Location: 58 Headley Road, Woodley, Reading RG5 4JE

Web site: www.redrosewoodley.com

Telephone number: 01189440908

Date of visit: 26 October 2009

Approx. cost per head: £10 plus

Comments on wine list/beer: Stick to the beer – Kingfishere or Bangla

Review:

This is a neighbourhood Indian Restaurant that only gets busy during weekends. It does a roaring trade in takeaways and home delivery (free on orders over £15).

On the night we went, we had chicken tikka masala and the tandoori chicken with rice, nan and a couple of side dishes.

The tandoori was excellent and you get 4 legs when you order a whole chicken. I have always found this strange – a whole (or as they say “full”) chicken always comes with 4 legs and chicken tikka and the rest of the wet dishes are only “breast meat”. Have the Indians (or Bangladeshis)discovered genetic manipulation long before the rest of the world?

The nan bread was excellent and is one of the dish that you can only appreciate in a restaurant – they go rubbery when stored in a bag.

For side dishes, we had sag aloo and mushroom bajee which were fine.

I wasn’t entirely happy with the chicken tikka masala as it looked too red (unnatural) and tasted too sugary. I wish restaurants would stop using red dyes. Other than this, we had a nice meal. The service was good and apparently, this was rated as one of the top 100 Indian Restaurant (UK) a couple of years ago.

Parking is at the front of the restaurant. Its on the 63 and 65 bus route.

Eddie