The Everest - Ballina

I have used this restaurant many times for both eat-in and take-away. This review concerns an eat-in visit to the restaurant. The food used to be mediocre at Everest, but they have thankfully made changes because the menu and food of all types of late is really excellent. Having said this, Indian food especially rice is cheap to produce, but when you pay for a main course and then have to pay up to €3-50 for a single small portion of rice on top of the main course cost and €7-50 for a bottle of Cobra, I 'm afraid it all gets pretty expensive. But.... there were other problems. The constant traffic of take away bags is a huge annoyance when you are sitting in a restaurant and paying restaurant prices, in this case quite expensive ones. The busy take-away business seems to well outweigh the in house clientelle and also causes a problem as the kitchen backs up with so many orders, and the floor staff are under pressure to help, and you have to keep asking them to serve you. The main problem though is that the place is not clean. It is also a bit run down and it 's very dark. At the entrance there is a flight of stairs not used by any customers on which the carpet can only be described as filthy. This is the first thing you see when you walk in.... first impressions... not nice. Sticky carpets, aged furniture, grubby doors where hands have left their mark over the years and not been cleaned, grubby toilets and windows also do not add to the ambience. One then asks oneself, I wonder how clean the kitchen is? In all, excellent food, good friendly staff, but Everest really needs to get the place re-vamped and thoroughly cleaned and make its mind up considering its layout, whether it wants to be a restaurant or a take away.

Don’t let the decor put you off. Food is really tasty. I tried the Kathmandu 7 spice chicken starter prawn Nepalese curry. Staff were very friendly service was great.

We had a fabulous meal here . The starters included prawns and onion bhajjis which were delicious and so freshly cooked . The mains of chicken madras and saag chicken were beautifully flavoured as was the sag aloo side dish . Piping hot naan and rice were also delicious as were the crispy poppadoms . The service was excellent and very friendly. Highly recommend the Everest!

5/5 Indian takeaway. Would highly recommend the Aloo Kerau Cratpat starter. Also my partner and I got both iterations of the Nepalese Garlic Chilli mains (Prawns Chicken) can not recommend enough. Absolutely delicious got exactly what we wanted from an Indian takeaway bursting with flavour and stuffed afterwards.

I have been going there for last many years 8+. and it's always 5 stars. Nice service,and food is outstanding. Take away service also brilliant,food is always piping hot and delicious. Highly recommended