Shayona

The food and décor here has come a long way in the 20 years it has been open. I have to admit I have a soft spot for this location since I used to come here with my gran and great-​gran when I was a nipper.
Today we took my lil god-​daughter (new generation!) and we had a lovely lunch here after visiting the temple with her for the first time.
The lunch buffet, with samosas and paneer dishes and interesting salads is extremely good value at £7.99, though the a la carte is also great. Special props for the pea kachori, the paneer chilli sizzler — and surprisingly, the veggie burger was particularly tasty.
Staff were attentive esp considering our little one was on her first ever restaurant visit!

Set on the grounds of the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir (Temple) in Neasen, this is honestly a little piece of delicious heaven. We first ate there after visiting the temple in a throwback to our honeymoon in India, and have gone back a bunch since then. It’s vegetarian, it’s pretty cheap, portions are big and its de-​li-​cous. We have never eaten from the buffet but many people seem to, so it’s definitely popular.
We always eat the Pani Puri as a reminder of Mumbai street food, with a Dosa and/​or Uttupam to follow, which we love especially as they are so ubiquitous in India and difficult enough to get anywhere else — if you haven’t had them, please try! We’ve also had different Paneer and Kofta dishes — basically everything we’ve had has been great. And to top it off, they will pack up any leftovers to take home, so even when our eyes have been bigger than our stomachs we’ve not lost out.
Definitely also try their lassis; we’ve had both the Mango and Salty (yum!!) lassi and they’ve been great.
Attached to the restaurant is a sweet shop (hello, sticky Jalebi and Kaju Khatli!) and an enormous supermarket, which everything indian you could imagine (they even have Medmix soap when anyone who has ever been to india will immediately recognize), and great prices on bulk spices, ghee, veg and paneer.
Oh, how we love this place.

This is a fantastic place to eat, whether you’re vegetarian or not (but fyi, if you fancy an alcoholic drink with your meal, this is not the place for you)
Me and the family came to the Swami Narayan temple, which by the way is a beautiful serene spot but i will have my own review for that later. This restaurant was clean with good service.
My mother in law had the buffet which was a whole smorgasboard of diff types of food for only £12.99. Hubby ordered the paneer masala with rice and i had the aubergine curry with chili naan. All of the dishes were good but the aubergine curry was amazing and different than mos tother dishes I’ve had. There wasnt too much oil and it felt nutritious.
I will absolutely be back when I visit the temple for a reasonably priced delicious meal —for three people with non-​alcoholic drinks it came to £33 — a deal!
Outside the restaurant is a sweets takeaway area, i was finally able to get some of the sweets i crave!!!