Sonali - Selby

Not sure why trip advisor still claims that this is the top Indian food in tadcaster. it was closed when we went out of our way to visit, and there was no sign of it reopening

That's up there with the best Indian meal I had. Welcome to a beautiful clean restaurant of two very courtesy friendly staff. started with poppadomen and pickel tablet, after a mixed kebab and a shami kebab and for net. we had a tikka korahi, sonali special, fried rice and garlauch naan. the whole food was fresh, tasty and perfectly seasoned. the personal was great, asked us how long we wanted to cure between and were not at all insane. do not hesitate to recommend and will soon call again what a find!

Great eating and freendly service, I will pay for another visit. very recommended restaurant.

We were in this restaurant 3 times during the visit of the family in the opposite. What do you want me to say? it is the best Indian itself and hubby ever had! from the pickle tablet, eating the wein etc. the personal is very friendly and...efficient! five stars! try it that they are not disappointed.

Visited Sonali with great expectations on Saturday evening but unfortunately was left feeling disappointed. Staff were friendly and courteous and I don't have any complaints about that. No delays with the food which all came hot and in a timely manner. Started off well with...popodums and the pickle tray. the pickles were full of flavour and the popodums perfectly crisp so it started off perfectly. Ordered both fish and chicken pakoras for starter (shared) and these were certainly passable. My friend loved the fish pakoras although I the fish for me lacked flavour could have been anything in the middle really. It was the main that was the biggest disappointment ordered the garlic naan, rice and chapatis were all fine but really let down by two out of three mains being very watery. One of my friends ordered a Phal (extra hot) and that was a nice thick sauce/gravy which had just the right amount of spice but the Chicken Bhuna and my lamb dish (didn't catch the name as I asked for a recommendation) in terms of the sauce had more water than anything else and as a result failed to really flavour the meat. normally im used to seeing the meat coated with sauce rather than swimming in it like a broth but maybe that's the way they do it there. Very curious. Rose wine was like paint stripper very poor quality. Extremely acidic and almost a bitter taste and bereft of any real flavour. The draught Cobra much more palatable but I'd avoid the Rose personally. Price wise it was very reasonable at just under £20 per head including drinks so no complaints there but the jewel in the crown of any Indian is the main course and that came up short. Based on that i wouldn't visit again.