Jhalmuri Restaurant in Mendip

We thoroughly enjoyed our meal, the staff were attentive, the food was pretty good, the company was awesome, but was overshadowed by us both listening with rapt fascination to the couple next to us discussing their respective marriage break ups.

I'd walked past a number of times and saw nobody in there. Been meaning to try them out for ages. Made the jump this week and left wondering why they aren't at capacity every night. The service is really friendly and helpful, but the food is the star. I had Kashmiri lamb and my wife had Railway lamb and it's honestly the best I've eaten. Perfectly balanced spices and the side dishes were also really good. Well recommended.

Freshly cooked authentic food. Loved the fact that they had a seperate vegetarian menu. Friendly staff, nice ambience and excellent food.

I used to buy take aways or eat at the Jharlmuri quite often. It was very good when I first moved to Frome. Unfortunately my recently experience of ordering a take away from Namiras was very disappointing. All the food was tepid and inedible. The sag paneer was a gelatinous tepid slop. The Lamb tikka pieces were also not hot. They were covered in some sort of soggy coating which was much too spicey. The lamb itself was tasteless and rubbery.

The food here was fantastic - the best Indian meal ever for me. Delicious, interesting, subtle flavours and so well cooked. The chef came out to talk to us and evidently takes huge pride in this restaurant and his cooking, and it shows. Wonderful food. We're already planning to return.

A group of 18 over 50’s blokes went at the start of December on a Friday night and we were not disappointed. The chef even went the extra mile and cooked a burger for one of the group. All the stafff were pleasant and well organised. Thank you for a great night.

Really nice food, up there with the best Indian I've had. Not bad pricing, the chef even come out for a chat.

New owners know how to make some amazing food. The Goan fish curry was unbelievable. Recently moved to Frome from London and one of my main worries was the lack of good places to eat. I will 100% come back here as the food was as good as many comparable Indian restaurants in central London.

Do you like restaurants who take your order but decide to serve you different food anyway? Do you like restaurants that deliver staff ‘training’ table side? If you do, then this place is for you!We went here on Saturday for a much needed get together with friends and from start to end it was a disaster! They took forever to take the order and even longer to serve the incorrect food. The manager came over and insisted that we did order this in a very aggressive manner (we didn’t) and then continued to shout at the staff member who took the order right at our table!The food was awful and a bone was in one of the curries. We complained about said bone but we were reassured that there was nothing to worry about as, it was a chicken bone…yeah I think they missed the point. We couldn’t wait to leave and will never come here again, I think I’ll stick to curry nights courtesy of Tesco.

Just reopened with new management and chef this, we enjoyed our first visit very much. Certainly the dishes we had were very well prepared and tasty. The Chicken Shashlik was delicious and generous with an unusual accompanying mango and chilli sauce. Likewise the Railway Lamb Curry (intriguing name!) was excellent. Even the standard rice and nan tasted very fresh and authentic.The old favourite dishes are offered too - we didn't try one of those this time - but certainly an Indian Restaurant worth trying for the more unusual dishes. We will be back.