The venue for our August visit was a new restaurant which had only been open for a few days and is situated on the main Belgrave Road at the very start of the famous Golden Mile. There is a public car park across the road which is free to use after 4pm.

On arrival we were greeted by the owner, Romail, whom was very appreciative of our visit and was looking forward to hearing our opinions of his new restaurant. This is a completely new venture for himself, and for those wondering the same as we did, the restaurant has been named after his son.

The restaurant seats around 25 diners, and is decorated in an ‘industrial theme’, with lots of exposed wood, with rope/copper pipe light fittings… not to everybody’s taste but personally, I thought it looked great.

It was a Monday night, and as there were no other diners, we had the full attention of Romail and the waitress, whom throughout the evening was very polite and friendly. If there was anything that she was unsure about, she would seek advice and return.

We were pleased to see that draught Cobra is available which was ice cold, although there were no non-alcoholic beers available – only the usual soft fizzy drinks.

We were shown to our table and were brought complimentary poppadom’s along with two pickle trays, although when we asked for five additional poppadom’s (and more pickle trays), we were actually given five extra servings, which was a little too much, even for our appetites. A slight breakdown in communication but it wasn’t a problem, although we would comment that the contents of the pickle pots was not enough for the amount of poppadom’s we were served.

We then ordered our Mains, these being a Chicken Briyani, Lamb Kadai, Lamb Rogan Josh, Lamb Saag, and a Desi Lamb Curry (on the bone).

The accompaniments we chose were a Green Pea Rice, and a Plain Rice, along with a Peshwari Naan, a Chilli Garlic Naan, and a Plain Naan (without Ghee or Butter) … the extra Coriander that one member always requests also arrived without a prompt.

Everybody enjoyed their meal, all dishes were well presented, fresh and flavoursome, and they were all served at the required strengths – well done chef. The menu is not as vast as a lot of other restaurants that we have visited, which we feel contributed to the high quality of food that was served.

A couple of messages that I received the following morning from our members were;

‘I enjoyed my meal as much as Avatar in Lutterworth, so I have to give it the same score of 9.5.’

‘I’m an 8.5, great food but service a bit haphazard’

‘I am at 9, took some off because of the poppadom’s, with hardly anything in the pickle pots’.

‘I’m a 9, non-alcoholic beer and it might have been 10’.

Some great comments and feedback, but although it’s still early days, we’re sure that Geoffery’s will flourish and be a great asset for South Asian food lovers in Leicestershire.

We paid the bill (£123.08), which was extremely good value for the quality of food, and we left with a big thank-you, and we are sure many of our readers will visit once they have read this review.

The score out of 40 based on the venue/surroundings/food/service/cost was 35.5… but could easily have taken top spot this year, had we visited in a few weeks’ time when maybe they will be a little more streamlined in their service.

Overall, a very enjoyable evening, and a big well done to Geoffery’s and wish them a very successful future.

Please note as always, our reviews are personally subjective and isn’t necessarily what others may think or experience when they visit.