Jhaal in Colchester

Amazing food. Friendly management l. Especially the food is amazing & tasty. Definitely recommended. Staff is very helpful.

They take your order, don’t deliver and when you try and call to see where your order is they decline the call every time. Waste of time.

The wife and I had a very enjoyable vegetarian meal. Well presented and tasty. Service was enthusiastic and friendly. A nice evening with fine,hot vegetarian food, a perfect antidote as the weather turns cold.

Very friendly staff, Good place and Delicious food. Loved it!

A great Indian restaurant with lovely friendly staff. Cobra beer on draft. Delicious food and service. Car park available.

We normally get takeaway but decided to eat in saturday night and so glad we did. Service was wonderful, very pleasant staff, food excellent. We were made very welcome and even got a free brandy at the end of the night. We will definitely eat in again.

05/08/24 Taken by Tina & Paul again we had a fantastic meal with personal, friendly and professional service. Love the new uniform too. *** 16/08/23 Another visit and another excellent meal - very tasty Chicken Tikka Biryani for me, and great service by Sha & Juned. *** Lovely food, nice service and good decor.

My partner and I had dinner this evening and had a great experience. The service was fantastic and all staff were very attentive. The food was 5*. Overall a very pleasant evening and we will definitely be back!

Great restaurant amazing food and friendly service if your Marks Tey definitely go

Very nice and helpfull waiters with eye for detail. Inviting and beautifull restaurant. The food we ordered was delicious! Greetings from Belgium

Excellent Service and Good Food the staff went beyond all expectations

Superb restaurant, fabulous food and outstanding staff and service. Highly recommend anyone to visit and dine here.

Excellent food and super service. We were a big group of friends and they were amazing in catering for us all. They offered a range of delicious dishes and we couldn't even finish it.

Love this buffet menu on Sunday's.

Was recommended by friends and the recommendation didn't disappoint. Excellent food, friendly staff and well priced. Will for sure be coming back.

Amazing food, great service, even have high chairs for the smaller of your party

Absolutely outstanding, food was superb. Service excellent and the waiters were on hand to assist you with your choices.

Absolutely incredible meal. King prawn dansak was so flavoursome and the naan was cooked to perfection, crispy and soft. The staff were so attentive, lovely atmosphere and cute painting of the Taj Mahal on the wall added extra authenticity. If you haven’t ordered from here, you need to!

Since my favourite Indian restaurant in Colchester shut down for good after 30 years, I have been trying every Indian restaurant i could find for a replacement but none have even come close until I tried jhaal. They have just bagged another lifetime customer. Fantastic food and service

Incredible food, the flavours were out of this world. Naan was cooked to perfection, slightly crispy and soft 👌🏼🇮🇳 I had the king prawn dansak and it was superb. Staff could not be any more attentive, lovely atmosphere, loved the painting of the Taj mahal too. Please take a chance and order from here, you won’t regret it. ✌🏻

Since my favourite Indian restaurant in Colchester shut down for good after 30 years, I have been trying every Indian restaurant i could find for a replacement but none have even come close until I tried jhaal. They have just bagged another lifetime customer. Fantastic food and service. The best authentic Indian cuisine and a must try

Amazing food with very good portions! The service was fantastic this was our first visit but certainly won't be our last visit. Absolutely love it!

The best curry I have ever had, friendly staff, very clean restaurant and great value for money. Come and try it!!

Been back again tonight and experienced more great service from Juned, Mamun and Saifal Great service received from Sha and Juned and the food was excellent as normal. Highly recommend the chicken tikka biryani.

Great service received from Juned, Saifal and Mamun and the food was excellent as normal. Highly recommend the chicken tikka biryani.

I am staying at the near by hotel and thought I would venture out for a curry. This place hasn't disappointed. In fact I wish I could pick it up and take it to my home town. I also liked how clean it was. Great experience! Thanks 😊

Con artist can't be bothered scam artist who pretend food is prepared and delivered because there closing and can't be bothered give them a wide berth poor

accepted order then then all of sudden was prepared out for delivery and delivered in a moment didn't arrive won't order again poor service if you don't want order refuse went hungry because they couldn't be bothered

Had a fab take away the first time from here, prompt service & delicious food ,I highly recommend 👌🏻

Best food and best services. Overall excellent.

Absolutely beautiful never a complaint about this restaurant food was exquisite! Thankyou !!

The order was too late. When you are hungry and famished and you order here, the order will come after your death.

Very nice Indian restaurant in Marks Tey. Visited recently and had a very enjoyable night and dinner. Extremely tasty!!!

The food is always good. Had many takeouts, never had a bad meal. Tawa chicken saag, especially good. The right heat, spicy but not too, great amount of meat to sauce. The prawn puree starter very tasty, lots of prawns. They do the best peshawari naan, lots of cocunut.

I love this place, the house special curry is amazing. It’s always worth a trip here. We come here every time we are in colchester Highly advised

Great food hot great service great staff happy friendly nothing is too much trouble reasonable price good selection on menu clean and tidy

Thank you juned and siful apologies if names spelt incorrectly, your service and food was brilliant always happy and very welcoming 🙏 well done and thank you very much 😊

Had a lovely time here with family made very welcome by the two lads who are always very helpful and always kind a credit to jhaal great food as always guys thank you .

I made an order on their website and the site said it should be up to 1.5 hours. My order did not arrive so I rang and was told my order was out for delivery. After waiting another 30 minutes my order did still not arrive, I was told it was delivered but wasn't delivered to me. By the time my order arrived I had waited 2.5 hours. I was given 2 free things. Being given free things still doesn't make up for this.

We visit J Haal regularly. On Monday evening we had an absolutely fabulous meal cooked by the main chef Rubel and excellent service from Saiful and Juned. They are always so polite friendly and attentive. This is our go to place for consistently good curries at reasonable prices.

Lovely meal. Sunday buffet - excellent choice of dishes .All of high quality. Bright and scrupulously clean decor. Attentive, pleasant staff.

Group of 29, made to feel very welcome, food was excellent. Great service, would highly recommend 👌. Will definitely go again.

Had a great night, great food, great atmosphere

Food was best we've eaten in a long time but from walking in and ordering to walking out took over 1 hour! Did give us a free drink after we bought one will be back but will defo call first incase of long wait!

Hasn't arrived.. and app said it left 50 minutes ago and we're only 10 minutes away!

Great food and friendly service in clean and colourful surroundings, great night. Variety of dishes selected and all were very good.

Really good food and great waiters/service. We use the restaurant on a regular basis and would certainly recommend it for good value and plenty of choice

Great night and food was great too. Such a warm welcome from the guys there and excellent service.

Always happy with our food , delicious! Thankyou !!

Always Lovely food and good portions, definitely 100% recommend

The food is always delicious and hot. Staff was efficient and very nice. One of the best Indians

A very enjoyable Sunday Buffet. Food was really lovely and lots of variety to choose from . Staff were very attentive and pleasant. A most enjoyable lunch- we will definitely be returning .

The Jhaal’s lunchtime buffet is absolutely delicious! The food is full of flavour and the service is warm and friendly. 100% recommend!

Excellent tasty good quality food, which was still hot on delivery. Unfortunately the vegetable curry was squashed in the bottom of the bag, so it was very messy. However the food was excellent

Absolutely Gorgeous meal and Delivery from a lovely friendly girl. I would highly recommend.

Food was amazing, large portions. The naan bread was soft and melted in your mouth. Thoroughly recommend this restaurant

Found jhaal after waiting round in another Indian for ages which was in absolute disarray. Well everything happens for a reason what a fantastic place great curry great service and lovely setting will be back soon

Best Indian takeaway in the whole of colchester. Portions were very generous and absolutely loved it. The food was very tasty and proper meat. Everything tasted so nice even the veg curry. This will now be our local takeaway for Indian food. Highly recommend!

Absolutely delicious and delivered on time, hot and we thoroughly enjoyed it!

Good service very good food well worth a visit

This is the best Indian restaurant & take away in the area. The food is always really good and the staff always friendly and welcoming.

Exceptional service, delivery in 20 minutes on a Friday and good food. We’ve gone here for years and will continue to do so.

Enjoyable - well timed - pleasant delivery man Thank you.

Food was amazing!! Service was good and order was delivered earlier than expected!! Will definitely order again 😁

We've had quite a few of the dishes now. All nice. One of better Indians in Colchester. Good size portions too.

Really good food. Haven't ordered from here in a while, but this was great.

Menu looked great Food very disappointing All sauce Very bland

Ben trying to find a good curry for ages. Finally a success!!

Our annual visit (as we live abroad) to Jhaal, along with our in-laws and friends, and it was as excellent as ever. Sha looked after us and we saw a new face in Juned who was eager to please. The service was friendly yet professional. The food delicious and good value. Looking forward to our next visit.

Great service received from Sha and Juned and the food was excellent as normal. Highly recommend the chicken tikka biryani.

Sha and juneyed,we're working ⚒ really hard to make our experience a good one and it was it was my nephews first time ⌚ there,top marks to them all including,kitchen staff,would recommend to anyone,great service and value too,we even got a free portion of onion bagees,??!!,

Cold. They’re on the decline for sure

Brilliant meal, recommend jhaal highly

Has been my go to place for a takeaway for the last 6 years. Would recommend to anyone in the area.

Excellent quality food and quick courteous delivery too. Thanks

Really good reception and the food is exceptional!

Beautiful dinner , although they forgot our chicken korma which we paid for . Which is a shame as they are usually very efficient

Absolutely gorgeous food and fantastic value for money. Everyone was very polite and attentive. Couldn't have asked for a nicer meal. Will definitely return!

Food excellent. Only thing that let them down was no alcohol free beer

Food was very chewy and the keema nan was undercooked

Excellent food ,highly recommend Still hot despite living 20 minutes away . We will definitely order from here again

Highly recommend. We all enjoyed our meals and very quickly delivery

Food wasn’t hot more luke warm. And had no flavour. Such a shame as this used to be one of my favourites but wouldn’t order from them Again.

Perfect cook very very nice delicious best food in Colchester....and thanks for green chilli.

We all enjoyed our meals. Lamb dansak, lamb shashlick and chicken passanda. Will order again.

Not returning to your restaurant.Inside service is very slow we came here for group food is late and ordered drinks have to Wait for drink long time Need to be a new management for this restaurant very unprofessional There is no customer service Disappointed

So I order from here quite regularly never had a problem with the food itself 10 out of 10 I can’t say the same for the customer service though unfortunately. After paying £62 for my order which they told me would be an hour, The food didn’t arrive so I called up and they said the food will be 10 minutes. 30 minutes later i call the restaurant back and they say they’re sending it in 20 minutes. It goes past the 20 minutes and still no food, so I call back they say 10 minutes again! 20 minutes later still no food can you guess what’s coming next? yeah your right will send the food in 20 minutes! anyway after many times phoning and waiting.. The food finally arrives.. they forgot 3 Rice dishes! so we called them up to explain and very rudely they tell us it’s our fault and we didn’t order the rice even though it was on the receipt that we had paid for it. The guy on the phone was very rude and obnoxious and threatening I think he may have some anger issues and hung up the phone on me. I will never order from here again I hope nobody else has to experience this it’s such a shame because the food is not too bad

This place is a joke First of all,the place it’s looks like only halfway ready to receive customers very unprofessional my wife booked the table two weeks ago and some one recommended that’s way we booked on Friday but all my guest very disappointed about...

Loveliest Indian. Bright decor superb delicious food. Friendly staff and a lovely surprise ending. I recommend the prawn purée starter and hubby recommended the lamb chop starter. Bhunas were tasty too! Enjoy 😃

Amazing food! Quick service! Couldn’t ask for anything better! Have already been a few times and will be coming again soon.

Had a lovely meal with great service Bright & modern dining room Would highly recommend the lamb chops starter All the food was very tasty

Amazing food. One item missing but the restaurant rectified this with incredible speed so cannot fault the service. They are human and mistakes happen. Would highly recommend. One of the best Indian takeaways we have had! Thank you.

Lovely food as always! Generous portions! Poppadoms were on point!

Been here to eat in before and always enjoyed the food and been a good price. This review is for the takeaway we had recently. We decided to phone the order through and go to collect. Seemed very busy and hassled when the wife phoned...

I asked for the driver to knock quietly and he banged on the door and then shouted is this my house number. I had to ask him to be quieter. The food was very bland, boring and spiceless. Very disappointed

The food has been ok but the service and communication for online orders is poor. Ordered online and order accepted after checking postcode. On calling later I was advised sorry your too far away so we won’t deliver (they use too) saying we were 22...

I am disappointed naan burn looks not good 🥺

I love delicious fish and naan so beautiful and other chicken taste ok like basic hmm... They're very quiet just me and my family that is all.

Missing items. Lost my money. So loyal to this place so I’m not happy.

Tasty as always and delivered in good time.