Blue Ginger - Cheshire East

Our family of six adults visited Blue Ginger in Middlewich last night, 8th October, and thoroughly enjoyed the evening. First impressions...clean and well lit with modern furniture, tables set beautifully. Staff were friendly and attentive, drinks soon came and orders taken. The menu was extensive, mainly the usual dishes found in Indian restaurants, which suited us. This is not a gourmet restaurant with exotic and unusual dishes, it is a restaurant that produces really good quality everyday dishes. Every dish was well presented and well cooked. The Peshwari naan bread was easily the best I've ever eaten in any restaurant fresh, soft, warm, just the right amount of sweetness and taste of coconut. The pilau rice smelt fragrant and tasted just right, each grain of rice separate. Even basic dishes like my Lamb Rogan Josh contained good quality chunks of lean lamb (not disguised chicken, as in some places), and the tomatoes and onions were all freshly sliced and cooked, and clearly not out of some frozen pack. This restaurant pays attention to detail and uses fresh ingredients. It offers excellent value for money and is highly recommended.

I moved away from Middlewich years ago but my mum still lives there which gives me the perfect opportunity to keep coming back to the Blue Ginger. The menu is great with all the traditional British Indian restaurant curries alongside a number of specials you simply don't find anywhere else. Have been through the entire menu and loved everything I've ever eaten here but mum and I settled on the shashlik bhuna as our absolute favourite. If you love rich masala type dishes with a lot of sauce can highly recommend. It is my favourite Indian restaurant despite having worked my way round many in London and Manchester which are great but not up to this standard on the food front. The staff are always attentive and happy to make recommendations and talk through what they've got on the menu if you're unsure. I do not understand some of the 1 star reviews as they do not even vaguely reflect my experience and I've been here dozens of times. Perhaps telling in most cases it's the only review written by those individuals bitter competition perhaps? Give this place a go, have a fabulous meal then go for a drink in the White Bear after...

The food was not bad but it was bland. The naan was also undercooked and cold. The sagaloo was good but curries were disappointing. True story would not recommend

Once again, as with several other Indian restaurants I 've visited over the past few months, the base curry sauce appears to be 'made to go further ' as if some thinking agent like cornflour has been added. You know the difference when just onion base had been used.

My wife took me to the Blue ginger this evening as a meal for my birthday it has no bar so advised by staff when booking to fetch our own alcohol which we did a bottle of wine and 4 cans we ain't our meal which was nice but as soon as we finished eating we were being rush out of the door we were the only 2 in the whole restaurant we only had time to have one drink each the waitor came cleared the table fetched the bill without us asking then pointed to the bottle of wine and said you can take that home if you like I said o OK thank you he then asked if we would like a bag and fetched one over and gathered up our nearly full bottle of wine and the remainder 3 cans and placed them in the bag we didn't even have time for our meal to settle I could understand if it was busy bur like I said it was just Me and the wife in the whole place we arrived at 18.30 and was out by just after 19.30 it just all felt very uncomfortable at the end I think we will head out of town in the future.