Dil Indian Cuisine in Monmouthshire

This was for the takeaway option . The restaurant was empty. On retuning home and looking at curries once opened the boxes were opened they were swimming in an oil slick and had to be well drained. And the portion sizes for the monies were very small containers and on stirring it’s contents each dish , we were able to count 4 small slices of chicken about the size of a small apple about 2/3cms thick. I phoned the curry house to complain about the size and amount of chicken for an order of 4 mains to the tune of £70 picked up ! Very poor value. All the man could say and was getting more agro , no apologies or any thing else . That they had been their 40 years ! And they had not heard that before ! Really poor service and for a take aways . you better hope no one else opens up in Usk or you will not be in business much longer ! I certainly won’t be back no apologies or reparation offered.

Delicious food, very warm, friendly and attentive staff in a really nice little restaurant. Extremely good.

We were a table of 6 and all loved our food, really tasty. Staff really polite and friendly too. We will definitely return.

Lovely, well cooked takeaway. We ordered by phone and it was ready to be picked up at the right time.

Had an average meal, nothing special, the naan bread was burnt on one side, the chicken shashlik was acceptable, had much better elsewhere at a cheaper cost. When I asked politely to remove the 10% service charge, I was met with hostility, the owner questioned me why, on which I answered it is discretionary and the service did not warrant the charge. His answer and attitude was to say I was not welcome again in his restaurant. Rest assured I will never return.

A very tasty meal, efficiently served with much politeness. Hard-working and kind staff and good food. I would just increase the lighting a bit...with some lovely lights, the restaurant could look more welcoming.

Excellent service and delicious food. Had one of the specials, chicken with potato and green chilli - absolutely fantastic! Would heartily recommend.

Had food on Saturday 6th April. It was awful, naan like cardboard, poppadoms cold and soggy, lamb dishes were tough, and it's expensive. There is far better food in the pubs in the town. The Dil is only Indian in the town so has the monopoly but their food standards are very poor. Don't know why we went back.....won't be doing that again.

Excellent restaurant, highly recommended. Food great, staff really pleasant, mellow atmosphere...

This isn’t the first time I’ve been disappointed with my food. I love a good curry and because I’ve not enjoyed there curries before I tend to go to pontypool and go to the Parbin instead. However, I ordered a curry tonight from there hoping it had improved and cause it’s convenient! but I was wrong what a waste of money! I ordered a chicken tikka pathia curry got home placed it on my plate to notice lots of lemon peel. Ive eaten a few pathias in my time and never had lemon in it. It suppose to be a hot sweet curry. I rang to say i think they’ve given me the wrong curry as it didn’t taste like your typical pathia. The person I spoke to wasn’t willing to make this right or willing to listen and placed phone down. How rude. I suggest people should travel to the next town to get a curry. For one you get more value for your money as potions are small at the Dill and the Dill is much more expensive than other Indians I eat at. Never will I set foot in there again.

good tasty food, good service, really glad that we have such quality eat in or takeaway food 7 days a week

Lovely curry, great staff. Had my first ever vindaloo here the other day, nearly blew my head off. Loved it. Vegetable balti another winner. Nice atmos all round really.

Great night out with friends, excellent food and service chicken chaat was stunning, thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience . Service was impeccable and friendly

We had a table for 3 in the window corner. Nice quality food, very quick, friendly service and all in all a very pleasant evening - thank you!

Wife and I ate our evening meal here whilst staying in the area. The service was fab and the food even better. I cannot express how tasty the Maharajah Bhuna was and the rice was delicious and cooked to perfection. My wife had the Chicken Makhani and was equally pleased with her food. The place was quite busy for sit in and very busy on take away orders and I'm not surprised. Will definitely return if in area

Food good, service a bit slow as only one waiter on but he was excellent. A little pricey for the location

All considered a good visit.... good kind service and food was good...

Disappointed. Food was OK for saying we literally stopped in and needed something to eat. But note that there is a mandatory 10% surcharge (hidden on the menu). Was charge £9~ for a Coke and J2O (absolutely ridiculous). Unfortunately we won't be coming again. I genuinely feel the prices are higher to take advantage of the older people that live in the area.

I really cannot believe the positive reviews on here. Either those reviewers settle for poor quality, expensive rubbish or won't, or can't travel to find a decent Indian, though the lack of any decent takeaways in the area may be the problem. We arrived at the Dil (having pre booked) at 6.45. I received my starter at 7.40. The food was very poor, my Samosas were thick and greasy and the filling was somewhat bland. My partner had a lamb bhuna which was mainly inedible because of the awful fatty lamb. Portion sizes are a joke as although we aren't big eaters the portion sizes were miniscule but expensive considering the small amounts and quality, nearly £4.00 for 23 rock hard frozen chips is not good. If a take away with a good business is reading this, go to Usk as the people there seem to have a very limited choice of very bad food. The one star is for the friendly serving staff, the only redeeming feature.

Fine if you really want to eat Indian in Usk, but there are certainly better options

Nice food but awful dessert. I thought a banana split for dessert would be nice to finish the meal. It was just a banana and cheap tasteless vanilla ice cream. So so bland. I told the waiter and he never said anything. I said some chocolate sauce or squirty cream would be nice. He was not happy later when I asked the service charge to be removed. Shame as the rest of the meal was good. Why can’t restaurants do the basics well 🤔🤔🤔

Les plats proposés sont nombreux, déclinés avec plusieurs sauces selon le degré d'épices désiré ( chaque plat est présenté sur la carte avec un nombre de piments variable selon sa force).

We regularly order take away meals from The Dil and have found them to be consistently delicious and rate them as among the best we've tasted

Arrived late into town and it was this or a pasty from the shop. Luckily they were still serving and we had a tasty curry and a couple of beers

Have been eating here for 30+ years and is by far the best Indian I know. Great place*****

What a gem in this little town. We were visiting after completing a charity event. The staff are friendly and attentive and the food was very tasty and well presented. One small criticism the two dished we had that was listed as medium hot, were a little not hot enough for our tastes. However, we recommend this little gem.

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Pleasant enough restaurant inside - service is fine. Pappadums were OK with nice chutnies. The main was exceptionally tasty and well described on the menu - 2 chillies of heat was exactly right with a delicious sauce. The Naan bread was properly cooked and excellent as well. So nothing here not to like.

Well..A Lovely meal on a Monday night..We enjoyed each starter and main meal..Lovely..The service was spot on ..They couldn't do enough for us..even a doggy bag which didn't last the night when I got home..Will be going there again soon...A big Thankyou to them for a excellent and memorable evening..

Good food. Both spicy and mild. Enjoyed it

This is a really great Indian restaurant. A good cut about the usual. Really tasty freshly made food. I love everything on the chef specials menu, and the tandoori king prawns are amazing!

One of the my best experience, food is very tasty and fresh....

Had a few takeaways, had ordered a 1 time turned out to b spicey. Went to dine in myself and friends we orderd dansak it had the spice strength of a madras onwards. A dansak is not ment to be o. The same scale of chilli powder as a madras l. Chef needs retraining on the spices for the dishes served

FOOD POISONING - AVOID THIS RESTAURANT Me and all of my family suffered from food poisoning from the food here. We ordered a takeaway from this restaurant on New Year's Eve and are all in agony. Please avoid this restaurant.

We regularly have an Indian from Dill’s and they are always so tasty. I love the chicken tikka masala, korma sauce, chips and pilau rice. My husband has garlic naan and aloo chat. Every Friday we look forward to a Dill Indian takeawqy. Would highly recommend.

Food was OK, waiter was OK until we asked him for separate bills which for some reason he was very unhappy about. The menu had prices for draught beer which was around £4.50 for a pint of Cobra. We were told that there was no draught, would we like bottled instead?, I ordered a large (660ml) bottle of Kingfisher, which to be pedantic is slightly more than a pint. I had another and was utterly shocked to find when I got the bill that it was £6.95 a bottle! and they tried to charge me for 3 when I only had 2, and they tried to overcharge on the third inspection of the bill. this is profiteering on an unacceptable scale and I will not be visiting again, a veritable tourist trap.

Very enjoyable meal, Meat Madras, Pilau rice, Keema naan. Madras was hot, hot hot and delicious, lots of sauce . Tasty rice and a beautiful soft naan. I'd definitely go again. Only downside for me was that the prices were quite high, and I'm comparing with Kent/London.

Honestly? Quite probably the worst takeaway I have ever seen in my life, and I'm nearly 50. Warm oily slop, basically. We ordered tandoori chicken tikka masala and a chicken madras, saag paneer, mushroom rice, naan, poppadom. About 1/3rd of the sauce was oil. The food was floating in it. The saag paneer was basically huge chunks of cheese swimming in opaque oil with a couple of spinach leaves. The mango chutney which came with the poppadoms, well, there's no other way to describe it, it smelled like old socks, and tasted not much better. The mushroom rice was inedible, it must have been half salt. The chicken dishes were clearly warmed up slop from the weekend, with chunks of plain chicken thrown in and warmed up in the microwave. It smelled bad, too. We genuinely couldn't eat it. I phoned and asked for a refund, the staff were rude, impolite, and refused a refund stating that they couldn't because the boss was not there. What kind of place are they running? Totally out of keeping with the area! To be fair, they did take my mobile and ask if I'd like a replacement meal next time I'm in town. However, I will not be eating there again, not unless they learn how to make food properly, and deal with customers politely.

Excellent choice and fantastic food tbh 👌 OK service. Pricing a little bit "punchy" for the area (more like SE/London price ...) BUT a cracking curry overall ! (Really good music too). We'll definitely be back 😀

Great choice. Traditional Indian fare and reasonable prices.

Hi, ordered a takeaway this evening for my family, after waiting an hour & half which was fine, I walked to collect it at, in my view over priced meals, but when I got back home my partner was dishing out but, noticed we was...

£7.95 for a bottle of Cobra, that’s after questioning had they made a mistake, you won’t be seeing me again, the food was nothing more than average too

Thank you for a wonderful takeaway for 9 people. The food was delicious, masses of it, and still piping hot when we got it home. See you again soon.

The food at this restaurant is full of flavour, I would highly recommend you to try this place.. The best egg fried rice I have ever tasted, and the chicken tikka Madras was full of flavour.. Nice and friendly staff, good price.. If we lived...

Good carry out food, friendly and helpful staff

Food average and service was average. Initially tried charging me £11 for two pints of coke which were flat as a pancake. Challenged the bill and the two cokes were reduced to £8?! £4 for a pint of coke is crazy!

Thoroughly enjoyed our visit here. The food was delicious and the service was excellent. Nothing to fault! Would visit again

Had a take away ,completely burned Nan bread,greasy curry and below average tandoori chicken.This is the worst Indian I had for a long time.I was on holidays in Wales and tried this but will never go again here.I want to add the photos of Nan bread,so everyone can see how much it was burned,however,couldn’t find the option .

Used to be excellent, has tumbled downhill of late in terms of food quality and service. Would not recommend the Dill any more sadly. I think there could have been a change of management and the quality is now terrible

Just had a takeaway very very disappointing. We havent been here for a few years due to dissatisfaction and over pricing but decided to give it another chance hoping things had changed. Jalfrezi was cooked chicken with almost raw chunky onions a few chillies and 2 small pieces of pepper the king prawn bhuna was like eating grissle totally overcooked and koeman's were raw dough inside sticky and gooey the wife enjoyed her tandoori chicken bhuna definitely last visit.

Nice food really friendly staff

Once again great food & service. If you visit Ali and his team you will be well looked after & most important well fed.

We have been going to Dil off and on for over 20 years but it is currently producing the best takeaway I can remember. Would currently recommend.

We have often ordered take away from The Dil and is always good. However these last 2 weeks have been exceptional. Best Indian Take Away we have ever had. Fresh, fantastic spices yet great flavour still. I have always rated this Indian, however, whoever is...

Amazing food, friendly staff 5 stars 😁😁

Management with attitude! We waited 20 minutes for drink and when we asked to order we were told we could wait as we hadn’t booked in advance. There were on 2 tables occupied in the whole place. He said he was run off his feet. Rude and pushy manager who just wanted his customers gone. Again, 2 tables occupied till the end. Food is over priced for the quality. Never again!

Situated in the heart of Usk Town, this restaurant has a menu catering for most tastes and has a comfortable ambiance. The staff are friendly and polite and the prices are reasonable. We have been there both for the restaurant and the take-away and both...

Fabulous meal last night, this has got to be the best Indian Restaurant ever. Friendly, attentive, professional service. Food to die for! We had poppadoms and chutney tray, chicken jalfrezi, maharajah bhuna, pilau rice, poratha and chapati to wipe up every last bit of this mouthwatering feast. We have been coming to this restaurant for the last 9 years, it is THE best. HIGHLY RECOMMEND🙌🏼

Really good quality food and warm hospitality definitely recommend!

the variety of oriental food available was excellent, the flavours are very good and a choice of regional food good

I have been having food from here’s since I was a young boy, food always amazing, great tasting, and fresh. Have never ever found a Indian takeaway to match this one. Will keep coming back.

Hi I ha e been eating madras for the last 40 year's this was the worst madras I've ever eaten cabidge b water an curry powder

I couldn't comment on the food, because we didn't eat anything there. We arrived on a quiet Sunday evening after an afternoon party, and did not want a large meal. We decided on one starter and one main meal to share between us, but to...

Had a fantastic takeaway from this Indian restraurant, The food was cooked loverly using a fine blend of authentic spices. The meal was ample for three people and great value for money

Delicious food here! You will need to be hungry but fabulous flavours and friendly welcome. They do a really busy take out service here and if I'm being really picky that does slightly spoil the ambiance for diners as a lot of people coming and...

Food was nice good size portions the only thing that put me off going back was the price still good .thou.

Food was lovely but service was shocking. Felt rushed as was told Chef was going home. Then beer tasted off and we had to fight with waiter to get it changed. Also tried to over charge on the bill so check yours !

The food is fine. Nothing spectacular but reasonable Indian food. However, the price for a family puts this in the upper end of dining costs and given the environment and ambience, this unfortunately isn't somewhere we will be able to visit very often, despite living...

Good food Nice staff Nice pint 🍺 Chicken jalfrezi and extra spice Some updates required in the restaurant area to get 100% marks

Arrived at 21.20 tonight and the welcome we got was ‘you can come in as long as you order quickly as we close in 40 minutes’. We’ve given this over-priced, badly managed restaurant too many second chances. Never again!

Came here as a group of three, last March. Service wasn't rapid, but the restaurant was obviously busy. Great dish of Maharaj chicken with minced beef. Fairly hot. Nice Peshwari Naan and pilau rice. Overall came to £60 including drinks. Recommended.

This is our favourite Indian Restaurant been going there regularly for about 18 years once again the meal we had was excellent full flavour and plenty of it , but it's been about 6 months since our last visit we had roughly the same meals as last time may be a pint or so difference but the price was £18/£19 more expensive . That's an increase of about 27 percent ... Sorry won't be returning any time soon .. 4 stars for the meal only one for price increase.,..☹️☹️

Lovely food, never disappoints.

Visited for a family meal, having eaten in many Indian restaurants all over the UK but not here thought it was about time

Have been a few times before but not for a long while. Went for my birthday with my family and we had an excellent meal.

So pleased that our latest visit exceeded out expectations, particularly after a couple of recent disappointments. Thank you Dil, we'll be back again soon.

Drinks a bit pricey but food ok

Didn't even stop long enough to order as the menu was just in my eyes far to expensive. In my local we pay £52 on average for our meal including drinks, here £52 for the set without and £4 for a plain naan is just too much!!

Very good range of dishes, waiter was happy to ask chef add a favourite not on the menu, service always v pleasant and attentive, occasionally food a bit slow coming out as also running a very popular take away service. Overall - excellent and I frequently travel past other Indian restaurants to eat there

We visited the Dil on an extremely wet Friday evening, firstly noticing there were few people eating. The welcome wasn't the warmest which didn't make us feel happy. When received our starters one was wrong this meant one person nearly finished their starter before the second arrived. The meals were delicious well cooked and really really good. Everything was excellent except the charges, which we felt were very expensive. We wouldn't be able to afford regular visits. Sorry

Excellent food and good service, I will be back

The Dil has never let us down. The staff are always very welcoming and the food is always good. We have never had a poor meal or evening at the Dil

We were a large party and were made very welcome. The food was delicious and the service excellent. We had a very good evening.

Excellent meal and excellent service

First time to use the restaurant, the service was 100 percent with staff well dressed and very attentive. The food well presented and very tasty, We will use the restaurant when are in the area again

We had a meal here the night before we got married. The manager worked with us to make this possible. The food came out quickly meaning we had a lot of poppadoms left over as we'd ordered two per person in case of delay! Everyone gave positive feedback about their food including the two that had steak!

We enjoyed the meal here, it was getting late so we went in and ordered something quick. My chicken chat was a bit disappointing as it was just served on its own. The dhansak I ordered was very tasty though! My partner ordered a different starter and main, both fine, we also ordered rice and chips. All served fast, piping hot, plenty of it and tasted quite good. Reasonable prices. I would try it here if you haven't been before- not bad at all!!

Collected our take away and once home realised we were 1 curry short. I rung Dil immediately who said it could be ready in 15 minutes or we could have credit next time we order and the credit would be written up on board for next order. As we live 7 miles away we decided to share out what we had as we wasn’t going to let it spoil our evening over(£50 spent). A few nights ago we decided to order a take away and told them we had a meal on credit (approx £7) we was told our name wasn’t on the board so could not have the credit they owed us. The manager was really arrogant, we didn’t go ahead with order and they have lost a customer, Shame as we’ve been a customer for many years.

Poor service they couldn't find our order so we told them what we ordered, they looked though the tickets and said they found it, they verbally repeated our order and gave us completely different curries instead of saying they haven't prepared it.

We've dined in and had takeaways on many occasions - always at least very good, so were looking forward to a carry out in front of the tennis this evening. Our telephone order was taken tersely, completely lacking in any degree of friendliness and I was virtually hung up on at the end. We were told 30 minutes and arrived punctually, only to wait a further 15 mins for our order. £30 later (for 2!) we arrived home to a bag of disasters:- half tandoori chicken - dry; accompanying salad - miserable, thrown together chunks; chips instead of a Peshwari naan and goodness only knows what the lamb tikka pasanda was supposed to be - pappy and tasteless with the texture of wallpaper paste. We phoned to express our disappointment only to end up even more disappointed. Please just be a blip!!!! We want to come back and enjoy again.

The service is good, the food is nice. If you aren't familiar with Indian food then the menu could do with a bit more description of the food rather than just the name of the dish.

Ordered a takeaway. On the plus side they do vegan food. Had to wait past stated pick up time for meal. Jengha Puri was a little tasteless. Shisk kebab good. Vegan biryani was ok. They use plastic pots for takeaway salad which is not exactly environmentally friendly.

We have been coming here for 30 years and Ali has always been very professional.Always good polite service and excellent food

Every time I visit my friend in Wales, he takes me for my chicken korma “fix” at Dil. Sometimes we meet friends, or it’s just us. I want to try other dishes, but I always come back to my comfort food of korma, naan bread and pappadum. The service is friendly and quick, and without pressure to turn the table. If it’s during the summer, you can enjoy the view of the flowers lining the bust street in Usk. It’s truly one of my favorite places in this lovely little towns.

Very tasty food and a warm welcome by the staff

Us Brummies know what a decent curry tastes like and this takeaway surpassed our opinion of what a takeaway tastes like outside of the Birmingham Balti mile. Every one of the meals was delicious. Took about an hour to prepare but we expected that, missed off the garlic nan but I can live with that. Well recommended,

Couples weekend away. Ordered takeaway for eleven.. very good food and as Brummies we are seasoned Indian food connoisseurs. Only one thing wrong, I received plain naan instead of garlic naan but very good curry

Not value for money, poor customer service, won't go there again

Awful service!! The takeaway service seemed to take priority over restaurant service!! 2 hours from sitting down to get our meals!! Never again!

Misses went to collect take away from the dil indian restaurant. Service was very polite and friendly BUT