Alvaston Balti

Alvaston Balti sits in Morley House on the Shardlow Road end of Alvaston, a short walk from where London Road, Shardlow Road and the A5111 inner ring all meet at one of south-east Derby's busier road junctions. It is a single-room Indian takeaway working the standard balti-house menu — chicken, lamb and king-prawn balti dishes in a graded heat ladder from korma at the milder end through madras and vindaloo at the hot, with karahi pots, biryanis, tandoori starters, plain and pilau rice and a full naan list including the larger family-sized peshwari and keema breads. There is no seating to speak of; the shop runs as collection and delivery with the order book worked out of Alvaston and the adjacent Boulton streets. Pricing sits in the mid-range for a Derby suburb balti house and the kitchen is firmly in the cook-to-order rather than batch-then-reheat school, which shows up in repeat reviews praising the curry consistency. Shardlow Road sits between the older 1930s Alvaston housing and the canal-bank development that takes you out towards Shelton Lock, which gives the takeaway a wide catchment despite the small shopfront.