Monsoon in Rochford

Had a fantastic evening meal with a friend,we didn't book and they squeezed us in regardless. Atmosphere was buzzy and nice. Staff great, helpful and friendly and good value for money. Food was excellent only giving 5 stars as everything cooked really well, some dishes were a bit too sweet for me.

Love this place food is amazing and the staff are so lovely, so helpful

We fancied a Ruby Murray and rather than return to our usual near Potters (Hockey), we though we'd use Google's review scores to choose a different restaurant. We were very disappointed with our food both the vegetable korma and chicken tikka madras had more water than anything else and having had the same madras dish in Brick Lane last week, I had something to compare it to. Madras is supposed to be fairly hot. Their interpretation was milder than Walker's Max crisps even though it had two chillies showing on the menu. The chicken was well cooked and tender. My peshwari (coconut) naan bread was nice. We went in and ordered takeaway on a Sunday night. The restaurant was empty but we were instantly surrounded by about 5 staff as we entered the place. I think this must be part of the Indian culture, but it makes me feel uncomfortable. However, the staff were very pleasant and friendly and insisted we took a seat while we waited. The food took no more than 20 minutes to arrive. For what it was £38.45, additional water aside, I think it was overpriced. Brick Lane prices. They have two parking bays out front, but Rochford has loads of parking places. Just watch the time as RDC have nothing better to do than apply parking tickets.

Superb and delicious Sunday lunch! Thoroughly recommend this restaurant 😊

Had a lovely takeaway from here, plenty of food and quick delivery.

A real enjoyable meal. Nice and clean, great service, waiter recommendations were good. Overall fantastic!! Usually just get takeaways from here but this time decided to pop in seeing as we had the night away from the kids as a one off.

Very good night out highly Recommend

Food was cold. Far too much sauce & hardly any prawns or chicken. Salmon tikka so dry it was inedible. Sag aloo & Bombay potatoes incredibly dry. First & last time I order from here.

Nice option for Indian cuisine in Rochford. Only 3 parking spaces at front (up a kerb) so best park in road somewhere, limited on busy evenings. Usual restaurant, good range of dishes (including vegetarian) all of which so far have been very good. Reasonable prices, decent service.

Everything is exceptionally excellent

The best Indian around, never had a bad meal in this restaurant and have been going for 5 years now, would highly recommend!

Excellent food, friendly and polite service. First class.

Visited Rochford and decided to eat at Monsoon. I remember it as always being good from years ago and it was brilliant. We had fish bhuna and chicken chilli masalla.

Great service and food, best place, been going for years

Ordered a takeaway over the phone. Extremely helpful and complimentary. The delivery driver was fantastic and very funny and the food was top notch. Piping hot and incredibly tasty. Totally recommended.

Delicious food, friendly staff, absolute recommendation

Lovely restaurant, nice staff and good food.

Lovely evening great food and service

First time here. Gorgeous food, service excellent...whole experience 10/10....Def be back. and prices reasonable ...which really helps in this day and age...total yumm. 😊

Nice restaurant with fantastic food good sized portion's an attentive staff.

Lovely Indian meal, gluten free which is an added bonus, plenty of flavours, excellent service from exceedingly friendly staff very attentive

Only had takeaways but the food tastes fantastic and fair size portion... I will be going there

Ordered this place by accident however very happy with the food 5* will order again

Excellent food, fairly priced, friendly staff.

Amazing Food and fantastic wonderful staff. The best curry house I have been to for sure, and I have definitely had my good share in my time. I 💯% recommend 👌

Great food and great staff. Always have a warm welcome and great smile.

Without doubt the most disappointing Indian takeaway we have had. Both dishes chicken shaslick & byriani absolutely tasteless it was as if they had forgotten to add spices. An absolute waste of £39.00 as majority disgarded. We will never order food from the Monsoon again.

I simply love this place,the staff,the food

Love this place and visit every year when I'm here. Good food and lovely staff. Would recommend

Visited Thursday 13/10/22 at 19:00 with Colin & Mandi Hume who had suggested we go there. We had not been there before as I was not impressed by the outside view of the restaurant but what a surprise it was when we entered and sat at our table. There were only two other people at this time but it quicly started to fill up with people who seemed to be regulars. The table was spoless and menus very detailed and easy to use and they were also spotless! A very welcome change, the staff were very pleasant and attentive and I must say that this is the very best Indian restaurant that I have been in for many years. Our tables selection of Tandori King Prawn Masala, Prawn Bhuna, Buttery Chicken and selection of smaller dishes was Excellent! This is the first review that I have done for an Indian Restaurant and I just wanted to share how good it was. I will go back soon as I want to share it with some of our friends as a special surprise .

Ordered a take out 27/9/22 Worst Indian food we have ever eaten! apart from the garlic rice, very good! The rest of the food was bland and didn't taste of good quality, Never had a King Prawn on Puree with a gravy sauce that would be better with yorkshire puds! Biggest waste of £44 ever!

Fantastic place to eat,meet and greet, Very friendly management and staff. Always willing to help you choose from the menu. Keep up the good work.

Modern Indian cuisine and dining

Friendly staff serving tasty, good value traditional food. Will certainly visit again

Very nice food. Staff were very nice and friendly. The restaurant wasn't very busy but it was a bank holiday Sunday so that may account for that. I will definitely go back. Nice.

Outstanding food. Great service. Highly recommended.

Absolutely amazing restaurant. Wonderful food, fantastic service and lovely atmosphere. Highly recommend Monsoon!

Worst Indian restaurant I've ever been to. Waiter had a cold and kept sniffing and clearing his throat every 2 minutes making some disgusting noises, just dirty. Food was absolute rubbish.

Another good night at the Monsoon. Good food and service.

Food excellent great communication.

We ordered our grub and after a while I asked the waiter when our food would be ready and he said, "Man, soon..." so I reckon that's where the restaurant name comes from.

I used to be a regular of Monsoon, but moved a several years ago, and have seldom been back since. It was therefore lovely to find that the standards had been maintained, and the whole experience was excellent

Excellent food and even better customer service. We were treated by the staff at monsoon so well. They were arround but not intrusive and the food come out quickly and piping hot. Lovely

A really enjoyable visit, the food was top quality, fantastic house wine and service top rate.

Food good quality and generous portions. The service was attentive but not intrusive. Immediately seated, excellent all round and still probably the best Indian in Rochford.

Meal with friends.Really nice evening. Very efficient and friendly service.. Reasonably priced too.

This place has been here for years for a reason! Great food, fast service and very friendly, 5/5.

Great food, great service definitely go back

Fab food fab service,never disappoints

Had a nice meal here with friends. Very good food and service.

Always amazing service and food

Very nice service food was great and very helpful xxx

Good food and friendly staff good value for money

The best curry house in rochford. Simply terrific.

lovely food as always. Friendly staff too

Amazing restaurant service was very good. Food was delicious. Cant wait to come back. Highly recommend

Food was so fresh, tasty and delicious, be hard to beat it, staff so friendly and welcoming

First time we’ve used the Monsoon, good food, reasonable prices,arrived on time and was hot. Although we are not regular takeaway persons, we will use again. No faults found, from the delivery driver to the chef.

Staff and food excellent , lovely evening

Food was lovely and very friendly staff.

Called and ordered for delivery and paid over phone by card. When order arrived I was short of two items when I called them to advise of missing dishes they put me on hold for 4 minutes then said they would sort it out.shortly after putting the phone down I received a call from manager asking lots of questions and trying to get out of making another delivery because they was busy I got really frustrated and ended up telling them not to bother and now they have lost my custom full stop. Not happy with the service unfortunate because the food what did get delivered was to a good standard

Great mains but papadum’s tasted disgusting like dish soap....

This is my favourite Indian Restaurant in Essex! Great food, great service, nicely decorated. Been going there for years and I've always had an excellent meal.

Excellent food, when they get the takeaway order right, which is not as often as we would like. This evening's customer service was disgusting. They got the dish wrong and instead of an apology, the guy on the phone argued with me. He insisted that we paid for a chicken tikka mosalla, when we ordered and paid for a prawn tikka mosalla and the price is quite different. Thankfully we ordered online and can show them an itemised bill when they deliver the correct dish. I told him this and was laughed at and still argued with. We won't be ordering for a while as I'm currently fuming at the attitude I received. Edit: the manager brought me the correct dish, and apologised for the mistake, it's understandable that mistakes happen but I'm not forgiving his staff member's attitude.

Excellent meal, very friendly staff, highly recommend.

The best Indian restaurant in Essex. Excellent food at a very good price and staff so friendly and welcoming. I recommend to book a table as it's always very busy

We usually love Monsoon but our takeaway food tonight was terrible. All of the food ordered was runny and tasteless. Such as shame.

Yet another FAB meal! Dietery requirements dealt with as usual. They make a special dish 4 me🤗 Has my name on it👏

Best Indian I've ever been to, and I've been to a fair few! Amazing service and meals are equally as good! Amazing prices too, I cannot recommend these guys enough! Thank you!

The best curry for miles around. Always a warm welcome and the best food. Cobra beer on tap too.

Good value food with attentive service

Very good and good value for money

Absolutely love eating here, great staff great food, what's not to love 😊

Food amazing ... need to book in advance. Its been full every time i have been there. I would even make the trip to collect a take away from there (as i live outside of the delivery radius) brilliant, highly recommend

Had a good night out here with me and my Mrs. Food was nice and the staff were helpful, my only complaint would be that I feel the spice is toned down a bit to avoid cocky people complaining once they get something they can't handle so if you like it hot (say a vindaloo) I'd recommend going for something like a phall.

I have used monsoon a few times and 9/10 it’s normally great. I have on occasions had very watery curry and wrong things delivered to the point I was called a liar saying that is what I ordered which was not the case and refused to admend this. Otherwise in other occasions I have used this take away food can be great and cannot fault at all. Also get 10% off for being local and paying cash. Which can be needed as it is expensive.

Down on business. Really good find. I will definitely be coming back to the Monsoon if I'm down here again.

Monsoon is a favourite of mine, delicious food and excellent service

Food is amazing, by far the BEST Indian in the surrounding area!

Food was good, recommended and will def' go back. Service quick polite and efficient.

Always such a lovely welcome, excellent food & service. They do not accept the Gourmet Society Discount Card anymore which was a sad surprise.

A fantastic evening and superb meal at Monsoon.

Service was great. Food was so-so. I was really disappointed with my samosas

A great night had by our family. The food was hot, fresh and full of flavour and the service was great. Albeit that we were the only table eating in the restaurant at the time, it was well decorated, clean and there was nothing to complain about. We also use the delivery takeaway service frequently and the food never disappoints. Delivery has always been on time and the food hot. Recommended.

Food is amazing and always delivered on time or early, drivers always very polite! Atmosphere in the restaurant is very good and staff all friendly and welcoming! Would highly recommend for takeaway or to eat in

Great employees and great food:)

I’ve been eating here for a while now, can’t recommend it enough! Food is really good and the menu is brilliant. Take away is always on time and the delivery drivers are always very pleasant and polite!

Greqt food nice atmosphere very reasonably priced would return

Love this place ! Great food and friendly atmosphere

We had a great time together and enjoyed the food very much.

Super food in a very friendly environment. Excellent.

Amazing food and fantastic service!

Excellent food really nice staff only to happy to please would go back very soon

Realy friendly service great food

Last minute late booking for 8. Waited 40 minutes. A call back and in we went. Great food as normal and service. Decor really nice. Well done Guys and thanks.

Fantastic food, great value, very friendly staff.

Was very busy which is a good sign , food was nice give it a whirl..

I have been going to this restaurant for over 10 years, the food is wonderful, meat is tender and side dishes are Delicious always plenty of food. when you order delivery food is always delivered fast and hot, when eating in restaurant staff are very friendly , great atmosphere. my family and friends love to join me even though they travel miles they say it is worth it because food is so great. highly recommend to anyone :)

Good food good delivery service.

Best Indian around, never been disappointed. The food is delicious and for a reasonable price.