Memories of Bengal in South Oxfordshire - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

What's not to like? Great food. We're repeat customers and they never let us down.

This restaurant is now a regular! On first visit pleased to see menu items not seen in Indian restaurant previously; tried and delicious! Having now eaten there many times (!) can say the food is always excellent. Always 'fresh' tasting - onion bhajis are best I've ever had. Staff are always efficient and welcoming. Highly reccomended!

Great vegetarian curries and fish , great service

Very very tasty and very well priced. Quick delivery time too

Friendly staff and nice to see people coming and going. We found the food warmish not hot like other Indians we have been to.

Very nice restaurant, second time there and enjoyed every moment with my friends. Food tastes great and very friendly staff

Fairly good quality food, although there's room for improvement (I think it could be more spicy)!

Absolutely delicious. I got a delivery and it came promptly, was very well priced, and easily the best takeaway I have had round here and I've tried them all. Amazing thank you so much

Very tasty food and friendly service. Thanks

Two of us had a lovely meal here. From entering, the service was brilliant. Waiters were very attentive and cheerful. The food was great, portions brilliant, food was hot, fresh and very tasty. We couldn't manage all the food but they bagged it in takeaway boxes for us. They even tolerated my partner trying to be annoying. Nothing was a problem for them. Definitely 5 stars *****

Covid was a difficult time however Kay and his team have done so well in stabilizing both staff and the quality of food. I am diabetic and the chef goes out of his way to assist my needs whereby to add zero sugar to my food without compromising the quality of taste. The food is outstanding and this restaurant has made a wonderful come back. They are polite, professional and it is our favorite place to eat.

Excellent service and excellent food, which was nicely spiced. End of stay meal for my parents and this did not disappoint. The restaurant was busy and they were short staffed, but still very attentive and friendly, with service and a smile. I would definitely go again.

We tend get take aways but despite the exterior in need of a bit of TLC, the interior is very nicely laid out and the staff are always welcoming. So welcoming in fact that I just have to walk in and my pre-ordered takeway just appears with a few nice greetings from familiar staff. My wife and I have lived in Cholsey since 2001 and must have had takeaways from this restaurant hundereds of times. It has changed hands at least twice over the years and the food has varied from not so great to excellent during that time. I am pleased to say that the current chef does a great job at our favourite prawn dhansak and chicken pathia dishes, in fact the best in the whole of the Wallingford area by a long way. We have tried these dishes in most of the Wallingford based restaurants but none taste as good as the recipe they use here. We have also eaten within the restaurant in the past, but due to our general lifestyle that tends to be on special occassions such as birthdays etc. They do run limited staff sometimes, but that has never affected the speed and efficiency of their service. We have treated ourselves to explore other dishes within their quite extensive menu on occassion and have never been dissapointed, so this is a restaurant that is well worth a visit.

The best Indian food in the area. Excellent service and very welcoming staff.

Food is always full of flavour, and very very well priced, especially compared to local alternatives. Staff are lovely and friendly, food is quickly prepared, and always in huge portions. Very very happy here, having been here now 3 times in 2 months. This will become my local takeaway for an Indian takeaway and I’d recommend it to anyone!

We were in the area to pick up our grandson but we were early so we popped in to eat. From the start we were seen by smiling server's and shown to a table. The food was delicious and the great service continued and we were pleasantly surprised by the bill. We will definitely recommend.

Welcoming, friendly, good service, and good food.

Food was fantastic and staff brilliant very good price too , can’t wait to go again. We found the Resturant be accident glad we did.

Eaten in and taken away. Food always good, and menu offers more variety than average. We eat there whenever in the area.

I had the butter chicken which was really nice but the ratios with chicken/sauce weren't really perfect, I had loads of sauce but not much chicken felt a bit nauseous too when walking home but I'm not sure if that was meal related or whatever

Amazing food, The restaurant was a tad chilly but still great service.

Good food,slow service and it was a bit cold,but would definitely go again as the food was nice and tasty

It's my local village eatery. I have visited five times and every dish has been superb. Tandoori king prawns are my favourite. Sadly, most people use it as a takeaway so often it feels empty.

Amazing food everytime, a weekly must.

To begin, the food was fine, however the service was appalling. I understand if you’re short staffed (a common issue with this venue from previous visits), but there’s clearly an issue with how the place is run. It took over an hour to get 3 starters and nearly 2 and a half hours to get mains, by which time the table of 6 next to us walked out after waiting nearly 2 hours for their starters, a further table walked out after ordering their food to then be told nearly 90 minutes later that the kitchen was out of vegetables. All the while we watched take out after take out be ordered and dispatched. I get that takeaways are a big part of their business but when you sacrifice your in-house service and the availability of food for people actually in your premises for it, then it’s a big issue. Which leads us onto our table where, nearly 2 and a half hours in and after chasing to find out what was happening, we were told that one of the dishes could not be done, as they brought out the other 6. They also had no naans left (they did when we’d ordered all that time before) . So you knew you couldn’t do it when you started cooking the other dishes but left no time to get a replacement cooked by asking the question at that point. We shared our food eventually so all could eat something. You can’t treat in-house guests like second class customers, it’s just not right. You also, as the manager did, try to throw the new guy out front under the bus and, when that didn’t work, then try to do the same with the chef. A free round of drinks was offered, but turned down as we were all fairly sick of it by then. We’d arrived at 7pm to eat, we left at 9:45pm thoroughly unimpressed. As I said, the food tastes fine, the service is just awful. This place needs to make a decision on whether it just focusses on one or the other, as they’re clearly not capable of currently doing both. I don’t know if it’s new management or staff, but it’s a real shame as we’ve used it a lot in the past and the service was great, but will no longer do so due to our more recent experiences.

Not usually a reviewer but as a Cholsey villager I feel compelled in this case after the worst takeaway experience we’ve ever had. Arrived to collect our takeaway to join a queue of angry customers waiting over an hour for theirs. We were fobbed off and lied to (you are next, just another 5 mins etc). Manager was out doing deliveries and then returned to cook in the kitchen. Soon those in the restaurant were also waiting 1 hour+ for food. Other takeaway customers were returning to complain of missing items. Finally received our food after 90 minutes (plus the 50 minutes since ordering). At least it was hot but the taste was really very average. As we were hosting friends it was a huge frustration. The manager complained of being short-staffed etc but as others have pointed out this situation has occurred repeatedly here since reopening. Some of the 5* reviews must have been visiting somewhere else. It’s sad that these guys can’t get it right, the village deserves some operators that can. Don’t waste your time or money - go to the many better options in Wallingford instead.

Delicious food, good value, would definitely recommend!

I love this place it’s really convenient as I live above the Tesco’s opposite in the flat, lovely food and a very good looking guy who owns the place

Second time ordering and second time the delivery was very late. It's a shame I didn't learn after the first time ordering. Ordered at 5.20 pm. Recieved a message that it would be 40 minutes. Arrived at 6.40pm. Food is not too bad, but wasnt very warm. Unfortunately I will not be ordering again.

Takeaway was half an hour late but excellent when it arrived

The food is absolutely amazing, so tasty and full of flavour. Our favourite Indian restaurant by far.

Great food and amazing services would definitely recommend.

The spot is great gir families very welcoming and food is tasty once you leave you will be craving for more

We had a takeaway from here and it was fantastic. Great service and super-tasty food. We were still talking about it the next day as the wonderful smells were still in the house. We are definitely coming back soon.

Real good spot for food, top notch. Atmosphere was great, had a nice dine out a few days ago with the missus. Definitely racked some points up with her at this joint. As they say happy wife happy life, and I'm loving life right now. Keep it up lads!

The best service and food of any Indian in the area. Don’t bother going to wallingford when you have this in Cholsey

I ordered two lamb Bhunas for delivery, I really wish I hadn’t it was watery junk , the worst I have ever had , I’m happy they also did not provide the menu leaflet , which I had also asked for , as I will never use again . Terrible quality , very small portions never again

Our regular takeaway. Vegetable madras isn't on the menu but it's my favourite.

Great flavours, very tasty 😋. Very enjoyable evening. Wish I could eat more. Going back for more.

Popped in here for the first time amazing service staff couldn't do it enough for you food was good but not blow your way good

Never fails. Good food. Ignore outside facade

Good takeaway for about the going price ready in 30 minutes on a Saturday night.

Had a fantastic take away last night - The Prawn Malabar and the veggie aubergine dish were both fantastic. Would definitely recommend and looking forward to our next meal.

Went with group of friends for a sit-down meal and whilst the food was fine (tasty but not particularly memorable), the experience was let down massively by the service and time taken to get the food. We got our initial drinks and poppadoms with chutneys pretty much within seconds of sitting down, however then waited over an hour for our food. We chased them up twice (including the second time when we were verging on leaving) and it should be noted it was us who were doing this - there was no approach from the staff towards us or apology offered. Looking around the dining room it did appear the service did just grind to a halt in that time with no food brought out for about 45 mins to anyone. What i did note though is that some takeaway orders were being fulfilled (cant really argue they ordered before us as we arrived within 30 mins of the restaurant opening). I could put this all down to a one-off and think they had a staffing issue maybe but the last time we went before it was temporarily closed we had exactly the same experience! Also whilst the interior areas are nice and well decorated the outside is a bit of a state with paint and wood peeling away and litter on the ground around the door and car park.

Sadly they prioritised Take Away customers which meant we had to wait excessively long. Highly disappointing. Also the trolley rattling along to bring food out and collect dishes was noisy. Sad

Good local Indian restaurant, food is brilliant and great price. Staff are very friendly will continue to use. Only down side is outside looks a bit runned down possibly putting others off but inside is well presented and clean.

We’ve had a few takeaways from here and they have always been very good, went in tonight for a sit down meal and was absolutely SUPERB, could not fault a single thing, Kema naan was absolutely first class!

My wife only had water to drink here since they would only let her have Prosecco if she drank an entire full size bottle. Why would they not stock small bottles? We were cold and had to keep out coats on. The windows are boarded up. Therefore dining here is worse than at home. Better as a takeaway. We live in Cholsey.

It's our local in indian restaurant we went for all you can eat on Sunday at £16 we had 4 courses we could not finish it all .New waiter he had just started he was attentive and spoke good English.lovely meal and service will be returning soon plenty of free parking

Well it was a special birthday and the only way to really celebrate it was to have a good curry. If you like really refined and well cooked Indian cuisine, then the Memories of Bengal in Cholsey is the place to come to. After a period of dormancy last year it has been reacquired by a small group of enthusiastic partners determined to make the business work. This is reflected in the excellence of the food as the chef is one of the new owners, determined to give his customers a real treat. So the evening was perfect with excellent food and this new incarnation of The Memories of Bengal arguably produces the best Indian food in the Wallingford area.

I've been here many times, always reliable, one of the best Indian restaurants around. These comments still valid now. Visited last week after reopening and food and service as excellent as ever at very reasonable prices. Highly recommended.

The staff were welcoming, warm and efficient. I was out with 3 members of the family and all the dishes we chose were delicious. I will certainly go again soon.

Lovely to see Memories back. Have been a regular diner here in past and standards maintained. Great selection on menu with some new dishes as well as the classics. The Tarka Dal remains a fabulous peppery delight.

My wife and I just enjoyed a fantastic meal. The food was delicious and the service friendly and attentive. We look forward to returning soon!

Memories of Bengal is of the best Indian restaurants in South Oxfordshire. So pleased it’s reopened! Its dishes are good value and delicious - you can’t go wrong with any of them. And the service is great. I went last week and had prawn xacuti, and coconut rice, which I had never tried before but was superb. I’ve had Indian meals all over the UK, including Michelin-starred restaurants, and been going to Memories of Bengal for ten years. It’s up there with the best. I always try something different every time and have never had a bad meal there. Times are tough for independent restaurants, so support them if you can. Welcome back Memories!

Absolutely delighted that Memories of Bengal has reopened in Cholsey. It’s been much-missed in the village whilst it was closed. The food - as always - is excellent. We started with a couple of Indian restaurant classics - onion bhaji & vegetable samosas. Bhaji’s crisp and tasty and wonderfully spiced. Samosa’s packed with deliciousness - yum! For our mains, I had the Mirchi Chicken Tikka with keema naan, my wife had the Prawn Xacuti dish with coconut rice, and we had a side of another classic, a vegetable curry. It was fantastic. I’ve never found the Mirchi Tikka on any other Indian restaurant menu and it’s by far my favourite dish of all time. Essentially a really spicy hot chicken tikka - served on the traditional sizzling skillet with fried onions. Yes please!!! Keema naan dipped in the vegetable curry - cor! All round a fantastic meal, washed down with a couple of Cobras. They currently have prides set really low also to get people back in so we’ll worth a trip. They’ll soon be changing the menu - please keep the Mirchi Chicken Tikka on there guys!!

Great meal welcome back you were missed.take away and dine in,various offers 10% take away and prebooked on Friday and Saturday 20% off dine in on Sunday ot thursday welll worth a visit . A small delay in service as the food is cooked fresh well worth the wait

Memories of Bengal has been closed for a while following storm damage earlier this year but reopened recently and it is a very welcome return. In their absence we tried several other Indian Restaurants in the area and none compared to Memories of Bengal. Food is excellent. Staff are friendly and welcoming. Building could do with some TLC but that seems to be ongoing now. Would definitely recommend.

Best place for miles. Coming here for years.

Amazing food, highly recommended. The peshwary nan bread was the best I have had anywhere.

AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!! Just ordered £37 worth of takeaway after being recommended this place. It arrived absolutely stone cold. Terrible taste and texture to the watery COLD food. My wife rang the restaurant with the response being “Hopefully next time it will be hot.” There won’t be a next time.

Arrived at 6pm and left by 8pm on a Thursday, and we were the only eat-in customers although a few takeways were processed whilst we were there. Attentive service, good food, no show-stoppers but no disasters either.

Great curry restaurant, the curry's are authentic and very tasty.

Gorgeous food, top notch.. Unfortunately place was cold on our visit and are with our jackets on

Just had a take away, excellent in every way, good service, price and food. Will return

Absolutely disgusting food!!! VERY sweet, lumpy sauce, king prawns sloppy, without a shell, nothing else in the sauce, no veggies that goes with that type of order I placed WE’VE BEEN LITERALLY SCAMMED! We couldn’t actually eat it. We didn’t get popadoms and salad which comes with order. AVOID THEM! They are the only Indian in Cholsey that’s the reason they treat customers like that and deliver very poor quality food as they know they the only one in the area and people will keep coming back. No competition make you see their true colours. Those people run the restaurant only for profit not passion. Plus they very stingy. The man who delivers stupidly keeps asking if we’ve paid for the order on delivery as he think we may foolishly pay him twice!!! Absolutely ‘AGLY’ family running this business! PLEASE ORDER FROM WALLINGFORD, they have lovely food and 2 take away and dine in restaurants available. Waste of money.

The best curry house in Oxfordshire by a country mile. Don't listen to Craig, Tom or Dom, they haven't got a bloody clue.

Great Indian food, the best in the area.

First order from Memories of Bengal. Easy and quick to order online and time texted of delivery time. Food arrived hot and bang on time. Delicious, good amount of meat in starter and curry. Will definitely order again…and again!

We have had many of tasty, Fresh Indian food from here, Both sitting in the restaurant which is a must or having a takeaway. Highly recommended, quick service 👌 apm

Excellent as usual, sublime food and friendly service made for a rather wonderful evening with friends 👍

Another takeaway from Memories of Bengal. The staff are always brilliant and the food was ready to collect when we arrived. Another tasty meal and the portions are a good size.

I meet with a friend every couple of months and we like to sample different restaurants. This time it was Memories of Bengal. It was very quiet midweek, cold and wet outside but warm and frinedly inside. The onion bagees were superb, the lamb chops flavourful but a little chewy. The two chef's specials we chose, both medium hot were just right and sag daal as a side dish made for an excellent meal with plenty time to relax and chat together.

Good food, good vine, reasonable prices. 👍

Sunday lunch is a all you can eat buffet really good mix of food example 3 starters 2 curry s veg rice and narm served up all ways hot and tasty all for about 10 pound. If you have the take away 20 % off .

One of the best Indian restaurant in the area with a lot of options in the menu.

Excellent food and service. Missed the indications of strength of heat of each dish that other Indian restaurants have on their menus - I had to ask which were the mild dishes I prefer.

Good food when it eventually showed up. Only 1 waiter all night when the place was full. No apologies for the long wait or complimentary drink. Took 1/2 hour to get a drink, 1 hour to get the starter and 90 mins to get main course. Table was also pre-booked.

We are new to the area and have ordered from here a few times now as it is the best we have found in the area for the quality of food, taste and value, they also have a very quick delivery normally within 30 minutes

Food lacking in flavour, very attentive service though

I've only ever had takeaway, but the 20% off £15 deal on the website is great. Lots of selection, some of it genuinely spicy. I much prefer it to the options in Wallingford proper.

Reliably good local Indian restaurant. Great service. Always look after my elderly father.

don't judge the restaurant by how it looks outside, otherwise we would not have entered, but it was recommended by our hygienest. The food and service is very good, very helpful in giving information on the dishes,. We just keep going back. 😀

Delicious food, the bill is always cheaper than expected and the service is excellent.

We happened upon this restaurant whilst staying in the area. What a treat! The starters of Onion Bhaji and Lamb chops were generous and delicious. We chose main courses of Kashmiri Chicken and Hari Mirchi Bhuna with side orders of Brinjal Bhaji, Kudo Bhaji, Pilau rice and Peshwari nan. All of the dishes were excellent, in particular the vegetable dishes were a revelation. So nice to discover cooking of this standard where there are knowledgeable chefs who know how to prepare dishes that are individual in character and sensitively created. The waiting staff were polite, efficient and constantly scanning guests to make sure all was in order - so much better than the unseeing gaze of waiting staff in most restaurants. Best I've had outside of India.

Excellent Indian restaurant. Great food friendly staff.

Whenever we've been for eat in meal it has been truly superb but this is second time got a takeaway that was borderline inedible. Dont know how they manage it but the takeaway is basically lukewarm oil with some meat chucked in. (And I live 30 second walk away as well so not even like I travelled for ages and it went cold)If you can go in and eat in as it is lovely and the staff are really nice but yeah the takeaway leaves a lot to be desired.That being said the ordering online and the discount for collections all works very well, sadly I won't be using it again and will probably go less often as it's more expensive to eat in (with drinks etc)

Never had a bad meal and staff very helpful

Very friendly staff good tasty food very cosy and clean very competitive prices

Super curry with my son. Good quality and not too expensive.

Food delicious and service with a smile.

Dnes jsem poprvé navštívila tuto restauraci.Výborné jídlo,pozorný obsluhující personál.Při návštěvě Cholsey vřele doporučuji.

Do této restaurace nás vzal na oběd náš syn s tříletým vnukem. Prostředí je velmi hezké, romantické. Příjemná, ochotná, ale nevtíravá obsluha a dobré jídlo. V této resturaci je podáván milý a chutný předkrm. V Bengálsku jsem nikdy nebyl, ale jídla, která jsme si vybrali nám všem chutnala, a to i malému vnukovi. Až budu zase v Anglii, rád bych tuto restauraci zase navštívil.

Freezing cold inside the restaurant. A shadow of the restaurant's former self. And the wonderful desert menu they once had has been replaced by the default frozen ice cream shambles featured in most lower grade Indians. What a disappointment.

Return visit and again brilliant really recommend whole family enjoy the place nice atmosphere and delicious food

Excellent food and friendly, helpful staff, happy to let you go off menu if there's a dish you particularly like. The village is very fortunate to have such a fine restaurant, not least because the pubs are dismal.

Really good, great service too.

We have been here many times but five of us turned up late on a Monday evening. The restaurant was empty but as always the guys looked after us well offered advice to the vegans of what was ok to have and how it was cooked. There was no rushing us out of the door and the food was as normal awesome. Thank you

Amazing food and lovely staff. This goes as one of my top recommendations. Shame all of you will miss it

Had a fab meal on Saturday night - I can thoroughly recommend this place. The prawn Malabar curry was superb.