Bengal Restaurant

We found the Bengal restaurant on Yelp, wanting good Indian food. The food was excellent!! Beware of the free coffee or tea offer!! They became defiant and argued with us very strongly for a cup of coffee!! It basically ruined the otherwise excellent experience!

I had stumbled across this tiny restaurant on a random walking day 6 or 7 years ago and had tried to find it again every year

Loved this buffet during our visit to Wales. Food tasted great and service was excellent. Will definitely be back!

Bengal Restaurant was an absolute delight. I swear I craved the dinner for days later. The reviews I read were spot on. The food and the owner who was so helpful with our choices. This is a must visit if you like Indian Food.

We have lived in this area for 8 years, and have Indian food in Bengal Restaurant for 7 years. We family are fan of Indian food, tasted all Indian restaurants in this area, Bengal is the best and we just go back and back again The price is beautiful too!!! We love chicken dish, spinach dish and keema rice highly recommend

Great indian dishes for a very fair price! The waiters are very kind and polite. I ordered the Thali plate, which was quite perfect. I would definitely recommend it!

Hier bekommt man gutes indisches Essen für einen fairen Preis. Die Kellner waren sehr nett und höflich. Ich hab mir die Thali Platte bestellt, die wirklich wirklich gut war und ich definitv weiterempfehlen würde. Die Toiletten waren auch sauber, das Ambiente ist recht schlicht. Die Anbindung mit dem Bus war in Ordnung.

Came here based on the strong reviews. Definitely a disappointment. The inside is a fairly typical Indian restaurant. Waiter was friendly.

I ordered the mixed grille because I wanted to try a variety of things. Pretty much all the meats were just ok. Nothing spectacular. I ordered the Indian ice cream for dessert. It was hard and had a strange consistency. Tried to let it melt to see if it became smoother. It didn't.

Based on Yelp's 4.5 stars I was hoping for a better experience. Plenty of Indian restaurants around town. You can do better.

This was probably our favorite Indian restaurant on our trip to London.

That being said..

The tandoori lamb was a little tough/dry as was the white chicken meat. The dark chicken meat tandoori and the ground lamb, as well as the curries, were very good.

While we were there, the waiter engaged in an argument with me about not getting our order of mango lassis right. The wording on the menu was confusing. We ordered 2 mango lassis and below it on the menu it said "salty or "sweet." My husband ordered a salty one and I ordered a sweet one. Our waiter came out with 2 plain lassis. I tried to explain we had ordered the mango lassi but our waiter insisted I hadn't said "mango" and that "salty" and "sweet" applied only to plain lassis, though this is in no way clear on the menu. I was nice about it and tried to squash the argument by saying maybe I hadn't specified mango, even though both me and my husband knew I clearly had, at which point he backed down, but he was very intent on carrying on the argument, insisting it was my fault, and did so for several minutes.

It would have been nice not to have had to deal with an argument over dinner. He eventually did exchanged my plain lassi for a mango one.

Another thing to note, the day after eating here both me and my husband came down with pretty bad sore throats. I looked it up and it may have been because we were sensitive to some of the sour spices this restaurant uses. Everything tasted good and was well seasoned, but it did affect us after. It may have exacerbated whatever infection or virus we were already carrying. In light of this, while we did enjoy the meal, I think we were a little traumatized by our experience here and would think twice about coming back next time we're in London.

Found this via Yelp (obviously!) while feeling peckish in the area. £16.50 for the whole meal of tandoori lamb starter (nice), chicken tikka main course (juicy but somewhat lacking in taste/spices), naan (ok) and a large beer (well lager is a lager...). Not the best Indian I've encountered in London but quite all right nevertheless.

It's a small place, had few others at 6:30pm on Monday. Service was very quick and friendly.

Would I return? Yeah, value for money was good even though it was not a full five star experience as such

Very decent place. Waiter was an older gentleman and he was an excellent server! The food was delicious and the experience was very good. Location was close to the Tube. Delicious!