Spice Leaf - Charnwood

Lovely food and lovely service let down by bland decor and a cold restaurant. Not sure if the heating wasn’t coping or it had not been put on as there were very few people in due to it being a Sunday. A shame as the dishes really were very tasty and there is very easy parking across the road in the carpark.

If i could give this place a zero i would. the food is terrible and the management do not take feed back well at all, infact i was accused of being aggressive because he did not like the things i was telling him. Starter: we ordered the butterflied king prawn. how very dissapointing. it came out looking as if it was a birdseye packet fish finger. mains: we ordered to mains both of which basically tasted the same. no individuality of spices although they where two completely different dishes. naans as expected chips again thankfully they got this right. when i gave my feed back firstly about my starter the manager admitted it was not fresh and that it was out of a packet. very dissapointed. he then argued that i should have said something which worried me even more about his attitude towards customer service. we told him there was no spices even though we asked for one of the dishes to be at a jalfrezi hot style. this was the best bit. the manager said their cooking is made bland because the english people like it...... i am not english im sikh and when i said but you know we are not english so why would you not cater towards our taste his response was you are being aggressive . could not face the fact that his food was bland hes told us they only cater towards english people who only apparently like bland food or food come out of a freezer packet. if any of my english people want authentic indian food dont bother going here. they clearly are fooling you and some of you may think that your getting great food and can handle the spices. you are wrong the only way you are handling the spices here are because there are none. best going down belgrave road to one of the many indian restaurants who will not base their cooking on the colour of your skin but will cook you what should be real indian food. now i know why this restaurant is usually empty. Aroma spice......hardly i think you should rename yourself.....NO SPICE. good bye

We stopped here on the boat and got a takeaway. Chose the chilli paneer and garlic chilli chicken. Probably one of the best Indian takeaways we have had on our travels, a definite return.

Don’t book a table after 8.30 as the staff clearly want to get home as early as possible during the week and make it quite clear they want you to eat up and get out. Hopefully the service is better early doors. Food was average.

Just been this evening for my mum's birthday. My sister arranged it and has been before. Very impressed with everything, fantastic service, really friendly and the food was great. I don't like it when there is alot of grease in dishes and my chicken Tangri (never had one before) had very little but was full of flavour and heat. Spot on all round!