Cafe Balti Review
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The summary review is shown below.
Summary
The final reckoning is shown in the table below. Overall we rate it a disappointing 16.0 Taj Mahals.
This meal generated a lot of feedback from the curry clubbers with some common themes throughout. Ian covered just about all aspects of in his score sheet so I've added it in full below. Other extracts from the score sheets are shown in the bullets at the bottom. Highlights were the vegetable dishes and lowlights the toilets. A shame really as the restaurant is quite intimate and smart. A bit of attention in a few areas could really lift the scores.
Plain popadums - definitely stale - spicey ones also suspect. Cranberrry sauce dip, no thank you! No soap or towel in Gents and floor was filthy. No music. Curious timekeeping, 90 seconds late with the table, 45 minutes late with the food..... Lukewarm assorted starter; onion bhaji tasteless but lamb chop soft and tasty
Over 30 minutes between arrival of starters and main course.
Lamb Bombay Dhim good flavour, very nice Sag Paneer (nearly as good as the Rose of India). Fluffy nan bread but it was cold on arrival. Brinjel Bhaji was the best I ever had.
The vegetable dishes really lifted the overall meal
Very long wait for the bill...............so long that some members cooked a Ocra Bhaji side dish while we waited!
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| TOTAL | 16.0 |
Other Comments
Here is a selection of some of the other comments from the evening......
- Great bombay aloo
- Starter bland - not enticing
- Amiable restaurant
- Good kitchen visit with chef coming to our table as well
- Fantastic tandoori salmon starter
- Lamb chops OK but not the big dish that they seem to push
- Lamb Nepal very good
- No towel in gents plus what was the empty bottle of bitter lemon doing there?
- Bright condiments including that odd Cranberry type sauce
- Left feeling that no need to return which was a shame
- Billed as special but only average
- Too long and too slow
- Toilets disgusting
- Onion bhajee a bit tasteless
- Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi good and well spiced
- All the food went which suggests portions were small
- Small nans although they were nice
- Nice 10% discount