Moon Of India in Lewes

The food is always excellent and good value. However sometimes the service is less than perfect. The attention to customers sometimes lacks conviction. As in, you don't feel valued as a customer. Which is a vital part of enjoying the experience.

Always good as ever .so attentive

Had a lamb tikka masala curry with rice and could not eat a single piece of meat as it was so tough could not even pierce it with a fork.

takeaway consistently good quality but usually have to wait a while when you go to collect

The best chicken tika danzak in the area very friendly and efficient staff

Dining at the Moon of India was a very enjoyable experience

Bro its Bangladeshi restaurant and they have a poster of 43 years of experience i.e. established in 1978. We freed them in 1971, so if you want to be part of India then use our name otherwise get lost , place sucks

One of the staff was so rude and showed attitude for no reason. He asked me too many personal questions which I found so offensive. Also at that moment, he told me if you don't find anything I can go to another restaurant. Waste of money.

Takeaway - dry chicken in both dishes. Chicken dansak and chicken jalfrezi. Chicken jalfrezi was in a sloppy insipid tomato sauce which was not eaten. 1 of the naan breads was burnt and inedible. Shame food was taken home as if was closer would have taken back.

Service and staff could be fixed please, food quality is average

It’s not an Indian restaurant firstly, it’s run by other country fellows with worst quality and taste, the staff isn’t friendly and I found it very embarrassing

Rang for a delivery, The guy wanted to charge me £3 extra because I did not order through the website, at this point I should have trusted my gut instinct and not ordered. He then said ok no delivery charge, even though it says orders over £20 free delivery. Arrived within an hour, as promised. The curry itself was a medium chicken curry & mushroom rice. The curry was watery flavorless. Th rice tasted burnt. Do your self a favor and dont order you curry here, really terrible.

Excellent food, quantity needs to be looked at when compared with charges but apart from that all good.

Food used to be great, now very disappointing. Cost of take out £100.

When ordering online and collecting the food yourself they charge you a service fee! When ordering by phone and collecting the food yourself they won’t honour the collection discount. Avoid this restaurant.

Try to short change you when pay in cash. Check your total amount and your change.

Yasin was great good customer service amazing at a good cost. Must try here

If I could give zero stars I would, the chicken was chewy and tasteless and very overpriced. I called up and politely asked for a refund for the curry I ordered and they refused unless I drove down and dropped the food off myself. The manager then hung up on me after I stated I was unhappy with the service. Horrible staff and horrible food, don’t waste your money here!

A short black hair in my balti and it's definitely not one of mine

Waited over an hour for delivery. Called to chase it up and they said they couldn’t find the flat so just didn’t deliver it (they had our contact number and didn’t try calling). Food obviously then arrived cold. Very bland and tasteless, lamb was chewy, korma tasted no different to the masala. Peshwari naan fell apart so we couldn’t even eat that. Onion Bhajis again had no taste - all you could taste was the oil it had been cooked in. Second time we’ve ordered from here and previous time wasn’t great either. Wouldn’t return.

Excellent food. Reasonable prices. Unhurried service.

Dine in is top notch. But online service is pathetic.

Terrible...... Avoid this restaurant. I ordered delivery online using their slow & terrible website. Waited over an hour for our food and when arrived it was tasteless. Had to throw it to the bin, waste of time & money.

Worst Indian restaurant i ever ate in.. please dont waste your money here.. i ordered samosa (they fried readymade rumali roti samosa and gave), aloo chaat (they gave tasteless spiceless aloo sabzi over a poori, when complained, staff said he wasn't aware of what is aloo chaat), lamb tikka biryani (they gave fried rice, non spicy, undercooked hard dry meat), sag paneer (without any much paneer pieces), peshawari roti (this was okay)... We wasted 35 pounds here... Even the bill was hand written one... Not sure if they pay proper taxes...

First of all, they don’t have chai. I was simply surprised by the fact that Indian restaurants that don’t have chai exist. I ordered fish masala. We were the only customers when we arrived, but it took nearly 30 minutes to get the food. It was way too sweet, let alone not spicy at all. I wonder if local people like this sweet curry given the rate they got. Those who know authentic Indian cuisine will be disappointed. The staff were very nice though.

Horrible restaurant. No value for money and taste is also bad. With the name of India and hardly any respect for Indians. Really disappointed with the food. The prices are high and quantity /quality is negative!

Had a meal Saturday nite what a great meal and very friendly staff would use again next time we are in Seaford cheehs Alan Pam from Hastings

Had a lovely family meal here recently. Very friendly staff and the food was excellent. Very highly recommended.

Always a lovely curry, ate here with party of 10 from work, and everyone had a different dish which all came out correctly and warm.

Lovely curry, try the lamb chops and banana bhaji

I have been there just once, but it was enough to make me realize there is something special about the "Moon of India". People working here are especially friendly and kind. You can find there vibes that are normally limited to family contexts, which is particularly enjoyable, as a customer. The food i have had the pleasure to taste was so flavorous, so tasty, so colorful... I just coulnt stop eating. I wish everyone to have the opportunity to enjoy a meal in this very special place at least once in their lives.

I honestly don’t know how this place has good reviews, probably the worst curry I’ve eaten…firstly we ordered 3 curries and 3 rice and they only sent two curries with 3 rice and the food turned up cold & chewy , horrible taste , we will not be ordering here again!

The best Indian food in seaford

We had food delivered from here on Saturday and I was very impressed. The dishes ranged from good to excellent. The service was exceptionally good and the guy I spoke to on the phone was welcoming courteous and friendly. None of that would have mattered if the food was disappointing but it wasn't. Enjoyed it thoroughly and I'm going to use it it as my go-to now. This was the last of the the well rated Indian restaurants in the area that I've tried. Moved into the area two years ago and have slowly worked through all of the Indian restaurants in Newhaven and Seaford. This one is joint best for food quality and definitely the best for service by a mile. Thanks guys

A very pleasant experience. Being the closest table to the entrance door and protected only by a decorative screen was not great as when the door opened, we were hit by a blast of cold air. The food was very good and the service friendly and pleasant. I'm a bit out of touch with prices but I would think they are mid range. The decor was plain but clean, wouldn't think it the place for a romantic evening but we left satisfied, overall a pleasant experience.

So i went too the moon last night for a sunday special lovely sit down meal. Poppadoms.chutneys. had tandoori chicken,lamb tikka,(starters) lamb dansak,chicken tikki arachi this was sour and hot the dansak had a slight sweetness.peswari naan,pinnapple bhaji,andmotor panneer. If u like sag panneer. All the flavours married together perfectly.the food was good and the service was great ill definatly be back tha ks

The best Indian in town!! .. We have been coming here for 12 years and always had great food and service... Such a lovely family run restaurant and all the staff always make us feel welcome...

We have used this restaurant for twenty years and have never been dissapointed . Excellent quality food , decent portions and friendly staff. Would recommend to anyone. Tony Fish.

Great service, delicious food, highly recommended

Wonderful food prepared to perfection. Great service. Massive portions . Tasty. Clean, very clean environment and utensils. Bathroom very clean. Food all fresh and freshly cooked

We have been regularly ordering takeaways from here since we moved to Seaford three years ago. In the past they have always been tasty. Unfortunately we have noticed a gradual decline over the last 6 months in food quality and customer service. Our last takeaway was ordered at 6.50pm and were told an hour and a half wait time. Our food had not arrived 2 hours later so we called to see if we had been forgotten. A lady apologised and said it was just the naan left to cook so it would arrive within ten minutes. It was finally delivered a further hour later which took the total wait time to three hours. We understand you must have been very busy (this is great for you considering the impact covid has had on everyone’s finances) but we feel very disappointed with the service. We think it was more likely our order was forgotten and then we were lied to rather than told the truth. Our dinner was ruined as we were left waiting for 3 hours and ate very late. The only sign of amends was one extra onion bhaji and 2 extra poppadums. Considering we are loyal customers and spent £40 (which is a lot of money for us at the moment) we would have hoped to receive a stronger gesture by way of apology. We understand that mistakes happen but this was dealt with quite badly by your staff. Due to this experience, we will be unlikely to use Moon of India again. We emailed the restaurant a month ago to give the opportunity to respond (before leaving a bad review here) but we have had no reply.

By far 1star is to much ordered food so disappointed. They fried the chips in the same oil as they fry everything else so chips come with burned onion and test you can imagine and my kids don't like onions so we had order somewhere else what a waste

No Track and Trace system in place! Not even a clipboard to leave details on. Arent all restaurants supposed to be doing this?? Very nice food. Young Waitress lady had no mask on and looked like she wanted to be elsewhere.

We love this take away! We’ve never had a bad experience. Food is hot and tasty. Personal favourite is a lamb rogan and their mixed fish shashlik is also lovely.

Great service and food was lovely. Highly recommended

One of the worst restaurants I've been to in some time.

Last two visits were very disappointing, we were offered a choice of two house wines , chose one but when we ordered a second bottle we were told that they had only the one bottle . Long wait for food to arrive , part of the order arrived at the table ten minutes after the first part , we had to ask twice before they remembered to bring some water and had to ask for the air conditioning to be turned down as it was so cold . We have been going to the Moon of India for over 20 years and are really disappointed with how it has changed from a friendly relaxed atmosphere to more like the hustle and bustle of a fast food outlet with poor service and untrained / unprofessional waiters / waitresses. The problems continued with our takeaway last night for ourselves and five friends , were told it would take one hour but after an hour and a half we phoned to check and it finally arrived over two hours after ordering with two items missing .On a positive note the food is good but We won’t be returning anytime soon .

Worst half cooked biryani, half cooked chicken. It's time waste & money waste. My rating for Moon of India - BIG ZERO.

Worst biryani , half cooked , distasteful . Poorly marinated chicken . No zero star , that's the reason for 1 star

Its worst chicken biryani and its half cooked. Its completely waste of time and no proper response from the restaurant management

Ordered take away online. Delivered on time but food dissapointing. My passanda was very watery and had separated in the tray. No amount of mixing sorted this. Food wasnt piping hot, only warm. Little flavour. Wrong naan bread sent. Should have been pashwari, instead was filled with greasy cheese. I'd been really looking forward to trying this restaurant but it doesn't compare to other local Indian restaurants

Returned after a long absence and new management. Pleasantly surprised with great food and attentive service. All food freshly cooked so takes a little longer to reach table but worth the wait.

Booked online which was good.Arrived on time. Ordered drinks... we had waited a while then we noticed that one of the waiters had popped across the road to Tesco to buy the fruit juice we'd ordered for the kids, and the bottle of wine I had ordered. We then watched the staff squeeze 2 small cartons of juice into a glass!Service was slow, had to ask twice for a jug of water before it arrived.We were cold as we were Sat in the draft from the aircon. We asked them to turn it down - they switched it off, then back on again 10 minutes later.Had to ask for the beer we'd ordered after about 15 minutes.Had to ask for the bill twice before it arrived.Loos were a bit grotty. Food was ok. But my Lamb Rogan wasn't like anything I've had before! Good quality meat though!Wouldn't return....

although they gave my son a dirty serviette they replaced it straight away and the food was out of this world

Although I have had many meals at this restaurant which have been very enjoyable both in food and service and ambience in the restaurant, I wish to review the take-away service provided through the Covid 19 pandemic. Against all the odds this restaurant has kept going to continue to provide food of a high standard, which, in turn has kept us going through this difficult time. We really appreciate their cheerful service and perseverence to keep going.

Very poor food. Peshwari nan full of sweetened desiccated coconut. Inedible. Arrived an hour before designated time. Rarely do takeaways, this a special post lockdown treat. Never again.

Firstly,its just been refurbished and feels a nice place to be,excellent food and drinks,there's excellent air conditioning well worth a visit,I reckon you will return.Will have to make plans for another visit real soon!...

Excellent take away, by far the best locally. Really nice people. Highly recommended. Tony Fish.

Had a fantastic curry tonight, hot, fresh and really tasty, social distancing respected, highly recommended.

Blinking marvellous curry house..Take away amazing aswell.

Good food, great portions and friendly staff. Looks even better now theyve totally revamped the place. My regular curry house :-)

Very disappointing; extremely tough lamb, tastless dry chicken, cold hard naan bread, watery vegetable curry, and a very small quantity of over cooked and dry garlic mushrooms. What is going on....

Fabulous food friendly atmosphere and great service ,always feel so welcome

Oh my goodness what a fabulous experience, the food devine, the flavours incredible. So many excellent food sensations in each mouthful. Absolutely the best poppadoms i have ever had. The service was attentive but not too much. Booking would be a good idea at the weekend. We took the elders who lived in India in their childhood. As you can see from the photo they had s wonderful time.

Good Indian food. Prompt service. Will deliver.

Good service and food, will definitely come back.

We used to always love this restaurant, recently mainly had deliveries, the last two orders have not been as ordered and paid for, tonight was the final straw, we ordered 6 popadoms they were missed off our delivery, last time a nann bread was missing from our order, we didn’t complain, despite paying for these non delivered items.We won’t be ordering again. I can only assume management has changed.

To be honest I have not eaten a decent curry in Seaford for more than two years and certainly not bothered with a sit down meal for more than 3 years as quite frankly, the standard and quality of any of the restaurants is appalling, so for this reason why spend decent money on a meal that is rubbish, and that’s the reason why I choose to buy mine from Morrison’s Supermarket, they are cheaper and quick to cook and actually look better and taste extraordinarily good.I have been eating at Curry restaurants from 1971 as a young teenager and had more than my fair share of diverse experience in different regional Towns and London businesses including America and Europe I think I know what’s good and reasonably fair Indian cuisine, so I will be honest and fair in my opinions.My Wife and I ordered straight off the takeaway/ delivery menu which should be exactly what you would expect just the same as having a sit down meal, and having used the Moon of India before it simply has fallen down in my expectations immensely in quality and presentation of meals supplied. The food was supposedly two different dishes unfortunately they looked and tasted the same, the side dish was far too chunky when should be smaller pieces, the Nan should have had almonds but was filled with coconut and was dry and the onion Bargee also dry to the centre as if it had been precooked and sitting about for a couple of hours. Disappointed and annoyed but one positive has come out of this I will never eat or want to bother eating in any of the Seaford Indian Restaurants and rather travel to Eastbourne or Brighton in future where the quality has to be acceptable or they would just go under, how these Seaford Indian restaurants survive is a complete miracle and it’s no wonder at this standard if they will in the future.

Food always brilliant. Great service and lovely staff. Best indian in seaford hands down.

Have not eaten here for about 20 years (stopped going with poor service and poor food) what a change, I think it must be new owners. We went with friends and had a delightful meal with great attentive service. Everything served well in a cordial atmosphere.

Terrible take-away meal all round. Bland to start with, not gone near anything I associate with an Indian meal in terms of spices. When the menu says served with pilau rice they don’t send a portion with everything ordered on the menu and it is not pilau rice, so they short-change you right from the start. (Tried to tell me that pilau rice is healthier when they don’t use turmeric to make it, plus other spices that would give it a distinct flavour). In effect, one load of boiled rice served for two dishes that said they came, each, with pilau rice. The chapatis resembled out of date grainy dry flatbreads from the local supermarket and probably were. An under-cooked round thing purported to be a paratha, (‘What’s wrong with that?’ said the manager when showed the distinctly not cooked, not a paratha piece of rubbery bread). One of the chicken dinners was terribly sweet and the person who had it thought a mistake was made in using the wrong sauce for it as he had gone out of his way to order a meal that was not sweet. There are six local people minimum now who will not eat food from this dreadful restaurant in Seaford.

Friendly and proud of their food. As with most restaurants, it's a shame that the popadums are not fresh. This is a bit of a letdown. Chicken Ceylon delicious, but tandoori chicken a little lacking in flavour. All in all though pleasant enough.

Great service and wonderful food recommend the vegetarian dishes

Very nice food and friendly staff

I am sad to say this was one of the poorest Indian meals I’ve had whether at home or in a restaurant. It was bland with tasteless ‘pulao’ rice (only one portion sent), breads which were like cardboard and curries with little flavour or heat. Very disappointing indeed.

Always welcoming, lovely food and very good service

Excellent Lovely food. Very good service and staff very friendly.

Great food, all cooked fresh, a main, a rice or bread + sides. We were greeted by the manager- who remembered my food allergies, I’ve only been there 4times in the past 2yrs. Unfortunately it’s not terribly accessible, they have a ramped entrance, but the restaurant is narrow, so not really suitable for a wheelchair. The service was spot on, beers delivered when asked, food all hot and freshly cooked, including a special request at no extra cost. Thank you

A staple selection for Seaford, as one of the oldest Indian food restaurants in Seaford. Savory dishes steeped in rich sauces, good takeaway, restaurant section great for a meal out. Staff very polite and friendly.

Had a lovely seafood curry. Great Indian.

Excellent food staff was friendly and helpful

Das Moon of India in Seaford ist ein kleines aber feines indisches Restaurant. Von außen wenig einladen (ein bisschen Imbissflair) lohnt sich der Gang hinein auf alle Fälle. Sehr gutes Essen (scharf bedeutet hier auch scharf!!!!!!), gute Getränkeauswahl, sehr aufmerksames Personal und faire Preise

We’ve not had a meal from the “Moon” for a while. We don’t eat out a great deal so thought why not. It was absolutely perfect. No complaint at all.

We were hungry as hadn't had lunch so decided not to head through to Brighton to eat. There are not many places open in Seaford on a Sunday evening so this was a bit of a mistake. The positives - woman who greeted/seated (owner?) was friendly and welcoming. Starters were pleasant- chicken chatt & onion bhaji. Main courses were not good at all unfortunately. Ordered chicken karahi with chilli naan and plain rice, prawn bhuna with keema naan & pilau rice. Both medium curries that had no discernable spice or heat and massively over salted. Chicken was chewy and tough and prawns were rubbery. We left most of the chicken & prawns as not at all convinced these were cooked and concerned about eating in all honesty. The chilli naan ordered was not delivered, instead a plain naan was? No mention of reason for swap. The 2 rices were identical (plain) and overcooked. Again no explanation as to why no pilau. We requested 1 curry without coriander, server returned and said no coriander so wasn't that lucky. Yes for the person who didn't want any but I have never heard of an Indian restaurant that didn't have coriander, especially one just across the road from an open supermarket! We were hungry so ate the naan & some of the sauces and a little rice. The lady then came back out with some coriander she had found. The gesture was appreciated but we had basically finished. It was cheap but the old adage you get what you pay for is very true. £33 + tip is not expensive for a meal out for 2 but was a total waste of money for what we could actually eat. No point complaining, we were hungry so ate what we could and accepted it was our own fault for being lazy and not hopping on train elsewhere when discovered all of the places we had been recommended were in fact closed.

You can say this restaurant is consistent. Consistently poor. I used to go to this restaurant in the 80's and the food was wonderful. Now it's just plain awful. I've given it 3 chances this year to see if my visit was just a one off. Afraid not. To be fair, eating in is better than take out. But only by a small margin. Question: What kind of Indian restaurant doesn't make their own chapattis? Answer: This one. Shocking. I wouldn't mind so much but they are not alone. The overall quality of Indian restaurants in Seaford are generally poor. How anyone can find this acceptable is beyond me. I suppose it's what you are used to. Take my advice, cook your own!

You can say this restaurant is consistent. Consistently poor. I used to go to this restaurant in the 80's and the food was wonderful. Now it's just plain awful. I've given it 3 chances this year to see if my visit was just a one off again. Afraid not. To be fair, eating in is better than take out. But only by a small margin. Question: What kind of Indian restaurant doesn't make their own chapattis? Answer: This one. Shocking. I wouldn't mind so much but they are not alone. The overall quality of Indian restaurants in Seaford are generally poor. How anyone can find this acceptable is beyond me. I suppose it's what you are used to. Take my advice, cook your own!

Food delivered to Newhaven. Not impressed, small portions with very little flavour, frankly, rather dull. I shall not order again let alone dine in the 'restaurant'. If you like bland and mediocre this is the place for you...

Great reception, welcomed warmly. Seated with space. Drinks arrived promptly.

Great food. And fabulous service.must visit if you are good Indian food.

We were in Seaford in holiday and needed a night off cooking...

We came from peacehaven to get this curry.very happy with it and very delicious.could do with more sauce with the meat bhuna but very tender meat and very tasty we will be back soon ❤❤

Very disappointed after being highly recommended. Food was tasteless, burnt and had no spice to it. Order was wrong and overall most went into the bin. Unfortunately would not order from here again. Lamb was nice and the mint Yogut was nice too.

Great quality of food and hospitality. Pricey but worth it.

Always a warm welcome and good food.

Went here very cold no heating on. The popadum was stale. The waiters seemed friendly. The food was bland and not worth the price tasted old. Only thing I did like was the coke came in a bottle.

We have had many good meals at the Moon of India and yesterday was no exception, but their meals have gone from strength to strength and we had food that was vibrant, delicious and very fresh. An excellent meal, at a good price, with welcoming, friendly and helpful staff.

To be avoided wrong bill provided three times in a row now with extras added or discounts exluded. The food is also quite bland

Very pleased with the ease of use of the on-line ordering, speedy delivery and excellent food. Satisfied two hungry outdoor workers and two more sedentary types. Old favourites well done, and a couple of new dishes were very good. Will definitely use them again.

Great food and fast, efficient service.

Lovely meal and extremely attentive staff.