It's time to delve once more into the underwhelming world of takeaway curry. Would tonight be the night I finally came up trumps? Would Rahman's Balti House turn out to be the elusive hidden gem? Would the 35 of 36 people who reviewed it enthusiastically on Just Eat be proven correct?
No, no and no. I didn't really come up trumps, it wasn't a hidden gem, and sorry to sound like a snob and a know-it-all but all 35 of you are wrong. It was ok, but I could have guessed everything that would be wrong with it before I started.
A mixed starter of seekh kebab, chicken tikka and onion bhaji. The fault list:
Greasy bhaji - check
Red food colouring on the chicken - check (although not an obscene quantity of it to be fair)
Plastic bag containing sweaty iceberg lettuce and a mealy wedge of tomato - check
overcooked lamb - check
watery mint yoghurt sauce - check
On the plus side every component did actually taste ok, it was all quite nicely spiced and the chicken was moist and not at all overcooked.
A fish masala, a tandoori roti and a chapatti. Again, the predictable faults:
Far too much ghee in the curry - check
doughy bread, either not rolled thin enough or not cooked at a high enough temperature - check
It wasn't all bad, the sauce did have a pleasing warmth and a good garlicky tang. The flavour of the fish wasn't overwhelmed but it wasn't particularly good quality, soft and a bit mushy rather than firm and flakey. The roti was pretty crap, the chapatti better.
Just short of £12 all in. Delivered quickly. Ho hum.
5/10
Rahman's Balti House
213 Canal Lane
Stanley
Wakefield
http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-rahmansbaltihouse
No, no and no. I didn't really come up trumps, it wasn't a hidden gem, and sorry to sound like a snob and a know-it-all but all 35 of you are wrong. It was ok, but I could have guessed everything that would be wrong with it before I started.
A mixed starter of seekh kebab, chicken tikka and onion bhaji. The fault list:
Greasy bhaji - check
Red food colouring on the chicken - check (although not an obscene quantity of it to be fair)
Plastic bag containing sweaty iceberg lettuce and a mealy wedge of tomato - check
overcooked lamb - check
watery mint yoghurt sauce - check
On the plus side every component did actually taste ok, it was all quite nicely spiced and the chicken was moist and not at all overcooked.
A fish masala, a tandoori roti and a chapatti. Again, the predictable faults:
Far too much ghee in the curry - check
doughy bread, either not rolled thin enough or not cooked at a high enough temperature - check
It wasn't all bad, the sauce did have a pleasing warmth and a good garlicky tang. The flavour of the fish wasn't overwhelmed but it wasn't particularly good quality, soft and a bit mushy rather than firm and flakey. The roti was pretty crap, the chapatti better.
Just short of £12 all in. Delivered quickly. Ho hum.
5/10
Rahman's Balti House
213 Canal Lane
Stanley
Wakefield
http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-rahmansbaltihouse
