Thamin Restaurant & Bar in Rochdale

Friday Early Bird menu. Used to really like this place but seems to have gone downhill. Decor is clean but not ambient, staff very friendly. Starter of shami kebabs very dry, 2 of us had different chicken dishes & the chicken was really dry too. Nice naan breads. The draught Cobra was awful, tasted like the lines hadn’t been cleaned for ages or needed changing. I left 1 of 2 kebabs & 2 of us left most of main courses & I left 1/2 pint & ordered a bottle of lager instead. Most restaurant staff might have asked why these were left & showed some concern, but not here. Better curry restaurants around. Won’t be going back for a while unless things change.

I must have visited when the chef was off! Ordered a chilli chicken masala with three heat flames and received an ultra mild packet version, with none of the fresh ingredients listed on the menu description. Was literally like straight out of the cheapest jar on the supermarket shelf with just three small pieces of chilli added on top make it ‘chilli’ version of an ultra bland dish. When I quizzed the waiter about all the missing fresh spices, herbs and veg that make the dish as listed in the menu description; he shrugged and said yeah he knows and that’s how they do it now. 👨‍🍳🤷‍♂️ I will never return.

Love Thamin. One of my favourite places to eat. Friendly staff, great food & atmosphere 😊

The staff here are fantastic. Lovely atmosphere and service on every visit. Great selection of food and paneer for the veggies which is great x

We have been to this restaurant many times over the years butl never again. The last couple of takeaways we've had have been beyond shocking. We collected our takeaway last weekend and it went in the bin. I ordered chicken tikka masala and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever had. The sauce was like tomato soup but watery. Absolutely zero taste. The chicken was rubbery. Honestly, it was disgusting. Thamin you should be ashamed of throwing that rubbish out. It was vile. My husband bhuna was as bad. Your standards have depleted beyond recovery. The 2 previous takeaways were bad but this latest one was quite shocking.

Can't beat the price and quality!

Asked if the cake on the Sunday buffet is "nut free" as party member had allergy.... waited replied " I Don't Know.... have the melon!!!!! Very rudely. Later the waiter came to the table with the cake box from Tesco and said " no nuts" Think they need to be a bit more knowledgeable about allergies....

came for the buffet had such a good experience with my family. staff were so friendly and attentive! food came quickly and was exactly how we wanted it !!

Very friendly and helpfylul staff, beautiful food and accommodating for a large group without a booking on a Friday. Would recommend to anyone. Dale and Holden family

Beautiful food with amazing service, all the staff are very helpful and will go above and beyond. Can’t wait to go back . Would definitely recommend to others, you will not be disappointed.

Had a lovely meal here with my husband. I would definitely recommend and will be going here again soon

Best Indian restaurant near us. Better than the new one as it's cheaper, better quality food and better experience. Get treated really special so the whole experience is fantastic, decor lovely too. Ask the waiter what you fancy and he will give you good advice. Portions are great to and if your full, they will happily bag up to take home

I wanted a simple chicken tikka madras not once but several times but because I’m Asian they spice it up make it dry and Asian style!!! I’ve told them 100 times I want a normal chicken tikka madras with green chillies. But they can’t do it!!!!! Its too hard for them infact it looks impossible to do but they don’t realise a Pl I want is normal madras . First time I went without them knowning I’m Asian was the best madras I’ve ever had and now they know I’m asian after they seen me it’s always a disaster. I spend minimum £25 on a takeaway every Sunday and it’s horrible, Worst thing is it’s not even hot it’s just taste of a dry curry with heavy uncooked spices. Never again stay away if ur asian!!! We used to have ruchi and There is no such thing as Asian style madras I mean why the hell would u order a ridiculous curry like that Asian style. I will call them on Tuesday wen they open. Not happy!!!

Fabulous take out … extremely friendly staff … loved the food .. thankyou .. Lisa

As a dad of two, I can't recommend Thamin Littleborough enough. The food is not just excellent; it's kid-approved, which is a big win for us parents. The staff is incredibly friendly and accommodating, making family dining a breeze. And when it comes to their Sunday buffet with its impressive four-course spread, it's the perfect way to treat the family to a delightful meal. Thamin Littleborough has become our go-to for sunday dinner

Excellent company, food and value

Really lovely staff, decor is really nice and makes for a really cosy meal. Peshwari naan is something else not normally something I'd eat but was pleasantly surprised when I tried it.

Really good food and friendly staff. Highly recommended

Phoned order. Don't know whether it's a new chef or so thing but it was horrible. And the order was wrong. Massive disappointment and sadly will never go again

Staff were very friendly and efficient. Didn’t wait long to be served. Atmosphere was relaxing. We will go there again.

Food is very good, service is excellent, very friendly and welcoming

Great place, lovely food, very good on price

Great friendly customer service and food hot can’t complain at all and will recommend to other people 👌

I've been coming here for a few years now when I'm in the area and will always make the effort to come back. Excellent, friendly service and absolutely delicious food. They're great at making suggestions for customisations too!

I've had plenty of Indian meals and Thamin has blown me away completely! The meat was cooked perfectly, the spices were authentic and the veg tasted so fresh. The service was second to none. Absolutely faultless! Friendly and very helpful staff, constantly on hand to answer any queries. I would be more than happy to come here again and I highly recommend this to anyone who loves traditional indian food!!

Meals always freshly cooked, always delicious. Staff are lovely, best curry house for miles.

Love this place..excellent fresh delicious food.great service..staff are so welcoming..I go qnd sit in often but also get the odd take away .but equally as good.. Great atmosphere

Visit Thamin often after trying it once about 8 months ago. Never been to Sunday banquet as its not my thing but visited during week qnd weekend plus often pick up a takeaway. The staff are fabulous, so friendly , helpful and welcoming. They cater for all I have requested. The prices are around average but the food is way above. Nothing is to much trouble. The mushroom rice and nann breads are so fresh and true ingredients. It's way up in the top Indian restaurants for me and my partner. Absolutely must visit .!!!

Went for Sunday buffet great food fantastic price it was a basic menu but absolutely delicious didn’t taste like a normal buffet food it had lots of flavour and taste to it will definitely be visiting again I would highly recommend.

Great service food is great every time we have been would definitely recommend

I'm not one for giving reviews but this place is absolutely brilliant.

Everything was great. Food, service, price. We all really enoyed it. Never had a bad meal here and would definitely recommend a visit

Excellent from start to finish. Went with the family including our 3 small grandchildren who made a bit of a mess. The staff were fantastic, made a fuss of the children and spoilt them at the end with Kinder eggs.

Decent place. Much nicer inside that it appears. Friendly staff

Food was amazing staff are very polite and helpful

Delicious food, love the Sunday buffet

Really nice restaurant, used for eating in and takeaway. Takeaway was really good, we had korma, tikka, peshwari nan, plain nan, rice and bajis and tasted amazing and fresh. Eating in we had the Sunday buffet. Extremely reasonably priced, lovely staff and decent selection Would definitely recommend

As always, lovely food, amazing service

Excellent food as always. Very friendly staff and great service .

Food was absolutely delicious, service was fantastic. The person taking our order gave us advise on what dishes compliment each other, he was very helpful. All staff wearing masks and sanitizing areas after visitors had left. Will go again very soon.

Always a lovely meal and lovely staff

Very good chefs specials and starters

Great meal as always! Lovely staff and a great night out!

Always decent food, no complaints there. It’s just that Why aren’t all staff and waiters wearing face masks, not sure of his name but the overweight waiter doesn’t seem to know there is a pandemic going on, touching people, leaning over people when serving and even coughing in the restaurant, all without a mask. Please sort this before I return.

Located on the A58 close to Stubble Hall (private residence) This restaurant does not look much from the roadside, but walk down the steps and through the door and the building transforms like Doctor Who's Tardis. Within you will be greeted by very polite and cheerful staff Nice surroundings and quality food. resulting in a good nights dinning

We have had the pleasure of having a takeaway tonight!!! The food and service was excellent Thank you All the staff at Thamin 👍

Lovely buffet, amazing price and friendly staff

Lovely staff and amazing food, I whole heartedly recommend it. ❤️❤️

Thamin have definitely upped their game, excellent food and service now.

Good food but place stinks damp.

So it’s highly rated. That’s good. High expectations? Perhaps. On the good side, the food was fine, portions were great. The masala was a bit runny / lots of sauce and very sweet (I was told). Staff were friendly although the trainee wanted to take drinks and plates away before you’d finished. The space is quite bare. There’s not so much atmosphere. It’s trying to be minimalist but doesn’t quite hit that for me. The thing was that I found a stray chip in my karahi. No one at our table had chips. Where had it come from? I asked an experienced staff member who laughed saying they have the meals stacked up in the kitchen and it must have fallen in. Well what else could have fallen in? I thought. It didn’t give me excessive faith in the kitchen organisation and that makes you wonder about other things. I sure it’s fine but...

Just had a family meal, I thought it was very reasonably priced, each dish was hot and very tasty. Waiters polite and friendly, absolutely excellent will definitely return soon

Went last night after cinema for a birthday meal for my son food was delicious as ever service was great nothing too much trouble very nice wines and very reasonable price lovely highly recommended

Very nice food and staff can't do enough for you, we have eaten here quite a few times.

Went here with a few friends and really enjoyed it. Great food and very good friendly service. Highly Recommend.

Another local Extremely friendly staff and very attentive. Great for a quiet meal but caters well for larger parties. Food is authentic and well presented. Good value for money

Rang order through told me to come in 40 minutes to pick up so I did then got told it will be ready in a few minutes . 50 minutes later I was still sat there waiting for my takeaway offered me a free drink while I waited told me a chef hadn’t turned up . They should of told me this when I rang the order through. When I finally got the food and got home the starters was ok but the 3 main meals was a big disappointment just no flavour very bland and watery. Not cheap either never again better places and better priced .

Honestly, this is a massive case of don't judge a book by its cover... welcoming, helpful hosts, excellent food. Genuinely recommended.

Normally love the food from here, staff all good. But the owner is away at the moment in Bangladesh for about 6 weeks, trouble is I think he’s took the chef with him because it’s not the usual standard of food, I’m only commenting on take away food that we have had over the past two weeks from there since the owner has been away.

Great food, great service as per usual

Excellent evening with family, great food and outstanding service. Not to be missed, would certainly recommend, all enjoyed .

Went here for the first time last Thursday in a party of 11 to celebrate the birthday of our 9 yr old granddaughter. Venue chosen by her and good choice. A bit lacking in atmosphere - but it was 17:00!! Food was considered good by everyone, if not exceptional, although I thoroughly enjoyed my dish - Afghani chicken(?)with a jalfrezi sauce, butter rice and paratha. Will certainly go again

Very good customer service team

Food good service good just lacking I atmosphere very quiet

Brilliant food, not cheap though.

Worse takeaway curry I have ever had. Watery sauce when it was supposed to be thick. No taste to it what so ever. Gave me the wrong rice. Would not recommend

Wanted a curry and not from this area , me from Scarborough, ordered 4 main courses , waiting time was 25 mins late , but fantastic food and all of us enjoyed, would definitely recommend

Went to the Curry and Chaat night last night. The staff were amazing, the food was amazing. Was a good night all round.

The restaurant is decent, the staff are polite and the food is lovely. Twice now, the bill has been incorrect by an amount enough to buy a couple more mains. Wasn't impressed. Will stay clear for a while. Check. Your. Bill. When. It. Arrives.

Not been here for years. The place has not changed. The entrance is really not very inviting. Once in the lounge area is ok. the drinks are good. The food we had was fabulous. The seating area inside the restaurant is not great. I felt like in a school hall. However the service was good and the food was. Would definitely get a takeaway.

Fantastic food you must go and try it out 5*****

Had a meal for my son's 30th here and had a lovely time

Cannot fault this place. We have been eating here since it opened years ago and have never had a bad meal. The food is delicious, the staff are really friendly and courteous, the restaurant is modern and clean and it won't break the bank. Would definitely recommend a visit.

We were a group with different tastes and dietary requirements which were easily accommodated by the restaurant. The staff were friendly and helpful. We would return!

Excellent service and great food. Totally recommended.

omg! The food here is very very beautiful . A lots of choices that’s not easy to choose one for you(I want it all eiei) . The staff are very friendly. Nice bar.

Christmas Eve, friendly, efficient, helpful. Outstanding food and service, faultless cuisine. A night to remember, value for money and lovely ambient environment.

Superb curry, great choice and lovely staff. There are lots of sizzling dishes to choose from. We had the chicken tikka sizzler and we choose and Pathia sauce it was really fantastic. The chicken was very fresh and tender and a lovely flavour. Thank you

Christmas dinner , very good and excellent service.

Excellent food fantastic service friendly polite staff, unfortunately no parking, hence 4stars

First time here for my Christmas do. The food was outstanding. Everything was tasty and fresh. Will be going again 😀

Got taken there by a taxi driver who we ask for proper Indian. Lovely staff very friendly .I ask for a staff curry amazing taste.i go to India with work and this was the only curry I have eaten in the UK that tasted authentic.The other meals were excellent too.

Waited a long time for meal they had booked 2 big parties at same time food was ok though when it finally arrived

Been many times and service and curries always excellent. I normally only eat Chicken at Indian restaurants as always dissapointed with taste of other meats but happy to order mixed meat dishes here. When we go for a curry we tend to go around 9:30 after having a few drinks. I've seen reviews saying how quiet it is with no atmosphere which I agree it is quiet. I think the restaurant is busy earlier and most people have ate when we arrive. To me this isn't a problem there are restaurants in the area which are busy but where every curry tastes the same. If you want good curry its the best place to go in the area and reasonably priced.

Great place me and the Mrs always in there. We have never had a bad meal yet in the last 8 years we have been going.

Fantastic food. Great staff always a warm welcome. Going for Christmas dinner.

Love this place really, amazing food. 💚💚 had a lovely night xx

Fantasies evening..will be back

Good cosy Indian restaurant and bar open till late. Food is good and staff very friendly. Good size and set up to accomodate arround 80 people comfortably. Popular among the locals. Lack of car parking and an unusual style ofmain entrance are two main areas letting this place down.

I went here for the first time yesterday. It was Friday evening so i was expecting it to be busy but it was very quiet. The cleaning trolley was in clear site and the restaurant lacked atmosphere. I ordered thamin special rice which was advertised as having saffron in but this was not included in the dish which is what we paid extra for. The vegetarian curry contained minimal veg with just a couple of slices of carrot,2 green beans,cabbage and one piece of potato. It was sickly and contained huge chunks of slimy banana. The peshwari nan was also a disappointment and made me feel sick with what appeared to be marzipan thickly smeared throughout the layers. My husband had a lamb dish which we were told the sauce would be provided separately which was not the case and very little lamb was given. Overall I was very disappointed and left feeling very sick. I will not be returning and feel that the prices were steep for food that is obviously made and produced on a very tight budget.

We go here often and never dissapointed the food is fresh and amazing and the service is superb we ordered a meal to be delivered to us as we were late home from work and it was our 5th wedding anniversary they did us proud thankyou very much for a beautiful meal delivered hot fresh and for the extras you did a great job at making our evening special for us

Used this resturant for quiet some yrs then booked for big occasion and they let me down wouldnt use them again not loyal at all need to respect their custom!!! Be aware they will LET u down!!!!

What can you fault its eat all you can on Sundays

Would have given 5 stars but has just lacked atmosphere when we've visited as we probably chose quiet midweek times. Owner and staff very welcoming and excellent food - highly recommend

Kalib copeland and friends had a great evening service was nice and friendly . Food. Was tasty spicy without being too hot. Going again soon, thanks for a great evening.

nice food but a bit pricey for takeaway

Fabulous meal in a lively atmosphere. First time there really enjoyed the fresh and vibrant food. Very hardworking staff served us with smiles and the price was good, too. Will look forward to going back.

Always a good meal and a friendly welcome

Such a lovely meal here every time we go the service is excellent and the staff are always very welcoming and friendly nothing too much trouble very reasonable price for a lovely meal and very clean and tidy

Had buffet on Sunday foodluke warm and not labelled up.