Mumbai Square

Was liking around for a decent Indian lunch option in Aldgate and came across this. A colleague gave +ve recommendation so went there for lunch today.
Went in bit early and we were the first ones to enter. We were seated quite quickly. It is a all you can eat lunch buffet for under 10 quid. The starters though are served on the table and no second helpings. I got one small sheek, 2 pieces of Chicken Tikka and 1 Mushroom Pakoda. I didn’t enjoy it that much.
The small glass of Cobra was £3.10 but was cold. The mains were mixed but mostly indistinguishable from each other. My favourite dish was the Chicken Salad, one of the best I had in long time, perfectly seasoned with Chicken Tikka pieces. The curries were below average by the Yellow Dal was OK. They had two kinds of Chicken, an egg curry, lamb and paneer with 2 – 3 different veg dishes and three kinds of rice.
The Nan breads again are not available in the buffet table and are brought I the table and we had to wait ages for ours but when it arrives it was fresh and tasty.
The dessert was a rice mango Firni and a semolina kheer, I liked the kheer more.
Overall, a good deal when it comes to the choices particularly this part of the city however fell short big time when it came to satisfying my palate.
Three stars as it is not a bad deal for £9.99. By the way, they also do take away for around £5, I think it is 2 curries and rice.

Buffet food is of very good quality. Quite often they have one fish or prawn curry which makes a nice change.
I’ve noticed recently the staff are trying harder with customer service which is good.
Sometimes the soft drinks are flat so they should open new bottles more regularly or introduce soft drinks on draught.
I eat lots of Indian food at various establishments and would recommend the buffet if you’re feeling a little greedy ;-)

Even the city needs an Indian takeaway at times and Mumbai Square is the city workers equivalent to a local neighbourhood curry house. Perfect if you’re piking up dinner for your wife after a few too many after work drinks.

This is the recently renamed Café Naz at Corvino, the review of which seems to have disappeared. I started eating their lunch time buffet about 3 years ago when it was a much smalled affair and I was often the only person here. It is now absolutely stupendous and very popular. It is a multifloored barn of a place but only the ground floor is open at lunch times. If there are just a couple of you, just turn up, if you are in a group, by which I mean more than 4 then it’s best to call ahead. Group wise they can fit an almost unlimited number, by which I mean hundreds.
The lunchtime buffet is £10, but by the time you’ve had a lassi or Cobra and the naan which you didn’t request you will have spent £15−20. It is a tremendous buffet which seems to get bigger by the week and they vary a number of the dishes which is nice too. The buffet is excellent for non-​veggies and veggies alike, there are normally about 4 starters and salads, four meat curries, four chicken curries, four vegetarian curries and side dishes and a prawn curry. There are also deserts, which I have seen but never had sufficient capacity for after gorging myself on chicken tikka, pakora, aloo chat, and several trips to the food counters. This is undoubtedly the best buffet in the area (and I include Brick Lane) and as far as a Bangladeshi take on British Indian food goes about as good as it normally gets. Their dhal is thin but perfectly counterpoints their pilau rice.
Arrive between 12pm and 1:30pm, by 2pm most of the food has been waffled and they do a meagre trade so the selection is lower. Don’t bother coming in the evening, it feels cold and a little devoid of atmosphere, you will also have to eat ala carte. This is a lunch place.
This place is where my Indian development team come en masse when it’s time for one to make the long trip back home and that should say all that needs to be said.