Light of Bengal

This is one of my favourite Indian’s in the Roath/​Cathays area, it’s always relatively quiet and I’ve never found myself waiting long and the food is generally excellent.
I’m always edging towards Chinese as takeaway of choice but every time I go to Light of Bengal I remember just how moorish an Indian can be. Many Indian takeaways can hide tastes or be a little heavy handed in their approach to stronger dishes but Bengal have mastered bringing out some of the more subtle flavours.
Although there are those Indian food fascists that claim you can’t order something like Korma, or Butter Chicken, I disagree. It is often good to compliment a stronger dish with a coconut based sauce, but unfortunately many takeaways put much less effort into these kind of dishes. Not Bengal. The tastes and flavours of dishes such as Lamb Passanda are excellent and worth an order.

These guys are nothing if not staid. They open at 5.00pm on the dot every day of the week, and then they close again at midnight, without exception. I like that! You know where you are! It means that you don’t have to rely on your memory too much, which in my case is a god thing I’ll tell you!
But that’s where they leave convention behind. When it comes to mixing things up, their approach has to be considered pretty darned novel. They do a number of Thali options, which bare no resemblance to the Thali’s I used to eat in India. A regular Thali is served on a large steel dish with various indentations allowing it to be used to serve up several small portions of differing food without the risk of unwanted cross contamination of flavours. There are a couple of must have items in a Thali, and these are Sambar (which I loath), and rice. They more often than not come with a Papad and coconut chutney, (which I love, and have been known to come close to sulking when I have ordered a Thali only to discover that they have run out of chutney). Anyway… what these guys do here is classify their meal deals as Thali’s, that comprise of a three course meal, which to be fair, does give you a good selection of different dishes… but… but… these set meal options are just NOT a Thali!!!
If you can get over these quarrelsome little pedantic details, you’ll more than likely really enjoy your take out from here!

Great takeaway and my regular. Never failed me but sometimes the driver doesn’t carry my much change. Authentic food and great price.

Decent enough Indian Takeaway with reasonable enough prices and speedy delivery times. They offer a 10% reduction to students on main meals and collections only, and are open 7 days a week, which is handly. Probably a regular for students living around Salisbury Road, and why not? Like I said, a decent little takeaway this.