Feast of Bengal in Basildon

First time eating here and we will comeback!! Excellent food. Excellent service. Highly recommend

Great food, fresh flavours and good service. Recommended!

This Is one absolutely amazing restaurant. The service, quality and timing of food is second to none. I don't have the vocabulary to describe the tastiness is every single dish.

Order a takeaway from here and you spend more time waiting than eating!. The orders are always ready half an hour or more after the time given. There is no room to wait so it is a very uncomfortable experience. Then when you get home something is missing. When it is the onion Baji you just eat it and enjoy the meal less. When it is a tandoori mixed grill you have to go back for it or someone will go hungry! No cash back - just a sorry we were busy tonight. Just not worth the hassle! We will take our custom elsewhere.

I visited Feast of Bengal for the first time just a few months ago now and have been going ever since. I first heard of it when it was delightfully recommended to me by one of my acquaintances. After researching it for a while, I realised it was very local and seemed to be a nice and cosy restaurant of GREAT Indian style cuisine. A few days later, I visited it for tea with my wife and acquaintance who earlier informed me of it. I cannot even begin to describe how scrumptious the food was and at such a reasonable price. The staff were awfully kind and treated us with such etiquette, even the way they brought the food was in such an authentic, gentle manor. Since that very day, I have been "FEASTING" there almost every week.In conclusion, I recommend this to anyone who enjoys delicious food and caring service.

Really great Curry House - much better than the ones on Billericay High Street - much too crowded, noisy and expensive. Here the staff were very friendly - two of whom remembered my friend from when he last went 25 years ago. The food was excellent, very keenly priced - only trouble was the portions were so huge we could barely touch the Keema Nan.

Superb hidden gem. I cant believe I've lived in Billericay all these years and not found it before. Staff are really friendly and chatty but not intrusive. Food is amazing! Quality is excellent. No large crowds to drown out your conversation. Small and friendly restaurant decorated nicely and the toilets are clean, fresh and smell nice. This is a really lovely restaurant. We've been 4 times already. Excellent value for money. 2 curries and rice with poppadoms, naans and 2 sides, 2 beers and a soft drink less than £50. I couldn't eat all mine so they boxed it up for me to take home. Can't recommend highly enough.

Absolutely dreadful.5 tiny pieces of chicken in a dish which cost £12.90......padded out with 2 huge, whole tomatoes. Phoned to query/complain about this and the manager was EXTREMELY rude and then promptly put the phone down when questioned about this matter.Horrid, nasty staff. Mediocre food.I believe one should avoid this venue at all costs.

Was advised to try this place which we did and the food is excellent.The staff although friendly could put a smile on their face and clear the tables rather than put your main course to the side of your empty starter plate rather than take it away !!!!I had to put my empty plate on the next table as the waiter just walked away? Unbelievable! !! That said a good night and excellent food, would certainly return.

We thought we would give this place a try because it's quite local to us, appeared to have decent reviews on Google and we were able to use our taste card. The deal was a free main meal with the purchase of any other main meal. We booked ahead, although on arrival there was only one other table being used. Despite this, we found the service to be a bit slow and had to ask for our order to be taken twice. We didn't feel particularly welcome and the waiter did not seem too happy about me ordering a coke instead of alcohol. We had poppadoms and dips before our meal arrived and these were fine, but unfortunately my pint of diet coke was completely flat. I ordered some lamb chops as a starter and my wife ordered the onion bhajis. The bhajis were perfectly fine, but the lamb chops were actually really small lamb steaks and at £5.50, I would have expected better. For main I ordered the lamb pasanda and my wife ordered a chicken dish that came with rice, so I ordered a separate rice for myself. At this point, we were both becoming increasingly annoyed about the amount of flies buzzing around the table, but its summer, so we didn't complain. The main dishes were below average. My lamb was tough and had a red tint to it and my wife had to ask for her rice, which wasn't brought to the table. We noted again how slow the service was considering the restaurant was almost empty. Overall, it wasn't a great meal, so we decided not to stay for dessert or coffees. When the bill arrived, the deduction for the taste card was only £5.10. I queried this as both main meals cost more than this, as did my starter. The owner explained that he had deducted the rice from my wife's main meal, because this was a bundle deal(?) and couldn't be used with the taste card. At this point, after a very mediocre meal, we decided not to press the matter. For the sake of the restaurant saving themselves £2.60 (my wife's main was actually £7.80) I can guarantee we will not be returning. In summary, food was not great, service was poor and the restaurant trying to cheat us out of such a small amount (we'd have happily tipped double this amount) just left a bad taste.