Spice Kitchens

Pakistani/North Indian style - Wilmslow Road, Rusholme.

Very Decent Chicken Shawarma for £2.50

Shami and Samosa, £1.50

Takeaway, Staff Curry - tasty but pretty oily
 Pretty lack lustre seekhs, but they'd travelled quite a way.
March 2012
£2.50 for their chicken doner/shawarma is one of the best deals around. Fresh bread and decent salad and sauces complete the package. Recommended as incredible value.


February 2012
First time in a long while eating in. I'd recommend it. It was half term so the place was much less busy,  due to a large part of the usual crowd being from the nearby FE college. £2.50 for the pictured chicken shawarma was a steal. They had a few different salads and sauce options and everything was cooked well - the bread fresh and crisp etc. Nothing amazing but the basics done well and at £2.50 you can't go wrong.


4th September 2011 - Takeaway order.
Good flavours but rather oily - not a massive issue for me as you can just tip it off. The daal was excellent and earthy, tasting strongly of fenugreek, the staff lamb was good - as you'd expect and the chicken Makhani was delicious and decadent in equal measure. The seekhs were a bit of a let down - as you'd expect being a delivered quite some distance. Grill stuff is always better on the spot. You can second guess these things but when seekhs call you have to answer really - and again I wasn't that fussed. One point to note was that the whole thing was pretty damn spicy - again fine for those used to it but perhaps a bit much for anyone of timid palate.

30/03/10 - latest visit
The seekh and bread were pretty good this time. The meat was not overcooked, and the bread was as good as you can expect without a tandoor (we had chapatti and naan). The £2 'offer' for a small seekh is still on, so perhaps this is just the standard price.


Spice kitchens is on the site formerly occupied by Kashmiri Spice – however there’s been a major refurbishment and there is now a semi-open kitchen. It is very light and modern, with large glass walls, which make the place rather cold in November.  A result of the refurb is the attraction to youngsters form the local college, a few groups of whom were the other diners.  The menu is standard North Indian/Pakistani kebab house – (ie including curries and pizzas).  The staff were nice and helpful, however there was a certain amount of confusion about a few things. The starters (a shami and a samosa) were excellent. The kebabs were tasty but not faultless – the bread was excellent but the meat overcooked. It is often the case with lamb kebabs – it was on far too long and cut too many times to speed up cooking. Perhaps a chicken kebab on another day would be better, though the overcooked seekh didn’t do anything to strengthen that case. However, £2 for a small seekh is good by any standards – that was, possibly, an ‘introductory’ type offer. Unless you really like the décor there’s no particular reason to go here rather than any other half decent place nearby – Saajan, Al Madina, Lal Quila Express etc. It’s not a terrible place but dry, overcooked meat is a pretty basic error - luckily one that's easily fixed.

Scores out of 10
Meat 6.0
Bread 9.0
Salad/Sauces 7.0
Service/Setting 7.0
Average 7.25

4 comments:

  1. Tried this place last night, very impressed, curries excellent and top notch bread. Great blog btw, I have found a couple of hidden gems on here.

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  2. spice kitchen you are good in poisoning food . I kept on vomiting all day.shut spice kitchen down .please be scary to eat here

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  3. spice kitchen you poisoned my food.I vomited whole day.shut down spice kitchen .be weary and scary to eat at spice kitchen

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