Deshi Spice Indian Takeaway in Carlisle

We had 3 starters. All 3 came with the same side salad. The Panner chilli contains 4 pieces of panner and the chicken pakora was just 4 small pieces of tandoori chicken in a flavourless batter. Driest Pakora we have ever had. 2 onion barjis were good. Chilli chicken massala was mild at best. Disappointing but we've tried it now so now we know not to bother again. Wasn't cheap either.

Staff rude. All of us that had chicken were poorly the next day. We have been going there annually for last 3 year and had good service, not this time. Shame to say we won't be going there again.

Lovely food need to book if you turn up you could have a long wait

Absolutely dreadful meal from the restaurant. 13 pounds for a plate full of sauce and rice is treating customers with contempt. Would expect much more than 2 prawns for this. Wouldn’t normally write this but there are times when things need to be said. Please don’t expect a paying customer using there hard earned money to accept this a value for money- not good enough at all and not acceptable!!

We were a table of 8. There are plenty of choices for starters, mains, rice etc. We had poppadoms, mains and shared rice and naans. Took a little while for the drinks to arrive both times we ordered them, but food came in a timely manner. It was good food, very little and leftover. Reasonable prices too.

Best in Carlisle and my favourite Indian to go to. Always consistent and delicious, good friendly service from waiters.

We ate here about 5 years ago when we were last in Carlisle. We enjoyed it and decided to visit again. Friendly staff, especially the older gentlemen. We had chicken shaslik, chicken Balti, mushroom bhaji and rice. All were excellent and good value for money.

We ate here last night and have to say the food was delicious. It tasted fresh and flavoursome with a great balance of spices. The portion sizes just enough to satisfy without making me feel like I had stuffed myself.There seems to be a few negative comments re: Customer Service. Whilst our experience was spot on we did witness an incident whereas the waiter seemingly said something derogatory to a customer and so feel this is something they need to address.

Very nice. I would have liked a bit more meat in the biryani, but good amount of prawns, good flavour and plenty of vegetable sauce to go with it. The cauliflower side was tasty, and the starter very good, onion bahji was light and sweet.

Food is ok but you'll see by my other reviews it's not up there with the best, a little bit bland and not got enough. The building is also in dire need of modernising and th atmosphere was a bit dead!