Opens at 5pmOpens today at 5pm; phone orders from 4:30pm. First deliveries about 5:40pm.
An Indian takeaway on Hanbury Road since 2004. Every curry finished in the karahi to the chilli count you pick, the tandoor lit at four, and our own drivers from Aberbargoed to Deri.
Two curries (any heat, chicken or vegetable), a pilau rice and a garlic naan for £20. Lamb £1.50 a curry more.
The kitchen
01
Korma to vindaloo, with chicken, lamb, king prawn, paneer or vegetables, each cooked to the heat you choose from one chilli to five. Build one on the curry builder with rice and a naan and see the price before you ring.
Chicken curries from £9.50, lamb £1.50 more, king prawn £3.50 more, vegetable £1.50 less.
02
Chicken and lamb tikka, tandoori chicken on the bone, seekh kebabs, king prawns and paneer shashlik from a clay tandoor at 400 degrees, served sizzling on onions with a salad and mint sauce. The mixed grill is the Saturday favourite.
Chicken tikka £11.50, half tandoori chicken £10.95, lamb tikka £12.95, the mixed grill £15.95, tandoori king prawn £15.50.
03
Basmati layered with spiced chicken, lamb, king prawn or vegetables, sealed and steamed so the rice takes the flavour, with fried onions and coriander on top and a vegetable curry sauce on the side.
Vegetable biryani £10.45, chicken £11.95, lamb £13.45, king prawn £15.45, the special mixed £15.95.
04
Paneer and vegetable curries to any heat, chana masala, tarka dal, saag aloo, Bombay potatoes, mushroom bhaji, samosas and bhajis, cooked in their own pans. Nine of the twelve can be made vegan with oil instead of ghee.
Vegetable curry from £8, paneer from £10.
05
A meal for two at £24.95 and the family feast for four at £44.95, with starters, curries, rice, naans and poppadoms; Tuesday curry night is two curries, a rice and a naan for £20. The deals page says which offer is on today.
Meal for two £24.95, family feast for four £44.95, Tuesday curry night £20.
06
Delivery by our own three drivers to Bargoed, Aberbargoed, Gilfach, Pengam, Fleur-de-Lys, Tir-y-berth, Brithdir and Deri, free over £20 within three miles, with the time from the clock: about forty minutes on a normal night, an hour on a Friday. Collection in twenty.
Free over £20 within three miles; £2 under that or further out.
The heat scale
The tandoor
A clay oven sunk in a steel drum at the back of the kitchen, at 400 degrees by five. The tikka and the seekh kebabs go in on skewers; the naans are slapped onto the wall by hand and come off blistered. The chicken in every curry has been through it first.
How we work
The base sauces are made every afternoon from onions, tomato and our own spice mix; your curry is finished in a karahi when you order it, to the heat you asked for. That is why a jalfrezi takes twelve minutes and not two.
The same menu, the same prices, by phone, at the counter or through this website. No app mark-up; delivery is free over £20 within three miles.
Every dish on the menu carries its allergen codes. Tell us when you order and Nasreen writes it on the ticket in red; the kitchen uses all 14 major allergens, so we will never say a dish is free of traces.
Three drivers who work for us, not for an app, who know the terraces of Aberbargoed and the lanes up to Deri, and who bring it hot in insulated bags.
Customers
I built a lamb jalfrezi at four chillies on the website, saw £11.45 before I rang, and the site said Friday was busy and to allow an hour. It came in fifty minutes and it was a four, not a two pretending.
The mixed grill arrives still sizzling, which I did not think was possible over three miles. The seekh kebabs are made in the back and you can tell.
A proper tarka dal with fried garlic, a saag paneer and a paneer bhuna at three, all vegetarian and none of it an afterthought. They asked about allergies without me mentioning it.
Medium: you notice it, you do not need a glass of milk. One is mild, two gentle, four hot, five very hot. Each curry has its own range: a korma goes to two, a vindaloo starts at four.
About forty minutes to the door and twenty to collect on a normal night; Friday and Saturday from half six to nine, and Sunday from six to eight, add twenty. The home page works it out from the clock.
Bargoed, Aberbargoed, Gilfach, Pengam, Fleur-de-Lys, Tir-y-berth, Brithdir and Deri. Free over £20 within three miles, minimum £15.
Build your curry on the website and send the order form, or ring. We ring or text back to confirm the time; pay on the phone, at the counter or at the door.
Every line on the menu has its allergen codes. Tell us when you order. Our kitchen handles all 14 major allergens, so we cannot promise any dish is free of traces.
No. Spice Junction is a counter and a kitchen, collection and delivery only, and has been since 2004.
Nine curries, five proteins, one to five chillies, a rice and a naan: the builder gives the price before you pick up the phone. Free delivery over £20 within three miles; about forty minutes on a normal night.
