New Magna Tandoori Restaurant in Chichester

Chicken was out of date! We had a takeaway on Friday 15th Nov 24 and one of the pieces of tandoori chicken (two leg pieces) was really not good and was smelling old and off. Surprisingly the other piece was okay and the rest of the meal was all okay, just lacking salt in all of the dishes, leaving them tasting quite bland! Overall the restaurant is your standard Indian, nothing special and certainly not cooked with any love or passion for Indian food as the website claims. We didn't call the restaurant to complain as it was near Midnight when we got our order home and we don't live in the area so will not be returning. We write this review to let the restaurant owners know, the chefs need to pay attention to the stock rotation and ensure old chicken is not served again!

Went away for the weekend, fancied a curry, went there for the first time. 5 star service food and atmosphere. Would strongly recommend. If your ever in Selsee, this is a must. 5 star 🌟🤩

We had a lovely diner in this restaurant. Lovely food, fresh and full of taste !! All the team was very kind. Perfect !

Fantastic menu to choose from with friendly staff and good prices. What's not to love. The specialities are amazing! Naga chilli dish is fantastic.

We went here twice during our visit to Selsey, once at the weekend and then again during the week, both times were vastly different experiences. At the weekend, the service was prompt and efficient and the food was good. I'm not someone who generally likes Indian food (but my Dad does) so I wasn't expecting to find very much I liked on the menu, in the end I had a prawn cocktail followed by the Chicken and Prawn Biriyani. We also had poppadoms and garlic naan bread. The portion sizes were generous, so much so we ended up asking for containers to take the rest back to the caravan. The only disappointment came when we got the bill and discovered the poppadoms didn't come with the chutneys and dips included and they were a separate charge, given that we had barely used them we weren't impressed and felt we should have been given the option not to have them. Still we enjoyed the meal enough to book again for during the week. It was during the week that the service became slow and at times almost non-existent despite the restaurant being almost empty. Strangely though, this time the food tasted fresher and much better. We had the same meal again, although this time without poppadoms, with plenty left for lunch the next day. Overall we enjoyed both of our meals but the service both times was so different. If you're looking at visiting, I'd suggest going during the weekend if you want good service and either not having the poppadoms or making sure you get your money's worth out of the dips.

We found this restaurant on the Destination Selsey website & initially went here for dinner on the saturday evening - it was packed & we were glad therefore that we had booked in advaance . The food was good & the portions large ( we had to ask for containers to take some of it home with us ) & the service was quick & good, clearly helped by a manager who was efficiently organising his staff . We were that impressed that we decided to go back on the following thursday evening & found ourselves wishing we hadn't bothered , it was like a completely different restaurant ! The restaurant was almost empty & yet the service was so slow & very poor, it seemed the staff were taking advantage of their manager not being there . Strangely the food actually seemed better than the saturday , but the service let them down . I would rate the saturday 4 & the thursday 2 so hence my rating of 3. Yes I'd go back , but not on a week night ..

Amazing food and hospitality would definitely recommend. The naan bread is next level. Came here again and the food again was amazing, I really would recommend trying.

Great food, great service and fantastic portion sizes. Highly recommend

Got whilst staying at seal bay resort, was lovely food and quick service, had the chicken dansak, garlic nan, egg fried rice and onion bajjis. Only criticism was there could've been a little more spice to my curry. Saved our evening after our oven didn't work. Would highly recommend.

Ordered online and collected, smooth process and food was tasty and seemed fresh, the Bombay potatoes and lamb madras were the highlights

Absolutely rubbish worst food I have ever had disgusting over priced and awfully I would recommend anyone does not use this place its disgraceful

The tarka daal was authentic and probably the best I've had at a restaurant so far. It was fresh and packed full of flavour. I had the murugh and panner dish too, which was nice and different from what I've had before. Having the mix was unique. They did not skimper on the pieces of chicken and cheese. Enough to share! Worth dipping the roti into the sauce. Freshly made roti and mushroom rice, cooked to perfection (not oily or burnt). Thank you for your kind service and hospitality.

Exceeded expectations! Did not disappoint! My husband loves a curry and kept mentioning we must try it one day, it's a bit out on limb, especially as we live in Eastleigh, but he had a special Birthday coming up so I decided to go for it and we stayed at a b&b, had a couple of drinks and a Fantastic curry, what can I say! I was a bit sceptical, but I have to say it was the best curry I have had in years. Thank you all at New Magna, we will be back.

Absolutely brilliant again, attentive service and food fantastic again, always is. New Magna is our go to when ever we want a good curry when in Selsey

Consistently delicious food with very attentive and polite staff.

Been here twice now.. fantastic food.. lovely staff.. friendly with the kids. Nice atmosphere

A really friendly atmosphere here and lots of assistance and suggestions of side orders and breads to go with our curries. All four of our differing curries were beautiful with fresh spices, fabulous flavours and not in the least bit oily and unusually for us every single dish was empty at the end. Lovely puddings too and all for around £30 a head with drinks. Second visit and I can confirm that the customer service here is excellent. On spotting my 11 year old granddaughter had just tried her first green chilli from my plate, a glass of iced water and a lolly appeared!

We have been living in Selsey for a few years now. Decided to try NewMagna for a takeaway this evening and wasn’t disappointed. Welcomed on arrival and we placed our order of Chicken Makhanwala and Shahi chicken from the Specialities and Own Recipe section plus rice and Naan. Had to have a draught Tiger whilst waiting. The order arrived within the advised time and it was hot, fresh and good value for the amount of chicken/sauce received. I can see I’ll be working my way through their extensive menu. Delicious food, nice size portions too. Try it, you’ll love it !!

Wow! What a wonderful place to eat a curry , a real gem. We have eaten in many curry restaurants but this is now our favourite. Took a little while to come to table but that means cooked to order .. served piping hot and by the most charming waiters I've ever had. Absolutely delicious, huge portions and excellent value for money . Can't wait to return to Selsey to eat here again. Gutted we only found it on our last night !! so here is the heads up , go you won't regret it

Takeaway review. Only half the amount of chicken in the curry than there used to be. Really overpriced! I will never order from here again! Ordered hardly anything and it cost £35 Curry taste was average. My advice would be, drive to Masala City in Chichester and eat the best curry you will ever eat.. BY FAR!!!! Just incredible food!

Went here on a Tuesday night, the restaurant was quite busy. I should imagine you would need to book at the weekend. The staff were friendly. The food was lovely. I didnt realise but there were two sag panneer sides dishes on the menu and I ordered the wrong one. (Totally my mistake) The staff were happy to change this and didn't charge me. Won't hesitate to go back to this first class restaurant 😋

Fantastic food. Brilliant, friendly service and lovely atmosphere. Visited with my two young daughters and husband. There was something for everyone. Even with a cough the manager kindly gave me ginger in hot water and ginger to take home with me. Very highly recommended.

We have takeaways and often eat at new magna, Im vegan my partner vegetarian I have never had any problems with ordering my meal , the staff are very accommodating and the curry is lovely, not swimming in fat , with plenty of fresh vegetables . I love curry and believe these are the best I have had.

Had a lovely meal here last night, will certainly be back

I tried chicken bhuna and naan, first of Naan is overpriced and taste of curry is not authentic at all, its was curry with pieces of unflavored chicken pieces and chunk of tomatoes, It wasn’t bhuna at all, just lame curry. P.S staff and team are very friendly and good bunch there, shame food isn’t

We always use this Indian take away every time we visit Seal bay resort in Selsey. They deliver to your caravan door on site and the food is amazing! On this occasion we only stayed at the resort for 3 nights so only had a take away from here one night. Previously we have been known to have more than one during our stay as it’s so nice! All delivered piping hot and the flavours of the currys are mouth wateringly good! madras, vindaloo, garlic chilli chicken masala, pathia, sagaloo, chicken tikka and paneer tikka and the naans are some of the dishes we have tried and they are all delicious! Until next time New Magna, Thank you 😋

Had a really good takeaway from here, full of flavour.

Terrible I went last night and the pompadoms were old the food was long wait and we were ignored for half the night disgusting in my opinion

Tasteless food unfortunately, won't be ordering again, did email ealiler in the week to say about our dissatisfaction, no reply 👎

Lovely place, great food and servers. Ordered online and forgot to order a korma for the litlen, gave them a ring and they sent one down with no delivery free. Wonderful people xx

Great curry, lovely side dishes, super flavours, and enough for a doggie bag! Prices weren't ridiculous either. One of my favourite curry houses.

Food was lovely. Staff are friendly. Lots to Choose from on the menu. My wife and I were very happy with our food and how we were treated

Good hot and tasty, but very little meat, onion Bhajis didn’t arrive so called them just for the man to argue saying we have 1 portion but we didn’t plus we ordered two. He resent them to us so eventually we got our full order & as a sorry he sent a free bottle of kobra. Only to find out it was 5 months out of date so we threw it straight away. Very annoying to be honest but get ho

Went with mum and husband Saturday Lunch time, food and service amazing

Food excellent. Service as good as it gets.

Gone down hill since it’s been taken over, started ok but def loosing there flare. Samosas we’re bland, butterfly prawn w’as more bread than prawn. Vindaloo just hot and tasteless. Yeah not great.

this indian restaurant is the best the menu is amazing the food was excellent have only been visiting selsey in the last year and rate this indian as one of the best in the the south cant wait to go back keep doing doing what you are doing

Been ordering takeaways from New Magna for the last few months. Never had a problem with them. I have tried lots of their dishes and the food is always enjoyable and tasty. Delivery is very quick usually arriving early and my food has never been cold. A decent Indian that has become my local favourite.

Really disappointed with my order. I was at an address five minutes away from the restaurant but the food was cold when it arrived. It cost over £30 for a Biriani, curry, rice and naan. I ordered a cheese naan but a plain naan was delivered. If I had paid by card I would be seeking a refund. Also the portions were really small. Perhaps I'm privileged to ordinarily order my Indian takeaway in Chichester where there is more choice and less of a monopoly. I really think that if the people of Selsey had more options they wouldn't be giving five star reviews at this takeaway. And they would be ordering elsewhere.

Quickly delivered take away. The food was bland and both dishes (different) seemed have the same source! Very disappointing

Tasty food, great customer service, good atmosphere

I've lived in the area for a couple of years but somehow never tried this great Indian restaurant. Having been in London for most of my life I had been to quite a variety of Indian restaurants. This one is outstanding, with both food quality & choice, friendly & helpful staff & relaxed atmosphere. Music playing quietly in background. Last week when I visited on my own in the evening it was quite busy & it was clearly for the most part people repeat visiting & locals. There's a very good choice of menu & I recommend in particular the nan bread & the lovely fragrant & fluffy pilau rice. The staff took pains to explain the contents of the dishes I enquired about. Thank you all staff. I will be back.

Good choice of food. Excellent service and delivery. Good delivery to our holiday home. Definitely use them again.

We were staying in the area so thought we would try out this restaurant, it was a good choice. Food was good, staff were attentive and, although quiet and early evening, there was still a nice atmosphere with a range of music being played. Everything seemed fairly priced. The tikka masala and peshwari naan were the highlights. We will return!

Beautiful Indian food , I’ve been coming here for over 24 years , and it just gets better, wonderful service , and exceptional Indian food .

We went to new magna two nights running it was that fantastic really that great no where can complete if I lived at Selsey bill we would live in the magna restaurant we use wittering curry house they have lost us. Thank you new magna best ever food great pricing to.

Excellent Indian restaurant. Lovely food and great service.

Very bad big black hair in curry only to be told we have no lady’s working tonight shocking I will and will advise others never to use them again

Don't go there if you're hungry. It takes ages and the staff. So many tables who ordered after us got theirs earlier. No apology nothing, even though we were there with our kids.

Menu was great to chose from, everything had a lovely taste Highly recommended,

Vile food!! We ordered a takeaway last weekend, the food was absolutely disgusting! The chicken madras just tasted of curry powder, no flavour whatsoever! The prawn on puree was served with a creamy korma sauce, which is not prawn on puree, absolutely unheard of! Prawn on puree is always served with a delicious tomato and lightly spicy sauce We regularly have indian takeway and I can honestly say this was by far the worst we have ever tasted! I would love to see their kitchen, I can only imagine that nothing is cooked from fresh ingredients, just cheap powder, additives and colouring. We threw the lot away in the bin, a complete waste of £45.00.

Vile food!! We ordered a takeaway last weekend, the food was absolutely disgusting! The chicken madras just tasted of curry powder, no flavour whatsoever! The prawn on puree was served with a creamy korma sauce, which is not prawn on puree, absolutely unheard of! Prawn on puree is always served with a delicious tomato and lightly spicy sauce We regularly have indian takeway and I can honestly say this was by far the worst we have ever tasted! I would love to see their kitchen, I can only imagine that nothing is cooked from fresh ingredients, just cheap powder, additives and colouring. We threw the lot away in the bin, a complete waste of £45.00.

Great service and food, very popular so make sure you book to avoid disappointment

Food delicious staff very welcoming good value

Asked for as b extra hot vindaloo but the lid said not too hot. So question why did I ask for it to be hotter just shows staff don't listen to their customers

Nice tidy clean restaurant, good service and most importantly quality hot tasty food, would definitely recommend and would return.

We are at the end of our holiday in Selsey and it’s tradition for us to have a nice meal out for our last evening. We came across this restaurant doing an online search and thought we would give it a go after reading some great reviews. What can I say? Well, the service was at a high standard as well as the food. We found all the staff, friendly and very polite. My fussy son had the chicken nuggets, which he loved. We went all out with it being our last meal and over ordered but came away with extremely full tummy’s. My older son wasn’t sure about having Indian but he absolutely loved it and we realised that it’s his first time (eating in). He is autistic and is funny about his hands so when the warm hand wipes came out it made his day, he would usually be in the bathroom washing his hands. He commented on the service after we left. Highly recommend, worth the 5 stars.

Nicest curry I’ve had in years and reasonably priced too. Good service

Excellent food, service and atmosphere. I'm generally quite fussy but I loved this place.

Lovely food & excellent service! Thanks

Very good food and service would be going here to eat again

This is one of the best Indian restaurants we have ever found. We live in Kent but have fallen in love with Selsey and visit when we can. This restaurant is so very very good. The place is immaculately clean, the waiters are smart and polite, and the gentleman that runs it is an exemplar for customer service and customer care. It’s a true traditional Indian restaurant with a huge and tasty menu and fabulous service - we love the place so much we fit in 2 dinners in a weeks holiday stay and then my husband raves about the place to all our friends and family when we go back to Kent - you absolutely can’t do better than eat here.

The food iand service s excellent it is under new management and really 100% better. I had the Chicken Shalick was very tasty and fresh ,plenty of meat and taste.

Excellent service. Rarely down here but visited twice in the week. Chicken Jalfrezi first time and Bangalore fish curry the 2nd. Both excellent.

Excellent meal excellent service

Was staying at seal bay caravan site for the weekend and we fancied a curry, asked a member of staff if there was a good takeaway and was told this one! Well it certainly was the food was delicious turned up lovely and hot would definitely recommend. Well done New Magna 🙌🏻

Went for the first time in a few years this week - Tuesday evening quite busy. The service. friendliness of staff & food was excellent. Also pretty good prices for the quality of food. Highly recommended

Lovely food, nice atmosphere, reasonably priced.

When I moved to Selsey three years ago I had a take away from Manga Tandoori and I left a bad review for I found the food bland. I was advised to try again as now under new management I was Gob Smacked at the difference the food was by far the best I have tasted in many a year and before I moved I lived close to Southall and you can always get a great curry there if you know where to go this was on par with any I have had there keep up the good work you will have many more orders from me.5*

Love eating at the New Magna. Excellent food and friendly and efficient service. Highly recommended.

I had previously left a negative review under the old management (now removed) I have to say I visited last night, new management professional. Smart and attentive. Food was spot 10/10 very reasonable prices. A proper curry house now 🏠 5 star ⭐️

Terrible establishment don’t even know if they do deliveries or not? What kind of place does not know if they deliver in 2023?!!!! This must be some kind of countryside business that Londoners do not know about. Absolute jokers

BEST INDIAN IN THE SURROUNDING AREA! Went in and Noor and his team made me feel welcomed. I always go for pretty much the same dishes, dansak, pilau rice and peshwari naan. Everything was phenomenal. Thank you for the great experience and I'm glad I stumbled across this restaurant on the off chance whilst driving through Selsey!

Food is amazing So tasty Tikka masala, lemon rice, kema naan, sag aloo, poppadoms Delicious Delivery is a bit slow

Excellent, great food, great service, the chicken and paneer masala style curry was exceptional, lovely breads and sides, friendly polite professional service

Best place to go eat Indian food. Come to new magna every day

Excellent food and excellent service

Since the owner sold this restaurant in November, it has not been the same food wise. Lack of flavor, pilau rice tasteless.... Must do better.

Staff were very rude and unable to serve the food. I would not recommend to anyone.

I left a really bad review due to the poor experience my family and I received last year. I received an email this year to say the restaurant had changed hands and would I come along to try again. We'll I'm glad I relented. Booked a table for 3, from the start the whole atmosphere had changed with a nice greeting, the waiter couldn't do enough for my granddaughter, made her feel very special and gave her a free ice cream which made her day. The food was lovely and the waiting staff exceptional. Thank-you for changing my mind. I will be back

Enjoyed our meal at New Magna. Service attentive, restaurant comfortable. Menu extensive and includes options for children. Would recommend. Popular for takeout too.

Really lovely food. Was fairly quick to receive. And reasonably priced. Only downside was it was very quiet when we first arrived so staff were waiting around.

This restaurant is not what it used to be since it was taken over. Coconut rice with lump of sugar, pilau rice tasteless, chicken Tikka badami not bad, garlic rice has less garlic. More effort needed to beat the old menu.

Lovely food, will definitely go back

Having been regular customers of the previous owners we were not sure whether the new owner's food would be of the same standard so on Thursday we opted to give it a try. I met the new owner when we picked up the takeaway and...

Ordered a couple of dishes which were in the menu as medium/hot. Had no flavour to either dish it was like lamb in gravy, went straight into the bin. Total waste of money, I will never order or visit this Indian again. Be warned, dishes lack taste and flavour or any spices at all !

Cannot understand what the previous reviewer was referring to, but each to their own! We were very nearly put off by it, but decided to form our own opinion and are so glad we did! Ordered a starter to share, followed by lamb passanda, Chicken...

Ordered a couple of dishes which were in the menu as medium/hot. Had no flavour to either dish it was like lamb in gravy, went straight into the bin. Total waste of money, I will never order or visit this Indian again. Be warned, dishes...

Great food! All came hot and quickly, was really tasty and was excellent value for money! Service was great and the restaurant had a lovely atmosphere. Highly recommend!

We had a takeaway delivered this evening. It took just over an hour due to them being busy but it was definitely worth the wait. Everything we ordered was very tasty & we both thoroughly enjoyed all of it. There were a lot of different dishes to choose from & price wise itge cost for the two of us was very reasonable. Can’t fault anything. Highly recommend the food, service & polite staff on the phone & delivery.

Visited with some friends and had a lovely evening. The service was friendly and efficient and the food was very good. I tried the Murgh Sylheti and would thoroughly recommend this dish. The others ordered Tandoori mixed grill, Sheek kebab, Chicken chilli garlic massala and...

First time since new owners/staff. Great menu..loads of choice. Nice to see different dishes available Chefs specials , owners own dishes makes a pleasant change. Bot pricey at £11 / £12 for main course ,but loads of it. So always a doggy bag to take away. When you take the costs of travel to Chichester and parking Bit of a no brained if your local.

Could do with a bit of a refurb but staff were pleasant and food was as expected and averagely priced

Just had our three year anniversary meal here, lovely restaurant, nice polite staff and absolutely amazing food,definitely going to be back again.

Staff friendly and speedy. Food was really good, quick, and tasty.

I've been using this restaurant for the last 15 yrs the best around. Never had a bad meal, always friendly staff. It has been taken over just recently and the new owners are keeping up the same high standard of service. Great new menu and delicious food . Highly recommend a visit

We have been customers of the New Magna for over twenty years and have always liked the food. The new owners have raised the bar. We have had two takeaways and have been really impressed with the quality of the dishes, the flavour and the...

Lovely food and atmosphere, will go back for more xx

Exactly as website says .... exceptional service and food. Staff all friendly and very professional 👌 was hard to make a menu choice. Highly recommend. We will be back when we visit selsey again.

Had a delicious takeaway from the New Magna under it's new management tonight. Every dish was lovely. Will definitely be back!