Pink Garlic Masala

Pink Garlic Masala is the contemporary Indian restaurant on the Blendon Road parade in Bexley, occupying the unit directly next door to Dragon Express. Unlike the takeaway-only Chinese on the same parade it runs as both restaurant and takeaway, with a sit-down dining room and a Sunday buffet format where customers choose dishes from the menu and the kitchen freshly cooks each one rather than holding food on a buffet line — an unusual approach that shows up consistently in positive reviews.

The shop has built a strong TripAdvisor record, sitting inside the top ten of Bexley restaurants overall and holding a Certificate of Excellence. Regulars single out the willingness of the kitchen to customise spice levels and adapt dishes to particular preferences, and the front-of-house service comes up almost as often as the food itself in five-star reviews. The menu reads as classic Indian curry-house territory — tandoori, balti, chef's specials, biryani — but the execution and the dining-room style place it a step above the cheaper village takeaways. A neighbourhood restaurant that punches above its village-parade weight.