The best restaurants serving Asian food in Bickenhill Solihull West Midlands

Really disappointed to be leaving this review. We have been regulars here for the past year or two and have brought family here several times with high recommendation. Unfortunately Simla is no longer the dining experience it used to be. The main things that drew us to this place prior to tasting the amazing food was the use of dry ice on the tables. It made it feel like more of a dining experience, rather than just going to the local for a curry. It made Simla stand out from the many other Indian restaurants that are local. Secondly was your amazing cocktails, something we looked forward to as much as the food. Sadly the dry ice hasn’t been used on any of our visits for a few months now and the atmosphere just isn’t the same as it was. Not only that, but on our visit this Saturday (8th Feb) we were told that alcohol is no longer being served. Yes you can bring your own bottle, but that just isn’t the same. (They then charged £3.25 per small glass of coke) The food is usually amazing, however this weekend was that was not the case. One of our group members had a chicken Balti and couldn’t eat it because it tasted and smelt of pure garlic.. not how a Balti should be, but was too uncomfortable to say anything. There was so little sauce in the chicken Korai (despite it costing £9.95) that once mixed with rice it was dry, bland and hard to eat. We also asked for 2x chicken nuggets and chips for our 4 and 1 year olds. They brought out adult sized portions for each of them which came to a total of £17.90!!! For them to eat one nugget each! Oh and it gets worse. Rather than us adding up our meals at the table to split the cost between the family, we paid in full and took a photo of the receipt to work out at home. LESSON LEARNED! They’d charged £9.95 for 1 chicken tikka fried rice AND had the audacity to add on a £10.60 tip for themselves! Which we hadn’t realised until we got home. Absolutely disgusting!

Superb food and service. They were really friendly and the food was excellent and came really quickly. Absolutely somewhere I would go for lunch again.