Essence Of Spice in Cheshire West and Chester

Came here for food with Chico as he was appearing in panto.... amazing food and quality service

Takeaway collection, absolutely dreadful and cold food. Ordered and told it would be 20 minutes which was accurate, a 5 minute drive home and everything was cold. Onion bhajis cold and must have been fried and refried numerous times as like concrete, shami kebab cold and the first time in any Indian no omelette on it. 2 different curries ordered but looked and tasted exactly the same, though one had peppers and onion in it and both were cold. Rice and nan bread also cold, best thing we're the poppadoms. If this is meant to be one of the best in the area, goodness knows what the worst are like. Never again would we try here

Absolutely lovely food and decor. Staff lovely.

Fantastic value speedy delivery and food was delicious

Lovely buffet with loads to choose from

I ordered the following food from here and I can honestly say it was one of the best. I would definitely recommend the Essence of Spice Special Pilau Rice Tandoori Lamb Chops. Excellent

Refurbished restaurant. Great food and service. Ideal for anything from couples to parties. Went for a mid week curry and although the restaurant was quiet, the staff were friendly and made it a great night. The food was amazing. I like a madras and in some places you get heat but no flavour. This was very tasty, a great consistency and plenty of meat. The restaurant has recently been refurbished with new furniture and carpets. Ideal for large gatherings. Also offer a Sunday buffet and kids menu. Great prices too. Will be back.

Love this local Indian restaurant. Have come to know the team and they serve consistenly great food. The Sunday buffet is amazing value for money. Host and team look after you and are genuinely friendly. Great family atmosphere and locals love it.

Best Indian I’ve ever had don’t think I’ll go to another again definitely recommend had a late night curry with some friends and was amazing lamb tikka korma rice and chips was amazing

Ordered king prawn shashlic , prawns like rubber and cold , tandoori paste not cooked couple of burned onions . Very poor for 13.95.

Once again cant fault the food and service at great value for money with the addition of friendly staff. Great venue for every occasion!!!

Went on a Saturday night food was really good . Service was a bit hit and miss but overall worth a visit

excellent, excellent delivery, excellent meal well prepared, pipping hot, excellent value.

They forgot my poppadoms and when I rang, refused to come back with them. The onion bargies where heavy and tasteless. The chicken tikka had no flavour. Everything was substandard. Never again!

Lovely friendly staff and great food.

I had the lamb rogan josh, and it was one the tastiest curries I've had in ages.

First time we have been here we came for the Sunday Buffett . Amazing could not fault it the food was fresh tasty and hot plenty to choose from . Would definitely recommend we will be going back ..

perfect best meal I've had in ages

Never a bad meal. An item was forgotten from the order. I called up and it was with me ten minutes later. This is not a complaint but to show how quick they rectified the mistake. I’ve never been let down by essence of spice 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Never been disappointed with the service and quality

Never been let down. Always good quality

Masala sauce had an overbearing vinegar flavour, nans small and lacked flavour, dips also had an odd taste to them. Only positive was they gave extra poppadoms but unfortunately nothing to dip them in as remainder was really disappointing.

Had to call to check delivery as its a 10 min drive but 35 mins later after notification of delivery, still not arrived. Was told there were 2 drops. Food was warm but not hot.

Food was absolutely freezing the nann bread was cold and Rock solid the rice was cold

Top quality meal. Arrived hot, fresh, and tasted amazing. Will definitely be ordering from here again. Delivery driver was polite and arrived early. Would recommend trying the South Indian Murghi 👍🏼 Thank you.

Ordered and realised I ordered to the wrong adress called the restaurant to change adress but was still delivered to wrong adress

We had a great family meal. We're a big curry eating family and have tried lots of places across the UK and this compares very well. Food was tasty and generous with good quality ingredients (we had the sisilia, korai, korma, and butter chicken). There are good deals on offer for set meals and also deals for some drinks that was a nice touch. Nice atmosphere with well maintained decor and furniture. Service was very friendly and professional. One of my children has a peanut allergy, and they have very clear allergy information and stated when we asked that they use no peanuts at all. Would recommend!

Outstanding amazing quality ingredients will make this my favourite place

The meal I just had was absolutely gorgeous and will definitely be ordering again 5+

Good food, good price, excellent service.

Excellent service bang on time and not too expensive,I ll be using this service again.

Food was meant to be delivered between 9:20-9:25 it’s now 22:00 o’clock send half hour ago and they said my food was out for delivery 30 mins later still not received it I ordered 2 hours ago after work this is a joke

Absolutely 💯 perfect 👌 thankyou 😀

Been coming here for over 10yrs and we have never had a bad meal. Staff great food excellent, will continue to come here for many more yrs.

Worst Indian I’ve ever had, Chicken is hard and curry has no flavour at all

Where’s my food it hasn’t came

Everything was gorgeous - perfect .

on time food always nice but having to wait for missing item though so not 100% like normal

Went for the Sunday buffet today. A great selection of both starters and mains. Everything was re-plenised regularly on our visit, we will certainly return. Staff were friendly an helpful 🙂

We visited last night nice and clean a little cold in there food was amazing served fresh and hot staff friendly and helpful definitely recommend a visit we will definitely be back The head waiter was friendly and helpful as partner wanted to try something new so he recommended a nice lamb dish tea time special is £18.95 and you get a good selection including starter main rice sides and dessert

Food is lovely, staff are helpful and a good laugh. Would come again and recommend to anyone who’s looking for a good curry

Always great food and service at Essence. Very friendly atmosphere and our go to for a curry. Would recommend. Buffer is good es well.

Delivery driver doesn’t bother to look at notes, resulting in food being late. What’s the point in leaving notes

every time i get from this restaurant i ascend to a higher place of being

Really good food and excellent service and prices. Had the tea time special £18.95 value for money. Would go again. Highly recommend.

Meeting with friends we like to do around 2 months always come here fabulous food and food highly recommend 👌 thank you so much to chefs and staff great prices fabulous food

this food just gets better and better . told them.last time they missed a rice out this time they replaced it love this food what a Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrry

Very disappointed tonight . The lamb was really overcooked.

spent 35 quid on food was heaven as always . just sent one rice instead of 2

Food was delivered to reception and no phone call even though I left my phone no. With restaurant. Everything cold!

Probably our 6th visit to date: Table for 2. Busy night, service was very good. Value for money. Can’t fault the food at all…….. BUT….. when we’re actually eating our meals we don’t want the waiter ( sounded like he had a Geordie accent) standing at the table rabbiting on about his 6 daughters, who are a blessing from Allah as they can bear children, and how life on earth is just a stage in the process of life, and when you die is when life begins ( paraphrasing ) I just want to have a meal and enjoy my night without a Muslim sermon.

Abysmal. After a few Sunday buffets always at least 70% of it is empty, and searching for any meat within the main courses is often like Mission Impossible, but of course they still want their full £15 at the end. Stingy cheap-skates that take the full urine. AVOiD!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and the popadoms were stale and the chicken wings were gross 🤮

The food here was absolutely amazing! I'm not one for spicy food but I wanted to try another curry... luckily there was a young staff memeber near me who kindly helped me by explaining what were the mild ones and what were the spicy ones. They also do chicken nuggets in here and I alway have to have some whenever I visit this place because they are just the best! They also do do a big bowl of naan bread cut up into big bits and they are always done just right. They do puddings but I only have that now and then, they sell alcohol as well as soft drinks and the staff are always so kind when we go in there as well. They have recently had a bit of a revamp and the colour of the walls is beautiful with the big mirrors inside. This place is disabled friendly as well as family friendly. Keep up the good work 👍

Went for the Sunday buffet such a good selection true value for money the staff are very friendly and welcoming relaxing atmosphere

Really nice food, ordered popadoms, they didn’t arrive, dips did, still lovely meal

You accepted my order but you are closed I had to go on line to find out not good

Lovely food nice and hot and fresh

Sent two veg curry's which were not good at all. For £52 I expect meat and a bit of taste to my food

I ordered expecting to wait . At 8pm I had a Just Eat Notification to say food was on its way . Time given 8.00- 8.20. I phoned restaurant at 8.40 and was told it had left & it would be 5-10 mins . It actually arrived just after 9

1st order with you guys very impressed, will definitely be ordering again soon.

Had a great meal . Great service lovely food . Staff super friendly and helpful . Would recommend to anyone

Food was mehhh, nothing special. Wouldn't order from them again.

Although late, they apologised , food was excellent and we would definitely order from essence of spice again! Thanks for the refund on delivery, much appreciated!

The curry sauce was disgusting, I asked for korma and it didn’t taste like curry and did not end up getting ordered

Excellent food, arrived nice and hot!!

This is the second consecutive time the food was 30 min late

Great mixed wrap and Tandori prawns

It's not rocket science but when paying and seated for a meal its the whole package. This place misses on so many levels. The Curry Club.

Flavour not as good today. Balti was very oily

Gutted! Tried these as they came highly recommended. No chicken in the chicken biriani. Such a shame as it tasted so nice. Should of stayed with goa at least you get meat I. Your meal.

For the first time ever myself & my husband did not enjoy our meal tonight. Mine went in the bin... awful.

Onion bhajis were soggy, poppadoms soft, pakoras soggy. Only the curry felt fresh and well cooked. Everything else was disappointing

Food was of a decent standard great quality for the price

Food has always been great. Unfortunately, on this occasion, lamb was delivered instead of chicken

Poor service, average food and rude, insulting staff. Couldn't seem to cope with a large group of 10 although there were other similar size groups there. Orders got mixed up and my meal which was a Chef Recommendation Murghi Badami was so extremely sweet it was almost unedible, cashews were burnt black and took more than 5 mins for the rice to be delivered to the table. Staff 'banter' was light hearted to start but ended up being rude and quite offensive. None of the group will be going there again.

When the order arrived.......it was cold......rang the restaurant, person said " what do you want me to do, it's busy" great customer service !!!!!!!

Absolute banging curries. cant beat the essence, best curries around, best service around.

The estimated time for delivery was one hour-1 Hr 20, the food was 1 Hr 50 min and I was told at the 1 Hr 20 time when I rang that it had been delivered on the app (cynically, is this some issue on the app to stop them appearing late?). I was also told it would be 10 min and the driver was on his way when it took a further 30 min. This wasn’t a big order and was not a complex one. Really disappointing

Tasty chicken chat lovely and hot food quick service. Recommend.

I’ve ordered from here a few times now and the food is always delicious. It was a little lat this time but not by much and I was kept informed about it. The food was piping hot and generous portions. Fast becoming my favourite for Indian food. Highly recommended.

I have eaten in and had takeaway from Essence of Spice, and I have always been impressed

Food was so bad couldn’t even eat it was burnt popadoms are stale will never eat here again

Consistently get my order wrong. I will not order from here again .

Great food. This is now my go to curry house

Message said it had been delivered when we were still waiting!

Food was delicious and great quality

Went for the Sunday buffet, seemed to have a good range of starters and mains, nothing that was particularly spicy though. Found the chicken in most of the dishes was very dry. Found that dishes weren’t topped up very often, so didn’t taste very fresh, and not much meat left. Personally think there are better places available locally that offer a buffet on a Sunday.

The food was good just a shame that one of the dishes was missing so had to ring up and ask them to send it out. The missing item took a while to arrive but the delivery lady was very polite and couldn’t apologise enough but it’s not her fault, whoever packed the order must have left it on the side. On the whole a decent curry house and easy to order through Just Eat.

Amazing meal, super staff, super clean definitely my go to from now on, cheers 👌👍👏😁

Gorgeous starters and the Massala was tasty

Food was delicious speaking of customer service it was excellent

Not getting the quality we use to get from here,

Food was lovely and delivered within the time specified on just eat. Will be ordering from here again.

Great Food & Very Helpful Staff 👍

Masala tasted quite vinegary. Bombay had a lot of excess oil that leaked into the bag. Naga chat starter was lovely as well as the bhajis. Delivery on time.

First time complaining about Essence of spice normally excellent, food was late and cold, onion bhaji burnt not a great experience I'm afraid 😕

My order had delivery time of 19:35-19:55 and didn’t arrive. I called the restaurant 3 times and they advised they tried to call the driver but no answer. I told them To cancel my order and they said I’ve got to tell the driver and they’ll return it and they’ll process my cancellation. Absolute joke of service.

The best Indian restaurant in Ellesmere Port, food always piping hot and very tasty

Absolutely delish! And nice portion size!

Lovely take away Super fresh very tasty and lovely and hot Will definitely be ordering again in the future