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Gulshan (Indian)
Address:
20-24 Station Hill
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 1NF
Tel: 0118 958 9914
Rating:
(Review date: September 2009) your comments (0)
There's one word that best describes the Gulshan Indian restaurant and that's tired.
The exterior, the decor inside, the food and even the staff (aside from the ebullient and welcoming manager/owner) seem lacklustre and uncared for.
Set in a graffiti covered little walkway near Reading station, the Gulshan attracts a mixed group of mainly older people during the week and a healthy contingent of the booze crowd at weekends.
We started with poppadums and pickle tray. The poppadums were okay but the pickle tray was rather meagre and insipid looking. The onion salad was rather disconcertingly swimming in a thin brown liquid.
Our starters where the Gulshan special kebab and chicken tikka pakora. The 'kebab' consisted of chunks of chewy meat in a sauce which tasted of little else but vinegar. The chicken was simply battered and deep fried.
For mains we chose a chicken bhuna and a king prawn balti. Both dishes came out looking rather sad and sludgy.
The prawns had been so overcooked that they had become little balls of flavourless rubber, while the bhuna was simply nondescript. The accompaniments of garlic naan and pilau rice were pretty standard.
Our food was washed down with a bottle of house white - a simple crowd pleasing affair which was fine for a curry.
Service was a little on the slow side despite the place being nearly empty on the night that we visited.
To summarise, at £49.50 (which included two extra glasses of wine) The Gulshan is relatively cheap and probably would have tasted better had we been drunk.
But there are far better and more satisfying Indian restaurants in the area (such as Bina Tandoori in nearby Caversham) to spend your money on.
As we've said, the manager is the best part of this restaurant and is quick to have a joke with customers while accommodating their whims.
But aside from that, there is nothing about this place that would encourage you to ever go back.
Visit: www.gulshan-restaurant.com
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Address:
20-24 Station Hill
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 1NF
Tel: 0118 958 9914
Rating:
(Review date: September 2009) your comments (0)
There's one word that best describes the Gulshan Indian restaurant and that's tired.
The exterior, the decor inside, the food and even the staff (aside from the ebullient and welcoming manager/owner) seem lacklustre and uncared for.
Set in a graffiti covered little walkway near Reading station, the Gulshan attracts a mixed group of mainly older people during the week and a healthy contingent of the booze crowd at weekends.
We started with poppadums and pickle tray. The poppadums were okay but the pickle tray was rather meagre and insipid looking. The onion salad was rather disconcertingly swimming in a thin brown liquid.
Our starters where the Gulshan special kebab and chicken tikka pakora. The 'kebab' consisted of chunks of chewy meat in a sauce which tasted of little else but vinegar. The chicken was simply battered and deep fried.
For mains we chose a chicken bhuna and a king prawn balti. Both dishes came out looking rather sad and sludgy.
The prawns had been so overcooked that they had become little balls of flavourless rubber, while the bhuna was simply nondescript. The accompaniments of garlic naan and pilau rice were pretty standard.
Our food was washed down with a bottle of house white - a simple crowd pleasing affair which was fine for a curry.
Service was a little on the slow side despite the place being nearly empty on the night that we visited.
To summarise, at £49.50 (which included two extra glasses of wine) The Gulshan is relatively cheap and probably would have tasted better had we been drunk.
But there are far better and more satisfying Indian restaurants in the area (such as Bina Tandoori in nearby Caversham) to spend your money on.
As we've said, the manager is the best part of this restaurant and is quick to have a joke with customers while accommodating their whims.
But aside from that, there is nothing about this place that would encourage you to ever go back.
Visit: www.gulshan-restaurant.com
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