The food at Curry Garden Blackheath is better than average, but it’s let down by average value and poor service. With the exception of their specials on Tuesday and Sunday nights, many of Blackheath’s other Indian restaurants provide better value. The food, although well made, is overpriced and in smaller portions compared to restaurants like Taste of Raj around the corner, which is only slighly more expensive but far superior. We were charged also £3 for a large serve of coke each, which was poured from a flat warm bottle kept under the counter. We told the person in charge that the drinks were flat, but he insisted they weren’t, before making a big show of opening another warm bottle in front of us to show it wasn’t flat. Would a cold can or individual bottle been too much to expect for that price? The biggest dispappointment during our visit was the attitude of the waiters. Most Indian restaurants bend over backwards for their customers, but, with the exception of replacing our drink, Curry Garden left us waiting around between courses despite only two tables being occupied. To add to the insult, they charge a 12.5% service charge, which is displayed on a hand written receipt which didn’t even specify what we’d been charged for — only a series of added up numbers. With the number of Indian Restaurants around the Blackheath Greenwhich area, I’ll definately be going somewhere else next time I want a curry.
