Saltdean Spice in Brighton and Hove

Favourite local Indian food take out

very poor service, food quality poor, all dishes ordered looked and tasted the same! long wait, all food takeaway and binned, gave feedback and they weren’t interested

Delicious food delivered hot and on time

If You are looking for a decent curry then check out Saltdean Spice I'm sure you will enjoy ❗️

Mi comida llegó temprano y caliente. La comida era muy sabrosa y deliciosa. Sin duda volveré a pedir. Gracias al Chef y a la encantadora señora de venta libre.

Some of the best Indian restaurant curries I've had! That's coming from a native person who eats curries at home on a regular basis and not only that I've eaten in hundreds of Indian restaurants around the UK and the world and this is right up there at the top.

Tasty good quality food delivered on time and piping hot. First time from here and will definitely order again

Really nice food, best curry I have had from there, it was lovely 👍

Really enjoyed the meal. Got lots of smaller bits to try a good range and they were all great. Thank you

“⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Outstanding Indian food! Every dish was a burst of vibrant flavors and expertly cooked. The samosas were crisp and packed with delicious filling, while the lamb rogan josh was tender and perfectly spiced. The variety of vegetarian options was impressive, and the garlic naan was the best I’ve ever had! The service was attentive, and the ambiance made the experience even better. If you’re craving authentic Indian cuisine with deep, rich flavors, this is the place to be. Definitely coming back for more!”

They left out the mango chutney when I paid £1.10

Pedimos una comida para llevar desde aquí para celebrar el cumpleaños de mi madre ya que mis padres son ancianos y ya no pueden salir a un restaurante. Al hacer el pedido, cuando preguntamos a cuánto ascendía el pedido en total, nos dijeron extrañamente, y cito: "No puedo decírtelo ahora mismo porque la persona que suma todo está en una entrega", por lo que cobraron una cantidad no especificada de la tarjeta de débito que les dimos, que estoy bastante seguro de que en realidad es ilegal. Nos citaron un tiempo de entrega de 45 minutos, pero después de una hora y media, la comida no había llegado. Los llamamos de vuelta y nos dijeron que estaba en camino y llegó unos 10 minutos más tarde (la casa está sin duda no a 10 minutos en coche de sus instalaciones, así que claramente no había salido del edificio todavía cuando los llamamos). Pedí un pollo tikka que era tibio y muy soso, con un pan naan igualmente tibio. El curry vegetal de mi padre que venía con su biryani estaba mal cocido porque no podía morder los trozos de repollo, lo que nunca había ocurrido antes. Probé un poco de su curry vegetal y mientras estaba caliente, también sabía muy soso. Crédito donde se debe, el tamaño de la porción era muy bueno, pero ¿quién quiere una buena porción de comida decididamente promedio? Luego, para terminar, mientras escribo esto un día después, todavía estoy experimentando dolores de estómago después de comer esta comida, que he tenido desde las 4 am. No es la primera vez que tenemos un problema con Saltdean Spice, ya que los dos pedidos anteriores tenían una espera excesivamente larga para la entrega y un artículo de comida cobrado pero no entregado. Esta será absolutamente la última vez que le dé a Saltdean Spice mi costumbre. Constantemente me han decepcionado con mis últimas 3 órdenes de ellos. Evitar a TODA costa.

2023 update, food is much better now after the quality degraded about 18 months ago. Happy with the chicken tikka masala and will order again soon. Good food. I had chicken tikka masala with pilau rice + aloo paneer . The food was well heated when it arrived. The food arrived exactly at specified time. I'm not a fan of the vegetable side dishes but the mains are fantastic.

I ordered a delivery from Saltdean spice - resembling one of my typical orders (Dansak, sag aloo, naan) and it was delicious, couldn't fault anything at all. Good portion size, aromatic, tasty mains and side, and a generous warm and comforting naan bread, with no surplus of fat/ghee. If you want a reliably decent traditional curry house takeout I'd really recommend them. They offer delivery in-house as well, worth it as those delivery giants scrape money off the customer and the restaurant too.

Ordered at 5:26, it’s 19:36 still no food

Food is usually good but delivery times are shocking! First said 5:15pm, then 5;40pm with a text to say it was running late. The food eventually arrived at 6:44 after me contacting Just Eat. This happened last time I ordered too. As I said food has always good and I have never had an issue with the food until tonight. Popadoms are soft and food was luke warm. We had to microwave it to heat it up. £57 total order. SS you’re better than this! Not sure what’s happening there??

The food was excellent as always - would highly recommend

Really nice food, very much enjoyed it

Great restaurant, highly recommended.

Usamos esta toma de decir cuando vivíamos en Saltdean - decidimos darle una oportunidad en un viaje de regreso de Australia - Y - no decepcionó la comida era excepcional

My grandaughter said it was the best curry she hadever had. Amazing as always

Very nice food! Hot and delicious

Best Indian food I've had in a while, it arrived piping hot and was very yummy. Thought I'd try a keema naan on the recommendation of a friend and now needless to say, I'm now hooked. 😀

Awesome curry and easy to order.

Delicious food and extremely tasty. This place has 5* and very clean, the staff friendly. I would recommend to spice lover. I have ordered food on Saturday took slightly longer time but well worth it

Lovely food, hot and well flavoured. We received generous amount compare to allot of other places I have been. 5*

The food here is amazing, I really enjoyed the biriyani, tastes just like genuine homemade food. Everyone was really lovely and overall the service was amazing and welcoming. Best south asian food in brighton 10/10.

Baffles me how some places can get it so wrong! Chicken Madras was inedible!

Awful curry. Tastes like something out of a jar and was really overly salty. Would not order again after this experience.

I’m being generous by describing the food as average. We stopped using this place due to previous bad experiences, I should have gone somewhere else but I thought we could give it another try as it’s local. A real shame.

Very pleased with my first order - freshly prepared and deliciously spiced. We’ll be back!

Great tasting food, ever so slightly late.

Waited 2 hours for delivery and received cold food. Call Saltdean Spice and they said that they were very busy and couldn't do anything the put then phone down. Won't be ordering from them again

will never order again. late cold food and rude person on the phone who didn't care. just kept saying there very busy

I am delighted to see the Saltdean spice is open again. very tasty authentic Indian spicy food. I have used Saltdean spice many times and the foods are always delicious.

The food was poor with half a carton of curry and couldn’t feed everyone it had to

Another delicious meal from Saltdean Spice, can’t fault anything. Super tasty and freshly cooked curries, all arrived 15 minutes earlier than they quoted, so that was a bonus.

Very late delivery, despite marked as ‘delivered’. Totally uncontactable via phone number. Left in the dark about the delivery and hungry!

Incredibly disappointed. We have been waiting nearly 3 hours for our order. Despite calling after an hour & a half to chase up our order & being reassured that it was on its way as we spoke, another hour & a half and absolutely no sign of it. Also the restaurant is not answering our calls despite trying to call again on & off for the past 30 minutes. Absolutely ridiculous & we’re starving!

Late but know they were short staffed in the kitchen so doing best they could. Quality always good!

Don’t go anywhere near these guys if you want a delivery!!!! Rang after approx 30mins after delivery time (1.5hrs from order) be told they were really busy and it’ll be on its way soon. 2.5hrs later, no response, not even picking up to explain. Shocking!!!! Can’t really comment on quality.

Man delivered me a bag of popadoms and walked off. Lovely girl on the phone tried to sort it out but then took another 60mins plus. Waited over 3 hours for my food

Will definitely order from here again

this is such a good takeaway! even though we moved from Saltdean a while ago we still come to collect from them when we are craving curries as we never had any issues with the service The flavours are just great and the temperature is always hot

Great stuff, Saltdean Spice back with a bang. Missed you guys.

Our go to takeaway curry in Saltdean. Always hot, tasty food. Very accommodating to vegetarians.

The order took 2 hours to be delivered, we thought by ordering through Just Eat would provide a bit of guarantee but no, if I wanted to wait 2 hours for some food I would have driven to the supermarket then slow cooked it myself. Absolute rip off charging £50 for a couple of dishes that took 2 hours to deliver.

We love this place, so glad its back open, the food its tasty and generous portions

Saltdean spice was one of my favourite take away in Brighton. I miss all the spicy dishes and the special korma. The shop is closed at the moment for renovations.

Fast service especially as I was 20 minutes early to collect my order. The restaurant accommodated my lack of timing and I was given my food only a few minutes after arriving.

Best Indian takeaway I’ve had in years, friendly service and the food was ever so fresh, piping hot, ready on time and totally delicious. Well done Saltdean Spice team. I will be a regular customer from now on. Congratulations 👏👏👏

Lovely food and delivered in good time. We had a delicious selection of vegetable dishes, possibly a bit potato-heavy but the flavours were great!

Thank you so much, lovely food will order again!

Food was late. Called restaurant who said it would be here in a minute, waited another 35 minutes for it to arrive. Food was fine when it finally arrived.

It looks like rice and Naan Bread that used to be included in the main meal are now extra!!!!! putting Extra £13 on the cost of meal for x2 so now £40 instead of £30 , 25% increase buy the back door, shame as the food is very good.

Food was good but cold and late

Food was over an hour late and 2 items missing.

Shocking waited 2 1/2 hours for my food and still not here!! Can’t get through to the restaurant as constantly busy!!

Worst Indian food I've ever tasted bahji cooked till inedible, tikka weird no taste ,chips ovened but deep fried ,salad good, popadon stale . Never again .

excellent food but they do get busy,

Beautiful biryani - veg curry was almost entirely potato which was tasty but surprising esp as we had sag aloo too, but I love potatoes in curry so not a problem. Arrived early which was great as we'd ordered late!

Ordered for 7oc arrived 8.20 a call letting me know may have been idea, Must say food is good worth the wait,

First time ordering from here and it was so good! Will definitely be ordering from here again!

First time with these guys and will be using again , very tasty .

The curry’s were pretty poor so it was a shame. The first thing I noticed upon it arriving was part of the order missing (rice…kind of essential). Mistakes happen so maybe a one off. The curry’s when opened were submerged under a broad layer of oil. I had a Balti, virtually no flavour and no spice. The lamb in this dish was very fatty also. To summarise the rest: Onion bhaji’s: dry, overcooked and oily (most are but they should rest on a towel first to get some oil out at least) Lamb tikka: seriously the worst dish. Tough as old boots. I should have known better Poppadoms: not too bad actually but I think it’s the bare minimum I was warned about this place before but seemingly forgot. I will try again maybe in a good few years

Little cold too. But very tasty and good portions.

I wish I had seen the previous review with 1 star. Ordered lamb, it was so tough and full of gristle in the end I was thankful there were only 5 measly pieces. What was there was swimming in sauce for £12.50 a dish !!! The chicken we ordered was just chilli hot with a powdery taste and absolutely no flavour. The okra was old and so fibrous I had to leave it. What a waste of our weekly takeaway treat. Please do better if you want to get repeat customers. Times are hard but food this poor quality should not be served.

Tasty, good prices and helpful customer service☺️

The curry was epic! SO good! Thankyou.

Really nice curries and coconut narn was lovely

Another delicious, fresh and tasty meal from Saltdean Spice. Can’t fault it at all. The food was delivered 10 minutes earlier than they said, it was lovely and hot and every dish was super delicious, not greasy like some can be. Best Indian in the area, the past 5 or 6 meals we have ordered from here have all been fantastic!

Food was on time but considering on the collection notes I added that the last curry from here wasn't even warm, and can they ensure it is hot this time, only half of it was! Also half tasted great the other half was tasteless. Won't go again as there are so many other Indian places around to try. Shame 🙄

Food was just inside the 2 1/2 (!) hour delivery time. The food arrived warm. It was tasty which was just as well as I brought it back up on several occasions throughout the night. I'm writing this review hunched over and shivering; a shell of my former self. AVOID.

Chicken was great, flavour was great, lamb rubbery and not for first time. You need to learn patience and cook it slowly until tender.

Lovely flavour good portion size and an extra poppadom! (Veg biryani, sag aloo, poppadoms) nicely spiced, not too hot, perfect! We had to pop it in the microwave to top the heat up a bit, but we usually do that with any takeaway. Will order again

I challenge anyone to find a better bhaji and curry in Brighton. Knockout food. Ty!

I had my favourite dish from this takeaway is tandoori shalsha , no other takeaway can do the same dish like spice. Korma and masalla also my favourite dish.

One of the containers was squashed with all the sauce in the plastic carrier bag, this was probably done during delivery.

Had a takeaway from Saltdean Spice tonight. had chicken korma, chicken tikka Marsala and the sag aloo was absolutely delicious. I recommend others to try. I must say the delivery was within the time. thanks to the spice

Great food and delivered on time

Ordered from here several times...and never had a bad meal. Great stuff.

The food is amazing from here but both times I have paid for a tika chicken and a tika lamb but they have just came as regular lamb and regular chicken which is a disappointing. Apart from that the food is lovely.

The delivery and lady delivering were all great, very friendly:) however unfortunately the food was a little bland and chicken was kind of rubbery. I probably wouldn’t order again.

Very bland food!!! Ordered tikka masala. Awful is an understatement. It was so dry and no flavour. The biryani had no taste.I had to add my own spice to it!!! Do not order from Here. Waste of my £36! Gutted Staters we're ok but not amazing . I won't be ordering here again

The best authentic Indian food in East Sussex and always delivers to me on time

Excellent food, though some of the chicken in the Akbori was a little dry...like yesterday's reheated? Portions generous. Please keep up the standard! Thank you :)

We ordered 2 chicken kormas that were very tasty, chicken was soft. However I paid extra for popadoms and only received one, had I known this I would of ordered extra. Overall experience was fine but we collected and didn’t risk the potentially long delivery delays.

Great delivery & food, great service, thank you

Food was 30mins late abs when it arrived some parts were cold and the popadom was soggy and inedible, very disappointing.

The food arrived piping hot and was really nice - lovely tender meat, flavoursome curry and delicious sides. Can’t wait to order from here again after some bad curries in the area.

Ordered on a Monday so it was delivered quickly. Everything was hot. Food was really good. Went for lots of the veggie bits and all superb. Brilliant simple daal. Veg vindaloo well spiced. Nothing too salty but still loads of flavour

Can’t believe you have put your prices up £3 per curry. Tikka balti gone from 9.49 to £12.50 love your food but when ordering for a family will not be going here again after a 33% increase in prices

Great driver, food was amazing! Thank you.

Quality of main food Good as usual but poppadum completely stale, inedible. 90p for one! Wow.

Seems to have gone downhill in recent weeks. Tikka masala used to be full of flavour, had two in the past few months, considerably bland. Tastes watered down, like the ingredients have been cut back or switched for cheaper alternatives. First I bought I thought maybe a mistake, few weeks later tried again, same taste, no flavour at all. Shame really when they put the prices UP recently as well

Lovely food always top quality from here

Really friendly and lovely staff, but sadly my chicken tikka was the ‘plastic’ rubbery chicken. A real shame as I would have liked to use them.

The food was good, and despite the recent price increase to £15ish for tikka masala and pilau rice delivered, it still tastes great. Unusual delivery took half an hour for a 5 minute drive to peacehaven but still within the estimated time.

That was delicious! We ordered well in advance to avoid the Friday delays, the food turned up spot on the time we booked. Delicious bhajis, generous naan sizes and huge pappadums. The mains were super spicy in a genuine Indian way. Literally can’t fault it. Thanks!

Fantastic food again but was missing an item