Spice Lounge Burford — Restaurant in West Oxfordshire

The lighting has a cold colour (blueish) and the bulbs are cheap so the light is constantly flashing slightly. The rice was slightly under cooked and looked 'dull' I can't think of another way to put it. Tesco microwave £1 pilau rice is better. Drinks order had to be taken twice. Conformation email wasn't clear so needed to phone up to confirm. No music playing which was actually nice as it was so busy but did change the atmosphere to be even more cold and factory like. Ladies Bathroom toilets the lights strobe even more that main lights. Glasses for tap water were very small so you had to ask many many times for water. Popadoms were well cut into quarters so you order by the basket, great idea, worked well. Meat was cooked perfectly. Veg was not excellent. Obviously some frozen veg used, not quite cooked through as cooked at same time as other fresh veg. Also gave the dish a childish cheap non Indian vibe. These were not Indian vegetables. The Merti was overly spiced through black pepper not chilli pepper again giving it more if a British food feel than Indian food. In general, food was not excellently spiced with flavours being too characature. Portion size was right. Price to quality not great. Obviously the best place around as it was so busy... But there are much better...

I called in after a long day out to grab something on the way home, my first visit to Spice Lounge. Food was served incredibly quickly and was piping hot when I got home with eat

I had poppadom, mixed starter and lamb methi. It was absolutely delicious and full of flavour. Really fabulous food and good portion. Meat was tender, sauce was full of great flavours. The little sauces and tub of onion with the poppadom was very tasty too

The restaurant looked really nice with a lovely atmosphere so I will definitely try a visit soon to eat in when I have company

The only thing I would like to politely suggest (and it isn't a criticism, all places seem to do this) is that it would be great to have a rice in a really small little tub. I can't eat a whole tub on my own but I'd like a small portion on the side but it isn't worth ordering a normal size, but would be nice to have really small tubs for single diners?

Will be back soon and looking forward to working through the menu as my mouth is watering thinking about what I ate last night. Taken me a long time to find a takeaway/restaurant with such good food,...

Extremely disappointed. We ordered this to be delivered, first of all the prices are not good, we had the Chicken Tikka and Chicken Korma, Co-ops Chicken Korma from the night before was better tasting than this. Atleast the Tikka was a tad tastier than the korma. You could taste the sauce was frozen for the korma, it still had that defrosted grainy taste, the sauce tasted like it just had a coconut sauce or base with turmeric added to change the colour, I loved coconut but it made me nauseous, I even went to the kitchen to try and add salt and other spices to it and nothing could change the bland tast. On top of that, you had to order rice or naan as an extra side, which is fine generally but not for pricing, surely one of these should be included in the price, considering it just had chicken, no potato or anything to make it hearty. As someone who comes from South Africa, where curries are a staple this was honestly so disappointing. I honestly don't know how this restaurant has a 4.6 rating, it seemed like no one cared to put effort and love into the food because it...