Popadoms in Newport

After climbing the 617 steps from the high street to the restaurant, I built up a healthy appetite for what was ahead…. The staff were very nice and greeted us with warm welcome. Once seated, we were quickly severed drinks and the popadoms & dips arrived. The dips were good, but the poppadoms were a bit thin and tasteless. The main course for me was initially going to be the tandoori mixed grill, but I followed the recommendation off some clown in our curry club to go for the Wig Wam Woo… wrong move..! The Wig Wam Woo is a strange dish! It’s a spicy chicken curry surrounded with iceberg lettuce and an onion bahji on the top. Very underwhelming, considering it cost £21 and it’s caused me one hour’s throne time already this morning… That’s why it’s a Wig Wam Two stars from me ..! I don’t want to go too hard on Poppadoms restaurant because the traditional curry meals that were served to the rest of the group looked amazing, the portion sizes were good and the lads enjoyed them, so every cloud….

I had a delivery the food was luke warm poppadoms was stale and even onion bajhee was cold i had to microwave spoilt the food

💯 absolutely gorgeous place to eat fantastic waiters shahel and mayes

Excellent service. Needed a quick meal in between train journeys. The service was immaculate and fast. The staff were very friendly. The food was delicious. Highly recommend.

Fantastic service, delicious food. Lovely clean restaurant with a nice ambiance. Would recommend the chicken Kamali if you like a korma or the maharajah bhuna if you like a bit more spice. Will definitely be back

The staff was very kind and very helpful, the curry was one of the best I had in Wales and I will 100% be going back🤤

loved the food and atmosphere. shout out munna for sorting all of us out

Great food and great service from Munna

Fantastic service from Mumma, wonderful host, very friendly, my first visit to Popadoms, would recommend !! Lovely food, brilliant friendly service, will definitely be back, thankyou 😍

Excellent restaurant a hidden Jem. A Limited menu but a great choice of classics and house specials. Only reason I marked down the atmosphere was because I was sadly the only one eating. Come here and the atmosphere will be better and a hidden Jem is waiting to be discovered.

Wow I've just finished one of the lamb shank dishes. What an amazing meal.a nice little hidden gem. Highly recommended, you have to try this!!!!!!

Always forget what you order, even though when you place your order to remind them not to forget certain things, they do.... Not good service lately, time to change 😠

A little expensive but really good curry and good portions, definitely worth it

An amazing experience for the boys first curry.

Amazing food. Such great service. We’ve lived in Newport for too long to have not had this sooner. Will be 100% ordering again and can’t wait until the next time. Don’t order your takeaway from anywhere else in Newport. Best around. Simply perfect.

Fabulous meal great service 7 people all different meals all great and plenty of it so left overs all trayed up for home no complaints would thoroughly recommend it

The food was fantastic and the service was impeccable, the staff were lovely and made sure that we were comfortable at all times. Food came fast and left us suprised!

We always come for family meals as they cater for everyone including a daughter who now has her own special dinner which she loves! The service is always fantastic

Another outstanding meal at poppadoms thank you kameel an team we all enjoyed amazing

Munna was phenomenal , fantastic meal even better service please visit

Food was unreal. Munna provided us with brilliant service. Would highly recommend :)

Great food! Good atmosphere and friendly staff. Recommend 😊

Munna, perfect serve, would definitely recommend food was incredible

Absolutely amazing, the boys sorted us right out

brilliant service, amazing food and staff very quick and friendly very recommended

Fantastic no other words food is amazing hidden gem staff are amazing

Absolutely amazing food and service not much else I can say 💯💯10/10 😍🤤🤤

The people make the place, the service was awesome so was the food

I recommend everyone to try thia restaurant. Nice food, excellent service and 5 star treatment. Thankyou waz and kamal for the hospitality.

The food is fantastic, authentic Indian cuisine. Nice sit down with friendly environment. The staff are great. I would highly recommend 👌

Came for a work meal of 20. The staff were great. Very clean and food was delicious and authentic will be returning

What a gem of a place. This is an upstairs restaurant in a very upper class Victorian room. Like something one would find in Knightsbridge not Newport! The service from Munna was 5 star and the food was exceptional, fresh, fragrant and delicious. Best Indian I've had for years.

Came down from Scotland for the rugby and had a booking here wasn’t disappointed lovely food excellent service from the starters to the main I had a madras was lovely and the right amount of spice if we ever venture down to Newport again will definitely be back

Onion bhajis - ordered one portion but got 4 pieces (assuming they gave extra). They were OK and we managed to finish most of them because of the mint sauce. My advice here would be to flatten them a little so the inside cooks (it'll probably cook faster, too). However, we did find them a little too greasy and lacking flavour. Nans - edges were a bit thick, but the spread of the filling throughout wasn't bad. Again, just lacking flavour. Keema needed more spice, and peshwari needed a little more sweetness. Dansak - this was actually really bad. It was more a curry with lentils thrown in. Not the curry it's meant to be, i.e. hot, sweet, and sour. The chicken tikka, however, seemed fresh and soft. Big let down and once again, just lacking flavour. Overall; we spent a decent amount expecting better but just didn't get close to the mark. Can't say if I'd order again (I have tried the wraps in the past and they were nice) or even recommend to be honest. Note: they did throw in a container of pilau rice, but we were too full to even open it. Appreciate the gesture.

Had a great experience with a fantastic meal with great friends. Delicious food and real friendly staff. Top marks.

Best curries best service very friendly staff.wouldn't go anywhere else.I also have take aways from there.Have never been disappointed with any of the food.Highley recommended.

Very disappointing spent over £40 for the meal to arrive with things missing and with items I didn’t order, a 0 is what is needed as meat was hard and curry was bland also found a very sharp BONE which I’m glad I didn’t give to my mother 🤬🤬 when I called about the missing food Evan tho I was talking to the same man I placed the order with he really didn’t care very negative and impolite and rude will never order from here again epic fail on customer service.

Good food, clean, friendly, reasonably priced and super helpful staff Owner Waz is a diamond along with kamal the head waiter, Sham, Sabba. Definately worth trying. Dont think you will be dissapointed.

Very poor main courses. Not as described. Madras strength curries were Korma strength and disappointingly bland. Very expensive at £20 ish for most curries. King prawn puri was ok

Excellent food. Wonderful service. Great wine. We were very impressed. I had a prawn balti, my partner a king prawn dopiaza and both dishes were fabulous.

First visit will defo return . Food amazing staff knowledgeable and friendly you will not be disappointed. One very small downside do not serve alcohol but will get it from downstairs bar don’t let that put you off the food is amazing 😜

Had a great meal here last night. Very good service and food was excellent

Food is always amazing. Whether your collecting or sitting in the food and staff are great.

Price is outrageous. Food is not even close to Indian. Frozen and very old meat. Too much color additives and disappointing.

Brilliant foood wonder staff and the decorations looks beautiful. The staff were amazing and help pick some brilliant curries

Awesome evening staff are friendly and attentive. As a party of 8 we all got our food at the same time, drinks never stopped.great place for a friends or family meal and couples. Now the food wow wow best Keema Nan ever, all curries cooked to perfection , meat and vegetables perfect. We will return for our Christmas party ☺️

I have a meal deal from there as a fair play it is brilliant!

MUST TRY!! One of the best curries ive had in a long time! staff, food, cleanliness and atmosphere second to none! what a little gem in newport this is.

Amazing food. Had apna style chicken jalfrezi which was well hot! Would recommend 100%. Customer service was excellent with some amazing humour.

We walked in and asked for a table for 5 and 2x of the waiters were really rude to us for some reason. I’ve eaten here before and their Vindaloo isn’t real Vindaloo. We go to Taste of Asia or New Lahore for our ruby now.

Tried the new "Indian pizza" the other day and it was stunning! Well worth it 😍

Down side is going up the stairs but the reward is the wonderful food

10 of us went, restaurant is recently refurbished, very smart and comfortable environment. The staff were delightful and the service to the group of 10 of us was efficient. Every single dish was delicious, prepared and presented to a high standard. Can't recommend this restaurant highly enough.

Owner is very friendly. Nice ambiance 🤩

Had a lovely meal - collection special for under 20 quid, was delishious! Really good. Will be back soon!

Always good food and staff are very friendly I highly recommend!🙂

Worst food, worst experience👎🏻👎🏻

Amazing food as always, delivery was prompt, food was hot, fresh and delicious! Delivery was immaculate, driver personable, polite and smartly presented. Excellent service every time! Many thanks

The worst Indian food ever. Terribly sweet, even the naan. Prices were outrageous. .80 per poppadom and chutney tray was so sweet tasted more like a dessert. Garlic fried rice so bland it tasted like plain rice. Overall extremely disappointed.

Decent place with tasty Indian food. Special mention to Bangladeshi guy who is a student and working their in the evening helps us a lot with the menu. His smile and courtesy add as a toppings to our dinner.

Sadly, we chose 'Popadoms' to order a takeaway for this evening. We spent £60 on food and waited 90-minutes for cold food to be delivered with missing items! It's a Saturday night, so the delivery time is to be expected, less so the cold food and the below... I rang the restaurant and they couldn't be any less interested, even when speaking to the manager. Getting an apology was like trying to get blood from a stone. We waited a further 30-minutes for the missing items to be delivered (2 hours total waiting time). I ordered a vegetarian pasanda (don't judge me!), this arrived on delivery 1 ....following delivery 2 (the missing items) I noticed they added chicken at no extra charge which is lovely but I'm actually a vegetarian! Apparently, the person who took the order "misunderstood", despite a full conversation on the vegetarian pasanda not being on the menu but they could make it ...now trying to make excuses, lie, and shift the blame onto me. I wouldn't order from them again. It seems they are taking their high ratings for granted to guarantee orders yet part-delivering a sub-standard service. They returned £25 for my meal items, as priced on the menu. The delivery guy was lovely on all 3 ocassions; he wouldn't even accept my tip given our poor experience. He was very polite, friendly, and apologetic. The food was OK, despite being microwaved, but the overall experience a fail! Things go wrong and items can be missed, it's human error, but the customer service around this is key, and that was non-existent! 👎

A bit disappointed with delivery, my daughter loves this restraunt and as it is her birthday today I ordered, however we were waiting 2 and a half hrs for the food, was highly upsetting

We ordered a take away from them. We were told it would be roughly an hour for delivery and it was an hour and a half. It would’ve been fine if they had called us to say it was running late and if our order was complete on delivery. When we rang to say there were several items missing from our order, we were told “I hat do you want me to do about it?”. Not the response you’d expect from such a highly rated restaurant on here, nor when we’ve paid over £60 for an incomplete order. Very disappointed.

Sadly, we chose 'Popadoms' to order a takeaway for this evening. We spent £60 on food and waited 90-minutes for cold food to be delivered with missing items! It's a Saturday night, so the delivery time is to be expected, less so the cold food and the below... I rang the restaurant and they couldn't be any less interested, even when speaking to the manager. Getting an apology was like trying to get blood from a stone. We waited a further 30-minutes for the missing items to be delivered (2 hours total waiting time). I ordered a vegetarian pasanda (don't judge me!), this arrived on delivery 1 ....following delivery 2 (the missing items) I noticed they added chicken at no extra charge which is lovely but I'm actually a vegetarian! Apparently, the person who took the order "misunderstood", despite a full conversation on the vegetarian pasanda not being on the menu but they could make it ...now trying to make excuses, lie, and shift the blame onto me. I wouldn't order from them again. It seems they are taking their high ratings for granted to guarantee orders yet part-delivering a sub-standard service. They returned £25 for my meal items, as priced on the menu. The delivery guy was lovely on all 3 ocassions; he wouldn't even accept my tip given our poor experience. He was very polite, friendly, and apologetic. The food was OK, despite being microwaved, but the overall experience a fail! Things go wrong and items can be missed, it's human error, but the customer service around this is key, and that was non-existent! 👎

I ordered two separate meals both over 40 pounds over Christmas probably the worst food I’ve tried tasted dirty delivered two hours late food cold and missing a curry witch was for my mother and she didn’t eat so my father didn’t eat his neither waste of money did manage to get money back off bank they didn’t care when I phoned them told me they would call me back and didn’t these people need to close down how they got 4star must write them him self The taste of the curry’s as well dirty wouldn’t give to a homeless guy Order from somewhere else trust me

I do a lot of food reviews and my opinions are held in high regard, as a well travelled man and a extremely culturally experienced man who as a half Indian, half Russian wife I understand this cuisine very well, as my childs diet consists of 50% of this type of food and mine about 20% due to my hobby which requires and structured diet plan. I am also a foodie and I have travelled a lot which means I have had the pleasure of eating in a lot of different high quality restaurants and experiencing the best of the best as well as my Indian / Asian family and friends home cooked foods also and I don't eat budget food at all, its not my style. My honest review out of 10 for this restaurant, with 10 being top quality, 5 being basic average and with 0 being terrible, with kindness would be approximately 4.5 out of 10. My chicken biryani was not spiced at all it was just like very plain flavoured yellow rice with chicken in there, akin to bodybuilding diet food dry and bland, which is something I am very used to, so when I eat out I expect my taste buds to be blown away and this was far from that, my bhuna sauce was decent but the vegetables in it was undercooked and to crunchy not soft and delicate and simmered properly but the overall flavour of the bhuna sauce was very decent, the Bombay potatoes had no zing or spice to them and was overly starchy and undercooked and my keema nann was only delicious but where it actually had meat which was about 35% of the nann. I was told that the meal would take 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes to be delivered which is acceptable if its being prepared and cooked properly with dispatching and delivery times however it got here after 45 minutes so I at least thought the meal would be hot, however it was luke warm at best bordering on the cold, another massive disappointment as I only live 4 minutes away by foot and about the same by vehicle as you can not drive through the city centre. The one plus side which I have to give is the servings was all generous and there was plenty of chicken in the biryani but apart from that and a decent taste on a slightly uncooked bhuna sauce and a nice but not fairly pack keema nann bread it was not that special at all. People say the staff were nice and friendly and while that may'be the case the review is about the quality of the food as your paying your hard earned money for it, you expect the staff to be friendly thats just a given and nothing to have to feel grateful about. I won't buy again from here for a very long time as this was under par.

Just had takeaway absolutely stunning, can't recommend enough

Had the best slow cooked Lamb Shanks I have ever eaten. The customer service was fantastic and very generous portions. I would highly recommend this restaurant.

Had a lovely time, so well looked after 👍

Got a takeaway tonight, and have to say me, and missus thoroughly enjoyed it, 3 guys who were working there were great, friendly, good conversation, would recommend 👍

I have eaten in this restaurant many times and (had takeaways too) just recently to celebrate my Sons' 34th birthday and we were not let down by either the service or food. The food is always good and I have never been disappointed with the taste or size of portions. The one thing that stands out repeatedly is the first-class service from the friendly and informative staff. They are not only helpful but, will also provide guidance on meals and drinks. The ambience is excellent and very comfortable. I cannot say enough about Popadoms and I would highly recommend this restaurant.

An authentic Asia experience. Very delicious meal. Lovely thick Bhuna sauce, Keema Nann was soft and hot! Will return for another sit down, just a shame it’s a bit too far for delivery or collection.

Exceptional food and fantastic service

One of my favourite restaurants. Well worth a visit.

Decided to come back here again, this time it was to have some food before a night out in Newport with friends. The service is always wonderful and the food is second to none! Can’t recommend enough

Best Indian takeaway around, wouldn’t go any where else, fast, efficient, very friendly and will do what they can for there customers! A variety menu and nothing is to hard for them to change or cook for you! Amazing people highly recommended!

Cannot fault this place, every visit is warm and welcoming, have tried other places while away and nothing compares to popadoms, highly recommended, service is excellent, food is even better always come back and will keep coming back.

was here last night and the week before and the food here is out of this world as are the superb staff i had the chicken tikka missala a few times here and they know how to make the food to peoples likeing for me...

Really good authentic tasting food, boxed the left overs for me to take home which I’ll be. Taking to work. Reasonable price and very nice size portions

What a fantastic meal. Tasted delicious and plentiful and the service was amazing. Definitely will return and recommend to others. If you suffer with dairy intolerance or any allergies they will happily cater for you. Looking forward to our next visit or delivery.

Took my fiancé here for a date night. Was greeted by friendly staff. The curry was amazing and the best naan bread I’ve ever had. I spoke to the front of house on arrival and they were very accommodating as I was going to propose...

Was staying at a nearby hotel so decided to try the local food. The chicken tikka masala here is the best I have ever had and it was perfect with the special house chutney which they let me take a pot away with me. I’m...

A few lads from out off town staying at the celtic Manor and what a curry house we pulled out the hat. Amazing service and the food is top quality. We all enjoyed our currys and the starters were off a high quality everything cooked...

First time here wouldn't be the last great food good price right in the middle of Newport the only draw back is the stairs

Excellent! My go to Indian!Good food, good portions, good price! Recommend!

My Husband & I were staying at the Silurian hotel for 4 nights and they recommended us Popadoms literally opposite the hotel, we were immediately seated and was served a beautiful pickle tray/chutney tray and a couple of popadoms, the waiter was so helpful and...

I came in for a meal with my family few days ago and i tried out the chora chora fish dish they have on the menu, it's fair to say it was the best fish dish I have had in a very very long time,...

My family and I arrived at Popadoms where we was greeted by the boss himself and another waiter who seated us at the window table, the food was spot on everything was cooked fresh and was absolutely delicious, the atmosphere was just perfect, cannot fault...

We was at the new ICC for a cyber conference and we found this amazing restaurant in newport Town centre. We had a great meal, food and service was 10/10. If you ever visit try the lamb shank and the Sri Lanka curry. They also...

We were looking for food options after a very long conference day at ICC WALES! Somebody recommended this place & we were not disappointed! Amazing food at amazing prices & the staff? #Brilliant

A great meal last night at Popadoms. Service was spot on, staff attentive and friendly. Probably the best Indian curry in Newport. Thanks to Makar, an amazing chef.

Prawn cocktails lovely. My bombay chicken was too spicy for my liking but rest of food good.

amazing food and service. loved it

Absolutely fantastic, the service was great , food and drinks were spot on couldn’t ask for better, there was a group of us about 15 and were all happy !

Great food and lovely atmosphere

Nice restaurant. Quite busy bit food was prompt and well cooked.

Good Curry House In central Newport. Food was tasty and the staff were helpful in meeting people’s various preferences. Went here as a group of 7 on Fri evening.

Awesome! Best curry in Newport by far

Fantastic service once again from the popadoms team...prompt delivery..fantastic food. Cant recommended any higher

Absolutely cannot fault this place. The staff go above and beyond whether you have it delivered or pick it up. Every time we pick it up they are absolutely amazing with my little boy and are very quick and prompt. The food is second to none, full of flavour and totally delicious! Popadoms is my go to Indian restaurant and I am never disappointed. Delivery sometimes can be late but I always expect that on a Saturday and they are very helpful over the phone. 110% recommended.