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Spicy Hut Restaurant Manchester

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35 Wilmslow Road , Rusholme, Manchester, M14 5TB [map] Tel: 0161 257 3890
2 miles (10 mins drive) south of Manchester
very good restaurant that specializes in sizzlers and pakistani cuisine - winner of the manchester curry chef award [amend]
 

Spicy Hut Restaurant Rusholme Manchester - overall reader reviews

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most popular dish: award winning chicken handi

Spicy Hut Indian Restaurant Manchester - reader comments

"Best curry along the curry mile. Can't fault it - go every week nearly " - sally, manchester 19/4/08 (visited on a sat evening)

"I am a regular diner at Spicy Hut and I have tried almost all the dishes on the menu, whereas the general curries are ok but the speciality (traditional) curries are fantastic, as are the sizzlers. I only recommend my friends to try the speciality curries" - sam, stockport 15/4/08 (visited on a saturday evening)

"The owner, Shep, is excellent, as are the staff. Food exquisite and service brilliant! Always a warm and friendly welcome. Have tried many different restaurants but none compare to The Spicy Hut. Outstanding as per usual!" - keith durrington, salford 22/3/08 (visited on a saturday evening)

"A great place to go. Food was like it was cooked by my mother!" - ali chaudri, stockport 19/3/08 (visited on a friday evening)

"A lovely warm and relaxed feeling inside with a good selection of drinks, a wide selection of dishes and cooked to perfection. You will feel at home for comfort and feel like you are being treated to a top notch meal with the food! I would highly reccomend it to everyone" - ben chudleigh, manchester 14/3/08 (visited on a friday evening)

"Always great food and drink and the staff are great. Takeaways are also great!" - jackie barnes, rusholme 1/3/08 (visited on a saturday evening)

"I have, with friends and family been visiting the Spicy Hut for the last 9 years. We have not tried any other restaurant in Rusholme because we have found the best. We are constantly recommending the place to other people. When my friends come over from the U.S. to Manchester, that's the place they have to go. The Lamb Chop Tikka is a must! Delicious. There are varieties of starters and curries for all our different tastes. We have never been disappointed... Excellent!" - Ray Leech, Stockport 12/2/08 (visited on a saturday evening)

"Was recommended by colleagues. It turned out to be a wonderful experience. Well recommended!" - usman saleh, bolton 10/2/08 (visited on a friday evening)

"We travelled from Macclesfield and come every week to the Curry Mile and have to admit that this is one of the best. I didn't know what to expect but was very pleasantly surprised. Definately recommend to try!" - dousth miah, macclesfield 4/2/08 (visited on a saturday evening)

"Me and my partner visited the Spiy Hut on a busy saturday and we had to wait for 15 minutes for a table but it was worth waiting for as we really enjoyed the food, especially the Chicken Handi. I have never been to a restaurant where the service is so fast. Sat down and there were popadoms, it felt as if we were regular customers." - carl, stockport 29/1/08 (visited on a saturday evening)

"Excellent and very, very friendly, they make everyone welcome and we travel 36 miles in total to eat there, thats well worth the distance." - Tony Whitworth, Glossop 25/1/08 (visited on a friday evening)

"Good food if you order the sizzlers. Other than that the curries are quite standard for Rusholme. They charged us twice for the drinks and was blantantly done on purpose. A bad end to what was a good night." - gareth brice, manchester, 9/1/08 (visited on a tues evening)

"The food is excellent, The staff are extremely keen to assist at all time. Very hygienic and great value for money. Simply a great evening all round. Just go see for yourself... You will not regret it." - james o'shea, stretford, 8/1/08 (visited on a monday evening)

"Great food and atmosphere also quick service. A bill with mints to cool off." - mohammed iqbal, huddersfield, 8/1/08 (visited on a sat evening)

"A friendly and relaxed place to eat a decent meal with good sized portions." - mrs awan, birmingham, 7/1/08 (visited on a thursday evening)

"We were walking down Wilmslow Road's Curry Mile corridors and was annoyed by being approached by every restaurant to come in. As we passed Spicy Hut, we were not approached and it looked lively inside so we decided to give it go and were glad we did. We were impressed as we sat down the popudoms were brought straight away and for free, we just then only had to pay 50p per head for the dips. Our order was taken and when we received the food it was very tasty with a generous portion. (Chicken Mesti for me and my partner had Lamb Handi). It has become one of my favourite restaraunts to visit in future" - carl edwards, manchester, 29/12/07 (visited on a friday evening)

"Friendly service and clean restaurant, with added humourous touch for our youngest child. My wife received a free wall-clock as a Christmas Present, which, as we are not local and our first visit was a lovely touch. We were made very welcome" - peter hill, coniston, cumbria 6/12/07 (visited on a Weds after 11pm)

"We came to the Spicy Hut from the web site recommendations, and can report we were not disappointed. Excellent top notch Indian fayre" - richard, macclesfield, 19/11/07 (visited on a Sat evening)

"Great food, cooked perfectly, my partner was also very impressed, she cant wait to come back" - james davis, manchester, 16/11/07 (visited on a Sat eve)

"I'd heard really good reviews about this restaurant but can be quite hard to please when it comes to a good curry. This place lived up to the excellent reviews. It was the best Indian food I've ever tasted and we were made to feel very welcome. We arrived about 6pm but by 7pm and they were queuing to get in - a good sign! The waiters were partucarly nice to my 9 year old son, making a fuss of him and checking he was ok. The chef even asked the waiter to check that his food was cooked as he liked it and wasn't too hot for him. The Handi was amazing as was the Tandoori Fish Sizzler. Portions were enormous. Although I live about 15 miles away this restaurant is definitely going to become a regular for my family. Thank you Spicy Hut for a great evening! I've never reviewed a restaurant before but this one was special enough to make me do so" - Katy, Cheshire 5/11/07 (visited on a Sat eve)

"Friendly relaxed atmosphere, excellent food, clean and value for money. You get what you pay for. Taking everything to acount it was a wonderful experience!" - Farhang Afsarpour, Didsbury 25/10/07 (visited on a Thu eve)

"I have been coming to the Spicy Hut for six years. Every meal has been fantastic. When I asked Sheps how he managed to keep the quality so high, he said, "Our test is: if we could not eat the food ourselves, then we would bin it and start again". With a quality standard like that, how can you go wrong? I now live in Austria but still visit the Spicy Hut whenever I am back in England!" - Steve Buckel, Braunau-am-Inn, Austria 20/10/07 (visited on a Fri eve)

"Well everything went quite nice. We were served free papadoms but had to pay for the dips and salad. Service was quite good and one of my mates also ordered the Paddy's Special Sizzler which was a massive portion and now I know why its called Paddy. The most amazing thing I saw was the way the waiter flammed it, the whole sight was amazing. I also recommend to most of my mates to go there and give it a go" - Andy, Wilmslow 17/10/07 (visited on a Fri eve)

Trusted Reviewer "Whilst there are many curry houses in Manchester, Rusholme has the biggest reputation thanks largely to the huge concentration of restaurants in such a small area. Sadly, most of these are little more than glorified fast food joints in need of a paint job, the money for which has been spent on the bright neon lights outside instead. Aimed solely at bargain hunters, students and drunken late night revellers, they do battle with offers of free drinks and poppadums. This is where Spicy Hut shines brighter than the glowing neon lights that surround it. There's no need for incentives to get you through the door, in fact prices are slightly higher than many on the Curry Mile. Focus here is aimed, rightly, on the quality of the food with curry connoisseurs and those 'in the know' quickly becoming regulars.

To start with, Spicy Hut provide good quality Indian Salad and Popadums - none of your usual Rusholme brown lettuce and soggy Pops here - and the menu card is very descriptive, detailing the exact ingredients for each dish and offering a 'Spicy guide' for curry novices, with choices of 'Very Mild', 'Mild', 'Sweet and Mild', 'Medium to Mild', 'Medium', 'Hot', 'Hot and Sour' and 'Very Hot' dishes. There's also recommendations for curry beginners (Spicy Hut's Special Corma), heart patients (Garlic & Ginger curries) and weight watchers (the Sizzlers). There's Pakistani specialities that can't be found elsewhere in town, whilst their famous Handi dishes won them National Curry Chef awards.

The staff have a great sense of humour and make you feel very welcome. They're also very helpful if you need any further assistance with the menu or dishes tailoring to your requirements. For those less-adventurous souls in your group, European dishes like Fried Scampi, Fried Chicken, Omelette and Fish Fingers can also be ordered.

Being fully licensed, there's plenty of (mainly bottled) beers to choose from with a pint of draught Cobra at £2.90. There's also a reasonable choice of wine, each bottle reasonably priced (£9.50 for Jacob’s Creek Shiraz for example). The trademark Sizzling Flambees are worth the journey alone, both for taste and spectacle. On our visit we opted for a Lamb Shashlik Sizzler with Badami Passanda sauce (£9) and a Chicken Shashlik Sizzler in Spicy Hut’s Special Korma sauce (£8.70). Both were cooked to absolute perfection, the process assisted by pouring alcohol over the dish at the table and then setting it alight.

The portions were extremely generous (8 large pieces of meat for both dishes) and we found ourselves unable to finish the Pilau Rice (£1.60) and Garlic & Cheese Naan bread (£2.60) we'd ordered as side dishes. As the sauces come seperately, the Sizzler's are ideal for those who are not big curry fans or for those on a diet. Talking of which, we should go on one after last night's feast!

Whilst it may not be as swanky as it's city centre rivals, the food is certainly better than most of them. As the Curry Mile can be very hit and miss, it's important to visit the right restaurant. To fit that bill, you can't get much better than Spicy Hut!"  - Manchester Restaurants 27/9/07 (visited on a Weds, after 11pm)


Trusted Reviewer "Very good Indian restaurant with friendly staff and wonderful Sizzlers. And if you don't like the Sizzlers hot you get advised to choose one sauce to go with it (to cool it down)" - Ingun, Manchester 27/9/07 (visited on a Tues eve)

"We have tried many curry houses in Rusholme, and although we've found a few decent ones, this is the only ont that stands out as excellent. All the food is fantastic, and never too greasy. The rice is perfect, especially the Lahori fragranced rice. My only minor niggle is that the hottest dish on the menu is a vindaloo and it isn't particularly hot. However, it is the tastiest vindaloo I've ever had, so I can excuse the chef. I'm also sure they would add extra chilis if I asked. Try the Handi or the Achari" - Mike, Manchester 30/8/07 (visited on a Fri evening)

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