Preston
Maharani

Maharani

28-30 Watery Lane, PR2 2NN, Preston, United Kingdom

Asiatic • Mexican • European • Vegetarian


"decided to try this restaurant as my daughter has recently moved to Preston and rather than go to one of our usual Indian cuisine haunts thought we would try somewhere new and what a disappointment this was. We first ordered poppadoms and a tray of dips. The poppadoms did not seem freshly cooked and we were provided with very small portions of dip for the price. Usually we love the freshness of the finely chopped onions with the crispness of the poppadoms but for some reason these onions seemed to be cooked and mixed with tomato ketchup which was a very odd choice to make. We then followed this with chicken pakoras which are a family favourite this time however it was not. We have had this dish at many other places and it is usually a lovely piece of chicken coated in a tasty batter what we were presented with was some shredded chicken in a flavourless batter and a lot of pieces of crispy batter with absolutely nothing inside and was extremely bland. For my main I ordered tandoor chicken this is one of my favourite dishes it is usually aromatic with spices and just the right amount of heat for me this time I got 2 big pieces of chicken which were cooked beautifully however there was absolutely no taste to chicken other than the ghee it was smothered in so much ghee in fact that when it cooled it had solidified one of my pieces of chicken to the bottom of the dish it came in. My daughters ordered a paneer bhuna and a chicken madras and both said there was no taste to the curry at all. The chips were tasty although they also had a flavour to them that suggested they had also been cooked in ghee. We also ordered 2 garlic naan breads and although the chef seemed like he was afraid of spice with the rest of our food he was definitely not afraid of garlic. I would expect a nice fluffy bread with a thin coating of garlic and herbs and what we got was a flat hard bread with enough garlic to ward off nosferatu from 3 miles away. I blame myself for trying somewhere new instead of sticking to one of our old favourites but lesson learnt and we will definitely not be going back here."