Spice Of Raj - Merton

I'm not sure why this restaurant's ratings have decreased so much. The butter chicken here is the best I've ever had, and everything else on the menu is delicious as well. I haven't found any other Indian restaurant that can compare.

This is the traditional Indian restaurant you often find in the UK selling all the traditional Indian dishes that you expect to find on the menu? Chicken tikka, onion bahaji, madras, korma, popadom and biarani. It not one of the new tapa style Indian restaurants that seem to be popping up everywhere, nor is it contemporary, it is just the normal back street Indian restaurant and the food was really good, the prices were reasonable as well.

Worst Indian we’ve eaten in a long time. The King Prawn Puri was so oily it was inedible as was the cauliflower sag bhaji, the basin bread was actually burnt and the chicken lamb tikka masalas sauce was thin and lacked any flavour. An absolute waste of money. I’m not quite sure who posted the other reviews but it must have been friends of the owners.

We have eaten in at Spice of Raj and ordered many takeaways from there and the food has always been very tasty and good value for money. The staff are great too. The restaurant itself is small and cosy (to be expected in London from experience) but is a bit dated and could do with a freshen up.

The chicken shashlik, onion bhajia, chicken jalfrazi, veg thansak, veg vindaloo, garlic chilies chicken, and chicken sag are all delicious and definitely worth trying. This Indian takeaway on Montana Road is the best!