Taj Tandoori

Really enjoy the food from here, personally I’m a one trick pony when it comes to an eatery, if I like it, I don’t usually change and the Lamb Biryani from here is lovely.
Lots of Large tasty tender lamb chunks in spiced and herbed rice. Coming in medium or hot spice, and all of it busting out of a long tray.
But I have sampled quite a few of the other curries from the menu which were all quite nice (I’m not a huge curry person) and the naan are lovely too.
Staff are very nice and I usually end up chatting for a bit when I pick up the takeout.

Bland. Boring. Expensive. Bland. Small portions.
I decided I wanted to try a different curry place, rather than just stay with what I know is good. What an absolute mistake that was.
Compared to the Indian establishment down the way, this menu is a couple Euro more. I decided to try it yesterday. Maybe, I wrongly though, it was more because it was better ingredients, larger portion, more talented chef… something.
Nope. It’s more because fools like me get suckered in and pay it!
I ordered naan bread and a lamb vindaloo, of which I asked for the vindaloo to be extra extra hot. This came to 15 Euro.
Fine. Then I’m informed that the vindaloo doesn’t even come with rice. What the hell? The naan was a side item to begin with, but I figured the Vindaloo came with something… especially at 11.25 a dish! No. Rice is 2 Euro more.
The portions were terribly small. Half the size of Mussoorie’s. It was in your standard takeaway tin, but a half-​sized square. That’s it. The size of a small chip from a chipper.
Worse yet, it didn’t even taste good. This was the most bland vindaloo I’ve ever had. It had no spice, no burn, no flavour. It was bland. Like eating flavourless paste. To compliment the yuck, the rice was mushy and obviously over-​cooked.
I guess the only ‘positive’ was the naan bread. Which, while being equally pathetic in portion, at least it wasn’t over-​cooked and burnt.
Terrible waste of money.