Comfortable newly refurbished restaurant (previously called Tandoori Nights) seating some 70 diners in two fairly simply decorated dining areas in what looks like a converted old pub. The menu lists most of the usuals but the chef is Pakistani rather than the more common Bangla Deshi.

Starters all fairly standard stuff - my Prawn Puri a good average but probably larger than the norm. Main dishes all very tasty. I tried Chicken Podina which the menu describes as being "cooked with ginger and hot spices and flavoured with fresh mint". It was not as hot as this description suggests but it was very tasty nevertheless and had a very nice mint flavour to it. The Chicken Jalfrezi was similarly not as hot as expected, probably because it seemed to have been cooked with plenty of capsicum pepper rather than chilli peppers. Having said that it did have a nice flavour. The Tandoori Mixed Karahi was an excellent selection of meats, prawns and kebabs which were very flavorous indeed and very good value. Vegetable dishes of Mixed Vegetable Bhaji and Bombay Potatoes standard stuff. All dishes came with rice, which surprisingly was not mentioned on the menu. We had therefore ordered a Nan each and these were huge - Sparkbrook Balti house size rather than high street curry house size.

All dishes very palatable, although surprisingly for a Pakistani chef not a robustly spiced as I would have imagined, especially the Jalfrezi. Very good nonetheless, and portions were so huge we couldn’t finish it all.

Prices very reasonable and service efficient and friendly - the waiter even knocked off the popadoms and pickles from the bill as he said we "had ordered a good meal". What a nice gesture.

Malcolm Wilkins - February 1998