Voujon Indian Restaurant in Braintree

Ordered a take away at 6.30pm and was told would take about 45 mins to an hour. TWO hours later it arrived and it was cold. I didn’t call up to make a scene as it wow my daughter’s birthday. The delivery driver did not apologise about it being late and tried to keep me chatting when we had already waited so long for our food. Terrible. So unimpressed.

It's really nice food there a lot of passion in it and the decorations are nice

No one else there, but great food and service

Great local indian restaurant. Nice and friendly staff.

This has been our takeaway restaurant of choice for a while now. The food is amazing and the dishes all taste different. Deliveries come on time and their delivery driver is great.

The food is good but the live music makes it extra special George and Loraine are unique and talented.

Amazing food..seems to be getting better than it was originally if that's possible.

Great Indian food, best Indian place in the Braintree area. Great service and delicious food, I recommend it

Been here a few times now and can honestly say it's the nicest place. The staff are decent people, especially Salim and the food is always lovely.

We have been regular visitors for a number of years. The Tuesday night we visited there was entertainment and it was quite busy. Service was quick and the waiters attentive. What let things down was the food. We have noticed that the prices have crept up but its still about average. Portion sizes have shrunk quite noticeably. We had king prawn biryani and it only had 3 prawns in the dish. The tandoori mixed grill had a very small chicken leg and the lamb and chicken tikka pieces looked like they had been cut in half compared to how large they used to be. It will be a shame if portion sizes and cutting back on the composition of the dishes continues as it means the meals no longer represents good value.

Got a takeaway from here. Was nice.

Have been buying on a delivery basis once twice a week for many months now, love the food and it delivered quickly great service.

Great food and wonderful staff.

Went here to celebrate my partners birthday. The food was not up to scratch. Ordered a chicken pasanda saying to the waiter who I believe is the manager I don't want it too spicy. He paid more attention to another table. When the food arrived it was too spicy to eat. Never again they have had my money three times now. And they are over priced.

Gorgeous food, fantastic service, very fair prices. What more could you ask for? Highly recommend! You won't regret it. Takeaways are fantastic too!

Not much atmosphere but food was ok.

I cannot say how good the food and service is. I moved here a year ago and cannot believe how fortunate we are having such a great restaurant in the village. Eat in or Takeaway the food is exceptional and very well priced. Likewise the staff really know what they’re about.

Tuesday night with George and Lorraine providing live music, absolutely superb. The food was great too

Great place, delicious food great service

A lovely Christmas Day lunch,loved the food,attentive and obliging staff,nothing was too much trouble,although clearly busy. Crisp white tablecloths,beautiful china,a lovely ambience and decor very tasteful. Will be revisiting very soon. Live Music on Tuesday Evenings sounds good!!

We had a takeaway delivered by a fella with a great personality, the food was piping hot and really delicious, won’t be too long before we order again .

Great food Great service and reasonably priced. Entertainment with Jazz soft rock sing a long was the icing on the cake

Great food ,even the takeaway is great,would recommend it to all

Love this restaurant. Food is always excellent..the staff are fabulous.. see you again soon. The 3 pods

Food was bang on. Liked the rustic look and feel to the restaurant. Felt very cozy. Can't recommend enough

Excellent food and excellent service!! The best Indian I have had! 👍

Really good night out food fantastic service the same

had the sunday special meal, excellent value for money, large choice of dishes all beautifully cooked and served, best indian we have had for a long time, the restaurant was warm and very cosy and the staff were polite and attentive, will definitely go there again

Excellent Indian restaurant attentive staff great food very busy place so book early

Great quality food and highly recommended 👌

Great food. Fast and friendly service.

The food was fantastic and the service was polite, helpful and attentive. Inside is clean and well presented, with tables well set. I'm 6ft3 so something to be wary of is the low ceilings due to the premises being in an old converted cottage. There are plenty of signs warning customers to "Mind your head" etc. As for the food, we ordered Seekh kebab for starters and then Lamb Rajasthani and Chicken Tikka Shashlik massala for mains. Everything was delicious and well recommended. Despite lacking in a bit of kerb appeal, which may be down to shared properties, don't let that put you off as the rewards inside are well worth it. Parking is available behind to the left hand side of the property (before the pub car park). Will definitely visit again.

We ordered a takeaway last night and it was perfect! Nice and hot, they including a complementary side dish & popadoms which was lovely and all for a good price! We’ve dined in before and was very nice aswell.

Loved this place. Good food, good price, great service 👍

Please people don’t order food from this cowboys who call themselves Winners of the best Curry Awards we had a very bad experience with them, we had a leaflet put through our door about a week ago and we thought we would give them a try with a take away it was cold no taste to it and they forgot to give us the salad, sauce with the chicken Tikka Starter when we complained they were so rude the food was Tasteless a complete waste of our money it ruined our evening.

I found the food bland, not very tasty. Quite happy people and I was served within 5 minutes of the agreed time. Reasonably priced.

I visited this restaurant today prompted by an email offering a 20% discount if ordered online. The food was ordered and requested to be ready for 7. 30pm and was not ready until 7.50. When returning home I checked the food and we appeared to have more than we ordered? Sat down to eat and the food was awful under cooked Bajis and the rest just a plate of slush I have a restaurant of my own in Cambridge and would be ashamed to produce food such as this. My advice is avoid if possible I will not be returning.

Booked a table for 9 people and arrived to a table for 8. One of the “clean” plates had a small piece of coriander welded on it (presumably by dish washer) and the waiter was going to just scrape it off rather than bring a new plate out. Staff didn’t care if they were serving coke or Diet Coke saying “it’s the same thing anyway”. We waited a very very long time for our meals to come, and the plates were virtually dropped onto the table. The actual food couldn’t be faulted and was very nice. It’s a great shame for the chefs there that the front of house staff really let this place down with their terrible service.

First of all, let me start by saying that the service was absolutely fantastic! I have never been greeted with such a warm, welcoming grimace before! It really set the tone for the rest of the evening. Now, when it came to ordering our drinks, our waiter couldn't quite tell the difference between a regular coke and a diet coke. But, hey, who needs to watch their sugar intake anyway, right? I mean, he couldn't be more right when he said "does it even matter?". Throughout the meal, our knowledgeable waiter constantly tutted and sighed. It was like he couldn't wait to get away from our table. But let me tell you, he was a real expert on the dishes. He even went so far as to stand and dig around in them at the end of the table to see what they were before serving. What dedication to his craft! And don't even get me started on the hot plates. Rather than simply walking around the table, our waiter made us all pass them down from one end to the other. It gave us all a sense of community making us all feel slightly closer to one another, where else could you get that experience? To top it all off, there was a lovely bit of free dried dishwasher coriander stuck on one of the plates. Our waiter was about to scratch it off with his nail before we suggested getting a clean plate. Can you say "yum"? Overall, I would highly recommend Voujon for anyone looking for a dining experience that's both humorous and slightly questionable. Just be prepared for a bit of a bumpy ride!

Always good to go here, love the staff, food and location 😀

What a great find , food service and venue absolutely incredible will definitely go back and highly recommend . Food hot and really tasty and enjoyable If you love Indian food go and enjoy

Food was cold. My wife's dish was lacking in meat and the meat in it was tough as old boots. The nan bread was undercooked doughy.

Nice restaurant with good food, ambience and service. The waiters were very friendly and patiently explained the dishes and provided suggestions.

Best Indian, I use it all the time for takeaway and have been to the restaurant too. Really personal service and the food is so good.

Great service and wonderfull food

My wife myself and my brother visiting from Holland dined there last night. Very disappointed in the food. Lamb madras - good sauce but really tough and gristley meat. At 7 30 in the evening - no chapatis, told a takeaway customer had the last one. No Bacardi in stock. My wife's prawn korma - 5 prawns and not the usual quality sauce All in all a disappointing meal, I can't envisage going back there again.

Ordered online and food ready on time for collection. Unfortunately it wasn't very hot after only a very short journey home, so would question how long it had been prepared and sitting waiting. Main dishes were tasty enough, but perhaps lacking a little depth of flavour and the sauces maybe a little watery. Everything else was OK but the Rothi was tough and leathery. Had high expectations given the reviews but a little disappointed overall, not a bad meal but just average. Better than 3 stars but not quite a 4, 3.5 stars feels right on the money though.

First visit as our friends were singing that evenin 13/10..all very good , n friendly , enjoyable evening

Great place usually eat in but decided to have a take away

We phoned up on a Saturday on the off chance we could get and the gentleman on the end of the phone was so helpful managing to squeeze us in on a later sitting. When we arrived we were pleasantly surprised to find it's located in an old pub with exposed beams and has been decorated in a sympathetic manner. The service was excellent, attentive without being overbearing and the food was excellent, some of the best curry outside of London, all at a reasonable price. Thoroughly recommend.

We met friends for a meal and catch up. The service was good. I ordered the Voujon Blue which the menu said was very hot. For my taste it was not hot enough but had lovely flavour. I would recommend this Indian.

Arrived to a very quiet restaurant early eve so little disappointed when as soon we were sat down we were asked what drinks we would like and starters not even given the opportunity to pick up the menus, All the poppadom sauces were watery and tasteless. Main Courses, Naans where great. Not quite sure what the rush was at the commencement of the eve as we were then left all evening to the table.

Came here for our first night in Essex. It was very quiet but the food was just simply amazing, if I had a bigger stomach I could have eaten loads more. We did the sharing starter for 4 people along with the usual Poppadoms and Pickles. The mixed grill was amazing and the mint sauce was lovely. One of the servers/waiters looked like Billy Ocean so we had a bit of fun with him and it turned out that he had ran a restaurant in North Wales - where we lived. Great service, great food - what more could anyone ask for.

Brilliant food, and great show.

My first visit was 3 years ago, visit again and was not disappointed, this is a great restaurant quality food and great service. Occasionally has live acts on.

The curry was quality and could not of wished it any better also the staff were so friendly and the whole place was great.

One of the niceist place i have ever been the stuff are so nice and polite and salim is funny kind and make the customer feel welcome im definitely coming back again

Food was ok. Service was excellent. O tried it out for a change, sorry, prefere Ruby's

Lovely restaurant …friendly welcoming staff ..relaxing atmosphere and great tasting Indian food ..would highly recommend it .

Was recommended this place by friends as fancied a change from my usual Indian restaurant. Honestly I wish I didn't. The food was ok, not brilliant but not bad either. Just " meh". What really let's this place down is the service. My partner and I waited approx 20 mins to order our mains and took 40 mins to get the bill. I could understand if it was really busy, but there was only a few tables of customers, so hardly rammed. Probably wouldn't recommend.

Huge menu selection to choose from, some interesting dishes not seen elsewhere. Food was delicious and really nicely presented. We’ll be back.

We had takeaway from Voujon Rayne and I can honestly say it was one of the best Indian takeaways we have had. Really fresh food, full of flavour. Would highly recommend!

It's not as good as it used to be.

Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff and excellent food, would definitely come back

Rude. Turned up just before 8pm to ask for a table for 1 to just be told "no". When I asked why I was abruptly told there was a problem with the kitchen. Not convinced so called to place a take away order 10 minutes later which they began to take until I told them not to bother.

We enjoyed a really lovely meal at Voujon. It was a fairly busy Saturday evening and we arrived on the off chance we could have a table. Within 10 minutes of arriving we were seated. The service was a bit slow but the food was worth the wait. It was a lovely meal. The restaurant is clean and the building is old and interesting. The waiter was honest about the slightly slow service which we appreciated. There were two new members of staff who we thought coped very well. Would definitely go again

40 mins to get a drink, 90 mins to get starter and nearly 2 hrs before mains arrived which was barely warm accompanied by a very rude waiter shocking service average food. NOT GOING BACK

We had an excellent meal with friendly, thoughtful service. A relaxed atmosphere, great for a family meet up. Highly recommended.

Spent an hour trying to order online and wouldn’t go thru! Called up and said can we just do over phone and still get discount and they told us no! Ended up driving 20 minutes and ordering in there online and miraculously it worked! Waited an hour and the food they gave us was so clearly cheapened because of the discount I’ve never been so disappointed and annoyed in my life! We ordered two chicken tikka masalas which came with no sauce and two chicken tikka jalfrezi which were not tikka chicken they were tiny thin slivers of chicken with no holes in from the skewer they should have been cooked in! So much water in the sauce and literally no spice or flavour! Honestly we sat there for so long and they treated the poor delivery driver like he was scum and not a smile or friendly word to us the whole hour we waited! When I called they said they’d replace our pointless order but the damage is done! Someone gave us that cheap nasty excuse for food thinking we wouldn’t make an issue! Raj Garden in Braintree! The Ruby in Braintree, Jhaal in Mark’s Tey and Ifraaz in Witham are all head and shoulders above this place! I’m so confident I’d bet my life that you’ll b better off there than using this place! Not nice people and pointless food! Wouldn’t go here again if it was free!

just came back from a lovely meal at Voujon and i thought i would write a review, they even made a special dish for me, honest the food and the service was fantastic, really nice folk, this site is not all about complaints, i would like to praise them , i will defiantly visit Voujon again,

Very disappointed heard good things great service but food was mediocre at best

The food we ordered was amazing so for that the place would have got 5/5 but the service was shocking. We finally got a waiters attentions to order but didn’t even get to order our mains only drinks because he was so preoccupied with his iPad ordering system. He then said he’d be back to order our food but we didn’t see him again, only to see him serve others in front of us. It was quite shocking. We had to literally get any waiters attention to serve us. Was not welcoming and not a place we will be visiting again. Such a shame because the food was lovely. But service is everything and they failed badly here

Visited with friends who had journeyed from the South coast to stay with us for a long weekend. We wanted to eat in a good / nice restaurant for a special treat. Voujon came recommended by friends, I think they must have visited a different restaurant. They seemed to be very short staffed. We were served by a grumpy and abrupt waiter, to the point of being rude. Table was booked for 7.30 but despite quick delivery of poppadoms it was well over an hour to the arrival of mediocre food. Won't be going back.

Really nice take away, everyone was pleased with their food. Collected and got 30% off. Quick service. Will def be going back

The best Indian cuisine I have ever tasted. The staff are friendly and accommodating. The atmosphere is very nice and there is no long wait for your food. Special music nights are great.

Food, service excellent, will definitely be going again, highly recommended

Great food and very nice setting.

A very good meal all round. Tender chicken, fluffy rice and generous portions, although my Sag Paneer only had one cube of paneer in it lol!

Excellent food, really speedy for pick up meals. Super friendly service. All round good restaurant

Although I appreciate the current situation we are in and the desperate times restaurants are having, you would think they would make more of an effort, but my recent experience the food from here was poor. The food seemed quite bland. The chicken tikka masala didnt have that distinctive tikka taste, the kurma was watery, the dopiaza wasn't what i have experienced over many years. On a positive note the onion bhajis were lovely but thatvwas about it! Next time I will go elsewhere and spend £60 on a decent Indian meal.

Food was nice quality but not to our taste. Balti Chicken Tikka was very very sweet and tasted of coconut with no spicy heat at all. Chicken Tikka Rogan was also quite sweet with loads of fine chopped onion and carrot? Garlic Chilli chicken was OK, but no sign of a chilli in sight so no heat. All OK ... but overall, not hot ( spicy ) enough and too sweet. Rice and Bread all good !

Avoid like the plague absolutely awful food and staff not much better very disappointed will not return

In times when it’s hard to find a restaurant taking bookings it was a pleasure to visit Voujon. A nicely lit restaurant with good parking facilities. A nice welcome on arrival. Seated in safe conditions given the current constraints. A very varied menu with plenty...

My wife, friends and I have eaten here for over 6 years and each time I eat there - I ask for 'Donia ne' - no coriander (fresh). This is because it tastes like soap to me and I'll have a violent episode at night...

Had a beautiful meal here this evening, restaurant doing well with the social distancing

Normally really like it in here but had to wait 15 minutes for a drink, then brought out the starters with the poppadoms so it went cold then a 40 minute wait for the main which was awful and nothing what it normally tastes like. Very disappointed

My wife and I order a takeaway from Voujon virtually every week, interspersed with the occasional restaurant visit and we have never had cause to fault either the food or service. The menu is extensive and while we have our favourite choices we enjoy trying...

We had a takeaway from here and the food was very nice. We ordered poppadoms and got lots of pots of mint sauce with it but no mango chutney! If you ever go to an Indian restaurant with a group of people, the mango chutney...

Have been using the Voujon for 2 years now and have never had a bad meal. Food is always cooked really well and they serve big portions for what the food costs. The staff always remember a regular customers name and are always so polite...

We have eaten at Voujon every two or three months for several years. The quality of the food is consistently high, presentation is good, and the staff are attentive and helpful. It's nice to have confidence that you're not virtually guaranteed a great time. Prices...

Excellent food, attentive staff.

Horrible food, awful staff LACK OF MANAGEMENT absolute disgrace never going back!! Hair in my food Ants in the popadoms blamed the hot weather Over priced Staff are very strange around girls followed my daughter into the toilet

Food great and reasonably priced. Win win

Never had a bad meal. Very tasty and good price served by friendly staff

Very nice food I went in and had a take away meal it was very busy be prepared to wait for it. But well worth it tho lovely food

Great food, variety and service

Fours stars? Are you mad? Five all day long!! We now have a new local after years of going to Dunmow. Excellent food, lamb keema was awesome, chicken Darjeeling lovely , breads nice , bhaji nice, really good food and nice staff . Looking forward...

Great curry, excellent service and atmosphere.

Excellent food, good service and reasonable prices. We will definately be returning and would recommend Voujon

My partner and I dropped into VouJon o the spur of a moment. The menu was extensive, the food that we chose was very tasty. Service was very friendly and you could press a button on the table to let the waiter know that you...