Kinara in Newtownabbey

Some of the best Indian food we've had 😋

35 minutes since the app notified me that the order was on its way.time of delivery was 21.40, twenty minutes past the end time range suggested by just eat. I live 7-8 minutes away from restaurant. food tastes nice, but is not hot, so i feel driver had several deliveries in one trip. whether the restaurant marks the deliveries as on way too soon, or the app gives too early a delivery window, should be corrected for future customers

Amazing food as always - highly recommended and never disappointed 🙂

Drinks not brought with food but delivery driver quickly returned with them

Been ordering from this place years, but my order from today was pretty disappointing. Got a madras and the lamb ended up being extremely chewy to the point where I did not want to finish my dish. Bit concerned with the sudden change in the quality of the meat as the lamb is usually very good.

I ordered a masala sauce, the colour was like something I have never seen before in a masala sauce. It was the strangest red colour had no flavour at all. Very disappointed as an Indian without sauce is plain bread , plain rice and plain chips worst £18 spent.

Nice food sweeter than usual and could be hotter as I selected that , chips were terrible though

Amazing food and always the best quality

superb as always and so reliable

Haven't been here for ages. I walked in, and as I was about to place my order I was told they only accept cash. (I have no issue with this). I ordered first then went to the atm down the road. I came back and paid for my order. Whilst I was waiting, a guy came in and asked if he could pay by card. He was told immediately, 'yes'. (I have an issue with this). I asked why I was told I had to go and get cash but they were accepting a card from the guy. The response was that the card machine 'only works sometimes'. I said it was odd that I was never even offered this option, I was just told I had to pay with cash. Then, two women came in to eat in the restaurant. They asked if they could pay by card. They were told 'no' that they had to pay with cash. (Also have an issue with this). One of the women left to get cash. Now, there is obviously something going on here. I'm not sure what, but I really think you need to treat all your customers the same. Oh, and on top of all that, they managed to get the dips wrong........Food was just OK.

Quick delivery no hassle would definitely order again

We found all the sauces to be very sweet (I had a madras, he had garlic chilli tikka), including the sag aloo. Found it very annoying that we had to order compulsory side dishes with our sides (ie Bombay aloo I wasn't able to order without a bread or rice to go with). The lamb in my curry was quite gristly. All in all just a little disappointing.

unfortunately this time the food wasn't up to the usual standards, everything was over cooked

Never had a bad meal out of here once always go the extra mile by putting extras in with my order would highly recommend top notch ❤️

Always great food and staff friendly and professional

Haven't had a bad order yet , good food and very helpful staff, in my opinion 💕

No riata with the dry mixed starter and the Vindaloo was hotter than a phall. I'll bring it back tomorrow for the chef to taste.

Fantastic as always! Brilliant staff, very speedy and high quality! The vegetable curry in particular was a step up! Lovely fresh veg and a bright, flavourful sauce. Thanks team!

Bit disappointed as an item was missing but the food was good as always

Beautiful meal, nice and warm and delicious food, highly recommended as always

Excellent food as always - lovely and warm, and good sized portions - will definitely be back 😉👍

happy enough with the delivery time, driver waited to make sure we were home before leaving it this time.

Disappointing Kebab chicken tough and dry overcooked, bread wet and soggy sald and sauce nice as they where separate

Beautiful meal as always , missing a chip, but a quick phone call sorted everything out - thank you for a great service and fast delivery 🚚

I have just recently moved into the area and have been struggling to find a decent Indian, thankfully I tried this restaurant tonight as it was absolutely top class, from the chutneys to the tasty Jalfrezi, that chicken tikka melted in the mouth!! 10/10 🔥 If I could give one bit of feedback, I think it would be beneficial to store the poppadoms in a separate bag so as they stay crispy. Thanks again for a great meal!

Lovely food and fast delivery. Will def be ordering from here again. Thankyou

Wonderful meal as always - tried the vegetable curry for the first - amazing - delicious and will definitely order again ☺️

The chicken didn’t taste good it was awful food

Great tasting food best Indian around. Great delivery from just eat

Me and my friend came here on Tuesday night. Got the early bird menu which was 13.95 for a starter, main and a side :) I wanted to thank my server Shayna (hope I spelled that right), she was so lovely and attentive, her service was great! Thanks again Shayna!! 🥰

Delivered tasty, fresh and hot!

Garlic naan omitted from order. Told it would be 40 minutes if I wanted it this evening or to say next time I ordered it was missing. Most likely won’t order again as the order wasn’t a complicated one

Mirchi korma was lovely definitely recommend if ya like korma flavour but with a chilli heat

Excellent food and service - just as expected 😊

still waiting 45m late.. I'd be more happy with an accurate time.. people have a life and things to do,, busy lifestyle or I'd run and pick it up myself. the reason why I've ordered From.. just eat

Been enjoying this place for many years ,but I have to say the last 2 times I have had the same meal it has been very disappointing....bland watery masala ,...not the place it used to be , or was it a bad night in the kitchen?.....#disappointed

I didn’t get this meal it was delivered to wrong address

Got charged for freebie Friday Pilau rice. Shouldn’t have accepted the offer

Delicious food and fast delivery

delicious food, piping hot, and fast delivery

app said it was on its way but waited another 30 mins before it arrived and when it arrived it was freezing!!!!!

Meal was below average, it came lukewarm, it was completely different to how it normally is, nothing like the usual karahi from here. Disappointing.

Wee bit late but is worth waiting for.

first time order and it was superb - hands down one of the best, tastiest indian meals I've had. there was a small issue, sorted immediately. this won't be the last order, for sure!

I have ordered many times from The Kinara over the years and last night I was extremely disappointed! The food was abysmal. The doner kebab meat was dried up like leather and we couldn’t eat it. The chicken tikka chilli garlic masala curry was watery, tasteless and the chicken was tough. I’ve ordered this dish many times before and it never tasted like this. Cost £30 and most of it ended up in bin. I complained to Just Eat and nothing done, very disappointed and won’t be back.

Staff & drivers are really helpful and the food is great, with quality, fresh ingredients

Both dishes tasted the same was very hard to tell them apart. Just runny sauce with a few pieces of hard chicken through in

Ordered from here by mistake. Was supposed to order Raduni and messed up. Worst one I have made, spelt bad, tasted bad. Ate about 4 pieces and had to throw it out. Not a proper kebab. Will ensure I don't make that mistake again

This is at least the fourth time ordering (not all via Just Eat - have also used their website/rang in an order) and fourth time experiencing extremely poor delivery time with tonight’s being 30minutes, tine before this was over an hour. Each time I’ve had to ring & follow up on an order and complain and each time I’ve been told, “sorry we are busy”; well I’m fed up hearing the same old sorry excuse so will be searching for a new local indian restaurant to give my custom to from now on.

food arrived early and tasted good. would have given a 5 star, but they forgot the sauce. nothing worse than a dry kebab

Curry was watery and didn’t even taste like tikka. This has been a few times we have been disappointed with the take away. We have ate in the restaurnant and the take away curry is of lower standard.

I had a well cooked meal in this restaurant. I def will be back.

Really nice and was ready on time, but portion size a small compared to other places in area that do mixed Kebabs, there was more bread than meat.

Order took way too long and the poppadums were completely smashed. I ordered three and was lucky there was two in the bag. Chicken was very tasty though

Hi, Whilst I did enjoy my meal, the plain nan that I ordered had not been included. Also, I had ordered one pilau rice and received two. Thank you anyhow for your service.

Decided to go here for dinner on the 16th March 2024. Rang up a few times during the day to book, but got no answer until after 2pm, fair enough I assume they have other things to do, but an answering service may be a good idea. That said, when did get through , booked for 5pm. Ask could we bring our own beers and wine. Guy said yes, not a problem. Noticed on the menu it did say £2.00 corkage, no mention of any charges for beers etc (Lets get back to that later) Arrived a bit early, around 4.45pm, went in and was told we cannot order to 5pm, again not a problem, as it does not officially open to 5pm. We got shown our table and sat down and looked at menus. Lifted 1 bottle of wine , 2 Beers and a Blue WKD from our stock we brought with us. We opened the wine ourselves, and opened the beers. All good. Once 5pm came someone arrived to take the food order. We ordered the mixed platter for 4, Lamb Patia , Chicken Patia, Butter Chicken , Chicken Tikka Karahi, 4 Pilau rice, Garlic and Cheese Nan, Peshwari Nan, 4 Poppadoms, 1 Chips and a Coke Zero. Poppadoms arrived first with a few dips, Nice Dips, Lovely Poppadoms, we all enjoyed them, only thing I will says, is they charged for them £4.00 plus £1.50 for the dips, any other Indian Resturant we have been too (And we have been to quite a few) the Poppadoms are complimentary. Next to the mixed starters 2 plates of lovely mouth watering treats for 4 of us, more than enough to go around. Each item on the platter was delicious and full of flavours, every one fully enjoyed them. Cooked just nice and well enjoyed by all. Starters all done , table cleared and I opened 2 more beers myself. Out came main event , I myself had the Lamb Patia , Patia seems to be cooked differently in different restaurants, this one I liked , nothing wrong with any of the others I have had before, just this was not as hot and a more savoury taste, I prefer it more, that's all. The rest of the party liked the food and seemed to enjoy it. At the end of the meal everyone was happy and good comments about the food saying it was tasty and good portions. No complaints there at all. The staff, while attentive and did ask a few times was every OK, they seemed disengaged with the customers, not sure exactly what it was , just felt different to other Indian Restaurants we have been to (and again, we have been to quite a few!). Now, to be fair, Food was good, overall tasty , good portion sizes, served in good time etc. Staff, Ok, could lighten up a bit. They did charge £2.00 for Wine corkage, even though we opened the wine, poured the wine, drank the wine and took the empty bottle away. Considering the prices were a bit on the high side and charging for Poppadoms I would have rated it higher.

They the rice! Spoilt what should have been a good meal which wasn’t cheap. Rice delivered an hour later which was of no use. Pity, food good, but more reliable alternatives in the area folks.

Perfect! The tikka Jalfrazi was best curry I've ever had and the Lamb tikka was soo tender.

Great food as usual. wouldn't go anywhere else

Eating here for 15 years, top notch.

always a great service. would highly recommend

ordered 2 garlic sauce and only got 1

kebab meat was hard chips so greasy

Delivery driver did not ring our gate but jumped over it which we are unhappy about

wasn't nice at all. won't be returning

Food was great as always. Honestly as good as sitting in!

Food said it was collected by driver 20mins before it arrived. Food arrived cold

Said it was delivered so then had to ring to check and it had just left. That was fine I can understand its busy etc but it arrived with a missing garlic and cheese nann. Rang again and spoke to the girl staff member who said it would get sent out to have to ring again an hour later and speak to another male member of staff who said he would get it sent out. Hadn't arrived. Staff were polite and apologetic which I appreciate but to ring twice then be told twice it was being sent out and not recieving it was highly disappointing.

Shocking meal. Cold and disgusting

their kebab has made me severely unwell the next day

Got a takeaway and was very disappointed, food was cold on arrivs and the king prawn starter didn't have one whole prawn, about three that seemed to have been cut in half. They were dry and overcooked and in my opinion and not fresh. For a starter and one main it was £27.50 although price changed to £28.50 when it was delivered. Won't rush back

Honestly the food was so poor, we collected our meal and live about 5 minutes from the shop so I have no idea how the chips could be cold, soggy, seemed like they’d been cooked yesterday? The korma was cold and tasted bitter - popadoms were over cooked won’t be back

The owner Mr.Imran has good team of staffs

Food was average. Kebab meat was nice, naan was pretty small, chips were soggy, greasy and looked like they had been cooked a few days ago and reheated. Overall it was ok, but would not be rushing back to order anytime soon.

Took over an hour and then I decided to ring them and they told me it had been sitting there on that whole time. It was then on route immediately after the phone call and everything arrived cold aswell as part of the order missing. Absolute joke

Chips were like stone as if they were scraped from bottom of fryer absolutely disgusting not the first time we had problems ordering from here... the popadoms were like dried flip flops.... sorry kinara wont be ordering anymore between forgetting drinks from previous orders and sending bags of popadoms that are like pieces of sand... lost a customer bye

Forgot rice. Who wants an Indian without rice? Can’t understand how it turns up cold when we are less that 3 mile away

Food beautiful as always, but delivery driver just plonked on doorstep and barely knocked door, just thanks to the app I looked for it. Food was warm but not hot so had to reheat. Had from here before and Food was perfect so please rethink delivery options.

The food was cold and the delivery driver appeared to be quite rude.

Nicest local Indian I’ve had! Really good veggie dishes

Worst kebab I have ever seen or tasted. Uneditable - the doner meat was that hard and dry it was impossible to chew - resembled plastic ..

Food delivered early. Food always excellent

Gorgeous food, even better when sitting I

After trying to book a table by phone and not getting through I sent a message to their msn. Got a response confirming table was booked however when we turned up were told there was no booking. Restaurant was full and in the end by chance a table had finished. One of the staff were trying hard to apologise and sort us out while the other was acting like he didn’t care. Was worse to hear this happens often, as whoever answers messages doesn’t then pass on the booking. Food was nice and good selection but there being no table did create a bad start.

Service not great as my meal was over 40 minutes after the rest of the table had eaten by this time all the side were cold and when I mentioned this I was not offered fresh sides and ended up not eating my dinner as everyone else had finished

Quick delivery but food was cold. I usually get from here and usually piping hot. Very disappointed this time.

Food was late and cold never be using them again.

Disgusting, food arrived cold, chips were half cooked & the “chicken pakora” was iceland chicken! asked for salad, none arrived, will not order again avoid.

Very tasty food, first time trying here, I’ll definitely be ordering again, arrived quickly, and was warm. Recommend

Delivery man came, knocked the door and left with the food. Didn’t ring door bell. Idk just weird.

Food was cold when arrived chips were soggy and mint sauce had leaked all over the bag had to clean up before we even ate

Food was delicious and we didn't leave a bit. Very fresh and hot when it arrived. Loved it, thank you Kinara!

Our order arrived without chips. Food was great but we need a refund on chips

Disappointed, the first time I ordered a pizza from here it was one of the best pizza’s I’ve had - tonight however they had the wrong toppings on the pizza - phoned them and to be fair they sent out another pizza but it took forever and by the time ig got here is was literally stone cold & not the same quality as the first time ordered - I ordered a takeaway from somewhere else which I hate doing - wasting food and money, likely will not order again - maybe it was just an off day

Order was late. Food was actually delicious. Shame it was stone cold.

Delivery driver admitted having 12 orders out . Ordered 6pm , delivered 7.50pm . Food stone cold , disgraceful

Nan wasn’t fresh .. way too thick to be peshwari nan .. very dry tasteless.. chicken was the only thing that was nice.

Agree with the other recent reviews - food was pre-ordered before the restaurant was even open and was still almost an hour late. Half of our order arrived 50minutes late, the rest of it came in a separate delivery. It had obviously been sitting in the restaurant for all that time as the curry was cold, the chips were soggy and the pizzas were congealed. I wonder at the safety of serving out food, especially rice, that has been sitting at room temperature for almost an hour!

Really disappointed as my food was freezing when it arrived. Soggy and inedible. Tried to resolve with restaurant who offered a bit of discount off next order which I won't be bothering ordering from here again! So unhelpful

Order delivery time was amended twice. After not arriving when ETA was between 18:40 & 19:00 I called the restaurant and was told it would be with me within 10 minutes. ETA was then updated on app to 19:20 and eventually driver arrived at 19:30. Food was not hot enough to eat and so we had to heat it up in the microwave. Very disappointing as usually this business delivers a quality service but not in this occasion.