Holy Cow - Fine Indian Dining - Indian Restaurant & Takeaway in Limehouse - Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets

I recently visited in a group of four on a Saturday night. Upon arrival there were no other customers. Two of us each ordered a murg bhuna with two sides of rice. The waitress didn't read our order back to us to confirm the items ordered. I received only rice and not the main dish. When bringing the food, the server asked if everything was alright and disappeared before we could respond! I spoke to the waitress and questioned where my main was, only to be told I hadn't ordered one! The waitress returned to say that I had ordered a different dish (that I also hadn't been brought). I watched the rest of my group eat their food while waiting for mine to now be cooked. They brought a hot rice with the dish but no apology, and I paid full price. The dish itself wasn't amazing and didn't taste spiced as stated in menu. Another in my group asked for an alcoholic drink but was brought non-alcoholic and told that was what he ordered, although they did replace it. At the start of the order they stated they would be able to provide separate bills but all were just put together when paying. I told the waiter taking payment that I wasn't happy with the experience and he seemed to smirk! It's worth noting that you pay a 12.5% service charge on the bill whether you're pleased with the service or not. I've had better and cheaper Indian food elsewhere and with good service. I honestly would not recommend this restaurant. The staff have a bad attitude giving the customer the impression you are in the wrong if there is a problem. Having worked in hospitality in the past, this is not good service.

It’s not Holy cow, it’s holy shit. The food served there for me, It was absolutely tasteless. Some food was over cooked and some had extra masala inside. Though they’re fine dine, they serve main course after 30 minutes of starter. Very disappointed.

Good curry delivery was prompt. Thanks

Got takeaway from here on a dreary London night. Was really tasty, and hit the spot! Butter chicken and naan were great, good portions too.

Excellent Indian restaurant with friendly service. Curry was very tasty although the Murg Murghalore was very very hot but still a nice flavour. Would recommend

The food was bland and tasteless. The butter chicken didnt taste of butter, or cream, or anything really. Same with the mattar paneer, and chana, just bland without flavour. Paratha was also dry. The samosa's were alright though, just a bit hard. Not worth the money.

Just picked up a chilli lamb and mushroom rice takeaway. I was very impressed with the staff and venue, the food was perfect. Added bonus the takeaway comes in leak-proof tubs, very hot and very clean. 10/10

Worst chicken biryani I ever had for that price. It's same as putting tomato ketchup on spaghetti and then call it a authentic Italian pasta.

Great food, quiet atmosphere, responsive and attentive staff. A great place for a quiet lunch or a celebratory dinner!

Very nice meal and good wine selection. Good value for money.

Every vegetable main dish contained dairy. Every vegetable side dish contained dairy. All the breads contained dairy. As a vegan this was the worst choice I’ve seen in any Indian restaurant

Best Tandoori chicken ever! Great samosa and momo starters. Very kind female staff.

Good & solid food but nothing exceptional, pleasant staff. Heads up: 12.5% service charge

Good food, good place. Take a bit longer to serve than we expect. But overall its a good restaurant. Few times been there due to good food.

Great food but not many others in the restaurant to provide it with atmosphere but very enjoyable all the same.

OK food, poor service. And be aware, they charge 12.5% for it! Such a joke.

Nice And Good Food. Good Behaviour Staff

The food was super good and the gulab gimlet cocktail was amazing.

In starters chicken 65 was great, paneer tikka was average. Main course was really disappointing. Bhuna chicken tasted like boiled chicken. Methi chicken was really flavorless. Their breads were good. Overall I won’t recommend based on my experience.

Holy cow, the food here was very tasty, well presented and at a good price. Sat outside on the terrace which is always a bonus in London. Would recommend and certainly come back again.

This is my local restaurant and I have been here several times before. All were 5 star experiences. So it is by those high standards that I rate yesterday only average. The food quality was average at best and served lukewarm. The samosas did not look like any samosas I have seen before. The service inattentive despite low occupancy. Why bring a dessert menu and go without telling customers that only one option was available? Nothing we wanted was available which was disappointing.The coffee was actually awful. Come on Holy Cow please get back to your previously high standards.

The dishes were very lovingly prepared. Tasty and authentic in taste. The steamed dumplings and Nanbrot were highly recommended.

It’s our first visit, the food and service was excellent, Pratap was our server, thanks to him, great service, ambiance was great too, will be back soon

Every thing was really good, only don not order coffee . Thanks the food was good and fresh

Food was lovely. Reasonably priced food that was solid in quality. Nothing was greasy. The Naan bread was splendid and the Bhajis were some of the best I’ve had. Would recommend.

Great restaurant with great taste! Highly recommended!!!

Spent a great evening with friends at Holy Cow. I was pleasantly surprised. Tasty meal, attentive service. Reasonably priced IPA on tap.

6 of us ranging from 15 to 82 just had a wonderful supper. Everyone said that the food was the best Indian food, unusual and tasty. The service was lovely. Helpful.

the chana masala was sooo good! definitely want to come again!

Soo good, highly recommend the daal!

Food was really good and the service was outstanding

Excellent service, exquisite food (flavor, texture, temperature....) and very pleasant atmosphere. I recommend it. Thank you

Madhi is amazing! Thank you so much for great food and atmosphere!

Delicious food! Very accommodating to vegans :) Would appreciate traditional Indian music instead of mainstream pop but other than that service was very friendly and helpful.

Just had a great meal here - lovely staff and a fab atmosphere. Would definitely recommend and will visit again.

One of the best indian food and good atmosphere!!!!

Lovely food, nice service. Great curry.

Truly a sensational experience. Very nice indeed

Thank you chef mia and my host shreya, I had a great time, food was lovely and hospitality was super good

Got a variety of dishes from this place. The curry was amazing, plenty of meat. The samosas were insanely good (lamb). The only thing I didn’t really like was the taste of the mint yogurt dip but that’s personal taste.

The food over here is really nice for starters but the main course is average and the service was good as it was not that crowded. Overall a good place in London for fine done.

Another amazing takeaway from our local Holy Cow. The Chilli Lamb and Saag Gosht as lovely as always. I think the secret of this place is that they just don't compromise or engineer down to a price... the ingredients and quality come first, and the price is the price. Good for them. Delicious

The food is very tasty🤎 lovely service as well and nice wine selection 👍

Paneer Nawabi was excellent. One of the best Paneer Dishes I have ever had. Garlic Naan was great and the Aloo Tikki Chaat too. Service could improve however. I ordered Papdi Chaat for starters but was served Aloo Tikki Chaat. And I also felt the waiter could have been friendlier.

Love this place, great staff, great food, really worth a visit if you love a good Indian!

Very average for a high price. Very flavourless cuisine. Much better options in London for better price. Meat on mixed grill was disappointing.

Really great food and reasonable prices

Really good food and lovely helpful staff well worth a visit.

Ordered on ubereats. One of the worst places for Indian food. No flavour, no spice

The order take almost one hour and The stuff has very very bad attitude.

This place is tucked away but totally worth a visit. Some of the best curry I've had in a while. The onion bahjis and naan bread were delicious. We'd definitely visit again!

Molto buono, anche se un po’ pesante

This place was delicious! Simply the best Indian food I’ve had in a long time, and the staff was super friendly. The atmosphere and ambience is the perfect mix of quite and inviting where each table feels as it’s its own island. Beautifully decorated and dimly lit, the restaurant vibes transport you away from the bustle that surrounds. The staff helped us to tailor our taste with the menu and ensured throughout the meal that everything was to our liking. They even helped us pick a very delicious dish for our son who is a very picky eater. He actually ate it (mind blown)! The portion sizes are huge! Hopefully, you wear your stretchy pants. We all ordered our own food but eventually shared and still had some left over. The naan is very fresh and very delicious. They have a hot sauce that’s not too hot but flavorful. The butters chicken and chicken biryani are incredible. I can’t say enough about the food. Also, they have a full list of wines and beers but I did not see a dessert list. For my family of four with more food than we could finish, we paid 85 quid. FYI, the tip was included. If you’re from out of town, the tax is built in. If you see an extra charge, that’s the tip. Overall, this is a great place! Beware though, there is a chance of overeating. I did. Enjoy!

Londra da ilk akşam yemeğini Hint restaurantında yemek istedik. Ambians gayet güzel. Yemekler de kültürel güzel ,fakat müzikler ortama hiç uymuyor.Denemeniz gereken bir dünya mutfağı. Yerel yemeklerini tek tek sunuyorlar. Çalışan arkadaşlarda ilgili ve cana yakın

I never write reviews, but feel obliged to after this, as this is probably the most disappointing curry I’ve ever had - and I love a curry. I ordered the Murg Bhuna Spiced with Pilau Rice and Peshwari Naan on Uber Eats. It arrived in ready meal style packaging (sealed plastic film over the plastic containers) which made me sceptical, but turned out to be very fitting because if you told me it was a Tesco Ready Meal - I would have believed you! Extremely minimal flavour (if any). So bland and genuinely tasted like the Tesco Chicken Tikka Masala ready meal with just a hint of spice thrown in. The only small saving grace was the Peshwari Naan which wasn’t the best I’ve ever had but was quite nice. Definitely won’t be visiting or ordering from this restaurant again. If you want a proper curry then avoid this place.

Too expensive for the quantity of food we had. I will never order again

Man wartet zu lange Aber es lohnt sich 😀. Das Essen ist sehr gut. Es ist nicht zu Scharf, eine Schote kann man gut essen Service ist super. Wir hatten einen sehr schönen Abend, Danke.

For expensive price portion sizes were tiny, never felt hungry post indian curry before

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As an Indian food connoisseur, few Indian restaurants meet my expectation. This was definitely one of them!

Curry which is just perfect. Not too sweet, and very flavorful!! They also have great mango lassis. You won’t regret it!

I’ve been eating Indian food all my life and this is right up there with the best! Everything was so so good!

Highly recommended. Excellent service.

We have found the food to be very good, full of flavour and aromatic spices but the service was not attentive which it was a shame as the experience would have been much better. We will be going back again as we have enjoyed the food.

Great food and fantastic service!!

The food was really nice but the atmosphere is lacking and for some bizarre reason the waiter insisted on seating us right on top of the only other people in the restaurant! Anyway, not important! The food is definitely the star of the show which is, I think, rather important! I suspect if the place were full the acoustics might be a little much, but who knows. For me, I'll definitely get a takeaway in the future but not planning on rushing back to eat in!

it was a great experience, I went there with my boyfriend the ambience was really good. the food was delicious the service i have to say,it was outstanding, specially the lady who was serving us Ms madhu, she was lovely and so welcoming. i would definitely visit again .

Love holy cow. Been getting holy cow takeaways from battersea and angel for years, so very excited to have a branch near me! Although I find this branch to be not as light and healthy as the other branches, in particular lamb spinach and chicken magalore. I have now ordered from narrow st three times, and each time I thought it was too salty and oily compared to Angel/Battersea. Would be really good if you could be consistent with your other branches.

A lovely Indian restaurant in a quiet area. Love the food! Very delicious and staff are friendly. Options for more spicy. Will definitely come back for some of the other dishes.

Very nice place to eat. Good food nice atmosphere. I was waited on today by a very lively lady name Mardu, I hope I spelt her name right. She was a wonderful waitress who was very attentive, polite, warm and friendly. This made my dining experience all the more enjoyable and I will be dining there again soon. Well done to the restaurant and a very Big Thank you to our waitress for making our experience all the more enjoyable. Thank you sister.

The restaurant is located in a lake beautiful quiet environment In the restaurant we were immediately greeted by a very courteous and friendly staff who have us concerns almost read from the lips. Madhu and the entire staff have served us really very well and made us a nice evening. The food from the starters to the main course were also very very tasty I have never eaten so good Indian food All in all a very recommendable restaurant

We had a wonderful evening at this restaurant and the Food was problably the best Indian Food I've ever had. The Service was excellent and the staff extremly attentive. Our Waitress Madhu helped us a lot with her recommandations and was super kind and fun to dine with.

We had a wonderful dinner for six persons. Our waitress Madhu were more as friendly, kind and respectful. We recommend it absolutely. Greetings from the six buddies of Germany.

More should visit this restaurant its good value for money, food is really lovely. Service always with a large smile. It just needs more custom and the atmosphere will be great. Good location on narrow Street, peaceful and clean. Please visit or I can see this brilliant restaurant having to close down. I had the butter chicken with a lovely light fluffy garlic naan which was to die for. Poppadoms and chutneys great. Thinking about going back as a lovely alterative to Sunday lunch tomorrow. We need more of these wonderful affordable clean restaurants not less. Please go!

Meget god Indisk mat, flott atmosfære. Spiste butter chicken som var fantastisk god, blid og service innstillte ansatte.

We had a lovely meal again at this restaurant last night. I hope they get busier and busier beacuse the food is excellent quality and the staff are friendly yet professional.

Delicious food and super nice and fast service. There aren’t enough good restaurants in Limehouse so I am really happy Holy Cow is here! Their lamb dishes are my favorite- very flavorful and tender.

One of the best curries I have had for some time. Food was quality and service impeccable.

Great, personal service. The curry is probably good for British taste - creamy and not very spicy/complex. When asked to make more spicy - seemed to simply dump chilly into the dish. But a very nice restaurant.

Not bad option for Indian food in the area, decent prices & portion size. Menu is pretty standard with no speciality dishes, but was an enjoyable meal nonetheless.

The food and service were fantastic. Had a really nice evening here and couldn't fault it. 100% worth dropping I if you're ever around the area 👌

Holy Cow - Fine Indian Food is a must. Their rendition of Murg Masala is a testament to their commitment to excellence and their passion for authentic flavours. The impeccable service and the passion exuded by the staff members further elevated the dining experience.

Food was absolutely delicious. The rose lassi was so good, we ordered it twice. I had the mint lamb along with the chili chicken starter. Staff was friendly and welcoming! Highly recommended!

The food was really good, Madhu give me an EXCELENTE service and was very polite, i will surely come back

Great food. Lovely to sit outside with friends.

Hidden gem in london. 5 star food, 5 star drinks, 5 star staff. 👍 We will definitely go back.

Really great. Service, atmosphere, food, all perfect. Reasonable price. Madhu was our server and very polite and helpful with suggestions.

I was a bit hesitant at first when I saw the restaurant being so quiet (we were the only ones there at the time) but I decided to give them a try based on all the stellar reviews I read here. Safe to say that I agree with what the others are saying: great food, service and environment. we'll be returning next time we're in the area 🤝

Food took an hour to arrive after leaving the restaurant and was cold by that time :(

Amazing place! Food is out of this world, I would highly recommend. Our server Mo was really friendly and welcoming also. Will definitely be back

Excellent friendly service from the staff. My wife, my 11 year old daughter and myself had a delicious meal at a reasonable price. Could not fault it for teast, quality, amount and price. If I am ever in visiting London again and I the area I will definitely be going to the Holy Cow...

First time visiting since it opened. Really good food, attentive service, and exceptional value. Particularly enjoyed the 'chicken chettinad' curry. Will return.

Love this!!! Ordered on Deliveroo and it did not disappoint. Tasty, fresh, and little extras 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Today was my second time in the Holy Cow and again it didn’t disappoint! Great variety, very good quality and super nice staff. Their recommendations were a success and very tasty from starter to desert.

A really nice Indian Restaurant located in Narrow Street, London. I would recommend the Butter Chicken, the best I have tasted. All the staff were very helpful and friendly. I would definitely recommend if you want a good Indian meal.

Very happy they opened another location in Limehouse, Holy Cow is my favorite Indian take out. Absolutely love the butter chicken and as mentioned by others the complimentary poppadoms are really delicious and a sweet gesture.

Local hidden gem. Great quality, super tasty and very affordable (very few options like this in London today) and the waiter was so hospitable and welcoming. We will back!

Easily a 5 star, food is lovely but also very decently priced! Mocktails were very good too

Truly excellent Indian food. Nice ambience, premises are shiny clean (which is not always the case with Indian restaurants). Recommended.

First time coming down today, absolutely delicious food and very welcoming and friendly staff. Our server Mo was great, along with the lady who also served us. Really good value for money too! We’ll 100% be back again, definitely recommend!