Peaches Bar & Restaurant

Love it, Love it, Love it!! In an area dominated by faceless chains, Peaches stands out as a seriously good-looking space with its mix of dark wood, mirrors & monochrome floor tiles, it's more an Indian bistro with palette tingling, authentic Indian delicacies. There was a little wait for a table (15 minutes) at 7.30pm on a Friday (we didnt pre book), so had a drink at the cocktail bar. We had the strawberry daiquiri & a "seriously camp raspberry bellini" (as my drag queen accomplice quoted) which ws DELISH. LOVED the bar area, colour scheme is a muted blend of turqiose blue & greys injecting plenty of personality & soul - moody lighting & seriously cool music, along with a very knowledgeable & approachable bar team made it a great start to our evening. Hostesses were chatty & friendly, offered to carry our drinks to the table (Not that we wouldnt have survived)but whose complaining about being spolit :)Food was absolutely delicious - Meats & Indian bread straight out of the clay oven are TO DIE FOR!!!!!! We started with the chicken drumsticks, tandoori prawns & lamb chops- BLISS!. We had fun trying to guess the seasoning - possibly amchoor (a citrusy dried mango powder)? Next came amazingly greaseless lamb samosas, packed full of well-seasoned spicy mince, & excellent chutneys. Lamb sheekh kebabs laced with cumin were perked up by a squeeze of lime and deftly grilled chunk of tender murgh malai was a good alternative to the common chicken tikka.Peaches signature Peshawari naan was perfect for mopping up the left over sauces. Skipping any more small plates we jumped to the curries ordering for the Prawn Dopiaza & the Lamb Rogan Josh. The lamb was tender enough to cut with a spoon and the sauce was lightly spiced and insanely orgasmic! With no more room for 'stuffing face' activity and vowing to return to our new found indulgent gastro haven, we settled for cocktails and grooved to the DJ's soulful tunes all night long.

I’ve NEVER had an experience this bad in my life. Food was ok, but we weren’t expecting much as heard it’s not known for food but more ambiance and night out. When starters arrived it was warm (not hot like it should be) but we quietly ate it, but the lamb chops were not edible (chewy and cold) so we decided to give those back and they kindly offered to substitute with a plate of hot samosa’s. We carried on the night with drinks and shots, I made an order of another round of shots but instead of the shots (£3.50) we received an apple martini drink (apparently same ingredients of the shots but a full drink, £7 each) So quite rightly we sent them back, at this point the “owner” came up to us saying we still have to pay for this and we did order it. He was so rude and we actually were shocked that the “owner” would handle the situation in this way. Ok so forget that, we thought it best to get the bill and finish off our dinner somewhere else as this night can’t get any worse. But wait, carry on reading. The bill came and it charged us for the plate of somasa’s, I asked the head waitress to take this off, which she did after. We all chipped in and left cash in the folder. As we started walking out, the head waitress runs up to the bouncers and says we haven’t paid the bill. So the bouncers are now giving attitude stopping us from leaving and the head waitress would not believe us when we explained that another waitress had just collected the cash from the folder and it’s in her till. HOW CAN A COMPANY LIKE THIS ACUSE US OF STEALING!! We were all outraged and shocked more than anything. All of us will never return to this place and advise all other people think twice before they go.