Laxmi - Kirklees

I love food and ambience, as Hindu I did not like to use Ganesha picture on tissue paper please remove it. Its my humble request to you.

There is a lot of potential in this restaurant, but there are a few issues. The Sri Lankan fish curry sauce is amazing, but it is spoiled by the fact that the fish is battered. The chapati bread is also very greasy.

Although Laxmi is usually a good place to experience something more unusual, my meal was very disappointing this time. I ordered lamb biryani which on the menu said lamb, vegetables, rice and a curry sauce. The veg turned out to be frozen sweetcorn and peas, almost as much as there was rice. I don’t like sweetcorn and wasn’t expecting to find it in the dish, definitely not in the vast amount there was. Way too much to be picked out. To be fair, they recooked it but just replaced the sweetcorn with extra peas. They definitely do other dishes well, but this one is not one of them. Take it off the menu if it can’t be done well.

We tried to order a chicken madras and a lamb masala. The waiter pushed us to order chicken Desi and Lamb Desi (did they have loads to shift? we accepted chicken Desi madras hot but I said we liked one spicy chicken curry and one creamy lamb curry so I stuck with lamb masala. My lamb one was spicy and had never seen cream. Just was so similar to chicken one and not what I asked for and neither were nice. The naan breads are weird. It’s like they’ve been soaked in oil. They’re not like bread. They’re like oily rags. Won’t return. Spent £60 and photo is what we left. Huge waste of money.

We went for teatime sitting, 5.30pm. I thought we’d be the only ones in but by 6.30 it was busy. I’d been told by some friends it wasn’t very good but wanted to try for myself as did my husband. Well top marks!! The food was delicious we will return. Ok it’s not the cheapest but I’d rather pay for quality than cheaper less quality. We will be returning.