Aniseed - London

I spotted this place on my way back from the Canary Wharf Tube station to my hotel nearby. I was looking forward to a classical Indian meal and this seemed to be the right place. On walking in I was dismayed to find that, at towards the back of the restaurant there was a loud group of foul mouthed, middle aged men finishing off their meal. Thank goodness that they were close to leaving so that I only had to put up with their loud, uncouth foul language for 10 minutes or so. After they had left I could focus on my meal in what was a practically deserted restaurant. I ordered a large, chilled Cobra beer, papadums and pickles, onion bhajis, spicy chicken Vindaloo and pilau rice. All good. The service was great. Friendly, polite and at least one of the guys was ready to joke with me about their music which was anything other than atmospheric Indian. But at least he found one tune which enhanced the atmosphere of such an establishment.

NEVER AGAIN BE CAREFUL OF THIS SCUMMY RESTAURANT The place was was so quite and the owner was saving his electric or gas without putting the heating system !!! We orderd some lamb dishes Yuuuk salty and slimy god knows when they precooked the lamb and chicken was okay apart from watery and lack of spices anyway somehow we managed to just take few bites and kill the hungriness and we had to buy a pizza on the way to home When it comes to the bill they added another £17.50 to bill without anything written on the menu or telling us about this scum when question we don’t want to pay that after spending a lot of money on some precooked meals e.g lamb salty and slimy the owner responded you have to pay that’s part of the bill how is it part of the bill when we didn’t even eat anything that was £17.50 you don’t even have anything on the menu that your selling for £17.50 then he got angry and said we always add a amount according to the bill and everyone pays. I was shocked and like mate why don’t just say yes it’s a sly way of scumming money out of customers for service charge without anything written on the menu or even on your personal sly scummy system of yours NEVER AGAIN BE CAREFUL OF THIS SCUMMY RESTAURANT

This is an very nice authentic Indian restaurant. Fair price and excellent quality. A clear recommendation if you are around.

Nice food, nothing to say other than the meal was good; the food came quickly and Neal was enjoyed. Why the poor review …? Personally I find it completely unacceptable when a restaurant adds 10% to a bill, especially when there is nothing written anywhere on their menu to tell customers that this is ‘the policy’ Be aware if you choose to eat here that you’ll have a surcharge added. At the very least it should be clear to visitors that there will be 10% added. To just add it however is totally wrong.

Lovely hot and tasty good food, service was very attentive. Staff had good banter with us, We will visit again when we are in town.