Kismet

Kismet’s happy hour deal is pretty astonishing in its food to price ratio. We were already full after munching on two poppadoms each plus some very nice vegetable samosas and onion bhajis. The main event was not quite as good, my bf felt his lamb rogan josh lacked punch and my prawn massala featured some rather small weasly prawns (I prefer Sainsbury’s prawn makhani ready meal). There are loads of main course options with the happy hour deal however, so it could be there’s something a lot better. The side dishes of dal and bombay potato we were too full to manage but these were packaged up and I enjoyed them the next day. Service was good apart from everyone disappeared when we wanted our bill. The décor looks like it was last updated in the 1980s with green fairy lights and some rather cold ceiling lights, it’s not particularly attractive but charming in its own way.
I’m sure we’ll be back as we live close by but as there’s quite a few Indian restaurants in our area probably not straight away, as it’s not a clear standout.

Kismet has a happy hour menu, Monday to Thursday which starts at 5.00 and ends at 8.30.
It is $ 6.95* which includes:
*poppadoms and chutneys
*choice of starter, i had chicken tikka which was nicely presented and had a lovely rich marinade on it, and my friend had three generously sized onion bahjis, samosas were also available (vegetable or meat)
*main course of chicken or lamb korma, karahi, massala, madras and some vegetable stuff
*rice or chips … chips???
*then a coffee or an ice cream if you are a child (ageist)
The kismet doesn’t benefit from having great parking, its right on the A6 but if you are there early enough you can park directly outside. otherwise there are lots of streets around the place you can park.
Ok so the décor is a little old fashioned curry house ish inside, little paper napkins and so on, but the staff were very friendly and the food was great! I had the lamb korma and the lamb was beautiful, falling apart and tender, I felt really guilty scooping it up out of the coconutty korma sauce: C
Anyway I had all that food and two bottles of Cobra for 11.95 so excellent value you should definitely check it out.
*it’s obviously not six dollars ninety five, since its in stockport, but i cant find the pound key on this macbook pro keyboard. any help much appreciated. oh hang on ¢ no that’s not it. ¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢€¡#¡¢**

The Kismet is a pretty decent curry house, by no means the best in the South Manchester area, but you can get the usual large array of curries and on the whole they are pretty well done, and thankfully not usually swimming in ghee.
On Sundays they have a buffet on offer for around £7. This consists of some poppadoms to start with, a huge plateful of mixed starters (and I really do mean huge — its a meal in itself, which is great as I always love the starters most with an curry), and then if you can still manage it, a selection of curries to help yourself to. These are a mixture of Chicken, Lamb and Vegetable curries, none of which are particularly high up the heat scale, and in fact I found them a little bland, however, the Daal more than made up for this and is loaded with lots of coriander.
On the whole it is a good local restaurant, with nice food, decent prices and a friendly staff, what more do you need in a curry house (oh yes — it has Cobra on tap as well).