The Leicester Curry Club headed for Sarpech in Oakham, our 175th visit to different establishments within the Leicestershire area.

It was very good to see a full restaurant on a Tuesday evening. There was a special offer on and it had clearly worked as we have never seen so many people on a dismal November evening. We opted not to have the special although it did look like very good value for money.

I have eaten at this restaurant before and the standard has been very good, it’s a really nice place and also has an internal wine bar that you can use prior to being shown to your table. 

We entered the restaurant and was immediately shown to our table. 

 We ordered the mandatory poppadom’s, pickles and drinks. For mains we ordered 2 Chicken Dum Biryani’s, a house chicken curry, a chicken shashlik and a garlic chilli chicken.

We got the feeling that we were being slightly rushed as just as we were about to finish the poppadom’s the mains were arriving.

The first dish to be served was the chicken shashlik on a pretty cold plate unfortunately, the other plates that were put on the table were pretty hot. The biryanis were very good but the member that had the house chicken curry was not at all impressed, as was the member that had the garlic chilli chicken. The naan breads were good with an exciting addition of a Stilton Naan.

 The low scores unfortunately reflect the evening, far from what my previous experience of this restaurant has been. I really did think that this establishment would win the year and we would be able to visit again in December with the award.

The staff coped very well with the volume of customers however we felt rushed and hurried and this really did spoil the evening, as this is one of my favourite restaurants, I will return but would definitely choose a Friday or Saturday when the offer is not on as maybe the table was booked for another sitting after us.