British indian Restaurant - Pemberton

There aren't very many options for dinner in Pemberton at night. Despite coming from a part of the world where Indian cuisine is common, we kept our expectations in check when dining at this place. The restaurant seems to be run by a fairly young couple (you might even spot their kids in the backrooms!). Service from one pair of the couple was a little cool - she flatly told us that naans were not available - while the partner seemed to be a little more concerned about our overall experience of the place. Portions in the several curries we had were quite generous, but the parathas were way too expensive in my opinion, and indeed, a little too oily. The place could also use some refurbishment. It looks a little dated.

We managed to get some curry here, finally, after trying to find out when it was open. We had a meal on Saturday night after trying each night from the previous Tuesday. No-one locally could help us either with opening times. We ordered chicken biryani, chickpea curry, aloo ghobi, paratha and steamed rice. The bill seemed very cheap for all the food. 20mins later we were back to collect and asked the 'owner' about opening times. Apparently, it will be open soon all 7 days of the week. Pity we shall miss more opportunity to visit. When we got our take-away home, the reason for the lower than expected cost was apparent, no chicken biryani. However what we had we enjoyed. The chickpea curry was in fact pea curry with potato, nice, but we had more potato in the aloo ghobi. The paratha could also have benefitted from being a bit crispier as they were very oily. Naan bread was not available on the night we visited. We did not actually miss the chicken dish and would have had too much food if we'd had that too. We would look forward to revisiting but would make sure our order was correctly taken. Food could also have been a little bit spicier.

Good food and lovely service. Good to have another option other than the pub. Be nice to see him have more support. Recommend this place.

Nice clean restaurant. Nice layout but the food i found although very fresh tasteless. We ordered the butter chicken which really didn't have alot of flavour but plenty of chicken! The garlic naan was dry and a little hard to swallow but the butter bread was so good!

I previously gave this place a 3/average, I now wish to make it known I was wrong - it should have been 1/terrible. Why? read on.We went back here after previous review, because the place we wanted to go to was full.Seeing as they were supposed to have a chef we asked for a chicken tikka masala - easy you would have thought. Seems not. We were fobbed off with the chef (?) telling us that Chicken Kadai was the same!!!! NO NO NO. We eat a lot of indian food, in a lot of places, around the world. Kadai and tikka masala ARE NOT THE SAME.So either the 'chef' didn't know the difference, or couldn't be bothered to make it, so they thought to fob us off.However, seeing as they didn't have tikka masala we made a different choice. It tasted the same as the previous meal from the night before AND the pakora we had was the worse ever - so much so that it went into the bin! A mush of peas and some other non identified vegetables between two pieces of fried bread! The thing justo oozed grease and tasted as dreadful as it sounds.I completely dreadful meal that has only one advantage.....and that is to appreciate good food you must first know what bad food is.....thank you British Indian Restaurant for re-confirming what terrible Indian is