Indian Home Diner 86 Oxford Street, Paddington, New South Wales 2021

"One hell of an institution. The go to for fantastic aussie style north indian. Had the butter chicken kebab/roll w onion bhaji and a butter chicken w rice too. Fabulously tender fresh meat, well tempered spices and perfect gravy consistency. Gotta come back more often!"

"Soft warm naan bread, tender tandoori chicken and the curry is just perfect. Loved it! Highly recommended. Can be a quick heavy snack or even a whole meal. We came here after seeing the recommendation from Mark Wein (YouTuber) and it was worth it! Cheap and the really good food. They have lots of different options to choose from including the curries. From sweet & mild to hot and spicy. We got the classic chicken tikka and it was enough for 1 but they had other sizes as well. The place is relatively small and there are no/limited dining-in option."

"Just as advertised on social media. The food was great and reasonably priced. The staff wasn't in a chatty mood so I could not ask about the dish or recommendations so I ordered what the guy Infront of me was having which was the double tikka. It was so huge it took 2 of us to finish it. Definitely will be back again."

"A beloved Sydney institution according to the predominantly white, drunken crowd that it serves in Sydney's east, but there's severely limited food options in that part of town so saying it's one of the best late night eats in the area is like winning by default. That drunkenness comes into play because the food is ash. I don't mean metaphorically, I mean the food comes literally burnt, not just charred - burnt, and the acrid taste of burnt carbon is hard to escape if you have any decent palate. Both chicken and naan from the tikka come that way. Combined with the lack of care for temperature (spoiler alert - naan gets cold quickly, if it's not freshly cooked it's cold) it makes it a slog to get through it. And the curry sauce? Tasteless, amusingly bland as is befitting for the clientele coming in. I had rogan Josh and wasn't getting much spice or depth of flavour from it at all. There's many, many, easy to find Indian places that don't involve heading out to western Sydney for that make sauces more enjoyable than this, this would easily be amongst the least flavorful I've had in Sydney, period. Service is underwhelming- they don't speak up despite the noise so it's hard to hear things but also there's no real system- no hints about where to wait, how long, and where to collect and or pay even, and how they're tracking your order. The unfriendliness might be suitable for long lines of drunk crowds but on my visit I had just beaten that crowd, who came in promptly after I ordered. Then we come to the crowd itself - boisterous, ignoring personal space, not entirely surprising, but the numbers that this place are famous for seem to be a result of the throttling that happens - it seems like they are limited by the tikka coming from the back, so speed is not their forte (which, I'm just putting there as guidance, I don't mark them down further for this). I don't have any positives about this place, that the concept is unique in Sydney is true but I'm eating the execution and not the idea. Like some late night kebab places you go because it's the only option available after a long night of drinking."