Kims Kitchen

Kim's Kitchen is the Chinese takeaway tucked into the Haven Court parade off Keldholme Lane in Alvaston, a quiet residential edge of the south-east Derby suburb a short walk from the small Keldholme Centre that also houses the local Domino's. The kitchen runs the standard British-Cantonese list — sweet and sour, kung po, salt and pepper, chow mein, fried rice and a long curry-sauce side — cooked to order from a single shopfront, with collection and delivery only. The shop has built one of the stronger review books of any south-east Derby Chinese over the years — around four stars across more than five hundred reviews on the aggregator sites — with portion size, tenderness of the meat and consistent turnaround the recurring positives. The kitchen runs the standard Chinese-takeaway closing pattern with Tuesday off rather than the more common Monday closure, and trades through to midnight on Friday and Saturday for the weekend pickup trade out of the surrounding Alvaston estates. Prices sit at the affordable end and the catchment is firmly the immediate housing rather than the busier London Road passing trade.