Village Masaleh in Lambeth

I went here as I’m staying in the area temporarily I red the reviews so decided to try it. What is it with these fake reviews? Ordered popadom which were stale, the mango chutney came out in very small dishes minus the onion salad, had to ask for that. Few bites later and it’s gone so you have to keep asking for more. Let it slip that the popadoms were stale so still ordered main, chicken tikka buriana, which should come with vegetable curry nope came with cucumber salad? Took two mouthfuls and it was clear it was microwaved (I actually heard the ding before it came out) tasted absolutely rubbish. I would eat here again if it was free

Had a fabulous night here, we had a function in the garden área and it was great. Great service and super reasonable prices. Il definately be going back

Loved the food, reasonably priced and amazing flavour. Highly recommend this to anyone.

This place has incredible service and the food is great! Really recommend this enjoyable experience!

I had a great Tika Masala. The food was great! Great service too.

Very tasty but didn’t receive the 1/4 tandoori chicken as stated in the mixed grill. Last time when we ordered this we were given a mint sauce and a mango chutney but wasn’t included this time. Was still very nice tasting but not as good second time around!

Absolutely amazing. Want to come back every week!

Village special fried rice was spicyyyy, the chicken bhuna actually tasted like it’s supposed to taste. The veggie Samos were delicious too and spicy! The driver just got a tad lost but all was well and went to the correct address

The best Indian Takeaway food in London...very professional. Food was delivered to our event of my son's first birthday party in time as we had agreed. Delicious food and served 50 people. On your next event call Village Masaleh they will never FAIL YOU.

First time ordering from Village Masaleh & from the reviews we had high hopes. Unfortunately, our expectations weren't met. The curries were not great, arrived in small containers, with barely any chicken & swimming in sauce. The taste wasn't that great & there was little difference between the madras & the vindaloo. The korma, was worse - tasteless and again swimming in sauce. The nan's were ok, and the pilau rice was nice. Felt super expensive for the portion sizes and the overall quality.

Food is really delicious and staff very attentive. However, decor is not very cosy, nor inspired. Everything is quite "square". Feels like a bad dentist waiting room. And in middle of winter, I had the air conditioning blowing in my neck, or the draft of the door. Not sure which. So pick your table and seating carefully, and you'll have a tasty time 😉

The best Indian food south of the Thames no question! Very rich and complex flavours and always care for consistent. I always go for the Lamb Rogan Josh or vindaloo dishes but I've had quite a few of the prawn and chicken dishes and they are all sublime.

The best Jalfrezi I've ever had

This a bang for your buck spot. Is it going to be the best Indian food you’ve ever had? Probably not but at this price, it is good. Also more Vegan friendly due to their choice to use oil instead of Ghee.

A really decent Indian restaurant. I've been going to pick up my order and the staff are always friendly and warm whilst I wait. Food is really good with some very good Veggie options.

Amazing food it was very delicious.

Have eaten here a few times and has always been great! Would recommend to anyone who loves well cooked Indian food!

We just moved to the area and had to try this place as it always smells soooo good!! The food was amazing and the staff are so lovely and friendly!!

As a Punjabi lad I feel I can reliably vouch for Mahesh's authentic home cooking style, (albeit classically trained!). They manage to cook sauces in a healthier manner than many other curry houses, yet without compromising taste. The use of spices is craftsman like! If you're more interested in the food (than say the room), I would highly recommend trying this out...

First time ordering. Very nice, fresh and hot, ready to eat.

Driver could not find my address and instead of calling me he decided to go back to the restaurant and once I called they told me they are not going to deliver it after 2 hours waiting and contact just eat for a refund

Delicious, with fresh spices and depth of flavour. Much more authentic than other Indians

Really disappointed. The menu has changed and prices have hugely increased whilst the quality of the food has decreased. My Sag paneer was basically just tinned spinach with very little paneer indeed. Same size as the previous side dish but now only available as a "main" for nearly £9. Such a shame as this is our local and we've always enjoyed it but will now have to go elsewhere

Really friendly staff and amazing food

Great local place - been coming here for a few years. Nice staff, delicious food and prices lower than you'd get anywhere central.

As always the food was fresh and delicious. Great quality ingredients.

Absolutely fantastic, will be back.

Outstanding service, huge prawns, delicious daal, amazing tandoori. Also worth asking about their off-menu street food options. Great value for money. Highly recommended - absolute hidden gem

26th Jun 2023 My husband and I have been coming to this restaurant for years. Yesterday we had a group of 17 for my mother's 95th Birthday and we sat in the garden area. The food and the service was excellent, everyone had a great time. The owners and all the staff at this restaurant are so friendly and helpful and as I said already, the food is great too. Highly recommended.

Outstanding local curry. Huge prawns, great street food dishes, excellent tandoori

Village Masaleh is one (if not) of the best Indian restaurants in the area, great service, fast to be ready and the dishes are in generous sizes and quite flavourful. Great diversity of dishes..

Lovely atmosphere and amazing staff. We often go, the food is delicious and very reasonably priced!

Always the best food. Thank you chef and all the team

I booked a party of 29 people for a dinner prior to starting a study conference. The staff at the restaurant were incredibly helpful and when I visited them the day before to check everything was in order they were able to adapt the plan to both the weather and the needs of the group. The food was excellent and the service faultless. I would definitely come back here again

Excellent food and service, Thanks to owner he is very much friendly. Love it, I’ll visit again

Good local curry. I had the King Prawn masala and the prawns were huge. The fish starter was lovely but a bit too full on for a starter. Really great onion bhajis. The paratha could have been flakier. Atmosphere is ok.

Excellent authentic Indian food.

Thank you for an amazing and delicious meal, it was fresh, very tasty and beautifully made! Thank you so much!! 😀 😀

This food is like nectar from the Gods. Always 6 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As always the food was delicious. The chefs are amazing and the food was full of flavour. You can taste that the ingredients are good quality and fresh. If you haven’t tried Village Masaleh yet give it a go, you won’t be disappointed.

Incredible food and great service!!

I really like a little spice as well as mostly healthy ingredients. This place serves good quality food and is a popular among locals. Their kebabs and naans need a special mention here. Staff is very courteous and attentive.

Very delicious food , great service and everything was so nice and clean , the food arrived in time planning to come again

Good service Authentic Indian food Chef Mahesh recamind own signature dish we enjoy the dinner

The best Indian food in london. The lamb chops were so utterly tender!

This place is great! What a find! We were out enjoying a drink nearby and popped into here before getting a train…the staff were really friendly, the food was excellent and the price was surprisingly reasonable. Thank you for such a lovely experience!

Biriani was like pan-heated rice with chicken stirred in. Didn't look nice. Didn't taste nice - absolutely nothing like birianis that every other Indian restaurant has ever supplied. Definitely didn't seem like it had been oven-cooked. Mint sauce was awful - like pale green sludge. My husband's naan bread was completely flat, like it had been pressed. His madras was passable but not delicious.

Price, good. Ambience, quiet. Food, poisoning. I would have been tempted to come here again but, having spent the first half of this week being violently sick after eating the Jalfrezi, I won't be back in a hurry.

Very nice people and very delicious food! Will come back again!

I will say the pilau rice was what it was suppose to taste like and the curries had the right amount of heat. I wanted to try them as part of the Cheeky Tuesday and I have to say I was not disappointed. Food arrived well packed and hot.

The food was delicious as always. You can taste the ingredients are fresh and of good quality. The chef is amazing, he packs so much flavour into the food. You won’t regret ordering from Village Masaleh.

First time ordering. Never delivered, preordered an hour before the restaurant opened, it's now 11 minute past delivery time promised, and the food's not here. No updates from the restaurant either… Disappointed. Will be contacting Just Eat for a refund.

Such friendly staff, really tasty food and decent prices. I’ve found my new local curry house 🍻

Such a lovely place, with the most incredible staff! So attentive and nothing was too much to ask! Fully recommend. Thanks again for an amazing night!

Delicious. After eating curries from here other - similarly ranked - Indian take always will disappoint

Undoubtedly the best Indian restaurant in south London, food perfect, people perfect

Absolutely delicious food, always freshly prepared. Try the chicken Jalfrezi and Chana Dahl

Fantastic authentic Indian restaurant great quality curries are definitely recommend Grill

The best biriani / Karahi I have ever had. Family run business, extremely friendly people, mouthwatering food

Great restaurant! We ate in, the staff were lovely and the food was delicious- highly recommend.

Most friendly and delicious food!

Fantastic food and friendly delivery man

Originally this was our one stop for an Indian take-away. It had gone quite expensive and so we went to another to trail. Village Masala has fabulous Tandoori grilled king prawns and one food item i would recommend.

All delicious, every time I try something new

Ordered collection for 2 dishes. Saag panneer (£6) & prawn korma (£10.50) As you can see from pictures, main dish of korma was given in a small side dish container which shocked me as I've never seen a main dish be given in a side dish container. Especially for the price paid. Saag panneer was not creamy or sweet and as expected as whenever I have had the same dish at any other place, but very bland. Prawn korma is more of a king prawn korma but I wanted usual prawn korma so again, never had this before and not really that creamy too but watery. Sadly both dishes were very very bland and poor all round. Geezer who served me was ok but I did struggle on the phone when making order as I called twice and the first guy I had to repeat myself 3 times as he couldn't understand me. Thumbs down from me in afraid

The best Indian I’ve found in south London. Proper home cooked Indian food delivered to your door. Really good depth of flavour and fresh fragrant spices. My new favourite

Me and my girlfriend visited this Indian restaurant close to our home. At a first sight , the place did not look appealing, not too many people, abandoned etc However , when the dished came, it was a very nice surprise! Everything was fresh and tasty and customer service really good! Also very affordable!

Butter chicken was watery and no flavour Naan bread was hard and undercooked the veg samosas where ok, overall 2/10 would not order again

The biryani wasn't a biryani, rather stir fried fried with lamb curry mixed in. The poppadoms were very over cooked. Shame

Chicken tikka masala was just precooked chicken pieces with sauce identical to cream of tomato soup. Jalfrezi was underspiced and hardly any lamb. Sauce tasted bland. Saag paneer only had 6 small cubes of paneer and over cooked sludgy spinach. Naan was like pre-packed one from the supermarket. Not really impressed sadly.

Normally it’s really hard to find an excellent Indian in London as I went to uni in Leicester and there were no shortages of really good Indian takeaways. I must say though, this food was up there with the very best. The portion sizes were ok, but I didn’t mind as I only needed two meals anyway from my order. The delivery guy was really friendly too.

Fantastic food. Good price. Hard to find places like this. Highly recommended !!

Village Massaleh not only serve the best natural cooked indian food, but more importantly, they treat the customer in a specially friendly and respectfull manner. We come constantly to try new plates and they never dissapoint!!! Paratha is my favourite choice of bread to accompany the dishes!

Friendly staffs and good food .

Absolutely delicious. Thank you so so much! I totally recommend ordering from here 100%

Portions were very small , over priced for what I received ( madras curry & rice ), naan bread also small . Curry was alright , I’ve had better .

I can only say, how wonderful it is to be able to have proper Indian food on my door step! Being Indian myself, it's the best food! Such a lovely atmosphere, with friendly people. Worth a visit. There is also a lovely garden area.

This is our go-to Indian in the area. Friendly people, good food and very reasonable prices. Their chapatis and palaks are delicious.

My sister Wilma and I, ordered from Village Masaleh this evening, and it was absolutely delicious, the food was hot, fresh and tasty!! It was a delightful meal, with Amazing food and a wonderful delivery. What a delicious, kind and generous Restaurant, thank you Village Masaleh!! 😀😀

Village Masaleh is consistently good. The food tasted amazing, the ingredients were fresh and it was a real treat to eat. My thanks to the very talented chefs.

Great host and welcoming atmosphere but the food tasted reheated. It felt that the meat and the sauce were cooked separately and lacked the depth of flavour I would have expected. I could not recommend avoiding as there are other much better restaurants in the local vicinity.

Lamb biryani was good 8/10. Portions were very small. Chicken madras 6/10 and lamb dansak was 2/10 terrible I have tried almost every single Indian restaurants in south London. So I needed to try this. Unfortunately I will not be ordering again. Thank You. I left good rating good luck

Village Masaleh cook the best Indian food that I’ve tasted in a long time. I’ve eaten in the restaurant and you can see the kitchen and it’s spotless. You can taste that the ingredients are fresh and all the dishes have their own unique flavour. Truly delicious and good value. I’ll be ordering from them again.

Not bad for a first order, but not not great either. Wrap mostly salad, and chicken very dry like it was frozen chicken overcooked in microwave

I don't really like ordering Indian food from places in UK as they are quite bland and unauthentic. But I really need to give kudos to this place for getting everything right. You genuinely made my day and thank you so much for the delicious food. Portion size good Taste amazing Quality superb Keep up the great work! Will definitely be back for more.

excellent food, the best madras i,ve had in years will definitely order again.

I normally order for delivery which is excellent but for a change I decided to pop down around 6 o'clock. Everything was made from scratch, hearing the sound of chopping somehow added to the fact that those may have been the best onion bhajis I've tasted. The Chicken Tikka Karahi was similarly excellent and refreshing to have it with a cold beer. I may never order delivery again.

Sehr gutes und preiswertes Essen, mit sehr freundlicher Bedienung,...gerne wieder!

The food was absolutely delicious and you could tell that a lot of love had gone into making it. If anything, the Phal could be even hotter(!) but apart from that perfect. Many thanks 😊

We have awoken a sleeping giant. For decades we have endured below average curries ever since our old curry house lost its chef and its standards. Our world was in darkness. 04/03/22, mothers birthday - by recommendation of a friend we tried Village Masaleh. We were stunned by the quality and flavour! My father who is notoriously hard to please and likes nothing said this is the best curry he's had in years. Every dish tasted different. Some curry houses taste like they use the same sauce for everything but this was exceptional. The meat was really tender and the king prawns tasted extremely fresh. After decades our world has been reawakened. Village masaleh is the best, if you don't agree then you have no tatse and probably enjoy decaf tea with almond milk.

Superb, authentic Indian food. Always fresh and the service is excellent, we particularly like the veggie sides.

Truly love this curry house exceptional food and good value!! Totally recommend it!!

Great food - would gladly order here again

Good food, nice decor & very friendly atmosphere

Just excellent food! Delivery always early. Lovely people.

Really tasty curry and excellent value. Garlic chilli and coriander naan was one of the best naans I have had in a long time and the mango chutney was delicious

Me and my girlfriend came here and were pleasantly surprised. Atmosphere and decor were fine the starters were good but the meal really took off when we got to the mains. Garlic chilli and coriander naan was so tasty and portions are great plus excellent value :) Staff are also really friendly and accommodating I don’t judge on uniform and decor as it’s food and service that are the most important 5/5

Terrible, dry meat, no flavour to the curries, 2 of them tasted exactely the same. The roti wasn’t tandoori as ordered. So disappointing since I thought we’d found a good new restaurant near my home. Extremely disappointed.

Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff and incredible food. Had a really pleasant evening. Will definitely come again.

never arriver waited outside for 30mins called shop twice and was told they cnt get a hold of the driver.