Namaste Cardiff — Restaurant in Wales

Main complaint is that the food was extremely salty. It was also very spicy. They asked how hot we wanted it, mild, medium, or spicy, and we said medium. But it was definitely well past that.

We ordered the chicken tikka masala and it was inedible. The sauce was alright but definitely not a tikka masala sauce in any way. The chicken pieces themselves were extremely salty. I could only eat half a piece and the rest of the dish, unfortunately went to waste. When we complained they said there wasn’t anything they could do about it.

The masala dosa was alright to begin with. But there was raw chili powder sprinkled on the inside which was both confusing and made it very spicy. One of the sides that came with it had a hair in it!!!! The servers offered no apologies even, only changed the small bowl.

Service was abysmal. I don’t have anything good to say about the servers. They didn’t look or act like they cared at all about the customers.

The only good part of dinner was the butter naan. I mostly filled up on that because really, none of the other things we ordered were good. Either they simply didn’t taste good or was way too salty.

Despite the inedible chicken tikka masala and hair in one of the dishes, we weren’t even offered an apology for them. If something like this were to happen anywhere else, the restaurant would have given something to compensate such as a free dessert or taking the dish off bill.

Suffice to say we won’t...

One of very few restaurants serving proper north indian cuisine, as opposed to the masses of Bangladeshi restaurants in Cardiff serving Bangladeshi food rather than proper north indian food like you could expect in Mumbai or Punjab. Therefore the menu will be different to those who frequent Bangladeshi restaurants, but different in a good way.

As such they have a great range of indian street food offerings as well as a great selection of curries. They have a good but not too extensive range of items on the menu, which is great as they can specialise in the items listed.

Service was great and nothing was too much trouble, the place was clean and the food was not oily or ruined with food colouring as you see so often around Cardiff.

The Pav Bhaji was a great choice, as was the paani puri shots and the chicken jalfrezi. The naan was also cooked well and went down great with the curry. We'll definitely be back to try the other items on the menu, and glad there is a proper indian restaurant in the city with reasonable prices.

They have draught cobra available as well as a selection of spirits, cocktails and mocktails. They are a fairly new restaurant so we were the only diners there, but this is likely to change once word...

salt. so much salt. 2 stars is generous for this restaurant. i went here on wednesday night with my family as we had heard good things about this place, unfortunately they were wrong. our drinks took 15 minutes to come out when we had all ordered diet cokes and the professionalism of the waiters were terrible.

we ordered our food, i got a masala dosa and requested for medium spice and my family got the chicken tikka masala, aloo bhindi and a prawn dish i can’t quite remember, alongside of course naan and rice. the daal(?) that came with the dosa was so salty i could barely eat it, to make matters worse i found a HAIR in my food. we complained to the waiter and he didn’t seem to care, giving me a new pot of dip.

the chicken tikka was marinated in some salty rub to the point it was like eating spoonfuls of salt and it was spicy when it wasn’t meant to be? the only good thing was the naan as it was soft and fluffy.

we shared out disappointment with the waiter but yet again, he didn’t seem to care.

will not...