10.8.19 Chilies Pontarddulais

Very busy restaurant. Mum had chicken and chips. Tesni had jeera chicken and Alan has a hot chicken Goa. Alan was impressed with his sheek keebab starter.
Mum got confused with the spoons!

Very big portions.

7 1/2

3.8.19 River Spice Reading

With Jackie and Adrian proper serviettes. Poppadoms not crispy enough.
Lovely setting setting, no Indian music.
Food a little greasy.
Good company.
Thanks Jackie for driving, enjoyed my couple of drinks
6 1/2

27.7.19 Twyford Haweli

Beautiful decorating. Table layout. Coconut in pickles Heavy accents

Alan tried am IPA Malabar

Shared a giant onion bagee

Black tablecloth under white.

Alan's dish very hot.

Oranges served

Proper towels opened for us

Complimentary liquor

Apparently visited by  George Clooney and Theresa May

Really liked this restaurant. Will visit again

 8 1/2

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Dakshin Earley 17.2.18

A long drive along the M4 to Earley with our friends Esther and David.
I liked the purple decor and the linen serviettes.
The poppadums and dips were nice and the men said their starter were lovely
They didn't have my usual so had a mixed platter instead and Alan had Chicken Chettinadu.
menu was a little different.
Restaurant too far to travel to without being extra special.
7 1/2

18.5.19 Blue Elephant, Sandford on Thames

Located in a pub, the Catherine wheel.

Lovely curly poppadoms bits, see photo.

Annoying table of drunk people with a girl with extremely piercing voice!

Nice  crispy onion bhaji starter.

The noisy tavble left. Hooray.

Alan had Naga chicken.

It was very nice.

Lovely table cloths

Nice Elizabeth Shaw mints

 8 it may have been an 8 1/2 if a more Indian environment.

1.12.18 Ishan , Newbury

This restaurant used to be Nawab but is now under new manager.

White linen tablecloth and napkins.

Poppadoms a little soft. 

Coke, not a full glass.

Quite spicy samosas.

Some variety on the menu.

I've had tastier chicken tikka but it was ok

Service a little slow but is was a race night.

It was better than the old Nawab that used to be here.

Towels weren't hot but we're opened for us.

After eights 

7/10

4.5.19 La La Batley

A bit different. No alcohol served!

Alan said samosas were a little greasy. Robert's mixed keebab starter was massive.

Black and white theme with big crystal chandeliers.

Service was quite good.

Food disappointing though Robert liked his and Sheila said her  chicken  tikka Masala was nice though when I tasted her masala sauce it was very dry and quite tasteless and thr chicken bits were small.

My sizzler wasn't sizzling. Weird served with rice on the plate. papwr nakins

No tablecloth.

6/10