The Balti King - Chelmsford

We visited the balti king with a family 5 as a treat during the 6 weeks holiday. Its a lovely clean, quite restaurant with traditional music playing. The service was of a very high standard and the food was excellent. We each had a thali meal which was piping hot andfull of flavour. We are gourmet society members , which meant we got 50% off which makes it amazing value, the waiter did forget to add this to the bill but it was very quickly rectified so no drama at all, but as always check your bill. Overall an excellent experience and we will most definitely eat here again. Well done .

The outside is not a good advert, very nice inside friendly service and the food was outstanding. Car parking close by in Parkway car park or on the road outside.

Came here to celebrate a family birthday. Chose it instead of another, preferred restaurant as they accepted the gourmet card and thought we might as well try it. Big mistake food bland, service and knowledge of ingredients poor (does your saag bhaji contain garlic or not?! ordered one with and one without garlic and two identical looking dishes turned up there was some confusion by the waiting staff as to which was the one without garlic, until they finally admitted that it always contains garlic obviously not prepared fresh then). The 'Kingfisher ' beer didn 't taste like Kingfisher, the house wine was unpalatable and the whole restaurant (including toilets) looked dilapidated and in desperate need of some re investment. Won 't be returning based upon this experience I 'm afraid.

Ordered over the telephone with tastecard. The price was from the dining in menu even though I was ordering a takeaway. So I was told 40 minutes for collection. I got there 5 minutes early and subsequently waited 25 minutes at the restaurant for my food. I'd like the add that I didn't have a large order, only three meals. I'm so disappointed with the amount of time waiting.

I visited earlier this week with my partner, children and mum for dinner. We have used Balti King for many many years so when the Government scheme came in, we knew we wanted to visit during August to support the restaurant during these tough times. We had a nice meal but the lack of music and slow service was a little disappointing. All of the food was nice so when we asked for the bill we were quite happy. I had already seen that the restaurant had signed up to the scheme and also checked it half way through the meal with the waiter who confirmed it. When the bill came through to us and it was £72 (after the discount) I was gobsmacked. My children shared a meal and we had only soft drinks. My partner queried this with them and was told it was correct. When we queried it again more forcefully they advised that only the main meals were half price!!!!! We then had to show them the government website stating it is ALL food and soft drinks. This was embarrassing for us to have to do in front of a restaurant and awful awful service. The bill was then amended to £58 but this was still massively over priced as we did not even have starters. But at this point we just paid and left as were not getting any further with the staff. Please be careful with your bill in this restaurant as the receipts are not clear and they will over charge you big time without you knowing. Sadly they have lost a few very loyal customers due to this when we visited to actually support them.