Rajinda Pradesh — Restaurant in West Suffolk

So we have been to centre parcs before and I've always wanted to try here but the wife never seemed to keen but because we were going with her family we decided to book here honestly which I never bothered!.

We arrived at this restaurant and I get it's not your normal everyday Indian restaurant but the deco doesn't really feel like your in a Indian restaurant.

The service was okay by our waitress nothing to moan or groan about her service.

We ordered poppadoms for starters and to be honest this was probably the best part of the meal. The poppadoms were lovely with a good selection of sauces for them too.

When it came to the mains, there were six of us so we all ordered different things off the menu. My wife and my mother in law aren't big on a Indian so they ordered korma, mushroom rice and skinny chips. I start with this meal first the skinny chips looked like they had been blended and to be quite Frank looked like a joke. The mushroom rice was OK not really to moan about but nothing to really hype up and lastly the korma. The korma was bland and quite frankly I think picking up something from your local supermarket would be more appealing and better value for money. My sister in law also had this too

Then moving onto my dinner which I had a king prawn mahkani (I believe it's spelt) it's a coconut type of curry and I also had a peshwari nann. The curry was okayish not the best and not the worst but definitely not worth £17.50 I would say if this was priced at £7 then this would be more reasonable. The peshwari nann again wasn't horrendous but wasn't great but I believe this was only £3-4 so not the end of the world just very sweet

My father in law had the same curry as me but lamb and said it was one of the worst curries he has ever had and he also had a basmati rice which he said was okay but not great.

Lastly my brother in law had a bhuna curry (again I believe how you spell it), and said it was okay but nothing special and his rice which was a mushroom rice was okay but nothing great.

My father in law did complain to the manager and did agree to remove the prices for the mains and the sides which to be honest i do feel is fair. The manager did say its not common to complain but looking at the reviews on here doesn't seem to be the case.

I have written this review as I am a fan of Indian restaurants and also did look forward to this for ages especially seeing the trip before this trip back in December 2020 I wanted to go and the wife didn't want to.

My honest review and to why I have given it two stars is the food is so overpriced for what it is and also the food doesn't taste any like it should do. If you really like your Indian food I wouldn't bother. Shame as the other restaurants at centre...

Like surprises? Go for this place.

Order a main curry and get it served in tiny little side bowl. In fact order a curry worth £17.95 and get an item with fresh (uncooked and raw) tomato sauce. M&S ready meals have better tasting curries than 5/5 curries we ordered including some veggie sides. I’ll give them the mediocre tasting mushroom curry side. NOTHING other than that was curry like, tasty, or flavourful at all.

Food: I’d rate the naan breads and Pepsi max as the best tasting items of our order. Rice was left in the microwave far too long so got the plastic beads in form of rice. Jalfrezi was brownish black curry with raw tomato zing. Potato side dish was roast potatoes skin on, swimming in oil and herbs. 30-60ml of oil at least. Starters wise samosa were barely fried. White and light coloured pastry on samosa is a first sign of bad Indian chef. Paneer tikka with raw paneer again no attempt to shallow fry, roast or cooking was made. I’d say that’s acceptable as some places don’t cook the paneer BUT the sauce is expected to have salt, spices and not just canned tomatoes churned mixed with heavy cream.

All in all they’ve westernised what they think is Indian food to a point of no return.

At 9:30 we were told kitchen was closed without prior notice. We did place a massive order at 8:45 and did notify the waiter we would order more to which the response was ‘yes of course’. Come 9:30 the kitchen was closed. We were way too hungry to try elsewhere. So ended up ordering naan breads the only thing available to order and had them with Pepsi max.

Ambience: The music is on point. 10/10 for authentic Indian music playlist. Staff were overall friendly BUT not happy to be at work by the looks of it.

Service: Quick efficient service but you’d expect that when they’re serving food that won’t be sniffed by our four legged friends.

Would not return, food this awful, prices unjustifiable and attitude of the business was overall not worth your money or time.

If you’re at Centre Parcs, take time to drive 5miles to town and there’s far better Indian options we tried...

This was possibly one of the worst dining out experiences I have ever had (with the exception of our server, Alicia, who was wonderful!)

Firstly, the decor in the restaurant is terrible. It’s very bland and comes across as a typical ‘centerparcs’ restaurant slapped with a few patterns to make it look ‘indian’. It’s not convincing, and the ambience was nonexistent.

Then, the food... it’s awful. Really awful. We had the Vegan Asian sharing platter for a starter, and the vegetable spring rolls and gyoza were quite obviously both out of a packet and cooked from frozen. They really didn’t taste of anything. The fried vegetables were okay but nothing special.

For our main, we had a korma and bhuna. Both of these were quite frankly tasteless, and once again it was obvious that parts of the meals were simply shop bought and heated up from frozen - both used the same Fry’s Meat-free Chicken pieces that you can buy from any supermarket. Very low effort and quite disappointing.

We also ordered a side of garlic naan bread and Bombay potatoes. These were, by far, the worst food I’ve ever been served in a restaurant. The naan bread didn’t taste of garlic at all, was very thin and hollow, and covered in flour. It tasted awful. The Bombay potatoes were somehow cooked on the outside, yet almost raw on the inside. Honestly, they’re potatoes... how can you get something relatively simple so wrong?

All of this could have been forgiven if the price had been a little more sensible, especially given that the food was significantly worse than that of some dodgy takeaway places. Instead, our food for two (no dessert, only drink was a Pepsi max) came to £58, which is frankly insulting given the experience.

The whole thing felt more like a bad joke. Please, save your money and go...