The best restaurants serving Indian food in Basingstoke and Deane South East

First time dining here and the food was delicious. Dahl was nice but a little bland and could of been more spicy. Thought the poppadoms were a little pricey and the rice portions were quite small. Chicken and lamb dish was tasty. Trio of desserts was scrumptious and my favourite was the tiramisu. Would return and recommend this restaurant.

Back again, cannot fault this place, fabulous tasty food, great service! We all had the lamb curry today and it was delicious! 👍👍

Good south Indian food & great atmosphere

Beautiful food and great staff. Had a wondeful evening celebrating our anniversary. Definitely will be back to visit again.

A fabulous meal, service by Sid was warm, effficient and friendly. Nothing was too much trouble. All food freshly cooked, tasty and very enjoyable. Definitely worth a visit. We will be back if ever in the area. Thank you.

Superb food - fresh, vibrant and very very good. In my local village pub - this is an oasis of culinary delight in a sea of pub chaos!

Came with family for a belated birthday meal, had a lovely meal, everyone enjoyed their food even my fussy teen! The chicken tikka biryani was delicious, deffo recommend! Lovely service and the waiters were incredible, attentive and helpful and friendly. Would visit again!

Normally I would order for delivery. This time I popped up and placed an order, went back 30 minutes later after walking my dog and collected. I can’t lie, it was fantastic as per usual. It was so hot and succulent, the meat just melted off the bone. It’s always excellent. Also very reasonable priced, £36 for 2. Staff are friendly and so polite. Never had a bad take out. Highly recommended 👍🏻

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Came for dinner as heard good reviews . We certainly weren’t disappointed as the food was amazing and the service was amazing.too.

Always use The Spice for our Indian takeaway

A small restaurant with limited access but well worth the effort. This restaurant has survived for decades where it is for a reason.

I called the restaurant before ordering to confirm that I will get 1 mint source per chicken chat meal. The man on the phone confirmed that I will receive exactly that. When the food arrived there was only one small tub of mint source in the bag despite me ordering 2 chicken chats with puree. I called the restaurant about this matter and he said again that you get 1 per meal. When I said yes I ordered 2 meals with 2 starters been chicken chat, he said no 1 per bag. So I responded with , if I order 10 chicken chats I would still only receive one tiny tub. He said yes that’s right. So I told him I was leaving bad review due to it not been good enough. He furthermore said that’s fine and hung up the phone In addition to this the food is usually spot on. I would even go as far to say the best in Basingstoke. However tonight, the food was disappointing. First of all it was cold. And the chicken seemed like it had been cooked and just thrown in the source, not marinated or cooked in the source. The only part of the meal I enjoyed was the naan bread truthfully. I will not order from here again, simply because the customer service is atrocious, but also because it is not a cheap Indian restaurant and the food was not at all nice.

What has happened between the glowing reviews in December and our visit on 26th February? We received neither the excellent service or food mentioned. The food was average, the service was brusque and surly. It was quite clear the staff wanted to close the restaurant and go home (we arrived at 8.20pm), which was emphasised when they started bringing bags of rubbish through the restaurant as we, and the other occupied table were still eating. The prices on the restaurant menu were different to the online prices, but we didn’t mention it since we hoped to have a good meal. Once seated we were given paper serviettes, which the owner apologised for and said they’d run out of cloth napkins (at 8.20pm on a Wednesday?), we said it wasn’t an issue. We ordered two plain and two spicy poppadoms, the owner returned and said they had no spicy poppadoms, so we ordered four plain. Since it was a rare occasion when we weren’t driving we ordered the litre of Italian red wine offered on the menu, apparently that wasn’t available either. The bottle of wine that we were served was not the one we ordered, and still we didn’t show our frustration as we continued to hope for a good meal. When the food came the chicken biryani was ok, the chicken balti however bore no resemblance to any balti we’ve ever had. It was bright red, contained red peppers and lacked fresh coriander. It was spicy and tasty but was not a balti. When we finished our meal half the biryani was left and a lot of sauce from the ‘balti’ so we asked for it all to be boxed up to take home. Since several takeaways had been collected during our meal we didn’t think it would be an issue, but although the waiter took the two parts of the biryani to box up, he made it clear it was a nuisance. He came to clear the rest of the table and I asked for the balti sauce to take as well, that really upset him, as he walked away we heard him say “oh my god”. When the food was brought back to us there was only one container, they had poured the balti sauce all over the biryani, spoiling both curries! It hadn’t occurred to me that I would have to point out that I’d like it boxed up separately, presumably they don’t put balti in the same box as biryani for takeaway customers. It almost felt like it had been done through spite - and yet, despite all the frustrations, we’d been more than pleasant throughout the meal.

There was quite a large group of us on a very busy night, with a couple of other large groups as well as couples and foursomes, which might explain why the service wasn’t quite on point, but I had the best curry I’ve ever eaten and everyone in our party said how good the food was. Tasty and fresh and the special requests (and there were a few) were met without problem.