Shuhag Tandoori Restaurant in Rochford

When will Asian restaurants and takeaways learn that their clientele deserve and want better. I placed a simple order for collection. Lamb Biryani and 2 chapattis. Traditionally, the biryani comes with vegetable curry. Generally, the biryani was bland and boring. It was missing the fragrance and mouth watering aroma essential for a credible and satisfying biryani. The lamb was underwhelming and frugal, but tender. The vegetable curry consisted of a few onions and carrot 2 peas and a potato in a tasteless orange coloured sauce, the consistency and taste of baby food. For a little more effort and hardly any more cost, the curry could have been so much more. The chapatis were good. As someone of asian descent, I know the chef and the staff would never serve food like this to guests in their own homes and certainly not eat it themselves! It's about time customers start to expect theMcCoy, the truly wonderful kitchen asians experience every day. If we expect it, restaurants like Shuhag would give it to us, and we would all be happy!

Had a lovely evening... Great food, great service and good value. Nice to see it so busy on a week night.

Nicely refitted and with big car park. Great food and reasonable prices, too. Very attentive staff. Can't fault it.

I would advice to anyone that's thinking of eating here not too ,the service is shocking and the food is late at arriving not 20 mins late over a hour from there time of arrival and when you ring up they tell you it's on its way , when you open it, the food is cold so just remember to use your own microwave .the lamb is so tough chuck norris would have a hard time eating it and to top it off we are only 5 mins away .

So pleased it's reopened!! Excellent food ! Fab service and delivery people X love it!!! 💕💕 And so reasonably priced 😉😉

Absolutely delicious, thank you 😊

We came this evening as a family to celebrate my retirement. Great food, atmosphere, service. Always good. Thank you

Starter was really nice but the mains was so bad so salty tough meat not nice , spoke to the manager he didn’t want to know just wanted his money shame won’t be going back 😢

The food was watery and tasteless, naan undercooked, poppadom missing, very very poor. Waste of £35 - definitely do not recommend

Amazing food. Great service. Always friendly and super attentive

We ordered a takeaway for 11 people - the food was delicious and left everyone feeling impressed (many people had not eaten here before!). The staff were extremely helpful over the phone and the delivery driver was friendly. They even threw in a complimentary bottle of wine! My partner and I often order from here and will definitely continue to do so in the future :)

The food was great. Normally I have no problems with takeaways from here but I had friends round so I ordered for 6 people and waited the 40 minutes as requested, went to pick it up and they hadn't done it so I had to wait another 40 minutes for it to be cooked. They did keep apologising and gave me a bottle of wine for the inconvenience.

Had a lovely takeaway, had a bit of a wait but it was a Saturday night

Placed order at 19.12 was told it would be 45 minutes phoned twice to see how long it would be couldn’t answer just kept saying sorry Finally 2hrs later the order arrived Naan bread wasn’t cooked in places still raw dough Some dishes full of oil & luke warm What a total waste of £30 Delivery driver was embarrassed and said your not the 1st to mention about how long it has been Wouldn’t order from there ever again

Food very nice good choice and nice staff.

Went here with my brother to eat before a few drinks elsewhere. One of the nicest madras I have ever had, friendly and welcoming service and servers prompt with everything. Went down a treat, especially with a couple of Cobra beers! Thank you.

Took my deaf old aunt Mildred out for a slap-up bit of nosebag for her 90th birthday. "Where we goin'?" Mildred said. "I told you, Auntie," I said, "we're having a meal in the Shuhag." "Shoe bag? I don't need new shoes." "Shuhag, Auntie." "Eh?" "Shuhag..." "Doodads?" "SHUHAG!" There was an extended pause before she replied. "Eh?" she said. Anyway, once we were seated I asked Auntie Mildred what she would like to eat. "I forgot me glasses," she said, "I can't read the menu. Just gimme a spaghetti bolognaise." "It's an Indian restaurant, Auntie." "Eh?" "INDIAN!" "No, I was born in Ireland."

Stunning food and service, highly recommend.

Excellent food and service. The chicken tikka madras was very tasty and well spiced.

Lovely welcome and food very tasty and plentiful. Only down side is that it closes at 10pm every night!

Since moving into the area this has become our favourite place to eat, the food and service is amazing!

Lovely meal tonight will be back soon

Incredibly good value for money, one of the best Indian restaurants in Essex! They are very generous when it comes to portions, and taste is fantastic 😋 try the tikka naan if you haven't already! It is cash only, so keep that in mind when ordering a delivery. The delivery drivers are all really nice too!

Just had another wonderful meal (takeaway this time but last time we ate in). Very flavorful Rogan Josh which is hard to get right. Naans are always delish! Very lucky to live so close to this restaurant!

Food was OK but the starters were overcooked. The service could be much better.

First time ordering and it won’t be the last! Absolutely amazing food . Only downside was not loads of meat in Chicken tikka masala but other than that gotta be best Indian around the area.

Sadly for a local Indian we felt the dine in prices to be so high... Take away for now on only sad as its walkable and friendly

Went for a 94th Birthday. They let us have the side room with a round table for 8 of us...perfect

Ambience was good, friendly staff and food was tasty

Don't live in Hockley but when i visit a friend I always have a takeaway. The food is excellent and staff are very polite. Highly recommended.

Absolutely fabulous, as a critical eater of Indian meals (because I have eaten out many times in India and can never find the same in the UK) I can absolutely recommend this restaurant and the take away is equally as awesome !

Was amazing. Specially the food. As well as the staff were very lenient.

BE AWARE!!! This place has a good hygiene rating of 0 meaning major improvement is needed. Avoid at all costs.

Great food, both eating in and taking away. A true classic Indian restaurant run by some top blokes.

I had eye surgery yesterday, so didn't feel up to cooking. We ordered a take away from Shuhag through Just Eat. The food was absolutely delicious!! Complements to Thursday's chef! Just what I needed after a tiring and fairly traumatic day. Thank you, Shuhag.

11/10 best curry I had in years IN FACT IM BUYING TWO FOR MY SELF TONIGHT!

Have had a couple of takeaways in the last couple of weeks, and boy were they good. Perfectly cooked, hot and tasty. We were craving a decent Indian and they delivered. Thankyou

Hamid and Abdul always go the extra mile to help their customers, and have been doing so for years. Looking forward to going back when we are finally allowed to dine in.

A very tasty takeaway curry at reasonable price.

A very nice takeaway. Always quick to deliver so we get nice hot food and it’s very tasty.

Food good but one of the waiters with his mask down who was serving us - not good

Good food and service was safe and well worth it.

Food is lovely and staff are very friendly and helpful with a great atmosphere

Friendly and fast serving! Slightly wrong order but great overall experience

Our 1st time visit to Shuhag, the food was excellent and staff polite and friendly, we will certainly return and let our friends know.

My wife loved it! Food was perfect.

Ordered food for 6 people for collection, but found out that one of the dishes was missing once we arrived home, called to query and were interrogated about how many trays we had, but agreed to send the missing vegetable curry. Said replacement tray would be with us in 10 minutes, actually took 25 and by this time not only was the rice biriyani was cold but the dish the vegetable curry was cold as well. No apology, no goodwill gesture and no refund for the meal that was ruined. Very disappointed

Food still pretty good after all these years, the restaurant and team definately need a face lift

Hockley's best Indian restaurant. Been using it for years and would not go anywhere else!

Food was good not a great deal in hockley.

Great food every time can't fault the place

1st visit on our anniversary told staff this didn’t get that little extra effort Ud expect food was nice but main dish portions were small and 5 potatoes for 3.45 is rediculous when ordering a Bombay aloo drinks as expected expensive staff friendly

Really tasty and generous sized portions

Good for eat in or takeout. Staff very attentive.

Food was ok avoid the English options not accessible but staff are friendly

The Shuhag is a small to medium size Indian restaurant in the heart of Hockley and an 8 minute walk from the railway station. The food very good (and I traveled India many moons ago) and the service is prompt. The prices are reasonable and the temperature of the restaurant is always comfortable. I would return and plan too!

Food was lovely and great service will be going back soon

Nice food nice surroundings can't fault really

I haven't been there for about 3 years and the food used to be good. The problem I had then was that they didn't turn the drunks away who became abusive and loud which ruined the romantic feel. This is why I hadn't been since...Anyway I decided to try it again today and really regret it!!! The service was very slow, we had to wait almost an hour after finishing poppadums before the main course arrived. The portion of rice was good but the Bombay aloo and our main dishes were very small portion sizes. The sauce tasted more like gravy than the Rogan, it should have been... My dish came out last and was steaming hot but the rest of the food was barely warm when it arrived. No-one asked if we were ok, nor were we asked if we needed another drink even though our glasses were empty... The restaurant wasn't that busy either so no idea why it took so long or why it was so bad.... We certainly won't be visiting them again !!!!!!