New Clay Oven

Clay Oven sits on New Street in the south-east stretch of central Burton-upon-Trent, around the corner from the Branston Road takeaway run and a short walk from the Cooper's Square shopping centre. The kitchen is Indian and Pakistani in style, run as a takeaway and small dining operation, with hours that stretch unusually late at weekends — well past most of the town's other curry shops.

Reviewers single out the tandoor work as the standout — naan bread off the clay oven that gives the shop its name, chicken tikka and seekh kebabs marinated overnight, and the butter chicken, lamb biryani and karahi builds as the most-mentioned mains. The vegetarian roster is broader than the Branston Road competition with proper palak paneer and vegetable kormas alongside the dal range.

It's a useful late-night Indian option for the Anglesey Street, Eton Park and southern-Burton residential ring, particularly for households running on shift patterns who want a proper curry rather than a kebab wrap after midnight. Trade is collection and delivery; pricing fits the standard British curry-house range.