Eastern Spice Balti - Sandwell

Have to say that the meal I had here last night was one of the best I've had in a long time! Specialising in Bangladeshi cuisine, the menu is has plenty of choices without being overwhelming. The service was exemplary, I was very impressed, attentive without being intrusive. The dish I chose was delicious, and the waiter offered a recommendation for which rice would accompany that particular dish well, and he was spot on, it was perfect. The whole meal was lovely, and both myself and my manager who dined there were thoroughly impressed, will definitely eat there again.

Went for a meal at this place were there were only 2 other customers in. They took our order and we waited and waited and waited. This I don’t mind if the place is busy but it was dead. This is the second time this has happened and definitely the last time we use there

Excellent great restaurant will come again foods lovely good atmosphere great parking facility great price

A friend has moved fairly close by and this was recommended to him, so had to try it. Sadly the recommendation wasn 't a particularly good one. I have never seen a meal in so much plastic, the content of the plastic boxes is a bit more edible than the boxes, but not that much! Sheek kebabs and tikka chicken tasted very generically similar and a bit like curry powder, served with an ocean of limp wet onions! Edible but not great. Flat onion Bhajis are not what I am used to, but I have come across them before a few times, and to be fair they were passable but not anywhere near the best I have had. Pilau rice was actually good, Naans would have been good if not for being stuffed into foil bags which steams the life out of them and changes the texture completely, I thought this practice died out in the 1970s, with most places using paper bags which breathe now. Curries, a mixed lot Meat Pathia was vividly over coloured red (that 's a new one to me! , and was the sweetest savoury food I have ever had anywhere as sweet as custard, and no lemony sharpness to counter it! I have eaten Pathia dishes all over the country, none were ever this colour nor this sweet. It was rather thin too. Generic Meat (I thought labelling it like that had died out in the 1970s too was tender but not a lot of it. Overall I gave most of it a miss. Balti Chicken well, not much like any Balti I have had, but it was a much better flavour a bit more like a standard chicken curry is the best way to describe it, but a lot more palatable than the candy sweet Pathia Tandoori Mixed grill flavour much as the other tandoori items as starters, the same generic flavour, although the meat quality was decent. Accompaniments and sauces were so over coloured, we didn 't try them, we had overloaded on food colouring already! The tandoori items were pale by comparison. Edible, but it is still well worth driving to Birmingham Balti triangle instead, as far as that is!

We always come here to get our takeaway and we’ve never had any issues. We presume it’s had new owners as the service is just painfully slow now. 45/50 minutes to collect a curry is ridiculous especially when they tell you 25/30 minutes and you go and just sit there for ages waiting!