Alum International in North East Derbyshire

Have recently become a regular customer of here, ordering at least once a month this year. Highly recommend returning/ordering several times and trying multiple of their varied menu items to find your own favorite as they're quite differing in taste. In my most recent order as of writing this review, I tried the Sri Lankan crab curry which was particularly tasty! - I've yet to have anything I dislike, I also recommend the APNA style dishes too! Always great door service when being delivered, polite and kind every time I've ordered.

We ordered a variety of dishes all were very salty which spoiled the meal and overpowerd the flavours

Let's start by saying that the food is amazing! I can't fault it. No, not the best I've had but it's certainly up there with the best. However, I have noticed on several occasions that when the restaurant gets busy, they just cannot cope and mistakes start to happen. I ordered online last weekend and arrived 30 minutes later which is the time I was told via the app that the food would be ready. I had to wait another 20 minutes. I could see how busy they were, the phone constantly ringing and other, customers in the restaurant and other people coming in to collect food. The wait didn’t bother me, it was understandable and I accept that. However, when I did get my food and took it home (4 miles away), I opened the bag to find part of my starter missing and totally the wrong main dish! I rang the restaurant and the young lady apologised and blamed the new packer. She said that the boss would be ‘straight out’ with the correct main and they would also resend the starter in full. An hour and 10 minutes later, hardly straight away, there was a knock at the door. I thanked them and took the food inside. Inside the bag was my main course as originally ordered but no replacement starter as promised. The main was no more than luke warm!! Again, I rang the restaurant and they offered me a free main course of my choosing next time. The whole experience spoiled my evening to be honest. I was really looking forward to the meal but having to eat part of the starter, then wait over an hour, to then have to microwave the rice and the main course, it really spoiled things for me. By all means, if you enjoy good Indian food, try this restaurant. You will not be disappointed with the meal. However, do not visit or order takeaway on busy nights!

Brilliant even got free popadoms :)

Missing items in our order, replaced with items we didn’t want and the curry’s we ordered were lacking in flavour. The lamb biryani tasted more like mutton, extremely chewy. The nans were broken up and tiny for what they charge…Overall, extremely dissatisfied and would not recommend.