The best restaurants serving Indian food in Ampthill Central Bedfordshire East of England

10 of us visited on the 2nd November for our daughters 30th Birthday. The first red flag was their insistence on a cash deposit of £100 which they said would be forfeit if anyone didn’t turn up. We arrived at 7 but found the service was incredibly slow. Requests for drinks were ignored, waiters took drinks orders for just half the group and were not at all attentive. It took an hour and a half from ordering mains for the food to arrive. Thanks goodness we didn’t order starters! To be fair the food was excellent, when it finally arrived, but the wait was unacceptable. The waiters were often missing, we were in the part of the restaurant with larger groups, there were four tables of around 10 per table, but there were often no waiters to be seen. When we did see waiters they often ignored us, ignored requests and were generally unhelpful. Considering the very long wait for food this was appalling. I notice a number of other reviews have commented on service being slow. We were given just £15 off our bill for the very long wait for food, less than the cost of one main. The service was so dreadful that we will not come back again despite the great food.

hidden gem of North London for indian food. I love the madras with chili garlic naan. they blast nothing but Phil Collins which is how you know the vibe is lit.

So disappointed.. after using this restaurant for over 25 yrs .. eat in And take out .. I am sad to say we won’t be using again. Has it changed hands? We had a delivery tonight .. it was 15 mins later than the maximum stated time despite the fact that we are a 5 min walk away. We had tandoori mixed grill and tandoori king prawn. The portions weren’t great not like they used to be. The salad between 2 dishes was a couple of slices of ice berg lettuce- no cucumber or tomato and 1 tiny piece of onion. The garlic naan as insipid… dry and might as well have been plain . With 3 other Indians in Ampthill why would I choose this one again . I’m sad as it was always the best .

Save yourself the bother and go to Tesco. We ordered a delivery and the quality was very poor. The pilau rice was salty and oily, no flavour. The lamb rogan had barely any meat in and lacked flavour. The madras my partner had reminded us of a tomato pasta sauce. Honestly prefer the Tesco Indian deal. Next time we stay at Center Parcs we'll look into collecting from local takeaways.