The Southbank Tandoori

Delicious food! The best Indian food that we’ve had in London

Really enjoyed our Sunday-​evening dinner here. Had the tilapia and a prawn dish and dal, as recommended by our server. An excellent neighborhood choice.

Classic old school London curry place. Quick in and quick service, if a bit abrupt. Enjoyed and felt the price was fair considering the neighborhood. The area was good for a walk afterwards as well.

Absolutey love it!
This is my favourite Curry house! Have been coming here for years and love every visit. The staff is friendly and the atmosphere is hot. The food is always fresh and tasty! Yes the décor is suspicious but which curry house is not!
Come here for a good curry!

Great food portions. Freshly cooked. Good service. Facilities could be improved (e.g. toilet)

Service was abysmal for a large group. From seating to getting main course was 3 hours. If you book for 8pm as we did for a team dinner don’t expect to eat until going on 11pm.

Southbank Tandoori happened to be just a few doors down from our Airbnb lodgings in London, so it couldn’t have been more conveniently located for us.
The ambiance was interesting and a little fancier than the hole-​in-​the-​wall Indian places I usually go to. They had purple lighting that gave the place a festive feel, but made the food look kind of weird and unappetizing.
At the time we went, there was a minimum £12/​person charge, which I don’t think I’ve ever encountered in any kind of restaurant anywhere. Given the prices, it wasn’t that difficult to rack up the minimum, but we did order more than we would have otherwise. There was also a LOT of pestering from the entire staff about drinks — we must have been asked at least four or five times. Ordering water = not OK. The upselling and pressure tactics were weird and unfriendly.
On the other hand, the food was really good! I intended to order saag paneer and the server upsold me to kadhai paneer, promising me that it was even better and I would love it. It was a couple of bucks more, but he was right, it WAS excellent and I found a new favorite dish, so I guess I can’t be mad.
It was fairly busy when we walked in at the dinner hour, and got steadily more crowded with what seemed like post-​happy-​hour drinkers and groups of bros. Still, service was pretty attentive and prompt. The menu offers all the standard dishes you’d expect from an Indian restaurant.
Overall, a good place with good food — I just wish they had been a little friendlier and less high-​pressure on the upselling and drink-​shaming.

This place exceeded my expectation. We started with the Papadams (50p) and the chutney that came with was really good. I shared the Karai Chicken and Chicken Biryani with a coworker so we can try both, and they were both delicious. The Karai chicken was especially good – very spicy and tasty.
Note that no matter what curry sauce you get, the chicken is always cooked first in the tandoori oven, and then cooked in the curry, which means the flavour, in my opinion more intense.
The portions were a bit small.

Well there’s nothing spectacular about the Southwark Tandoori, but there doesn’t need to be.
The food is decent, the service is friendly and efficient, the beer is cold and pleasant and the atmosphere is comfortable.
Can’t fault it, really.

My hockey team’s end of season celebration curry took place here tonight. 14 of us wandered down from the Windmill as our chief organiser attempted to wangle free drinks from the restaurant boss over the telephone!
I thought the restaurant coped very well with our group as we gave out team awards for various misdemeanours throughout the season and new short corner routines were devised for next season using various bits of cutlery and salt and pepper pots! They even gave us all a free liqueur at the end of the evening as promised over the phone. With refills. Shame I don’t drink alcohol!
The food was perfect for a boys’ night out — filling, nice enough to tickle some tastebuds without distracting from the banter and chat going on. Pretty generic menu with the usual dishes on them and Indian beer.
I wouldn’t return for the food but thank them for being great hosts to a boisterous group of lads for the evening. I did spy the Hope and Anchor, a famous gastropub on my stroll back to Waterloo Station and may have to return to this area to eat there in the future.

There was a brief and rather overweight time in my life when I used to be taken to the Southbank Tandoori at least twice a week for about a year. We couldn’t cook and it was a convenient stagger away from the pubs of Blackfriars. That’s my excuse anyway.
It is a great curry house though so it doesn’t matter. The food is always excellent and really tasty — especially the muttar paneer. The service is swift, friendly and obliging. The alcohol plentiful and chilled. I can’t really fault it. It is a good place to come with a group of friends as well — we have had some quite rowdy evenings in here and they were lovely to us.

It’s a great thing that there are Indian restaurants so close by to me. If I could drag them around on a string all the time so that they were near me forever and always, I might, but since that’s hard to do, I’ll leave them where they rightfully belong — on the Cut.
I went to Southbank Tandoori with mi familia. I was first struck by the fact that the plates were china. Made in England, but the pattern evoked china. A funny choice, I thought. The waiter came over and tried to push papadoms on us, but we were hungry as a pack of plastic hippos in the game Hungry Hungry Hippos, so we got an order of Peshwari naan. The naan was delicious, like candy, as Pershwari naan usually is.
The small print at the bottom said a 9.95 charge minimum per person, but the waiter let us waive that, which was mucho appreciado because whereas we all have healthy appetites, we generally can’t make it through that much Indian food without feeling full as that girl who blows up huge size in Willy Wonka. We ordered vegetable biryani, chicken dhansak, saag alu, mutter paneer and rice. The food was nice, yummy, but not knock off your socks kind of amazing. (I hope your wearing socks, or it might have to be knock off your slippers or feet instead, the latter of which might make walking difficult). I thought the Saag Alu was best, my dad preferred the Chicken Dhansak and my mom and sister the mutter aneer. I found the mutter paneer to be a bit too sweet and so did my dad.
At they end they brought over warm towels and chocolates as though we were flying first class on some jumbo jet.
The place was good enough, but there’s got to be better Indian somewhere in the city.

A traditionally styled Indian restaurant on the cut. I think the curries here are great, and well priced. The range of food on the menu is pretty standard, but everything is well prepared with a lot of flavour.
Beer wise they serve both large bottles of Cobra, or the cheaper draft Kingfisher.
Not the biggest restaurant around, but the manager is very good at finding a way to fit you in. On my last visit in a group of 9, the manager somehow fit us in straight away without a wait (the restaurant appeared full beforehand).
In fact the service here really stands out; they are both friendly and prompt. They even remained friendly when my colleagues were trying to start a competition to see who could eat the most lime pickle. This would be my number one choice for a curry around Waterloo.