe non-spicy option for kids) and dust it with ice sugar and you’d have yourself a creamed coconut dessert - lovely in a biscuit crumb pie crust but not what you want from your curry.

The Dahl was a bowl of barely cooked split lentils and nothing else for flavour.

My husband’s spicy curry with not a hint of spice.

You know it’s bad when even the dog (who’ll scavenge anything he can sniff out) even refused to eat it.

I suggest the cook consults a cookbook before their next shift in the kitchen.

Wish we’d saved our money and time and popped to Tesco instead,...