The best restaurants serving Indian food in East of England

You can walk into The Spice Lounge & be seated quickly, or you can book in advance, or order a delivery. I felt completely safe eating in, as the restaurant currently has seating spaced to adhere to Covid restrictions. The food & service is amazing, even though they are curently running a mid-week deal, meaning you save a lot of money off the bill. When I ordered a delivery I was pleasantly surprised, as normally deliveries from any restaurant is never as good a quality as dining in, but the quality of the deliveries from The Spice Lounge found the food to be equal quality as dining in, which is very unusual for most deliveries The service for deliveries is also as good as it is when you eat in & I was surprised to find that the owner delivered our food, I know the customer should always be right, but these days that doesn't seem to exist, but this place will mix up the menu if required, they have a huge selection for meat eater & vegans, they cater for allergies & although they do not have soya milk they have no objection to you taking your own with you. On Sundays they do an amazing buffet, again very reasonably priced. The staff & owner do their best to make you feel comfortable & were really good with my autistic son. I cannot fault his restaurant, the food, or the service, as nothing is any trouble for them & it's done with a smile

Ordered food tonight no delivery and they won’t answer phone have taken my money. I even drove there but you cannot access shop as in an arcade. I noticed there is another review tonight with exactly the same complaint

Amazing food. Great service from Lucas, Monz and Ehsan! Peshwari naan was incredible! Will deffo be back! Thanks guysss!

Absolutely delicious and authentic, great portions and lovely presentation. Warm welcome and all freshly made. Easy to use website for ordering, parking on site for collection.

Definitely the best Indian in Harlow!! As always absolutely delicious food, arrived hot as if it had been cooked in my kitchen! Thank you again for a wonderful birthday meal

Fabulous Indian restaurant. The food was excellent, the portions were very generous and the service was brilliant. Great atmosphere, thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely be back!

Had dinner here with friends on a Saturday night. Booking on line didn’t work so booked face to face in the restaurant in advance. The food was excellent, fresh and tasty. Service was friendly and genuine. The food is cooked within a couple of feet of the seating area. Loved the authenticity. Guessing that this is family owned and run. Good value as well. We will be back.

We’ve had food from here before and it’s been delicious. Unfortunately this time round the delivery was 45 mins late, our cheese nans had no cheese in. My husbands curry was nice, my curry was extremely spicy even though I had discussed with them to make it much less spicy. The popadoms only came with 1 dip.

First time at this since it came under new ownership and the food overall was very good, plenty of choice including the traditional curries ,rice and Naan..etc but I would recommend the South Indian specialties including the Dosa's, well worth a try. Nice casual family vibe and quite popular

I have only had a couple of takeaways, but when I collect the restaurant always have a very nice atmosphere and the staff are friendly. From a food perspective for me the portions are not very generous, and there is not as much meat in the portion as other local Indian restaurants. So if they sorted that I would maybe buy from there more.

Having just moved to Shotley we tried this amazing Fish & Chip / Indian Takeaway for the first time after our long journey up from Somerset. We rang to place our Order and was told it would take 30 minutes as everything is cooked fresh. When we arrived we were greeted by the owner who was very friendly. He clearly loves what he does and has a fantastic business. The Indian food we received was absolutely amazing. The flavours were some of the best we have ever had and the chicken in our different dishes was the most tender and succulent we have ever eaten. We can’t wait to try some more dishes as well as the Fish & Chips. A highly recommended place to get authentic Indian cuisine.

Lovely restaurant, friendly staff that take care of you but aren't pushy. Good quality food with lots of choices. Chicken madras is a favourite

Went and bought snacks and sweets for Diwali. Everything was fresh and tasty and the service was outstanding. Would come again.