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445-447 Dudley Road, Birmingham |
| Postcode |
B18 4HE Map |
| Notes |
Opened late 2008/early 2009 and lasted for about a year before being replaced by the very similar but much superior Madras Currys |
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| Submitted by Tim on 2/28/2009 5:40:46 AM |
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4/10 |
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Disappointing inexpensive basic restaurant that does well on the veg dishes but falls short elsewhere. Potential diners should note that alcohol is not permitted to be drunk on the premises.
Decor
Tidy and functional with comfortable chairs. The flat screen TV in the far corner is irritating and seems to be a concession to the takeaway trade rather than having any purpose for sit-down diners.
4/10
Food
The menu does look interesting and perhpas ordering different dishes we might have gone way feeling more well-disposed toward the place. We ordered about eight or nine items between five of us. The veg dishes - onion bajji, dosas and palak paneer were all competent to good (the bajji being the best and the dosas someway short of the breakfast staple we'd come to love in Goa) - and with hindsight I wish we'd stuck to these. Fish 65 came as a plate of fish coated in a sort of batter; the batter was tasty enough but the fish was ageing and not that pleasant. The lamb curry had an OK sauce but the meat was too chewy while the chicken in a kurma reflected the low cost of the dish. Poppadums are not actually on the menu but we'd ordered some out of habit - they were way too greasy but otherwise as you would expect, though the two accompanying dips were passable. Rice was fine. A salt lassi was unremarkable and not sufficiently good to warrant investing in a second. The lemon juice was pronounced good.
5/10
Service
He came, he saw, he brought the food. Friendly enough.
7/10
Value
The bill for five of us came to £31. None of us were pigging out and I suspect if the food had been better we might have been tempted to eat more. At just over £6 a head it is certainly cheap but I'd have rather spent more to get food I really liked from another restaurant or else less and got a more enjoyable takeaway.
6/10
Can't see myself going back here as Jyoti's offers a far more compelling south Indian experience. Apparently it does the trade but we were the only table early on a Friday night.
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| REVIEWS |
| Number of reviews: |
119 |
| Average Rating: |
66.6% |
| Highest Rating: |
90 % |
| Lowest Rating: |
30 % |
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