The best restaurants serving Indian food in St Leonard's Chesterfield East Midlands

When ever we visit Chesterfield we try to pop in for dinner & once again had a lovely meal 😀

Shame the food is good, because the customer service and delivery is absolutely atrocious. Ordered at 17:45 on a Saturday night, probably one of the first orders of the night seeing as it opens at 17:30. Food didn’t arrive until 20:05. 2 hours & 20 minutes wait… bearing in mind I live 9 minutes drive from the restaurant. Had to call 3 times in total to get my order, when it arrived it was lukewarm and it was wrong. I ordered a paneer tikka masala and a few other bits which came to a total of £22 and they gave me a chicken tikka masala, which I couldn’t eat because I’m a vegetarian. When I put the order in, it said it would arrive by 19:15, I left it until 19:20 to call to check where my order was. The guy who answered gave a very half heartedly apology, was sighing heavily on the phone in annoyance even though I was understanding and polite with him. He asked the chefs and it seemed they hadn’t even started my order an hour and a half after I made the order. He said 15-20 minutes wait, I said don’t worry. 45 minutes later… nothing… called again… said 3 minutes away. Didn’t arrive til 10 minutes after that call and the driver had a bad attitude as well as if us waiting over 2 hours for the wrong order and tepid food was an inconvenience. I called again to let them know the order was wrong, he said he didn’t have any drivers and I would have to wait 45 more minutes to get the curry out to me. I said forget it, give me a refund and he cheekily only offered a refund for the curry only. I asked him to process the refund now, and he stalled saying to call back later to get the refund. I said no now and he made the excuse that he has to ask the manager. I told him to get the manager and he said he will be 10/15 minutes. I put the phone down and drove to the restaurant and returned all the food back and demanded a full refund. The restaurant was busy and the guy I had been speaking with whispered under his breath so not to alert other customers that there was an issue. He whispered if he can just get me my correct curry instead of a refund and I said no, take the food and give me a full refund, which they obliged hesitantly in cash. I think they only gave me the refund because I was with my brother, but from the way they were being on the phone and other reviews I have read, I’m convinced they would have tried to avoid giving me the refund if I was on my own. Never ordering from here again or eating in either. Very greedy business. Wants the orders and business but doesn’t have the capacity to fulfil them, so instead of turning orders away, they make customers wait unreasonably long periods, do not keep customers updated, deliver food cold, don’t offer refunds off their own back in hopes you’ll just roll over and just provide all round terrible customer service. Such a shame because the food I’ve had once before was nice, but that previous order I had to wait 1 hour and a half + and they didn’t even know an order came through until I rang them about it! Avoid avoid avoid.

Visited 9n a week day. It was fairly quite. Ordered papadoms, pickle tray, mixed meat curry, naan and mushroom rice. The lamb and chicken in curry was very very dry but prawns were spot on. Gentleman offered to make me a new one but it was kind of late because started to tuck in so said it's ok. Rice was nice and naan was fresh and one of the best I have had. I have asked for takeaway for the leftovers and it wasn't too much to ask. Gentleman made deduction on my bill because of the meat which was nice of him and also you get 10% off if you pay by cash.