Indian Cottage in Neath Port Talbot

Under new management and food is high standard

We had a great night out with the fabulous food.

We were really lucky to get a table here so late on a Sunday evening, us and our friends had been out locally for a while and fancied something to eat. They managed to sit the 8 of us at 1030pm! Food was absolutely lush, we had their special onion bhajis which I don't normally choose - but would definitely again! The staff were so nice and attentive, I tried a new curry and it's now a firm favourite. We will definitely go here again.

A mid week delight. Bargain set menu prices for delicious food made for an enjoyable catch up with a friend.

Hassan & staff are always excellent.. Food & drink are always exceptional.. Best Indian restaurant we've visited bar none.. Highly recommend..

Great food and service. The deal on Sunday is really good value, there was 3 of us and we each had a starter, main and side with drinks for under £15 each. Will definitely return

We come to this restaurant about twice a month, always courteous food excellent. We will obviously return

Ordered via just eat anfbyhe good arrived all watery and tastless. When I put my complaint to the restaurant I was accused of sabotaging the food to get a free meal. Staff were rude and food was awful. I won't bevusing them or recommending them to anyone again.

Regularly use this restaurant and lovely food and staff. If you go on a Wednesday Thursday or Sunday for the set menu it's absolutely fantastic.

Just collected a take away. Food was excellent but not very warm. Was overcharged for a vegetarian chat aloo dish !!! Don't know if we were allowed a discount !! Had a takeaway from here 3 weeks ago and paid £30.70 had almost the same order today was charged £35.00 even though one of our main dishes was £1.00 cheaper than the last time we ordered. Shall not be using them again.

Unfortunately my partner called in here (by mistake) for a takeaway last week. He had a list of dishes for a different restaurant which they could not fulfil so they substituted what they could. Firstly, although its NOT on the menu they supplied a vegetable Jalfresi - IT WAS VERY GOOD! Sadly they substituted another main dish (from their menu) because it had the word Ki in the name, it's potato curry with, in their words a yogurt based sauce, probably the most horrible curry I've ever encountered. They did have Chana marsala (dismal and, strangely, dry) and Aloo Gobi (tasteless). They know how to make a nice curry, the non standard Jalfresi was very nice, so why are their standard dishes so bad? Are they insulting their day to day customers? The price was pretty steep too for what we got and the portions (especially the side dishes) were small.

It was empty for a reason. How I wished we had waited for a table in one of the other 2 restaurants. Service was chaotic. We had the thali. It came out in what was desert bowls. The first thing out was some vegetable mush. We got two bowls of this so started to eat it. When the next dish came out they took one of the first two bowls away as we shouldn’t have had two. But we had eaten from it. The Bombay potato’s were boiled with a tiny bit of “curry gravy” over them. The lentil soup was dreadful and the mushrooms were again in a sort of gravy. It cost £38 I would NEVER eat there again. Waste of money.

We went there on Saturday night and we ordered the vegetarian thali. It was dreadful. The meal came in small bowls bit by bit. The first two bowls that came out with the same and we both started eating them and then the rice came out. Now, we shouldn’t have had the first two bowls apparently, and despite having eaten from one of them the way to take them away. The waiter then brought two bowls of rice and then the Bombay potato and some mushroom dish. We also had chickpeas and some disgusting yellow soup which had bits floating in it. All in all it was chaotic when we went to pay credit card machine was linked to the phone so when the phone rang the waiter could only do one thing at a time so took the phone call which was a long order so we had to wait to pay until the order had been taken and he could put the phone down, I haven’t been anywhere so bad in such a long time. This was quite empty really compared to the other two Indians in the High Street, which is why obviously the food is not as good lesson learned £38 that we won’t get back and I will never go there again.

Waited over an hour and a half food was freezing cold

Very rude staff but food was good but I won’t go back since the staff was so very rude.

Had lots of fun with family with great and amazing food and services.

They have a special deal on a Wednesday and Thursday evening. 2 courses for £9.99 ( cash payment only). The staff are helpful and food lovely.

Best Indian food in Swansea area

Food is fab, service is excellent, background music poor, which affects the atmosphere

Had a take away from here tonight drove from Gorseinon passing loads of restaurants and take aways to get there. The food was sub standard the cartons were not full tasteless and curry sauces holding water on plate, it just shows the dishes hadn’t been bhuna’ed enough in the pan and they just add water to thin out, really really not good hence the taste.. it’s a shame we have been here many times and it’s BM been ok.. I won’t be returning

Had a takeaway for 3 of us -£60!. Food was average, portions were very small, my lamb was tough and chewy and to top it off I had an upset stomach afterwards.

Special banquet for two!!! Apparently there's Onion Bajee, Vegatble Samosa, Garlic Mushroom and Aloo Chat. No onion bajee and the smallest portion you could imagine!!!

Amazing food. Went tonight for birthday meal. Waiter very helpful and polite Brought a drink /shot for birthday. Excellent food. Will be back soon

Have takeaway on occasions but had lovely sit down meal this evening food was excellent and good service good evening enjoyed by all 😊.

This restaurant is expensive for the quality of food. It is very popular as a take away, but to eat in, it is expensive for basic food served on small cramped tables. 4 of us sitting in a booth with a narrow table did not allow room for our drinks. Toilets were very clean, service was good.

Great food, great service, will be back.

Absolutely lovely place. The food was delicious and the staff are really friendly. Would definitely recommend a visit and we are looking forward to returning soon. Well done guys, you nailed it.

Just ordered food, apparently our usual order has gone up in price by £7.00 which i thought was absolutey scandalous and also portions gone smaller, naan bread is gritty, food is cold, they gave bigger salad portion than food, will not be ordering from them again, definetly go to nabil in future as they always do us proud.

Just ate at this lovely restaurant with 2 of my closest friends from Cardiff. Living maybe 5 minutes away, I didn't realise how good the food away from the SA1 postcode would be. Probably the nicest Indian resturant I've visited in a longgggg time. Start off with a chutney board and poppadoms which was lovely. The Green coconut was lovely. I had the chicken tikka massala and some rice which was full of taste. Lovely to finish off with a warm hand towel and an after eight. Will definitely be visiting again. Cannot fault how nice the staff were and the food was perfection!.

We went to th Indian Cottage last night, all 3 of us agreed on how good the food and service was, freshly made poppadoms, nice and fresh pickle tray and piping hot meals. Definitely be going back soon. Very soon.

Fabulous meal ..we all enjoyed .. the nan bread is fantastic here

Sensational tonight my mate allan price recommend this place he never fails to deliver 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

Lovely food and staff,been again recently and while I was waiting for my take away about 5 different people eating in were all saying how lovely their food was,I wasn't disappointed either when I got home,best Indian ever

Called here 16th of June set meals £ 9.99 on Wednesday and Thursday what can i say top notch food amazing welcome they where spot on everything was pukka will definitely be back stunning looking forward to next visit the madras and keema rice 🤤🤤 telling you now your missing out if never been here very good grub and amazing price loved it keep up the good work

Will not be going there again new owners and one of the worst Meals I've had in a Indian.

Everything arrived cold and missing items. Rang the restaurant and there was no apology and they couldn't do a refund.

Lovely food, prompt delivery. Can't fault this place. Highly recommended

As a group of 5 friends we decided to go back to the Indian Cottage for the 1st time in 2 yrs. As always the food was absolutely flawless and the staff were excellent we cannot rate this restaurant any higher.. See you soon Indian cottage as we are already planning our next visit, please send our feedback to the Chef. Stuart from Gorseinon

Good flavour, good spice, great atmosphere

Stunning curry buttered chicken with garlic mushrooms rice with lamb curry 😋

Please read all the menu as if you have a set meal they like to leave some of the dishes off we went last time and 1 rice was missing and told at the time only comes with 1 rice. And again out set meal had the full chutney tray and poppadoms missing. And we were told they didn't come with a meal but on the menu we had to point out they were included then after a main meal our starters turned up after we had to download the Menu and show them it was included in the price .😬😳. Not good enough won't be going back again.

Lovely staff,lovely food in a very modern restaurant

Gorgeous food that is restaurant quality every time. Great delivery service. A treat for all the family. Definitely recommend Indian Cottage.

Excellent value for money, good quality food, great service. Venue has been refurbished and looks great

Lovely food and great portion sizes. Will deffo go again. Recommended

Whilst staying nearby in a self catering holiday home we decided to visit the Indian Cottage over the other Indian restaurants in town largely due to it being recommended by the in formation book in our holiday accommodation and that it was open for sit down on a sleepy Monday evening in May. Can’t fault the service levels, but then there was only one other table in and they had nearly finished so we did get virtually one to one attention apart from the steady stream of takeaways going out the door. I went for one of the Taka-Taka Tin Indian BBQ mains with garlic mushroom rice and a peshwari naan and I have to say the curry was one of the best I have had in a long while. And the Naan came out hot and puffy and clearly had come straight from the side of the tandoor and not just reheated. So all in all a good Indian restaurant experience for us. Old school decor internally but interestingly the waiter explained to us that the restaurant was actually shutting down for internal dining for a couple of weeks to be re-decorated with a new carpet and presumably more modern style. That did strike me as a bit strange that the restaurant owners would decide to do that now just as the government is giving us a bit of freedom to get inside once again and not whilst we were all locked down. I guess future reviewers will be able to comment on whether it was worthwhile to do so

Food is stunning and really good size portions too. Nicely priced and service is excellent. Can't wait to go back

What has happened to this place? It used to be one of my favourite Indian restaurants. But it has rapidly gone down hill. I was so pleased to see it had joined Just Eat. But won’t be bothering again. They have a space to wave comments for the restaurant so I asked for swaps within the Chutney Tray. They obviously didn’t read it as the chutney tray contained what I didn’t want. The following week I decided not to bother with a Chutney Tray. This time I ordered a lamb sagwala but got a chicken sagwala!! One mistake too much - bye bye !

Ordered a delivery this evening 3 curries and 2 portions of onion bahjis. We were missing 1 portion of onion bahjis and missing 1 curry. When I phoned in to inform them they asked to phone back again in 10 minutes. Waited over 1hr for the curry to be delivered to which when I phoned up to chase the order I got told that it will be delivered tomorrow. No apology or even acknowledging that this shouldn’t of happened. Will NEVER be ordering from here again. I do not understand how a restaurant can be run so poorly.

Absolutely will never order from you again. Horendous experience.

Terrible food that lack quality and very poor customer service. My Chicken tikka starter was cold I ordered a balti that was missing a naan was cold, had little spices and chicken was hard. My partner ordered a shashlik that was burned and had a bit of raw inside. mushroom rice and garlic rice was oily and no taste at all. Our chutney tray tasted sour as it was gone off. Been a regular customer for 6 years and they didnt even apologies and never rectify their mistake. I am gonna go with Cardamon. Avoid at all cost

I ordered a food with my boyfriend and it was terrible. My Balti was oily, lacks spices and had black burn bits on my balti sauce and missing a balti naan, my partner shashlik was burnt and wasnt edible to eat. Mushroom and Garlic rice was very dry and hard. Keema naan has little amount of meat and had some dough. I requested them to rectify the order or exchange but was told by the manager said its our problem that we ordered the food even though we collection. Been a regular customer for 6 years and recieved this treatment. Im going to go for Cardamon and avoid at all cost.

Completely disappointed. Ordered via Just Eat. After 3 attempts and 2 separate deliveries the order was still wrong. Ended up without food and a complete meal which was 100% paid for and unresolved. Shocking. 👎🏼

Once again ive been let down by the indian cottage.orderd a biryani as I normally do.. it turned up 20 mins late it had no vegetable sauce and no omlet as it should have... absolutely rubbish..

Food is currently the best it has been. Great flavour and great service. I had the lamb jalfrezi and pilau rice with a puri. Lamb was soft and sweet. I hope the chef is here to stay because this food is real quality and hard to find.

Was told food would take 45mins to an hour. Phoned the shop when food had still not arrived after 1hr 45 to be told driver would be 5 mins. No sign of driver to then be told 10 mins. Driver finally arrived after waiting over 2 hours for the food to be cold and half of it had spilled in the bag and they hadn’t given us our drinks. If you are happy to wait that long and have cold food then order away. I suggest you avoid

I use to come here with my girlfriend few times but the food became rancid. 85% of my food came from a microwave as it ping more times when I sat further back. They gave us popadams that was hard, coconut and mint sauce was VERY sour, much likely gone off. My lamb was undercooked with the Jalfrezi, naan bread was doughy and my girlfriend Massala didnt even taste like a Massala. Staff was not bothered about this as they didnt care less about the service as they were chatting away with their friends and family members sitting at the lounge area. No apologies or no discount as the staff member told me you eat what you eat even though it came up £42.90 what a joke and only accepts cash. Funny to say that they have a card machine available but hidden it under a table and saying no signal which all of the card machine has signal because it is SIM card attachment system. AVOID AT ALL COST

Worst food that I have ever eaten. Chips was very soggy, shashlik was not cooked well which turn out to be chewy, Pasanda tasted funny and nan bread was undercooked. They stopped doing the half-price and only accepting cash payment whilst the waitress hide the card machine under the bar. The sign says accepts all forms of payment. Guess i will flag that with the HM Revenue.

Worst food I have ever eaten. Been a regular and loyal customer for years but now it has gone very bad and decided never to go back there again. The worst part is I saw one of the manager/chef bought some supplies from a supermarket that has 0-2 hygiene rating and known to have low scores. AVOID AT ALL COST.

Been with them for so many years and now it has gone terrible. Over-priced food which led up to being cold, some parts of my food burnt, oily and hardened. The service response was even bad as waitress just does not know what she is doing and only seen her few times on her phone, chewing a gum and taking pictures of herself. Management did not resolve my issue as he said to me not my problem saying you buy what you get. Awful experience and avoid at all cost.

Ordered and paid over £40 pound worth of food and did not reach to its standard. My egg rice contained some small fragment of egg shells, Chicken Tikka main was hard and warmed up from a microwave, Lamb tikka balti was VERY hard and chewy, keema nan ONLY had ten percent of meat and some parts were burnt off. Appalling customer service as waitress does not seem to care about her work as she is on her phone all day taking selfie, smoking and chewing a gum and manager does not respond well about this problem as he has some language barrier issue. Gonna go with Tamarind and Cardamon.

Ate at the Indian Cottage as part of a trip to see family living in Pontardawe. The service was excellent and the food was extremely well cooked and served lovely and hot. I enjoyed everything I had and would definitely recommend the Lamb Madras :)

Absolutely terrible service. Waited 2 and a half hours on a Monday night! Did not answer our calls. Turned up and left items off our order. Delivery man made some feeble excuse that car broke down. Refused to offer any money back. Not even a free poppadum. Loyal customers who will NEVER order from here again!!

I had a meal there recently and it was awful. Despite the excellent waitress very carefully taken our order the waiter that served the food got everything wrong. The food used to be excellent but I’ve had a couple of very poor meals there recently. When the main boss is there it is first class...when he’s not there then it’s 3rd rate at best.

Very disappointed. Tried out here instead of our usual indian, ordered at 19.10pm, had confirmation and saif around 40 minutes for delivery, that was fine. Then got an email to say delivery time has then changed to 20.20pm. So that would be an hour and 10 minutes after ordering! Then again another one to say its delayed and would be arriving at 20.40pm. Then nothing so phoned restaurant at around 20.45pm, took ages to get through as kept going to answer phone. Finally got through and got told it's with delivery driver. Bare in mine these are herbert street pontardawe and in in Alltwen. 5 minutes later still nothing so phoned again, again kept going to answer phone. Finally got through and lady on phone said give it 5 more minutes she would phone driver. Waiting then until 21.04 before finally getting delivery!! Almost 2 hours after ordering initially. The food was cold! So asked delivery driver to take it back. Not eating cold food even delivery driver said they would eat cold food. Will not be trying here again after this. I understand some people don't have any problems, and wouldnt have minded so much if food arrived hot. But being 2 hours to get delivered and cold upon delivery very disappointed.

I rarely write reviews as I understand that sometimes restaurants can have bad days. But this is the second time since lockdown that we've had a curry from Indian Cottage and it was dreadful. When the only good thing from a curry house is the poppadoms then you know you've had a bad meal. From the barely cooked naan bread to the pathia that you could easily have spread on bread instead of honey as it was insanely horrifically sweet to the stone cold rice. Not to mention the 6, yes 6 tiny pieces of chicken in the so called balti that was in no way a balti (no i am not a native but baltis at least have flavour-this didnt). at least the poppadoms were nice. we won't be ordering from there again.

Delicious food and excellent service. The best Indian takeaway in miles.

Had Takeaway Friday 24th April first time at Indian Cottage, Excellent food quick service friendly driver, the best madras in Swansea compliments to your chef will be back soon Well Done.!. Tony

The Indian Cottage has been part of Pontardawe life for decades! This restaurant has stood the test of time due to the excellent food, service and atmosphere. I look forward to dining here for many more years to come. Highly recommended.

Great food, all dishes were exemplary and great range. Food was delivered hot. Nan’s are great as well

Friendly efficient service, delicious food and certainly value for money !!! Nothing was too much trouble.

Great meal and service again. My favourite Indian restaurant

We called here again Wednesday 15th January for our monthly find the best curry house, there were only 5 curry munchers on this visit but boy the restaurant came up trumps again.The food was outstanding and plenty full, service very good and the price is was very reasonable.If you are looking for quality food in a nice ambience this is your place, i will guarantee you will not be disappointed.hats off again to the Chef and Staff of the indian cottage *****

I ordered from here yesterday, I understand it was new years eve and they may have been busy, my food took over 2 hours to arrive, even tho I had a text to say my food was with the driver I had to ring to see where it was cause it took a further 45 minutes after that text to arrive, my food was cold and there were items missing when I tried to ring to get a refund for what I was missing and make a complaint I kept getting diverted to answer machine will not be ordering from here again

Very well cooked meals ...and if you not really into the dishes...they will explain and help you to pick the right dish..

I have eaten here before and the food was really tasty and I gave it 5* but the Sunday buffet was so disappointing the curry seemed like there was something missing in it because of the price they charge. Portions are really small too. If you go there on a Sunday order off the main menu is my advice.

Always a great experience my family and I often go to the Sunday set meal. The staff are very attentive and very friendly. I would recommend to anyone looking for a reasonably priced delicious indian meal.

The food at this restaurant is really good and we have never had a bad meal here. We visit every week. The staff are really friendly and the service is excellent. Would definitely recommend visiting this restaurant. Moore Family

Great food, service and ambiance

Please avoid! Absolutely disgusting service and food, we have been coming for a long time and tonight was a disgrace. We were served awful cuts of meat laced mainly all fat and a chicken spine. And not even so much as an apology. If you have a taste card you cannot pay with a card machine which alone strikes alarm bells. They have upset me that much I am contacting Food Standards and HRMC.

top restaurant that ive not visited in years. well i must say i totally enjoyed my meal with excellent service

1st time i have ever been to an Indian and decided to try here after husband nagging me for 14 years to give it a go. Lovely restaurant, staff were very friendly and food was served quickly. Food was delicious, I had the Special Biryani which was a mixed meat with omelette, had to/leave nearly half of it because I was so full, my husband had the Lamb Delight which although is listed as having fairly hot spices was mild. The only problem we had was even though my husband ordered a lamb delight he was given a chicken delight, staff really should listen especially when restaurant is quite as we went at 7pm. But this will not put us off going back soon

Consistently excellent food, great service and helpful staff. I couldn't decide what to order and the waiter asked what kind of things I usually eat and made a recommendation, it was delicious. Highly recommended

Nice food not great good menu lovely staff

What a great find on the way home from a holiday, stunning meals for both me And my wife. Would highly recommend the tikka starter and madras main. Great place service all around.

We really enjoyed nice atmosphere , good prices, not greasy, fresh, friendly staff. Recommended

Come here regularly for the sunday menu. Great selection of meals for a great price. Food is always consistently good.

We went to try this indian after seen very good reviews, and we glad we did.service was excellent and we will b back for sure

We went here to use the meerkat buy one get one free,(advice for people using this offer its cash only),it was early evening the place was very quiet,it was slightly dark inside,the service was good the waitress was very polite,we first ordered the chutney tray,a nice generous portion of chutneys and we had 2 poppadoms each,for our starters i ordered lamb tikka and my wife had a mixed starter,my lamb was slightly chewy my wife shared an onion bhaji with me and it was very nice and crispy.For our mains we both ordered the medium curry and asked if we could have it slightly hot,there were no warmers put on the table for our mains it was served in dishes,as i curry lover i must say i have had better curries,to me it seemed like the sauce had split,I do not want to put people off but for me it was a reasonable curry but not great.After we finished our mains we ordered more drinks,my wife asked for a gin and tonic and was then told they had run out of tonic.Would i come back here yes i would give this restaurant another try.For all those disabled people level access to go in,on the right hand side of the seating there is a slight step to go up to the tables,toilets on same level but no disabled toilet.I would score this restaurant six and a half out of ten.

Had high hopes for this place with it being the highest rated Indian restaurant in the area so it's with disappointment that I'm having to leave a negative review. On ordering the food I asked the waitress to check whether the vegetarian thali could be made vegan, she checked with the kitchen who confirmed that it could be. A short while after placing our order a 2nd waiter came over to confirm that we wanted a vegan version of the vegetarian thali, I confirmed that we did and he said that was fine. When a 3rd waiter brought our first course to the table, 2 of the 3 dishes he brought were not vegan, 1 was a yoghurt dip which the waiter confirmed wasn't vegan when I asked him, the 2nd was a plate of onion bhaji, I asked the waiter to check that these didn't contain egg as they usually did, he asked me if I had an allergy, I replied that I was vegan and eating something that wasn't vegan could make me ill (not that you should ever have to justify this), the waiter checked with the kitchen who confirmed that the bhaji did contain egg so were therefore not vegan. No apology was given for this really poor service, no effort was made to make amends, we were just given duplicates of the same dishes rather different ones which is why we chose the thali in the 1st place. Overall a really poor experience, in addition to this the service was slow, not particularly welcoming or friendly, and overall it was a really disappointing experience, needless to say, we won't be going back which is a shame as it's our local and we would have been back often had it been any good.

Excellent food, seating a little more awkward.

The original Indian restaurant - just not better than the rest as it used to be

I made an order via Just Eat but cancelled it immediately to reorder with a 15 % discount. I telephoned India cottage to confirm the cancellation. They subsequently phoned me straight back at 19.15 and stated the driver had already left with the order, they offered to knock a £1 off the £30.15 order. I have just spoke to them at 20.15 for them to state our order had gone to someone else. I knew we should have gone to the Tamarind

Had a great meal here at Indian cottage.

This was an amazing curry place. Excellent food and service. I had the best curry that I have ever tasted. It is a true gem of place just outside swansea. The food is good quality at a very reasonable price.

We’ve been visiting The Indian Cottage weekly recently with the Meerkat Offer. Buy one main and get one main free.

Food is excellent, staff are so pleasant and the food is second to none.

Delicious food and friendly staff.

What can I say, 4 of our find the best curry house hunters visited here tonight, the staff were very attentive and very helpful. The food did all the talking in this place, it was fantastic, tasty and plenty of it..it’s a straight 9/10 from the hunters.. will definitely visit again 5*

Made a booking at beginning of April when offer on a Sunday is 4 courses for £8.99. In fact courses were starter, main meal, side and vegetable side. Good value but not actually courses. It was 2 courses with 2 sides. However, food was nice but no different to other Indian restaurants. Therefore I believe the offer is misleading.