Cafe Spice Namaste (City)

We have eaten here three times, once when the restaurant opened ten years ago, and twice more recently. The food has been absolutely superb. Dishes are quite unlike those that you would find in a normal high street Indian restaurant. They somehow have a very homemade look and taste about them. Try the £30 per head taster special. It will knock your socks off! Service has again always been just right. I have taken to emailing the restaurant the next day to say how much we enjoyed everything. Mr. Todiwala always replies personally. This is beyond the call of duty considering how busy he must be. Excellent.
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Jane Gilbert
Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

We had the most fantastic meal with 4 friends visiting from Australia yesterday - they asked for the best Indian Restaurant we knew and having been to a party here in the summer we were determined to return - and weren't disappointed!

For £35 a head we had a fantastic mix of amazing food with wine and cocktails to finish. My venison tikka was amazing, and had more complimentary flavours absorbed into the tender meat than I've ever tasted elsewhere, my partner's Beef was similarly outstanding and perfectly rare. This combined with an exemplary front of house and a friendly environment really made for a great evening - can't wait to go back for my birthday when the back garden is open for Shisha!

A guaranteed fantastic evening, I don't understand where the mixed reviews come from!
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Kit
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Friday, January 18, 2008

My husband and I invited our friends for Dinner at Cafe spice. First we had to wait for our table for about 10 mins even though the tables were free. Once we got to the table, there was food thrown around the table next to us. This made my guests and I very uncomfortable. I asked for it to be cleaned as the other guests were leaving, they got upset and abused me for no reason while management was practically invisible. I had such a bad experience that I will never go back.
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Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 4
Monday, December 17, 2007

Overpriced and overrated and the menu reads better than it tastes. This guy is so far up his own back side it is unreal. I really did not enjoy my experience there and I wouldn't recommend this restaurant to anyone. Simple Indian food does not need all the shenanigans which go with this restaurant. Good sales pitch but utterly disappointing food and nothing special at all. Would not take my maid to eat here.
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Indian Connoisseur
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Food 1 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Monday, October 08, 2007

This restaurant is a classic case of overhype. Bland food (I've had better tasting curry in a styrofoam box purchased at the local supermarket), confused decor and what's worse, apalling service. To be fair, their dhansak is actually halfway decent but that's where it ends. None of the other curries have any flavour, virtually tasteless; in fact most of the other dishes I tried, were disappointing, to say the least.

The manager has an ATTITUDE problem and a bit of a chip on his shoulder (Another diner pointed this out below; I totally agree). I complained about the quality of the food only to be subjected to a 10 minute discourse on how I didn't know what I was talking about.

Much ado about nothing is the verdict here; probably never visiting this restaurant again.
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The Gastronomist
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Food 5 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 3
Saturday, September 15, 2007

I recently visited this place.

3 key words to discribe this place:

Excellent = the food was th die for.

Outstanding Service = the staff could not do enough for you.

Price = not cheap or expensive. Cost us £100 for 3 courses for 2, inc drinks.

A DEFINATE MUST.................................................

if you read this Cyrus your food rocks.
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Randeep
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Saturday, May 05, 2007

lulu ...stick to singing with take that and try the brick lane curry establishments
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jonathan henley
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

We eat here on a regular basis and also order takeaway deliveries which are always excellent.

The staff here are attentive and the dishes beautifully prepared and executed.

i have over the years introduced this restaurant to lots of friends/family and business colleagues all of whom have returned to eat there.

For those of you that like to cook curry and spicy food . i would strongly recommend the cookbooks. The pickles and chutneys eaten here can be purchased to take away .. they are excellent and unlike some others taste home made.
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Mr J Henley
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

After reading the reviews of two of you writers, firstly sally which menu did she read certainly not the one Cafe Spice Namaste at 16 prescot street. IF you look through the menu there are numerous amount of choices for vegetarians even vegans and allergies.

Secondly the two yankee bhais look like visited Cafe Spice on a sunday in bricklane and not prescot street as it does not open on a SUNDAY.

We have been so often and i can tell you there is no food like food at cafe spice namaste . the care and attention which is taken by the staff is commendable.

Give the praise where it is due.

They are in their tenth year of operation and i dont think you survive this long without giving good food and service.
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chefie27
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Checking restaurants for an upcoming London visit, we notice the good reviews this place gets. We don't get it. We ate there on our last visit and believe us, it was NOT worth the trek from Lancaster Gate to East London. Its food is quirky and somewhat overpriced, service was slow and we definitely had the feeling of being in a clip joint whose owner is a great salesman for his place but that as an Indian restaurant, it was not much better than LOTS of such places easier to reach. We also had a LOT of attitude from the maitresse d'. Definitely not worth the long Underground journey and expense from Bayswater (and back)! We know good Indian food and this was not in that category. It was just OK. Pleased to find a less expensive and very enjoyable Indian place half a block from our hotel the next day, where we ate twice.
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Two Yankee Bhais
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Food 5 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 3
Sunday, April 23, 2006