Lal Baag

"Local restaurant, I visited last week with with boyfriend. Pretty tasty food. Ordered chicken pallak, butter chicken, pulao rice, peshwari naan, lamb samosa. Good large portion. The naan was delicious! Overall food was good. Atmosphere was average, small place good for locals with no frills but honest food."

"Dreadful. Both chicken dishes were basically chicken tikka pieces one was covered in a tasteless masala. The other dish ordered was chicken shaslik which was chicken tikka pieces. Sent it back & they delivered again the exact same dish. If you know south Asian food avoid because you will be severely & financially disappointed. Have thrown it all in the bin because it was so tasteless & we didn’t even order chicken tikka but managed to get loads of it & it was very dry. I would talk about the vegetables dishes but all the dishes were awful absolutely tasteless. 6-8 months ago it was goodish food but either they’ve changed the chef or they have lost their passion either way avoid."

"The most blent indin food I have eaten. Trust me I know Indian food. I am Indian. Ordered from just eat 2 bryani and called the store to make it spicy. They stated ok. But when it came in. Tasted like boiled whote rice with no flavour. Really disappointed for the taste."

"I been living in west Norwood all my life. I’m a chef by profession so people who read this I give honest opinions as I love to eat out trying different food and cuisines and I have my go to places aswell. So let’s talk about lal baag. First of all it’s not a traditional Indian resturant. It’s Bangladeshi style food not india. I tend not to eat at local curry houses and ones that say Indian / Bangladeshi cuisines but there have been some which I have and the food is well good. Lal baag being my local never tried it and had nothing at home so decide to pop down and have a mix grill. Ended up ordering a mix grill and a couple of curries with my brother. Empty resturant at 9pm on a Thursday and we ordered food which took over 50mins to come. Asked for the mix grill first and then curries after and sent everything at once. Didn’t even have a lot of u we or Deliveroo orders either. Had the ask the guy how long is the starter going to take only then he went In the kitchen to find out. No reply!!!!! The food well sorry was not good. The mix grill for the price not worth it and the meat was all dry and seemed like it was pre cooked reheated and put on the sizzler plater. Chicken tikka no taste lamb tikka tough to eat. Lamb kabab very dry. Picture of sizzler to follow. Price £15 The curries well I love the taste of naga chilies in a curry this was way too over powering and spicy to where my ears were ringing. Chicken tikka pieces in there very tough as reheated in the sauce so already pre cooked chicken being used. Chicken tikka masala well every place has different versions of this British made fav dish. Food colour used here to the max bright red and very very sweet. No no no. Order garlic naan and I could not even see or taste garlic. It seem as if they used garlic powder and not fresh garlic. Didn’t try veg dishes but I’m guessing that prob would have been a good choice and veg will be cooked fresh. Overall if there where options of having no start rating then this would be there but everyone needs a star to look at on reviews. But the food was not great, took over 45 mins for the food to come on a empty place. Not worth the price for the quantity charged for and defo not listening to the customer about what they would like to have first. Starters or just send them everything at once."

"Lovely restaurant with plenty of choice of tasty looking and tasting food - we chose to have side dishes and share - in order to try more options. We had the place to ourselves as we were so early."