Best Indian food in EL. I love their butter chicken and mutton curry 🤤🤤

A tiny restaurant tucked away in little corner … this place has wonderful, delicious Indian food. The decor is simple and elegant. We tried the prawn tempura and the curries … prawn curry as well as the lamb curry. Each cooked to perfection … tasty. And you must have the garlic butter naans. They melt in your mouth. Wish we were living here in East London … we would be back again and again.

The food was amazing, but the best was the family who owns the place, so warm and friendly, would definitely recommend this place to everyone.

I just did another interesting taste test between 2 Butter Chicken Curries made at 2 of East London's leading curry shops (and both of them in Berea): Red Chillies in Chamerlain Road and Irana in Glaston Street. Both businesses are clean and presentable, both with friendly and professional staff and both of them give very good service. I had to compare apples with apples, so I decided on a regular sized Butter Chicken Currie with rice, to use as a common denominator. You will see in my picture that Red Chillies gives you more curry than Irana, as their curry take away container is bigger that Irana's, while the size of the rice is almost the same. Irana served a mixture of white and yellow rice and Red Chillies served white rice. The price at Irana was R109, while Red Chillies charged R90. Now for the most important part, THE CURRY COMPARISON: Irana's Butter Chicken Curry was yellowish in colour, the chicken breast was cut into larger cubes and it was dryer than that of Red Chillies. Still, the spices used was flavourful and delicious. The Butter Chicken Curry from Red Chillies was more orangy in colour, the chicken breast was cut into smaller cubes and the curry had a lot more gravy. It had a distinctly different and slightly sweeter taste that that of Irana, but also had a delicious blend of spices and lovely flavours. Both of these establishments serve a good quality and tasty Butter Chicken Curry and are well worth a visit. Well done guys!👏😉👍🏻 I can't wait to compare both of your Beef Curries!👌🤤

My #1 choice for waffles in the Eastern Cape!!! Thank you RocoMamas for having us✅

Really dissapointed. Paid R165 for a mutton and rice which wasnt enough for 1 person and not the best of tastes. Found a far better option at Tasty point in town where you can get this at R65 which will feed 2 people. Total rip off guys.

Great curries that I have enjoyed on various occasions. Loved the new addition to the menu, Ramen ftw. Itadakimasu

Way to expensive

The best curry wow and service a 100% Very relaxing mouth watering menu💋🙏❤️

Honestly, this is the best Indian cuisine I have ever experienced far and wide. East Londoners are very fortunate to have such a special restaurant within their vicinity.

Amazing food. Lovely hosts. I'll be back!

Excellent Indian cuisine and really friendly service. Watch their fb page for specials.

Assume food good people fast service and good food a favorite of mine

I am from Pretoria and in East London on business. I always look for descent Indian Restaurants as I am crazy about Indian foods. I searched the internet and saw Irana and called them to make a reservation. Arriving there the reception by 3 people was very friendly and I felt extremely comfortable. They are the, Papa, Mama and daughter. Now for the food and beliefe me, I can be a very bad critic. What I ate was a starter and mains. It was WOW and AWSOME. I will HIGHLY recommend that curry lovers go there and that non spicy lovers also go there and put the heavenly Butter Chicken in there mouths. I thank you for spoiling me with Amazing Indian Delicious Delight. I WILL BE BACK.

It was absolutely lovely and we enjoyed the meal.

I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven. The LAMB MADRAS (HOT) is unforgettable. Not to be missed. Ravin and his wife Tilly are warm and welcoming and my whole evening was wonderful. P.S.: So wonderful, in fact, that I went there a second time two days later, also for dinner. Again, a superb meal of LAMB MADRAS (yes, HOT) which makes me long to return to East London. My thanks and best wishes to Ravin and Tilly. Meeting them both and the experience of their great hospitality, was fabulous.

Best Roti in South Africa , great service and exceptional family restaurant 🧡🧡

Irana has THE BEST curry in East London. Wonderful and friendly staff. Highly recommended.

Great atmosphere. Interior looks good. Music and decor suits the interior. I would recommend this venue. Crunchy and sweet waffles. Cheesy chips.

Always love coming for my weekend special here, plus amazing service and staff.

The food and customer savvy was superb but need to improve on waiting time for the order. Regards Mr Peter

Not bad, the "no lemonade" was a buzz kill though.

I love RocoMamas (or used to) but today this branch dropped the ball badly. We waited over 40 mins for our order. My burger eventually arrived totally burnt so sent it back. Second one was also burnt! Then we left. 0 out of 10.

nice king burger worth the money been paid for it

Good food. Good service.

The food's great, staff are great, not a long waiting time, menu is very nice and looks appealing, I couldn't recommend this place more.

Good food, good Covid 19 protocols. Was a little slow that particular day but still good

Great Chilli Fries and Ribs

Service was slow

Excellent service

Great food and service

Excellent service with great food!

Good food. Good service.

Love their food

The service is great, and their food is very good.

Cute and cozy place with great service💜

No service

It was the best and very friendly people.

Okay service

Nice good good service

Always the best service and food

Always busy and full make sure u come on time but aside from that they have provide good service

Great food

Ok ribs

Great place

Amazing service

There food and atmosphere is awesome and presentation is upper class it is a lovely place to eat.

Nice food lol

A very relaxed environment to take your family to 🧡

Ok. Overlooks the freeway, and some squatercaps on the side. Food can be steep if you're not careful, but it is tasty.

This is a super cool place third visit tonight but my chips was cold when it came to the table 🙁🙁

Fresh, fast and delicious munchies 😁 friendly staff. Good place for the family to eat out

Lovely food.

Nice food... with a very cool menu 😁

Best gourmet burgers in town. So much variety.

Everything under one roof.

Superb

Personal attention and delicious food

Best tasting curry always freshly prepared.

Best place to get authentic Indian food in South Africa. The owner is a lovely gentleman, who is from Mauritius. His food has the subtle characteristics of Mauritian flavors, which is a diverse blend of various Asian cuisines. If you are in East London, do not make the mistake of skipping this restaurant! P.s. His Briyani is out of this world, however he will only make it on request for a large number of people. ✌️

Very friendly service, nice setting and really fantastic food would recommend it to anyone, they also have a nice selection for the hot or not, really great

Food was awesome. Very Impressed. Would recommend this place.

I will give them 5 stars

Excellent food, awsome atmosphere, very friendly service

Good ambience

The best curry in town

Great takeaways

Cosy, homely and delicious whatever food you choose they master it. Now they have live perfomance too 😍

Service was very good, very friendly and inviting. Lamb curry was good, flavourful with a good kick, maybe required a little salt. Beef curry was just hot, not enough flavour to it. Order with roti and naan, rotis were delicious, naan was just ok. Overall a little pricey, but decent flavour.

Best indian dishes ive had outside from my mum...

One of the best Curry I had!

Best curries in East London

Exceptional taste

Beautiful 😍👌

Amazing fusion Indian food.... Highly recommended.

I loved their chocolate spring rolls

Great Indian food!!

Great food

Food is terrible and so is customer service. Manager is rude.

Delicious food and friendly service

Exquiste food love their Prawns the most

The butter chicken was very delicious 😋

Delicious food

Very good meal

Very good meal

Very helpful and friendly manager, honest and upfront, been away from home and just wanted a curry, and this was definitely an amazing substitute, was not a Durban curry, but had my taste buds wanting more. Had the Chicken and prawn curry with Roti. A must try.

Food flavoring was good but oversalted..

Enjoyed the curry was really yummy!!

Awesome curries and rotis

Excellent food, best curry I've had in a long time and especially in East London. Excellent friendly service. Very clean establishment. When I'm back on East London I'm most definitely coming back here again. Arion & Carmelita Naidoo - CT

I enjoyed the meal. Food was good and not overly spicy - Had the Butter Chicken, Lamb Gosht and Chicken + Prawn Curry - which I felt was the best one. The place is cozy and there was parking place. I was happy with the service and even the owner had a chat with us. Seems very personable. I do wish the portion sizes were a bit bigger and a slightly bigger menu. I'd really love to see some items like Laccha paratas and raita and perhaps indian grill items. East London desperately needs more variety (^_^).

Good food. Nice cozy place. Good service

The best food ever and the most freindly staff

Great food, warm and cosy place.

Lovely flavours in the curries (tried 4). I don't recommend the potato curry. The portion sizes are smaller than expected for a "large" takeaways. Disappointed 😕

Loved the food perfectly spice amazing flavour. very friendly staff and all round nice place. And did i mention the food AWESOME.

Absolutely mouth-watering food. Definitely worth the price. Super friendly staff. The menu could use a few more items but all in all 10/10 would recommend.

Small warm and cosy restaurant- seems like a family business. Very good service. The paratha a must try. The curries was average and the prawn curry is overpriced for the amount that is served.

The food was awesome..I felt as if I was home...a bit pricey for the prawn curry and rice thou..the butter beans bunny was of the top

It is a great little place. Ravin and his family made it so welcoming. The food is brilliant. The owner and his family really do go the extra mile.

Best Indian restaurant you can ever get love there good Exspecially there bunny chows they just yummy all there flavors of there food is melt in your mouth and that's what I love would recommend them to anyone any day

Absolutely a must try. The owners are extremely friendly and the food was amazing. Will return on each visit to East London.

Not a fancy place to eat, but the service and the food made up for it. Very attentive, owner cooked, authentic home made deliciousness.

Irana is my lunch spot whenever I'm in East London, great tasty Indian cuisine. Friendly service and great atmosphere.

Good food, kind of home cooked with a Mauritian flare. A bit on the expensive side, but good for once in a while. The owners are kind and friendly.

Always enjoy the food here. Delicious. Never disappoints.