Indian Ocean in Epping Forest

So got a takeaway for the first time and it was amazing it arrived hot loads of flavour probably one of the best takeaways I’ve had we also received free poppadoms which I thought was a nice gesture. The staff was very helpful on the phone as well I will definitely be going back 👍🏼

I never eat this kind of worse foods

Really nice food and great customer service. Highly recommend

My family and I have been dining at the Indian Ocean Chigwell since not long after it opened (around 14 years ago) and it is the best restaurant around by far. You know exactly what you are getting every time you go and that is exceptional food with the freshest ingredients with the friendliest of hospitality. We used to go every single week without fail for our family meet ups and although that has become less often recently, it is still the only place we go for an authentic unhurried Indian meal in comfortable, familiar and welcoming surroundings .They even deliver now so there is no reason not to eat from there. Thank you Abu for all of your years of hospitality and great food!

The staf are very polite and friendly, Food is delicious in restaurant and takeways,

The only place suitable for both family dinners and business lunches with business partners.

Once again a truly delicious meal this evening. I have found that Wednesday is the best night in this restaurant.

We had a lovely meal here with 8 friends. The food was lovely, hot and very tasty. The waiters were all very attentive and couldn’t do enough to make sure we had a good time. Once we asked for the bill which was very reasonable compared to the similar costs at other local indian restaurants we were offered a complimentary drink. Thanks for making our evening a memorable experience.

Our favourite restaurant! Lovely food, lovely people. Arrives quickly, piping hot and as always very tasty. Best Lamb Bhuna!

Great staff and usual good PE food. Good for kids too

Warm inviting restaurant. Friendly and professional staff providing excellent service. The food is excellently prepared, vibrant, and well presented. You will not be disappointed. Parking is on the street.

Always very good quality. Fast delivery. Always arrives hot. Very tasty

Nice food and service, best Indian restaurant in the area

If you like Indian and definitely one to visit

Absolutely disgusting, rubbery old chicken. Lamb maybe?. Meat past it's sell by date and mushy rice. A packet of Uncle Ben's would have been more pleasant. Soggy poppadoms. Low quality, avoid at all costs.

I have been going to this restaurant for many years and this place never disappoints. Always top food and service. Nothing is too much trouble. Went there last night for my Daughters Birthday and had a really nice time. They even dimmed the lights and brought out a lovely cake with candles at no cost to us. Would highly recommend this Restaurant and they also do take away. If you want top quality food, then this is the place to go. Terry

Great little local restaurant. Excellent dishes and very friendly staff.

First time I have visited this branch. The service was fantastic-Lovely atmosphere! The food was very average. I ordered the aloo chaat thinking it would be served with nice crispy topics and yogurt on the top but was served some potatoes in a poppadom. The prawn dish was covered in too much food colouring, couldn’t tell you was eating prawns! Tasted quite bland with the taste of just tomatoes. The saag aloo was nice as was the naan bread and rice.

Nice intimate restaurant, good ambience, lovely food, good portions

Truly great food. Lovely atmosphere and the team are friendly and attentive.

the food here is just fantastic. Always cooked to perfection.we are very much repeat guests.the staff are very helpful and they explain all the items on the menu.

Can never fault quality, quantity or service. Sometimes have to wait a bit for takeaway but it's worth it

Really awful. The chicken was rubbery and the curry lacked flavour. The poppadoms were off as well. Really disappointing and wouldn’t recommend.

2 people where sick half hour after we left, very slow service as well

Excellent food. Excellent service. Food tastes great and the staff are very friendly and accommodating.

Our go to Indian restaurant....... Lovely food, attentive, friendly staff. Good value

Very nice Indian Restaurant. Staff are excellent & the service was fantastic, portion size was good (actually 1 portion was enough for 2 people) & not very expensive. Well worth a 2nd visit next time we are in the area.

Our favourite curry house! The staff are so lovely and the food is always really good!

Very good, food was excellent, atmosphere excellent, will certainly go again. However, it's not really Indian. It's Asian. Indians are vegetarians so this, like so many other so called Indian restaurants in the UK, is not strictly an Indian restaurant. Nothing at all wrong though.

Visited yesterday with a group of 8 - including 3 very picky kids. Had a wonderful time! The food was truly one of the best Indian I’ve ever had, service was good and the price was right. We’ll certainly be visiting again.

Amazing food and the best service. There isn't a better indian in the area.

Really excellent food and friendly waiting staff. A very nice evening with a close old friend.

Absolutely beautiful food .. amazing.. 😋..

Very friendly and professional service. Food was just delicious 😋

Really good selection and freshly cooked tasty food. It’s my go-to for Indian takeaway. My favourite dish is the lamb dhansak. Plus the staff have always been friendly and pleasant.

Regular customer as food is really good .

The food was DELICIOUS!! Will be back! Great service, lovely vibe! Great value for money. Was busy in the venue from 5:30 but still felt like you were the only ones in there, thank you.

Excellent food as always, highly recommended if you live nearby.

Amazing food, excellent staff and my favourite eaterie...

Great food and service as always

We had a lovely evening at Indian Ocean using Eat out to help out scheme. Staff are very accommodating and the food was top notch. I have often glanced at the restaurant while passing on Manor Road but we finally had the opportunity. Its a small but comfortable nook with not much of waiting crowd unlike many other restaurants with mile long queues!! Do try chilli machli!!

Great Indian! Been here a couple of times now, the food is so tasty and fresh, not oily at all. Staff are very friendly and accommodating. Feel lucky to have this as my local indian restaurant. Will be back again and again

We ordered a takeaway from this lovely restaurant for my birthday meal, every last morsel of it was outstanding, it made my birthday so special don’t go anywhere else , you won’t be disappointed!

But Indian in the area. Great service. Friendly staff. Great food.

Small friendly restaurant with good food.

This restaurant was always my 'tour de force', following yesterday, I am tempted to rethink. The staff still seem nice, the food is OK, but they seem to have gone down the road of many others in the shrinking of portion sizes. Price wise they are now quite competitive, but I have to ask myself, it's one thing going 'to 'la balle', but do I want to come home hungry?Of course the restaurant and readers may say 'well just order more', that being the case, my feet would simply take me in another direction. The availability is there.It is a very thin line between profit margins and customer satisfaction. I fear this hungry bird may well have come home to roost!

This restaurant is brilliant throughout- food amazing, staff amazing and always a full, buzzy atmosphere. The owner and staff are so friendly they asked our table of 10 all of our names just once and remembered them throughout the meal- thats what you call customer service!

Pretty standard Indian fare. Could have done without the local towie "star" blurbing at the adjoining table, like a small, overexcited chihuahua on helium. Staff are attentative and pleasant. Cost is average. I've had better in better surroundings for less.

Leckeres Essen und gute Auswahl.Sehr angenehmes Feeling und auf extra Wünsche wird nochmals eingegangen.Gerne wieder, 23nn wir eine Ferienwohnung in der Nähe haben.

What a great Indian Resturant. The service was excellent as soon as we entered the restaurant we was made welcomed and shown to our seats. The food is great with lovely size portions. The only issue is not the biggest restaurants but in that case it so Popular you go the bigger one in Theydon Bios!!! Always a regular for takeaways and sit downs. Love this place.

nice indian food. im not a huge fan of indian food but ii enjoyed the food from here. my friends were keen to try this place and i only went because they forced me too ad i actually enjoyed it all. they had a huge variety to choose from and everything we ordered was tasty

Good choice on the menu and beautifully hot,, sizzling food. Excellent friendly service. Lovely atmosphere.

Always perfect food. Lovely staff. Recommend

Possibly the best Indian I've ever had.

Brilliant place, beautiful food, very accommodating and friendly!.

Literally the best curry I have ever had here

Our visit to Indian Ocean will be very remembered. We arrived on a Saturday evening with my family. Food was superb and exqusitive. All though the restaurant was very busy on a Saturday night with many take aways coming in and customers collecting there orders the staff were able to cope well and were very well organised. The menus were very upto date with many wines to choose from. Food was very tasty. And the manager was very professional and welcoming and we were very well looked after. We are very happy to have found a local restaurant. Chigwell is very lucky to have a curry house like this.

Went few weeks ago. Food came out and was given out to wrong people. Not once but three times. Did give my husband another meal as I had started eating his. But too many mistakes. The keema nan wasn’t as good as others I’d tasted. Was a Saturday night and very busy. But was unlucky with our choice. The table next to us was for 4 but 5 came in so they squeezed another chair in round the side so stopping out access to go to toilet. Very Unprofessional and wouldn’t return.

Best little Indian restaurant. Food is amazing and reasonably priced. Lovely manager too. Takeaways nice a fresh also!

Food is amazing/ atmosphere is perfect we have used this restaurant since they have opened, food and service is still perfect. About time u expand and buy next door.

Lets keep this simple.....really good food, friendly polite staff and be sure to book in advance......enjoy.

Excellent quality food and very attentive service.

I went to this restaurant for a change last week. The menu is very extensive, with a lot of different options. The prices are a bit more expensive than other surrounded Indian restaurants but the quality is good.There were two waiters, one of them was friendly, the other one seemed upset, very serious and not many words.We had some papadoms, with some chicken dishes, rice and bread. Everything was very good.I will recommend it. If you go at the weekend, book in advance, as there are not many tables.

Thought id give this indian a go because my normal indian was closed ..food was average cant find the meat in sauce bring a fishing rod 4/10food.. staff and service 10/10

I have been going to this restaurant since it opened. The food is always amazing, the staff are fantastic.

We have been going to this place for years, it has never let us down, Always providing top quality food, the ambience is relaxed and inviting and the staff are always friendly and accommodating. This is one our favourite restaurants, no complaints.

Always wanted to try this restaurant as it is local to me and cannot find a decent Indian restaurant. But I am so pleased we eventually tried the food here. Collected a takeaway. The restaurant does look lovely inside. The food is exceptional. We had poppadums, chicken tikka masala, chicken madras, parathas, tarka dahl and aloo gobi and plain rice. Very generous amounts and the chicken is all breast. The food tasted amazing we will definitely return. Highly recommend this restaurant.

Ordered from here quite a while ago and it was lovely food and a good service. Would definitely use again.

The restaurant wasn’t busy on Monday night and the service we received was spot on - professional, very friendly and extremely efficient. Food was really good - fresh and hot. A very nice meal for our special occasion, rounded off by a on the House at the end.

Nothing special just a typical local needs better menu

Great service, very hospitable and friendly staff. Food is always hot and fresh. Quality time after time on each visit. Highly recommend when you fancy a nice Indian meal

Was out for the day and swerved in here on the off chance. Food was great as well as the service. Well worth a visit if you're in the area 👍

Nice people. Very polite and attentive. Prices are very fair too

LOVE Indian Ocean! Great food, a warm welcome EVERY time we pop in, which is usually to collect a take away order though we have dined here a couple of times and had a great time. Can’t rave enough about the people who make Indian Ocean what it is, more than just great food

Btw when I was pulling in I saw a massive long rat run out of the kitchen

Great takeaway as always. Food is always hot and fresh. Quality time and time again. Highly recommend when you fancy an Indian takeaway.

Amazing quality food and lovely staff. It's a relatively small Indian restaurant which makes it feel very personal. Highly recommended!

Very good Indian restaurant cooking to the same high standard as the Theydon Bois branch. A little small inside but fine for a cosy meal or takeaway.

We were taken here by friends who live nearby and rave about the Ocean. We were not disappointed as the food was varied and delicious and the service smart but very friendly. Definitely going back for more!

Normally have a good night here, however after booking a week in advance we turned upto be told there was confusion on bookings and ultimately had to leave on what was a special occasion, won't book again after this bad experience

My beautiful partner which he is and I went for a romantic dinner last Friday 22nd December 17 , and OMG! the food was absolutely superb..First class, I cannot fault it. The service was excellent and the setting in my opinion very cozy. They even offered drinks on the house as it was our first visit but we declined because we were quite full. To say the least ,the price is unbelievably cheap. Good food lovely atmosphere, we will definitely be going back in the new year. In a nutshell I highly recommend the Indian Ocean with flying colours..

Have not been here since my first visit when it originally opened. Nicely done and reasonably priced. Would recommend it if your in the area Guys!

Food and service were fantastic! I'd absolutely go here again!

This was a virtual takeover of the restaurant with only one other couple. It’s a small and comfortable venue. All orders were taken individually and the food served hot and fresh a variable menu and recommended

This is an excellent restaurant. Really welcoming, lovely staff. They make a point of remembering what drinks you ordered (long time since last visit, so impressive!) The food tastes really, really good. Very fresh and delicious. Can't recommend highly enough.

Visited here again and just as good as ever good service and friendly and helpful staff.We also visited with family and had a take away 3 times lately and no complaints.

Service excellent. Good atmosphere Food excellent very tasty and one of my favourite Indian restaurants.

Hemos comido en muchos restaurantes mucho todo Essex y Suffolk y tengo que decir que la comida aquí es inigualable absolutamente excepcional! Siempre recién preparado y muy bien presentada, el personal es muy servicial, amable y muy acogedor! Este restaurante en impecablemente limpio muy confortable con un ambiente encantador.

Fuimos un viernes por 2 adultos y 2 niños.

Surly staff, lied about a dish: poneer. Tried them a few times and they have always disappointed. You may like it if you know no better.

Food is tasty & very good service i like it

Dined here many times but last night for me was the best matters not what you have everything was perfect

Food was nice. Had the chicken madras was nice but the matter paneer wasn't that great.

Still great food, very busy, only slight reduction in quality is the previously excellent fish platter starter with was separate...

Este es un buen lugar para ir, pero fácil de llegar en coche y no aviso así que mira al pasar por la parte de la colina de Grange Chigwell.

Pretty decent place,not to many people,very good service,food is fine.

Visited last night and the food was the best I have ever had, served steaming hot, large portions and expertly cooked and not oily and very tasty, the waiters were great and offered us a complimentary drink at the end of our meal.The cost was also very reasonable.

My regular Food is fresh....People lovely....Clean and nice atmosphere! My regular treat to takeaway and sit in.Give me a beer when I wait for a takeaway! Quality service Top notch

Been here many times food is always of a high standard. The staff are very attentive. Small but cosy. Do remember to book as it gets very busy

good food but slow needs some refinement