Mahmaan

Mahmaan has been the Indian and Bangladeshi takeaway on Smalley Drive in Oakwood since it opened in June 2006, sitting on the small estate parade that serves the 1980s housing in the upper-east part of Derby. It's a halal-listed operation with a Food Standards Agency "Very Good" rating, and over close to two decades has built a regular following — Tripadvisor and Yelp reviews carry the long-customer pattern of "we've been ordering for ten years and never had a bad meal" alongside the inevitable scattering of less-impressed write-ups. The menu is the standard tandoori-and-curry slate — starters from the tandoor, biryanis, the long curry list from korma through to vindaloo, with the kitchen happy to accommodate small special-request changes, which is the kind of detail that earns repeat regulars. The dining-in side runs a clean, friendly interior; the takeaway side covers the Oakwood and Chaddesden streets either side of Smalley Drive. A Derby neighbourhood Indian with the kind of trade settled by repeat custom.