Recently dined here quite disappointed used to be amazing food this time not the case over cooked and tough meat restaurant itself desperately needs renovating/decorating quite cold in there an a little depressing won’t be rushing back unless changes are made other more comfortable Indian restaurants around
Jim
Great food, desparately needs decorating.
Sarah Broad
Delicious food, very reasonably priced.
Leslie James R
Romantic Evening Meal. We are a regular visitor to this excellent Indian Restaurant whereupon you often find large family’s also enjoying a meal. The Balti House has been operating 25 yrs and is still as popular as ever. It provides excellent Indian meals at reasonable prices. Alcoholic drinks are cheap.
Mi MI
I live in Formby, love curry so I always come here.
Emmacash
I visit this restaurant regularly with family and friends as well as ordering take always. Both brilliant.. best around. In fact my teenage kids won’t eat anywhere else. Traditional feel. Staff very friendly and good at helping with choices when wanting to explore the menu. Good always the same decent standard. Staff can not do enough for you. Piping hot, good quality. Decent portions. Definitely recommend. Yes the decor is older fashioned but that goes with the vibe of the building and suits the traditional feel. I would not listen to the poor reviews on here.. I was shocked to read them.
AS Goujet
Where to start… We entered the restaurant at 6.30 and asked for a table for 2 people.The restaurant was half empty, but the owner told us they were full tonight and we couldn’t eat here as we didn’t have a reservation.The waiter didn’t seem to agree with him and was surprised by his answer.However take away was possible.We left, went for a drink next door, and actually came back at 7.30 to order for take away. The place was not more crowded.Came back again at 7.45 to pick up our food.The place was again as empty as when we first entered.And I said to my friend: it seems we would have had the time to eat considering no other people entered the restaurant to eat here in the last 1h15 window!Got our order but then heard from the owner that they don’t accept credit card - even though the credit card machine was just behind him and plugged in fine!!!!The ATM next door didn’t work and we had to walk 10 minutes to find the next one while our food was getting cold because we haven’t been warned before.All in all we still don’t know why we have been treated like we were.The owner is disrespectful and obviously had no shame lying in front of our face. Twice!Very odd to not welcome customers when your actually job is restaurant manager.There was 0 compassion from the owner. He was very cold and unfriendly to us all the way through.Absolute disgrace.
Nikki Jahnke
One of the best curries I have eaten in a long time!
AndyS-Family
Had 2 nice takeaway meals from here, so booked a reservation on Saturday night, The food was good, but the service was awful... my wife and I felt rushed from the second we sat down to order a drink and we were hardly given any time to read the menu. The restaurant had two large parties booked in but elsewhere the rest of the restaurant was quiet and not once did the waiters come over to ask if the food was nice etc. The food was ok, but the waiters were very cold and rushed us and even when we paid the bill and left a tip, we were not acknowledged when we walked out and we just felt like we were not relevant from the minute we walked in to the minute we walked out, We are easy going people who have made many v good comments on trip advisor for many other restaurants over many years,,,, but we will not be going back here for a meal.
Fred Jones
Excellent small restaurant in the old Formby schoolhouse. Great cooking of traditional dishes, with friendly service. One of the best features is consistency - you can rely on today's meal being just as good as you remember it previously.
I often use this app to write positively about the restaurants I visit. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good word to say about Hilal Balti House. The food is bland and flavourless, the drinks are warm, the decor is dark and drab and the atmosphere is non existent. Formby village deserves a better quality Indian restaurant.
M Goldberg
Best place if you want a time warp foods good though.
Gonetravelling2020
Sadly this was one of the worst Indian meals I have ever had. The food had no taste at all… I couldn’t find anything nice to say about the meal and my friend’s food was the same. It’s an Indian restaurant that doesn’t play Indian music but instead they had Jazz on. Not very authentic... When it come to paying, they don’t accept card and both local cash machines were out of order, leaving my friend to walk 20 mins away to get cash. Feedback: Add some flavours to your dishes. Get with the times and get a card reader. Play some Indian style music to add to the atmosphere. Serve cold drinks (the soft drinks were warm). Sorry, I would never visit this place again.
Les Carter
It is a great place to go to food is wonderful staff great to I have no faults with hilal always a pleasure to keep going back music not to loud always in the background not blurring like other restaurants do should take a leaf out there book on this.
Recently dined here quite disappointed used to be amazing food this time not the case over cooked and tough meat restaurant itself desperately needs renovating/decorating quite cold in there an a little depressing won’t be rushing back unless changes are made other more comfortable Indian restaurants around
Great food, desparately needs decorating.
Delicious food, very reasonably priced.
Romantic Evening Meal. We are a regular visitor to this excellent Indian Restaurant whereupon you often find large family’s also enjoying a meal. The Balti House has been operating 25 yrs and is still as popular as ever. It provides excellent Indian meals at reasonable prices. Alcoholic drinks are cheap.
I live in Formby, love curry so I always come here.
I visit this restaurant regularly with family and friends as well as ordering take always. Both brilliant.. best around. In fact my teenage kids won’t eat anywhere else. Traditional feel. Staff very friendly and good at helping with choices when wanting to explore the menu. Good always the same decent standard. Staff can not do enough for you. Piping hot, good quality. Decent portions. Definitely recommend. Yes the decor is older fashioned but that goes with the vibe of the building and suits the traditional feel. I would not listen to the poor reviews on here.. I was shocked to read them.
Where to start… We entered the restaurant at 6.30 and asked for a table for 2 people.The restaurant was half empty, but the owner told us they were full tonight and we couldn’t eat here as we didn’t have a reservation.The waiter didn’t seem to agree with him and was surprised by his answer.However take away was possible.We left, went for a drink next door, and actually came back at 7.30 to order for take away. The place was not more crowded.Came back again at 7.45 to pick up our food.The place was again as empty as when we first entered.And I said to my friend: it seems we would have had the time to eat considering no other people entered the restaurant to eat here in the last 1h15 window!Got our order but then heard from the owner that they don’t accept credit card - even though the credit card machine was just behind him and plugged in fine!!!!The ATM next door didn’t work and we had to walk 10 minutes to find the next one while our food was getting cold because we haven’t been warned before.All in all we still don’t know why we have been treated like we were.The owner is disrespectful and obviously had no shame lying in front of our face. Twice!Very odd to not welcome customers when your actually job is restaurant manager.There was 0 compassion from the owner. He was very cold and unfriendly to us all the way through.Absolute disgrace.
One of the best curries I have eaten in a long time!
Had 2 nice takeaway meals from here, so booked a reservation on Saturday night, The food was good, but the service was awful... my wife and I felt rushed from the second we sat down to order a drink and we were hardly given any time to read the menu. The restaurant had two large parties booked in but elsewhere the rest of the restaurant was quiet and not once did the waiters come over to ask if the food was nice etc. The food was ok, but the waiters were very cold and rushed us and even when we paid the bill and left a tip, we were not acknowledged when we walked out and we just felt like we were not relevant from the minute we walked in to the minute we walked out, We are easy going people who have made many v good comments on trip advisor for many other restaurants over many years,,,, but we will not be going back here for a meal.
Excellent small restaurant in the old Formby schoolhouse. Great cooking of traditional dishes, with friendly service. One of the best features is consistency - you can rely on today's meal being just as good as you remember it previously.
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I often use this app to write positively about the restaurants I visit. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good word to say about Hilal Balti House. The food is bland and flavourless, the drinks are warm, the decor is dark and drab and the atmosphere is non existent. Formby village deserves a better quality Indian restaurant.
Best place if you want a time warp foods good though.
Sadly this was one of the worst Indian meals I have ever had. The food had no taste at all… I couldn’t find anything nice to say about the meal and my friend’s food was the same. It’s an Indian restaurant that doesn’t play Indian music but instead they had Jazz on. Not very authentic... When it come to paying, they don’t accept card and both local cash machines were out of order, leaving my friend to walk 20 mins away to get cash. Feedback: Add some flavours to your dishes. Get with the times and get a card reader. Play some Indian style music to add to the atmosphere. Serve cold drinks (the soft drinks were warm). Sorry, I would never visit this place again.
It is a great place to go to food is wonderful staff great to I have no faults with hilal always a pleasure to keep going back music not to loud always in the background not blurring like other restaurants do should take a leaf out there book on this.
Quality food everytime and staff are 1st class.