The best restaurants serving Indian food in West Somerset South West

Decided to book a table after enjoying a takeaway from here. We were so disappointed in the level of service. When we walked in, a waiter was seating a table of 4, he took their coats, made a fuss of them, the usual stuff. A different waiter dealt with us. When I said I had a booking for a table of 2, he mumbled something I thought I hadn’t quite heard properly. But I had heard perfectly well. When I said “Pardon?”, he waved his hand in the direction of the toilet & said “In the corner.” No friendly smile, no offer to take our coats, no taking us to our seat, basically no service whatsoever. When the poppadoms arrived, they checked on us a ridiculous amount of times to see if we were ready for mains, to the point it made my daughter feel very uncomfortable, like she had to hurry up. Once the mains arrived it was back to ignoring us so although we wanted to order more cocktails, trying to catch the attention of a waiter was impossible so we only had the one. It wasn’t the greatest so no loss there. The food was delicious, the sag aloo was a little bland but the rest of the food, I can’t fault. It really is as good as people say. When we left, nobody said goodbye or thank you for coming etc, I have honestly never felt as unwelcome in a restaurant as I have in the Spice Merchant. Awesome food, terrible service ruined our evening so won’t be going back I’m afraid.

We were in the local area found this place on google, upon entering warm greeting. Asked about takeaway told yes had some chairs at side. Restaurant full really busy, food coming out looked lush. We ordered a nice size order, food did not take long to come out at all good points. Onion baj were lush some of the best. Poppadom for 75p each you think get more than one mint dip, when ordering five think it was, normally we would see a few dips different ones. The chicken in the dishes were lush. The lamb dish I had was nice. The korma was a no go, very pale in colour strange had a flavour then masked by very bland watery flavour. The naan very damp, we had three different ones. I liked mine the other two said about not great but might have been because In plastic bags. Some nice points and some lacking in area but how busy they were just put to that. Might try again.

Great food and arguably best Indian in Minehead & Alcombe

We have eaten here twice now and each time the quality of the food and service have been excellent. I would highly recommend the chefs specials as each is both good flavour and quality.