Namaste Indian takeway in Smithfield closed?

Rakish Paddy

This place is normally buzzing until all hours, but it seems to be closed the past few days. Anyone know what's going on? Renovations? Shut temporarily by the health inspector? I hope they're not closing down - their daily specials are a great value feed.

themandan6611

Ordered out of them for the first time a few weeks ago, below average at best = Spice & Rice on Dorest St much nicer

uck51js9zml2yt

I had the misfortune to call in a few weeks ago and called the EHO.
She called out and it appears closed them down. Think it was today she called.
I saw shutters down and guys outside with rubber gloves.
You may thank me later!!

She was amazed at how busy they can be and put it down to the online sales as opposed to people actually calling in to order.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Best Indian around.

Sure the place looked like a kip from outside, but the food was beautiful (I've traveled from Dublin 13 for a take away).

I'd usually order when I'm working nights (nearby) so I'll be sorry to see it go permanently.

Beautiful food at reasonable costs which is usual for an Indian.

Sounds like a rather tall tale;

I had the misfortune to call in a few weeks ago and called the EHO.
She called out and it appears closed them down. Think it was today she called.
I saw shutters down and guys outside with rubber gloves.
You may thank me later!!

She was amazed at how busy they can be and put it down to the online sales as opposed to people actually calling in to order.

uck51js9zml2yt

Alicia Kind Cradle wrote: »

Best Indian around.

Sure the place looked like a kip from outside, but the food was beautiful (I've traveled from Dublin 13 for a take away).

I'd usually order when I'm working nights (nearby) so I'll be sorry to see it go permanently.

Beautiful food at reasonable costs which is usual for an Indian.

Sounds like a rather tall tale;

Which part am I lying about?

Pepe LeFrits

Namaste is awesome, it better not be closed. There's nothing on the FSAI's closure report anyway: https://www.fsai.ie/uploadedFiles/Monitoring_and_Enforcement/Enforcement/Enforcement-Orders-Closure.pdf

(Fade St Social is a rather high profile inclusion on it though...)

Rakish Paddy

themandan6611 wrote: »

Ordered out of them for the first time a few weeks ago, below average at best = Spice & Rice on Dorest St much nicer

I'm half-inclined to agree with you, but the thing with Namaste is that they are wildly inconsistent. Some of the best Indian meals (and I'm not exaggerating) I have ever eaten came from there, but I've also had absolute gick from there that I was unable to eat. If you order the vegetable madras there one evening, and go back a week later and order the same thing, you'll probably end up with two totally different dishes, and they are feckers for giving you the wrong thing entirely (once asked for the mixed veg curry but got what was either the lamb bhuna or lamb karahi).

Spice and Rice do decent curries (I've tried their madras and dansak), but their onion bhajis and veg pakoras etc. are lousy. "Curry and Kebab" on Thomas St., despite their unimpressive and unimaginative name do a pretty decent curry too.

If Namaste is permanently gone though, my business will be going to Madina on Mary St. For my money, they're the best curry place in Dublin that I know of.

Funnily enough, all of the above places are kips to look at - I wouldn't judge a takeaway too harshly for looking run-down if their food is good.

Tatranska, did you end up sick after a feed from Namaste?

uck51js9zml2yt

I don't mind if the outside is run down. It's when the inside I'd filthy.
namaste have a kitchen downstairs. I'd hate to see it based on the state of the one in public view.
The EHO has had them on radar for a while and wasn't surprised at what I said.

Slunk

I called in on Monday night and they were all inside but told me they were closed. They were having issues with their gas or ESB supply supposedly. Seems like it just happened. They have a place on the south circular road too which is still open.

MissFlitworth

Hope they are back open soon. Their saag paneer is magical comfort food sent by the gods. And their chili madras. And their chana pilau. (We're the kind of house who hit 2000 points worth of orders on their website frequently & get a tenner off).

uck51js9zml2yt

Just walked by and had a look.
They are still cleaning. Must have been filthy if it's taken so long to get clean.
Won't be eating there again!

Chinasea

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

Just walked by and had a look.
They are still cleaning. Must have been filthy if it's taken so long to get clean.
Won't be eating there again!

Stop slandering. You don't know the facts. This is people's livelihoods you are trying to destroy. Stop putting the boot in. No need, we heard ye the first time.

L1011

Chinasea wrote: »

Stop slandering. You don't know the facts. This is people's livelihoods you are trying to destroy. Stop putting the boot in. No need, we heard ye the first time.

It's only slander if its untrue, which we've not enough info to confirm or deny here.

uck51js9zml2yt

Chinasea wrote: »

Stop slandering. You don't know the facts. This is people's livelihoods you are trying to destroy. Stop putting the boot in. No need, we heard ye the first time.

What have I said that's untrue?

alastair

Nera, on Parnell St has been my go-to Indian delivery place of late. They do a Makhani Daal too - which most don't.

Rakish Paddy

alastair wrote: »

They do a Makhani Daal too

Barf!

January

https://www.fsai.ie/uploadedFiles/Monitoring_and_Enforcement/Enforcement/Enforcement-Orders-Closure.pdf

They are on the list now.

Rakish Paddy

January wrote: »

https://www.fsai.ie/uploadedFiles/Monitoring_and_Enforcement/Enforcement/Enforcement-Orders-Closure.pdf

They are on the list now.

Feck.

spurious

Honestly wouldn't stop me eating from there when they re-open. I'm fully sure my own kitchen wouldn't pass all the rules about storage etc.. Hasn't killed me yet.

arybvtcw0eolkf

spurious wrote: »

Honestly wouldn't stop me eating from there when they re-open. I'm fully sure my own kitchen wouldn't pass all the rules about storage etc.. Hasn't killed me yet.

Just asked my daughter, she's a chef and doing her degree in Culinary Arts.. Its a food storage issue and nothing to do with a dirty premises.

And yes, I'd be closed too.. According to her almost all household kitchens wouldn't meet the same standards required for commercial kitchens.

Dammit I'd murder an Indian right now.. A Vindaloo and a few beers, yummy :pac:

Damn you OP.

Paul Tergat

Would order from here quite a bit when I lived close by. I love my Indian curries and this was easily the best I have tried in Dublin - very close to what I would get at home in Bradford (and we know our curries!)

L1011

Chinasea wrote: »

Stop slandering. You don't know the facts. This is people's livelihoods you are trying to destroy. Stop putting the boot in. No need, we heard ye the first time.

Care to row back a tad?

RasTa

It's abosulte nonsense if nobody was getting sick.

You want to see some of the kitchens I ate from in India, Thailand, Laos or even Tokyo and never got sick.

Although I heard the inspectors aren't that bad. The usual busybody on here, proud of themselves.

Howard the Duck

RasTa wrote: »

It's abosulte nonsense if nobody was getting sick.

You want to see some of the kitchens I ate from in India, Thailand, Laos or even Tokyo and never got sick.

Although I heard the inspectors aren't that bad. The usual busybody on here, proud of themselves.

Yes lets lower our standards to that of less developed countries and/or wait until people get sick before we take action against restaurants.

I think it's wrong to speculate on why they are closed it could be any number of reasons and if they fix the issues then i wouldn't have any problems going there again.
I only ordered once off this place when i was living in Smithfield and it wasn't great at all, but someone said they are inconsistent so maybe i got them on a bad night.

Dingle_berry

RasTa wrote: »

It's abosulte nonsense if nobody was getting sick.

You want to see some of the kitchens I ate from in India, Thailand, Laos or even Tokyo and never got sick.

Although I heard the inspectors aren't that bad. The usual busybody on here, proud of themselves.

You may be happy to take that chance but someone who is immunocompromised or less able to regulate fluids might feel differently. People with those conditions are less likely to live long enough to eat out in Thailand etc

If 1 in every 500 meals made from improperly stored food makes you sick, that's 1 every 2 years at home. Could be once a month for a takeaway.
Also one meal from a domestic kitchen would affect less than 15/20 people. A bad batch from a takeaway...

January

Mod Note: Row back the insults on the poster who stated they made the call to the EHO.

uck51js9zml2yt

fsai site is updated.
They are open today.
5 days to sort out "storage" issues!

Polar101

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

5 days to sort out "storage" issues!

Sounds good, then it wasn't a major issue.

mosi

Polar101 wrote: »

Sounds good, then it wasn't a major issue.

Have you ever watched Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares?

Augme

Someone's obsession with that takeaway is quite disturbing.

uck51js9zml2yt

Augme wrote: »

Someone's obsession with that takeaway is quite disturbing.

Yeah, I agree. The OP daring to tell us it had closed ... disgraceful behaviour.

I for one am quiet glad that the EHO felt it was in such a state that they needed to close to bring their establishment up to acceptable commercial hygiene standards.
As no one knows why they were closed, we can only assume the EHO had sufficient grounds for doing so.
There are many other eateries who get inspected and don't get closed down.

If people are happy with eating in places with the standard of a Thai street stall they can do so.
Others arent and as was said earlier, while many never got sick, people with weakened immune systems are at serious risk. My family came into this second category.
If people have a problem with them being closed down , PM me and I'll give them the name and number of the EHO so you can complain to her about having the audacity to do her job.

Augme

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

Yeah, I agree. The OP daring to tell us it had closed ... disgraceful behaviour.

I for one am quiet glad that the EHO felt it was in such a state that they needed to close to bring their establishment up to acceptable commercial hygiene standards.
As no one knows why they were closed, we can only assume the EHO had sufficient grounds for doing so.
There are many other eateries who get inspected and don't get closed down.

If people are happy with eating in places with the standard of a Thai street stall they can do so.
Others arent and as was said earlier, while many never got sick, people with weakened immune systems are at serious risk. My family came into this second category.
If people have a problem with them being closed down , PM me and I'll give them the name and number of the EHO so you can complain to her about having the audacity to do her job.

Very true. But that still didn't stop you with your insinuations.

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

Just walked by and had a look.
They are still cleaning. Must have been filthy if it's taken so long to get clean.
Won't be eating there again!

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

fsai site is updated.
They are open today.
5 days to sort out "storage" issues!

uck51js9zml2yt

Augme wrote: »

Very true. But that still didn't stop you with your insinuations.

What's not true about what I said?
I'm also allowed to draw conclusions.
They were closed from Monday to Friday evening. I saw them pulling out equipment and cleaning. I saw guys standing outside with rubber gloves and mops in their hands.
It may well have been a "storage" issue but storage doesn't automatically exclude the idea that the place was unclean.

I know what I saw when I was in initially. I know what the EHO said to me. I also know her lack of surprise in what I brought up.

People in this thread have called me a liar about informing the fsai and being slanderous only for the fsai notification to be then posted. I notice those people haven't posted again or backed up their accusations when asked.i t's easy to be a keyboard warrior.

I'm quiet happy for them to listen to the voicemail left for me when the EHO had called to the premises telling me she had done so.

Rather than me having the issue. I don't. I can choose not to order from them again.

It's other people on this thread who seem to have an issue that someone would have reported them. Maybe if more people took action agaisnt these places, we'd have better standards.

I wonder how many of these people have ever gone inside the place rather than ordering online.

humberklog

I really liked it when it 1st opened but as the years wore on the exterior and reception was allowed to get really grubby.
I'm a shop keeper myself (not in food) and I think that the overall presentation of a premises is a reflection of the owner's interest in their business.

If I'm in a restaurant with filthy toilets I make a mental connection that the kitchen may not be great either. If I'm in a take away with a filthy reception I make the same connection.

I may not be right in the assumption that the state of the reception or toilets is a reflection of the kitchen but I eat with my eyes first and Namaste wouldn't have been enticing me in for a good number of years.

Augme

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

What's not true about what I said?
I'm also allowed to draw conclusions.
They were closed from Monday to Friday evening. I saw them pulling out equipment and cleaning. I saw guys standing outside with rubber gloves and mops in their hands.
It may well have been a "storage" issue but storage doesn't automatically exclude the idea that the place was unclean.

I know what I saw when I was in initially. I know what the EHO said to me. I also know her lack of surprise in what I brought up.

People in this thread have called me a liar about informing the fsai and being slanderous only for the fsai notification to be then posted. I notice those people haven't posted again or backed up their accusations when asked.i t's easy to be a keyboard warrior.

I'm quiet happy for them to listen to the voicemail left for me when the EHO had called to the premises telling me she had done so.

Rather than me having the issue. I don't. I can choose not to order from them again.

It's other people on this thread who seem to have an issue that someone would have reported them. Maybe if more people took action agaisnt these places, we'd have better standards.

I wonder how many of these people have ever gone inside the place rather than ordering online.

About it being filthy. You have no idea if that's the case or not yet you claim it was.

uck51js9zml2yt

Augme wrote: »

About it being filthy. You have no idea if that's the case or not yet you claim it was.

I know what I saw. If you think I can't evaluate what I see then you're mistaken. If you think I can't recognise dirt then... well I'll leave you to end that one !
I've worked in catering. I know what EHOs look at when they're on site.
they don't close a place down for no reason....but I'm sure it's easier to defend the indefensible and shoot the messenger than it is to think the "holy grail" of indian takeaways did anything wrong.

Augme

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

I know what I saw. If you think I can't evaluate what I see then you're mistaken. If you think I can't recognise dirt then... well I'll leave you to end that one !
I've worked in catering. I know what EHOs look at when they're on site.
they don't close a place down for no reason....but I'm sure it's easier to defend the indefensible and shoot the messenger than it is to think the "holy grail" of indian takeaways did anything wrong.

No it's just easier to point out the facts that you have no idea what they were closed down. Something you have already admitted.

uck51js9zml2yt

Augme wrote: »

No it's just easier to point out the facts that you have no idea what they were closed down. Something you have already admitted.

Yes. You're right.
They got closed down for not giving someone a free poppadom and some mint sauce...how foolish of me.

I'm sure that omission was the reason for all the cleaning.

Barry Badrinath

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

I know what I saw. If you think I can't evaluate what I see then you're mistaken. If you think I can't recognise dirt then... well I'll leave you to end that one !
I've worked in catering. I know what EHOs look at when they're on site.
they don't close a place down for no reason....but I'm sure it's easier to defend the indefensible and shoot the messenger than it is to think the "holy grail" of indian takeaways did anything wrong.

What exactly did you see?

RasTa

Carmelo Rich Xerox wrote: »

I know what I saw. If you think I can't evaluate what I see then you're mistaken. If you think I can't recognise dirt then... well I'll leave you to end that one !
I've worked in catering. I know what EHOs look at when they're on site.
they don't close a place down for no reason....but I'm sure it's easier to defend the indefensible and shoot the messenger than it is to think the "holy grail" of indian takeaways did anything wrong.

Well it's back open now so I'm not sure why you keep on harping on about it.

They closed down Fade Street Social due to pluming so you haven't a clue why they close down places.

You worked in catering? Nobody cares.

Cienciano

Pity the FSAI don't elaborate a bit more. I mean, a food storage issue? Is that not storing certain foods in a fridge, is it storing raw foods beside cooked foods? No idea myself.

But the idea that unless people are getting sick it's ok is ridiculous.

SB_Part2

Was open today and looked absolutely packed when I was passing it. Doesn't seem like the closer did any harm to their business anyway.