We dined out at Sheffield’s South Indian restaurant Grand Kerala

The Star visited Grand Kerala, on Carver Street, Sheffield city centre.

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00:00Grand Kerala is a South Indian restaurant on Carver Street in Sheffield.

00:05It opened at the end of 2023 and since then it's been tempting me every single day.

00:11Finally, it was time to give it a go.

00:13Me and my friend entered the restaurant quite late on a Friday night,

00:17but we were seen to a table and given the menu which has lots of options.

00:21Having already had a few drinks on West Street, we were quite happy for tap water.

00:26The restaurant owner spent £200,000 refurbishing this restaurant which used to be in Italian.

00:32I've had to mute the background music for copyright reasons,

00:35but the restaurant was playing very loud sort of Indian dance R&B music which was pretty cool.

00:41After a very short wait, our meals were brought to the table.

00:44I ordered a paneer butter masala and my friend ordered a mutton biryani.

00:50We weren't overly impressed by the general look of this meal,

00:54but honestly it tasted really good.

00:57There was a moment of initial confusion because we had ordered rice,

01:01but it just came a little bit later.

01:03So I tried my curry with a bit of papadum, some rice and also the Kerala paratha,

01:08which you might have seen earlier.

01:10It was like a layered flatbread type thing. It was really good.

01:14We were also given these two little dips.

01:16I'm not really sure what they were, but they did add a little something something.

01:20Steadily, we made our way through our meals and we were very impressed.

01:24The masala had lots of levels of seasoning and flavour and also a little bit of heat.

01:30We did also get this stunning glass of water.

01:34All in all, our meal came to £26.

01:36You can see the breakdown there, which we thought was really good value.

01:40There was no service charge, but we did give 10% tip.

01:43This restaurant also has a shisha lounge, which I think can be used upstairs.

01:48We were in and out of the restaurant in about 50 minutes,

01:51and overall we're pleased to say that we can recommend this restaurant.