Tandoori Nights, Swindon (From Swindon Advertiser)

Tandoori Nights, Swindon

1:31pm Thursday 29th April 2010 in

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ORDERING a takeaway has never been rocket science, but ordering from Tandoori Nights is child’s play.

When I looked up the place online, in the hope of downloading a menu, what I found was a website which takes away the hassle of hunting for menus, making the call and trying to get your head around all the special meal deals and offers over the phone.

So as an experiment (not because I’m lazy, you understand), I got my children to place our online order, simply ticking the boxes for what they fancied to eat. And less than an hour later, within minutes of the time we’d requested, our food turned up on the doorstep – no fuss or messing about at all. Easy.

Tandoori Nights is part of the Just-Eat operation (www.just-eat.co.uk), which opened its virtual doors in 2001 to help hungry customers find a takeaway in their area. Just type in your postcode, scroll down to the type of food you fancy, choose your establishment and, just a few clicks later, you can be tucking in. It works brilliantly well and I will definitely be using it again. It sure beats hoarding all those leaflets and menus in the kitchen junk drawer.

Anyway, back to the food, which was pretty good too. Being a tandoori restaurant, I’d insisted we try at least one dish from the grill. The Tandoori Mixed Grill wasn’t the cheapest dish on the menu at £7.70, but it proved to be excellent value for money, with big pieces of tandoori chicken, a sheek kebab, chicken tikka and lamb tikka all included for a great all-round flavour.

The rest of our order was pretty much what you’d expect from two teenage boys let loose with an Indian menu – chicken pasanda, a korma, bombay potatoes, pilau rice and naan. One pleasant surprise was the inclusion of a sag bhaji, which I was pleased to see but which was actually a mistake on their part. Turns out they saw the word bhaji and thought it was the fried onion sort, rather than the healthier spinach version! Oh well, I enjoyed it anyway.

The food was hot and tasty and not bad value at all – feeding the whole family came to £34.90, including the 40p fee for using a debit card, and there was even some left over for the next day.

The boys done good – I think I’ll let them order again.