Bay Of Bengal - Edinburgh, City of

Every place where the customer is judged has failed. When our group of 7 tried to get a table, we were told we had to order a main course before we could even sit down. It's no wonder the restaurant was empty - maybe they know they're not good.

Our experience at the restaurant was cut short before it even started. We were a group of seven and the restaurant was nearly empty during mealtime, yet we were rudely told that we had to order seven main dishes. Despite our hunger, we were put off by the attitude and found it unreasonable for a restaurant with so few customers to enforce such a rule. We happily left and went to a more welcoming restaurant that did not limit our meal choices.

I would not normally choose to dine at this restaurant, as it is located directly on the Royal Mile and is a tourist trap. After discovering that our usual curry house was closed, we wandered around the New Town area and ended up here out of necessity. The only reason we decided to eat here was because there were no other customers and we were very hungry. We chose to sit by the window and ordered from the budget menu. Our typical curry nights usually consist of two korma curries, naan bread, two bottles of Cobra beer each, and chatting for hours. The budget menu offered a starter and a main for £13.95. For starters, we had a vegetable pakora and poppadoms. As for the mains, we were a bit disappointed with...

The bay of bengal has been in a first-class tourist place for almost as many years as I am alive. it has carved itself clearly over the years a niche for itself, but I wondered whether this niche has been exhausted over the offer of wide popular joys for tourists from a long day of hilly wrong curves. I pulled myself in to check it out.

On entering there was a great welcome however they were very quick to try to move us on! It was very curt and brisk after that and the food was very ordinary. They charged us for the poppadums and a hefty service charge at the end.