Liam (liam-james-macginley)

My family and I went to this restaurant at the request of my mother to celebrate her birthday.<br/ She told me it was a cafe during the day and an indian restau... leer más My family and I went to this restaurant at the request of my mother to celebrate her birthday.<br/ She told me it was a cafe during the day and an indian restaurant at night so I was bracing myself for ordinary food, especially when we arrived to an empty restaurant, save one middle aged couple.<br/ What I found instead was an little known gem.<br/ <br/ The Positives<br/ <br/ We ordered 4 dishes, one was a non indian dish for the fussy eater, a burger with delicious herbed, thick cut chips, rare to have a range of non indian options.<br/ <br/ The other dishes had the best tasting sauces of any indian I have so far eaten in Brisbane. <br/ I've been to all the indian restaurants take away joints in New Farm and Paddington, including the Nepalese, and more around Brisbane, these were the best.<br/ The tikka masala and the fish curry were phenomenal delicious sauce with a deep, rich taste, never too strong, plentiful portions of gorgeous, perfectly cooked barramundi and chicken.<br/ We also ordered the lamb rogan josh the sauce was fantastic, with plentiful meat portions but was overall dissappointed, as per below. <br/ The garlic naan was plentiful for the price and did taste good, surprised at the amount they gave us, the waitress assuring us that one serving was enough for 3 people.<br/ <br/ The prices were excellent, I was surprised when the bill came, thinking how much less each dish was than Miss India, yet so much better! They also let us split the bill in two.<br/ The service from the waitress was prompt and understanding, never bothersome.<br/ The restaurant was clean, well appointed and spacious with comfortable seating.<br/ <br/ <br/ The Negatives<br/ <br/ While it was a weekday, the meals took at least 35 minutes or more to be served after ordering. I admit it looked like there was only one chef and one waitress.<br/ When we ordered the prawn dish, we were informed that they no longer had prawns due to the time of year and confusingly hadn't stocked them for months. <br/ As alluded to earlier, the lamb in the Rogan Josh, while large portions, was cut into 1 inch x 1 inch cubes, and was large and dry. Cutting them was a chore and the taste was disappointing, while the sauce was very good.<br/ Cooking them in much smaller cut sizes would have been ideal.<br/ The garlic naan did taste good, but were on the thin and dry side.<br/ <br/ I will certainly be going back again and recommending to friends but hope to see some (minor) improvement in the above.