Restaurant Review - India, Ilkley*** The decor, lighting and furniture are all excellent, the restaurant looks really good. We walked in at 7ish on Wednesday night without booking and got a table, it was a bit chill and raining outside and we got a table next to the fire, nice one. As we perused the extensive menu the lighting changed from a sort of dusky look to a blazing sunrise effect, very nice. There appear to be about 7 staff working, and about the same amount of customers. One girl on the front desk, two or three waiters with microphones and earpieces so they can talk to the front desk six feet away and a small gaggle of chefs. We ordered some drinks, which came promptly. Then I asked to order the food, messages are passed via the microphone system and another waiter appears with a hand held computer. After a lot of messing about we place our order, I can't help but think it would have taken far less time just to write the order down on an order pad. The poppadums and pickles we ordered never arrive, one staff member per customer, a computerized ordering system and we can't get our nibbles, not good. The starters arrive quickly though. We both went for tandoori mixed kebab, which was fine, but not exceptional. The main course follows rapidly enough, although I'm getting fed up of the Chinese whispers ordering system every time I want a bottle of beer. I had a garlic chilly mince curry, Mrs YS went for a very nice chicken dopiaza. I had chapati's which were rather thick and doughy, Mrs YS had a very nice garlic naan. My main course was supposed to be medium hot, but I struggled to eat it, Meg said it was close very hot indeed after trying a mouthful. Our meals were ok, but not really better than the local competition, with the set up of the place I thought they were going for the Tamarind/Zaika end of the market, but no, it seems to be a pretty standard Indian restaurant just with much nicer surroundings. What I didn't like were the hovering waiters, they were two in our section of the room, looking after four people. It felt like we were eating under intense scrutiny as they stood peering down at you, depending where you sit you might have a waiter almost at your elbow all night, some people might like this, I do not. I have come out to spend the evening with my wife and I don't want the waiting staff hovering by able to hear every word we speak. The bill for two starters, two curries, 3 bottled beers, 2 sprites, naan and chappati's came to £35, they tried to charge me for the poppadums and pickles, but did remove this from the bill when I pointed out they had not actually brought them to our table.