The best restaurants serving Indian food in Hastings South East

Love the food at Laya. Took my mate who'd never been before for his birthday today and he was blown away. Plenty of options for vegetarians/pescetarians like me as well as meat dishes. Try the aubergine and chickpea curry - incredible smoky, tamarind-y flavour. Also a big fan of the veggie biryani and the masala dosa. Everything is so flavourful. And there's still a lot of things on the menu I want to try, so I'll keep coming back.

Lovely food. Will definitely be back

We ordered a takeaway, extremely bland Makhani, my left nut has more spice. Biriani wasn't much better. Wouldn't buy again.

One of the famous Bangladeshi takeaway it’s always good quality food provided to me I’m sure everyone will enjoy this tasty food

Have been visiting this Indian for quite a few years every time I visit Hastings! We went again last night ( 12/9) and had the 4 course banquet for 19.99 a person. You get popppadams, a starter a main a side and rice or Nan. My absolute favourite dish is their chicken Modhu and I’m soo glad they still serve it, as I never see it anywhere else. It was absolutely sublime and my husband had the chicken tikka Marsala balti which he also loved . We had chicken tikka chat/prawn puri to start and both stunning dishes. Bombay aloo and bhajis and 2 naan breads finished the meal brilliantly: Can’t wait to return again! Please don’t ever take the modhu off the menu!! See you soon !!

Very professional food very taste mon's worked hard to get where he is now well done keep it up

Really good curry. Love how you can customise with extras and spiciness. Mushroom rice is the best I've ever had too. Always hot & fresh.

Food was awesome definitely use again!!

I really wanted to like this place as it would our local Indian restaurant and I like the variety of veggie options, including potato, vegetable or paneer choices available on a wide variety of dishes. Perhaps we visited them on an off day, but the service was so poor that for probably the first time ever in a restaurant we did not tip. We arrived 2 and a half hours before closing but the restaurant was empty with no music or atmosphere. We asked if we could have a table for two and were met with a grunt and the pulling back of a chair. Some music was turned on which thankfully made it seem less empty and quiet. We were given the menu but almost straight away asking if we were ready to order. We weren't offered a poppadom to start and when we asked for this it seemed to be an inconvenience. The glasses the Cobra came out in were poorly washed. Then, as we were eating the poppadoms, the waiter kept peering over the table and literally the very second one person finished he cleared their plate despite the other still eating. This same pattern was repeated for the mains. The last one of us to finish our main was left eating whilst he was reaching over and completely clearing the table around. We just got the impression we were unwanted there and an inconvenience. To make it particularly clear that we were unwelcome the waiter turned the music off whilst we were in the final stages of our meal. It would have been partially redeemed had the food been good, but sadly both dishes were bland, flavourless and lacked spices. We gave them a chance despite being empty and we can now see why no one else had chosen them on a weekend evening. Disappointing.

A fabulous Tandoori restaurant, right on the seafront - great quality food, very polite and timely service, great value. As a visitor to Hastings and St Leonards (and the UK, these days), I was looking for Indian food and stumbled across this gem. Excellent quality Chicken Tilka (it’s clear their tandoor is good and hot - there’s a beautiful crust on the juicy chicken chunks!), excellent lamb curry, and I can only assume their cilantro is locally sourced, because it was super fresh and tasty. Our server was an extremely attentive and pleasant young chap who carefully trod the line between being there when you need him and being there too much with excellent judgment - top marks to that young man, who deserves great credit for his work. The only thing I can say which would improve this place is more customers - they don’t know what they’re missing!

Had chicken biryani and chicken damask. Also had popadoms. I am a curry lover and can honestly say that this is the worst Indian that I have ever had. The popadoms tasted of fish and the chicken in both dishes was tough. I threw the lot away and wasted £21.

Terrific food. Loved the king prawn vindaloo very tasty and the aubergine dish too

Saw a post on a Facebook page and decided to give the place a try, glad we did, all 4 of us were really impressed with the food, would definitely recommend it and we'll definitely be going back