Mela Indian Restaurant in Christchurch

The restaurant decor is modern and immaculate and lighting and music just perfectly pitched, staff very attentive and professional and food was superb, not very often you find all the elements are this good so would fully recommend.

I’ve eaten at the Mela a number of times and have always recommended it as the best Indian restaurant in town. However, on my last visit, last night, I was less impressed. The restaurant has been refurbished and looks amazing, the staff were helpful and polite, so no concerns there. The issue I had was with the dish I ordered - Garlic Chilli Chicken - and this has influenced the 4* review. I have had this dish several times and it has always been stunning, bursting with flavour and with a rich sauce. Last night, it arrived in a watery sauce and had clearly lost much of its flavour. I have never had to do this before anywhere, but I had to send the dish back. It’s replacement was quite quick and less watery, but still didn’t match the quality of dishes from my previous visits. Two of us had the same dish and both had the same opinion - although, to be fair, the rest of our party were pleased with their dishes. I will eat here again, but perhaps I may try an alternative dish.

Fantastic place!! Very clean can't wait to come back!! Beautiful!! Oh Draught Kingfisher what more can I say!

We like the service and atmosphere of this restaurant, but the vegetable kurma seemed as though it was made from frozen vegetables. No potato or mushroom, just appeared to be peas and green beans. This is quite disappointing and doesn’t seem good value for money. However, the sauce was very nice

Fantastic food, as always but decided to take the kids to eat in, and they loved it. Great service and we had not been in there since their refurb, and it really looks smart. Highly recommended, thank you.

I'm visiting from Surrey and my parents took me here for a meal. The food is really lovely and fresh very well presented it's a pretty place and the staff are friendly. Would definitely go back again.

Well flavored food well presented. A bit disappointed with the amount of prawns in my dish only 3 for £13.00 Decore excellent. Had a noisy group of 14 lads arrive I had to tell them to be quite through a staff member as dinners had to move because of the volume.

We had a takeaway tonight with high expectations as we visited a number of years ago and loved it. Tonight, the staff were rude, unfriendly, refused to refund parking charge via the pay back scheme for saxon square customers and the food was bland.

Excellent Indian food, full of flavours. All dishes, including starters were amazing. Very friendly staff. Can highly recommend this place.

Restaurant had refurbishment done and it looks stunning. Perfect for large events. Polite staff. Really tasty food.