Dilshad Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Wolverhampton

Some friends ate there a friday night and thought it good enough to book for a large party (40 of us) for the next night. In retrospect this may not have been a good idea as they - rightly - split us up between tables, but perhaps felt compelled to have everyone served at the same time: even though we sat down at 8pm it was past 9:30 by the time our curries arrived - there seemed to be three waitstaff doing their level best to get everyone served, but I'd have thought given the number booked they may have had the foresight to rope more staff in.

Poppadums and pickle tray was our only starter. I enjoyed the red chilli and lime drizzle, had a random kick plus sour tang so quite enjoyable - we kept some back for the main course. Others enjoyed their mango chutney, which was smooth but not too sweet and had a bit of a background kick.

For my main, I opted for the Chicken Madras, which wasn't bad... but amounted to slightly hardened lumps of chicken in a sauce, as though they'd been dropped in as an afterthought but not really absorbed any flavour. The heat of the sauce itself was impressively well-balanced - it began subtle then grew in intensity but remained at a nice level of burn; my only criticism was that I expected some citrus bitterness in the background, and would have liked something else to break up the sauce (peppers, onions, etc)

A colleague remarked his Naga wasn't hugely hot, and someone else's Vindaloo tasted hotter... but flavour-wise, they hit the spot.

Beer was somewhat disappointing: there was only Kingfisher on draft, and it tasted slightly diluted. Cobra was available but only in small bottles; after a whilst I found I wasn't really enjoying the beers.

I'll probably return, but with a smaller...

If I was rating it solely on the food then it would get 5 out of 5 stars, sadly only 4 stars today due to only a few things. We did visit last night during a local football game but when we got a table the place had emptied out as everyone was on there way to the game, so we where the only people there other than 3 other tables by the time we sat down. The place didn't get busy for the rest of the time we were there.

It took them 10mins to come back to the table to ask about our drink orders for them to realise that we actually hasn't been given any menus at all since we sat down. The only next bad bit was that one of our side dishes was totally forgotten about when the food came out, and after the first order of drinks at the beginning we didn't have a single server come back to the table to ask if we wanted anymore drinks with our meal even when they bought us our food they didn't ask us.

We could see 3/4 workers there who where all standing at the counter chatting instead of cleaning up the tables that had just had the busy rush or coming back to check if there customers where happy with there meals. Carpet was sticking to my shoes.

Not overly bad but might only try here again as a take away just because the food was the only thing we didn't have issues with (other than a side dish...

Shambles from the beginning. Tried to book a table it wasn't confirmed until 10 minutes before the booking was about to start. We had already made plans to go elsewhere but as this was closer we decided to turn up for this one at 10 minutes notice.

On arrival the staff were all a bit bewildered and confused, it all seemed extremely odd. The place was outdated and in need of renovation. Its so cold there we had to eat in our coats.

The waiter was miserable and wouldn't allow us to order starters and mains separately, he said I have to take the whole order now. When my food arrived it had several hairs (could have been any one of them, as is it was short black hairs)

I decided to brave the loo and wasn't in anyway surprised at how awful it was. Partitions held together with tape. Electrical wires exposed, filthy toilets.

Then came the bill. Over £100 for 3 chicken masala and some rice & bread plus hairs. Portions were small. So stingy with the rice. This place is pure daylight robbery. Clearly no profit goes into upkeep. Don't care...