Haweli Of Barnes Indian Cuisine in Richmond upon Thames

Love this place. Genuinely the best biryani I’ve had in a long while

The order of food was tasteless . No flavour to prawn curry - no chilli in king madras - use of frozen chicken strips for the chicken curry plus it all room temperature upon delivery We ordered a delivery, I had the king prawn madras, absolutely disgusting no heat, no taste was like the chef had put a tin of tomatoes and oil with some chopped up pepper and onion, , my sons chicken curry no real flavour full of oil and the chicken was very low grade, onion bhaaji stodgy like you get from Tesco, I can’t believe they’re churning out inedible food. My wife had the prawn Korma and couldn’t really comment on her dish as she lost her taste through covid lucky her Will never get anything from here again, I’ve lived in Barnes all my life and won’t be recommending any of my family or friends to eat there. We’ve only just returned after years of going elsewhere and thought we’d try Haweli again We require a full refund £46 and the same dishes re sent to us

Fairly modest, comfortable, and welcoming. Lovely food. Kingfisher on draft. A touch pricey, but very nice.

Absolutely love this restaurant we have used it for years the food is very nice we haven’t had a bad meal yet all staff are so friendly we have always had takeout we would highly recommend

Amazing Indian food one of the best I’ve had since my last trip to Mumbai honestly amazing not a bad word to say from the quality to the service and I cannot stop recommend the tandoori mixed grill

I ordered the methi and garlic chilli king prawn curry - the food was full of oil and didn’t taste of anything, I tried to flavour the food myself at home but it couldn’t be saved unfortunately.

I'm not sure what has changed at this restaurant. We have eaten food from this outlet for many years. It's been the best around. Unfortunately the last 2 orders we have had, have been very disappointing. No flavour, very greasey, and just not what we have been used to. I don't know if it's a change of chef or ingredients, but extremely disappointing.

Recently moved in the area and Haveli is our closest Indian, we walked in & ordered a takeaway from there last week. The restaurant was completely empty and we were told in a very unfriendly way that would be a 45 minute wait for a takeaway. The menu is much better value than others in the village so we were keen to try. When we did have the food it looked delicious but it was incredibly bland, we were adding our own salt, chilli & methi at home to our dishes - never a good start! Won’t be going back anytime time soon but tried another indian further down the village which was fantastic!!!!

Had a takeaway last night. One of the worst Indian meals ever! Chicken tikka just tasted of paprika, absolutely not tikka at all. Curries were flavourless with really watery sauce, onion bhaji dripping in oil, The whole meal (over £85!) Really poor quality

Great food rice potions should be larger very helpful staff great service

Great food and friendly staff, one our our favourites for take away

We’ve just moved to the area and this was our first meal out. It did not disappoint! The onion bhajis were absolutely delicious - crispy and full of flavour and all our main dishes were fantastic too. Highly recommend!

Awful. Staff not interested. Even though the place was empty they couldn't care less. Walked out. Definitely avoid

Love this place : authentic and delicious - no pretence just good solid curries - always quick and they have even given us some freebies for our custom - it is closed on a Monday and Tuesday so we tried somewhere else in Kew that got good reviews - big regrets - will save my takeaway budget for weds to Sunday next time !

The people are really nice here and the food tastes amazing!

Really reliable Indian food- you can actually taste the ingredients and spices rather than a mouthful of pre-made sauce. Nice people, well priced.

Delicious baking and keema naan. Friendly service

We used St Margarets' Haweli for years and really loved it so when we moved, we tried the Barnes one and were massively disappointed and didn't try again for a couple of years. We decided to risk it again this week and I feel compelled to review it because it was great – perhaps not excellent, but certainly very good. Maybe they have a new chef, or we just got a bad night last time? Anyway, we'll be back. ––––––––––––––––––– Update: had another take away since my last review and it was decidedly underwhelming: not bad in any way, just not very special. Nice people, good service, but the food can be very... uninspiring...

Great food, plenty of choice, beautifully cooked, friendly and attentive staff.

Had a fantastic takeaway, the quality was probably the best I've had in this area. Will definitely order again.

Excellent food, service and atmosphere. Best place in the area. All prepared and served by people who value quality.

Hemos usado Haweli en Barnes durante muchos años semanalmente, principalmente a domicilio, pero hemos comido nunca hemos tenido una mala comida, la comida es absolutamente deliciosa y el personal es muy agradable, ni siquiera tengo que dar mi nombre o dirección tan pronto como escuchan mi voz, saben que soy yo quien dice algo jajaja, pero recomendamos encarecidamente a Haweli para el mejor curry de la ciudad

Great local curry house. Not at the bottom end of the price spectrum (around a tenner for mains) but proper quality food. Really good rezala (nicely sour, not over spicy) and saag paneer, nice fluffy naan. Also some interesting Indian bottled beer I'd not tried before - White Rhino, well worth a go!

Después de usar el BRILLIANT Haweli en la calle Margarets casi semanalmente durante muchos años, nos mudamos a Barnes y decidimos probar Haweli en el carril White Hart aquí, pero en ambas ocasiones nos hemos alejado mucho de allí, nos ha decepcionado mucho. La comida no es mala, es muy normal, de hecho, está por debajo de la media. Anoche comimos curry, arroz y naan, ambos curry eran muy planos y nada: sin vida, sin profundidad de sabor, sin color. Los curries de la calle Margarets Haweli eran vibrantes con hierbas frescas, realmente picantes y llenas de sabor. Los curries que he tenido de este son aburridos e instantáneamente olvidables. Y a 9 libras por solo un curry, este es realmente un valor realmente pobre. Pedimos un naan simple y un peshwari: llegamos a casa y nos dimos cuenta de que teníamos dos naans simples, uno de ellos seco y coriáceo, así que lo tiramos a la basura. Es una pena, si fuera tan bueno como el de la calle M, estaríamos allí todas las semanas. Tiempo para un nuevo chef.

Love this place. Great food and service.

The food was terrible. Totally bland, watery masala sauce, tough and dry chicken. The onion bhaji was hard and dry too, almost impossible to eat.

Nice place to have indian diner. Best nan bread in London. Lovinit evrything else to very much. P.s. Best IPA direct from owners friend from India!!!!

Food was ok but the service was awful. Staff forgot to give us cutlery, even forgot to serve our food! The place was busy but my husband and I felt neglected. We paid the bill but didn't leave a tip.

Average food/ below average service- i don't know if it was an off night based on other reviews on this restaurant. However, my experience was quite mediocre.

superb curries and great guys!!

We visited Haweli for a family meal. The service was great and the staff very friendly and accommodating. When our food arrived it was hot and delicious. Great menu Great value for money way and will definitely be returning

I love this place. The food is great and they cater large parties with ease!

This restaurant is close to us and we sometimes go there if no time to cook. Had a very good chicken tandoori and hot veg. Service not great, however.

Good curry and fantastic service. Highly recommended.

Sono stato un paio di volte in questo ristorante ed entrambe le volte mi sono trovato bene. Location caratteristica e senza pretese. Abbiamo ordinato diversi piatti tra cui Lamb Tikka Masala, Tandoori King Prawn Masala, Mushrooms Rice ed un altro tipo di riso. Tutto buono. Conto onesto, ci tornerò sicuramente.

Ordered palek panner and stuffed parathas - first dish came with coconut sauce (WHAT) and the parathas must have been made last week. I'm Indian, this food is awful.

Great spot with friendly staff and very good Curry, A cheeky pint while you wait for your order always goes down a treat.

I am a frequent guest. Great food and excellent service. The restaurant has wide offering that never fails to surprise in a positive way. I will continue to be regular.

Ray and the Hawelli team are world class! The food is fantastic and the restaurant has a friendly, local community feel. My kids have been introduced to, and expertly guided through, the delights of Indian cuisine by Ray and his team. I strongly recommend the Onion Bhaji starters, the unique (and appropriately hot) Mirchwagan Kormas and all the specials.

I love Haweli! I come every week and I will never stop. The food is incredible and the staff, especially Ray, are super nice. They are very friendly to me and my sister and I never regret having dinners here!

Ray and his excellent chef catered for a special party I organised for 100 people. Everyone loved the food! They all told me so, both at the time and post party. Ray delivered the food and carefully prepared it to be served. I would strongly recommend Haweli as a quality catering service. I couldn't be happier.

We love the modern Indian street food restaurants of Chiswick but if you want an honest local curry with bags of flavour and non pretentious super friendly service this is the place. After just a couple of visits it is already our local Indian of choice. The food is really accomplished and well balanced so don’t be fooled by the slightly old school menu and look - this place is top drawer.

Our favourite place for curry. Delicious food, speedy and friendly service!

We have been eating at this restaurant for years, and we have no plans to try anywhere else. The food is always fantastic, and the staff have always been very friendly, professional and eager to suggest alternative dishes if we’re undecided on our selection. If you’re in the area and want a really good Indian food experience, you’d struggle to do better.

A very friendly, unpretentious restaurant and take-away. The food is great, by far the best in the area, and it is a very enjoyable experience to eat there. I always come away feeling satisfied!

A born and bred Yorkshireman I was raised on the wonderful curries of Bradford. This place is a real find. The food is fabulous, the portions plentiful and the prices reasonable. The staff are efficient and friendly, what more could you want?

I am a born and bred Yorkshireman. Raised on the wonderful Bradford curries. This place is a find. The food is wonderful, the portions generous and the staff friendly. We booked because it was full on Wednsday night. You will not be disappointed.Top Class

Lovely staff , really friendly owner , Lovely traditional Indian restaurant :-) happy to recommend!

Nice cozy atmosphere with tasty authentic Indian Food. The staff were attentive and always trying hard to please without being too intrusive. The Manager was a really friendly guy, I would definitely return to try their many other tempting dishes.

Always smells so nice and the staff are friendly, but the meat has been dry and chewy on all three of my visits. I may have been unlucky but with many other places near by I’ll be trying else where before going back.

This restaurant needs a make over or at least painting. The owner serves you but he can be very miserable and short as if he doesn't want to be there. The food is ok but nothing special. It is shame because the restaurant sits in a prominent position and could be great. We live close and have never seen the restaurant very busy. They don't seem to like to serve after 10pm

I have been many times in this restaurant, also had delivery, and I have had always nice food and good manners. I am vegetarian, so I have tried just veg options but for what I know...I reccomend it!

Service warm and friendly but have always been a little let down by the food korma overly sweet and chicken very dry.

I’m sorry but the food was absolutely awful. Totally inedible. The rices was hard and uncooked, the chicken dry. The pastry of the samosas was still pasty and soft as they hadn’t been fried long enough. The “kheema” in the naan was a ready bought frozen kebab sliced in half and stuck into the dough. Please don’t insult the cuisine of India by calling this Indian food!

Having given up on Holy Cow and uncertain about Anapura, we ordered a delivery from Haweli Barnes which took almost an hour to make the one mile journey from restaurant to home. Starters and pops ranged from ok to quite good but the mains were...

First visit and very happy. Good service and good food

My latest trip here was very much spoilt by someone, the kitchen side of restaurant smoking and allowing the smell to drift through the restaurant. Didn't have to wait long to find the culprit - the waiter smelt like he was a chain smoker. Very...

Consistently reliable with nice Rogus Josh and Jalfrezi dishes. Nice staff. Helpful.

Great for a take away. Good food and reasonable prices.

I've ordered from them a couple of times but where delivery has been superb, food has been really tasteless. Wouldn't recommend

This is quite a nice little restaurant and provided us with an adequate take away at a reasonable price but the food was nothing special. I would still try it again.

Papadums and bread was lovely, however the curries themselves tasted very watery, and there was also a lot of oil in them. I phoned the restaurant to see what they might say, as every restaurant deserves a opportunity to correct an order, however the man...

Dreadful, food was tasteless, my husband's balti chicken tasted like tinned soup, naan bread was doughy and undercooked, chutneys were either super sweet or bland, manager was apologetic but made no offer to reduce the bill, luckily a bottle of wine went some way to taking the taste away!

We each had a different 'Haweli Balti' & both achieved a unique feat of being uniformly very disappointing. The sauces had a gruel like consistency & genuinely tasted of nothing. I've never had a Balti sauce this poor (& thin) If you are going to...

Sickly sweet curries with unbalanced flavours. It seemed as though the chef had no taste-buds as all the food had a far too strong a flavour profile, leaning towards a saccharine sugaryness, overly bitter and vinegary, or an unpalatable combination of all three. The menu is very large and varied but clearly the chefs have forgotten how to cook half of the items anyway. Chapati on the prawn puree was too doughey as was were the naans, thick and stodgy eventually becoming limp and soggy. The radioactive green chicken hirayali came as a menthol mess with a toothpaste like quality, though that could at least be washed down with a nice cold draft kingfisher. It is a shame, as the meal started well with a decent platter of papadums and chutneys, but clearly Haweli's expansionism- having opened several branches around South-West London-has marred the quality of the food by most likely losing decent chefs. It is possible that it could just have been a bad night, but with some exceptionally good Indian restaurants gracing this part of London, such as Indian Express in West Kensington, no amount of 'sweet-talk' will be bringing us back!

We visited at about 9.30pm and you can tell the food is cooked freshly as having ordered a Dansak and Tarka Dhal in amongst our choices, the waiter apologised that we need to make another choice as they'd run out of lentils!! If that hadn't...

Called in while waiting on a job and had the mixed grill with nan bread and salad all in . A bit miffed as changed nan bread to keema and was charged for the keema not the difference. Food good but would not rush back.

After being loyal customers since moving to the area some years ago, the service we received recently was utterly disappointing. When they delivered the wrong order, they refused to acknowledge their mistake, were incessant and bordering on rude in their reception. Have since found friendly, good quality and cheaped alternatives on the high street. Beautiful.

Looked after a whole cricket team like kings

Very friendly staff, fantastic service and fantastic food. I have no idea how this cosy restaurant and friendly atmosphere could ever get a low score, just try it for yourself, it's lovely. The chicken starter is amazing!!

The best Indian food around, really good curries and good tandoori chicken not that red stuff with all the colours added. Very good crisp nann bread all served with a pint of Indian beet

Ordered through Hungry House - Haweli failed to deliver items that had been paid for per the order. When I rang to speak to them - they refused point blank to fix their error by delivery or refund (they offered discount off next order!). They...

Fantastic food and great service at this little Indian restaurant in Barnes. In general very good taste and perfectly spiced food.

The Super Hot Chicken Balti was great! Service was good, decor average but food great!

One of my favourite local comfort spots. Owner is always friendly and the staff attentive. The food is quick,tasty, and good value for money.

Don't understand why this restaurant does not have more reviews. Called in late on a Sunday evening as we needed to eat, very impressed with the food and service would happily return and recommend

We recently paid a visit to Haweli, the menu and service was exceptional, the chief combines true asian spices in a variety of ways offering great choices across many version of curries. I opted for the signature specialty which was cooked in a wok, the...

Disappointing. Unhelpful staff, unfriendly and unwelcoming. We asked for suggestions and got passive uninterested responses. The food was good but nothing special. There are better places to go, don't bother; unless you want a chutney, they had good chutney, oh and Cobras. Exactly.

I went to this restaurant with a friend for a dinner following his success at gaining a promotion. There were quite a few people and although busy the staff coped very well indeed. The atmosphere was pleasantly relaxing and the staff seemed responsive and attentive with the exception of one young man who sat at a table for about 20 mins and was absorbed by his mobile phone while his colleagues did all the hard work! For a no-nonsense meal Haweli is the perfect spot in this part of London.

Genial, la comida de ese lugar es excelente. Fuimos un par de veces durante nuestra estadia en Londres, el Chicken...

We've been eating here and doing takeaway for 5 years. The BEST. Service is great. Local feel. Food is outstanding.

The food in Haweli is SO good, we already came back once and will definitely do it again. The staff is nice and welcoming, the atmosphere is very nice and we had a very nice evening. Try the chicken Tikka, which is one of the best I've ever had, as well as the mushroom rice and the onion bhaji.

we wanted to like this as it's our local Indian and we love Indian cuisine but it was really disappointing. The staff and service were great but the restaurant itself was a bit dated and the food was very bland, oily and disappointing. Maybe we have just been spoiled by our last local Indian (Chutney, Wandsworth).

I have visit this tiny indian restaurant several times and food quality has been fantastic, service is warm and friendly, the owner will remember you after your first visit!!!!A great place to enjoy a hot/spicy tandoori chicken

I'm really surprised there are no other reviews yet! I lived in Barnes for a year or so and went to Haweli's a few times. I'm vegetarian, so have had a selection of their veggie dishes and all were delicious - the food is fresh, well-cooked and tasty. Service is quick and attentive, and there's a nice atmosphere, too (not overrun with children, which makes a nice change in Barnes!) It's just a good Indian restaurant - it won't blow your mind in terms of being particularly different to other good Indian/British restaurants, but if you want a really decent Indian meal, go here.

I go here at least once a fortnight. Its very small but makes some really nice Indian food. The staff are always very friendly.