Motijheel Restaurant

This is where I go for Indian in London! Great food; very reasonable prices.
As a patron of Indian restaurants all over the world, I would recommend Motijheel. I have eaten here many times in the past two years – three times the last visit with another traveler –and have only had delicious and well prepared meals. I tend not to order appetizers, preferring to add another entrée selection (still staying on budget). The tandoori is very good. I have had chicken, lamb, and vegetable versions of several kormas, curries, and masalas. I order saag with every meal, and have only good things to say about it! It is not overloaded with cream and tastes rich with fresh spinach. It is hard to pick a favorite dish. The naan and roti are nice.
Service is always polite and professional. I notice when it is busy that service level diminishes, but that can happen when a restaurant is slammed.
The environment is pleasant and clean. It can be a very quiet place, but can be filled with a single loud table’s noise.
I am not sure about other reviewers comments since their comments predate my two year experience with Motijheel or are about items I do not order.

Went here a little while ago. Our waiter was a bit surly but the food was very good and the price was right. I’m surprized at some of the poor reviews.

I’m somewhere between 3 and 4 stars on Motijheel. I’ve found them very reliable on multiple visits over the years. Unpretentious, straightforward, all the classic dishes you expect, prepared competently at reasonable prices. Agreed that their samosas may be frozen… but isn’t that true of half of London’s Indian restaurants?

Cramped and dirty. Worst curry, Cooked frozen spinach sage. Maybe I’m spoiled by being surrounded by great Indian restaurants but this meal was weak and our table was dirty even though they were nearly empty.

Well, I’ll take exception! I have eaten in this place for decades and always enjoy it. It’s changed hands a few times (I think) but the food is always just right. I have only had one bad meal here and that was because a group of yahoo Texans were complaining all the time about not enough ice in their water. I tried to pretend I was Canadian.
The servicer is good and the place is a constant — never a bad dish.
I like this place.

I went here last night after seeing NOBODY in the vegetarian Indian down the street. My friend and I ordered a variety of vegetarian dishes to share. The bhajis were ok, nothing special, and the okra bhaji was pleasantly sweet but not quite crispy enough. The aloo gobi — my acid test of a good Indian place — looked and tasted exactly like a bhaji, with some lightly curried potatoes. Not what I wanted.
I also had a veg curry, which was spicy but not flavorful and I stopped eating it; my friend had a lentil dish with similar reactions.
I’d go here because it was cheap, but the food is really not the best.

This place was recommended by my hotel. It’s on a street with many busy restaurants filled with youngish hipsters. In contrast, this restaurant was half empty, with a family of unhappy tourists and two men in the their fifties eating alone. As my wife and I are in our 30s and far from hipsters, we weren’t unhappy with the clientele. The staff were very pleasant and welcoming, but unfortunately the food was vile. Bland, tasteless «curry» that was poorly prepared, gross icky-​tasting curry, samosas out of the freezer and «chutney» that was out of a jar and tasted like ketchup. It was so bad we could barely eat it. The naan was at least fresh, but was bland, lacked salt and couldn’t save the meal. It was the worst Indian food I’ve ever had, by far. It was actually the worst food I ate during my entire two weeks in England – a trip filled with bad and mediocre food including moldy soured cream and two day old porridge. Still, those foods were better than what I tried to consume at Motihjeel. I’m not that picky, but cannot think of enough adjectives to describe how bad the food was. It really ruined our night.