Will comments:

The Spice Lounge, where I'm likely to be found on a Wednesday evening. 

‘Every Wednesday night is banquet night’, oh yes.  I know the staff by name, the menu by heart.   In this I am surely not alone. Almost every evening, even on moribund Mondays one finds the restaurant well populated.  Football teams bonding, families reunited, couples romancing, lone curry clubbers waiting at the bar for their take away fix.   As the leaves melt from trees and autumns fire is stifled by Jack Frost, the PLACE is a refuge, a cosy little den, warmly lit, reminiscent of an old coach house. The sound of satisfied chatter combines with the scent of eastern spice and a pervading sense of well being.

Being well acquainted I can vouch the SERVICE to be efficient and attentive not fussy. Firuz (dignity personified), Iqbal, Alom, Sol (my careers advisor) and Aktar (a real charmer) are busy busy not hasty.

Wednesday dinner costs £10, starter, main, rice, side dish and ice cream; at other times à la carte PRICES are modest.  The menu makes exhaustive reading, true, but if one chooses wisely then returns are better than average.  Here are my FOOD recommendations; To start with either Potato Chat on a puri, the Shabji Pepper stuffed with tandoori veg, or the Tandoori Chicken.

To follow: Concerning the 14 Chef Specials, Achari with a zingy lime/mango sauce, Chicken Chilli Massala or Sali Boti.  A thick garlicky, Tarka Dhal complements all three.  Of the traditional fare Prawn Patia, excellent with a Chana Sag side dish or a fairly hot Chicken Dhansak.

In SUMMARY, trust in me! A friend from the hinterland, Four Marks, enjoyed the Achari so he said he'd return and lo, he has since been back, the place doesn't lack, so go to the Spice Lounge, go!