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  • 5/5 Leo C. 1 year ago on Google
    Was attracted by this little Indian restaurant when we’re travelling down the street looking for dinner, had an amazing experience with this little gem of a place! Everything was fantastic, from the food to the service to the owner’s hospitality. Went back on day 2 for takeaway, told him i was in a rush, surprisingly enough, he said he can told the chef to spin up a few quick ones, and still delicious! And he included 2 pappadoms for free as well to seal the beginning of a promising relationship. If I’m a resident here, will surely visit this nice restaurant every other day! Cheers
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Nikolai S. 1 year ago on Google
    This experience was perfect. The poppadoms with generous and tasty dips and chutney. The perfectly cooked Naan breads. The incredible curries and rice, with fresh coriander and fried Jeera. The desserts also, the wine menu priced almost at cost. Wow. Just wow. Great service too. Best Indian I've had in many a long year. Thoroughly thoroughly recommended.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Lesley W. 2 years ago on Google
    Lovely venue, friendly staff & amazing food at a reasonable price too. Good sized portions, too much for me but I took the rest & finished at home. The little heated individual towel & chocolate covered strawberry after our meal was a perfect end to a great meal. Well worth a visit. I highly recommend
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 amanda b. 3 years ago on Google
    Been here several times, my all time favourite Indian Restaurant, friendly staff and great food...
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 linda C. 1 year ago on Google
    I have thought over this for a little while, as I normally only write positive reviews, but I am not happy with our experiences at this restraunt. First time food tasty enough but not hot, more warm we were the only diners in at that moment so felt this was not brilliant, but tasted nice. My partner and I returned for.the buffet lunch on a week day, Thursday, we again only diners in, now we do appreciate why the full buffet wasn't available, the choices were to be off the menu, that's fine as we have dined like that before, but normally you select and smaller portions are made and brought direct from the kitchen. Choices being tje word here. No, not in this case we were brought the standard selection of pakora and bahji and samosa, no explanation, nothing, food again Warm not hot. The proprietor then sat at front desk and began making phone calls, bills etc, once finished came and cleared plates and asked if mild medium or hot curry, we selected medium, that was the only choice, which diminishes the ethos of a buffet where you can select type and ingredients of what you want. We were brought 2 curries, both chicken and our rice, and additional nan bread that we had asked for, 1 of the dishes relatively pleasant, again Warm, the other inedible due to chicken meat texture nan was wrong one , again we were ignored as there were phone calls to be made, when he did come back to the table the nan was not eaten as wrong, oh I thought you wanted plain, but wrote garlic, when mentioned about the tough fibrous chicken was basically told that was the chickens fault, suppliers issue not theirs. I was mystified by this responce, wasn't offered other dish selections, nothing as you would again expect from a buffet, on leaving presented with the full bill even though only 1 dish eaten, we should have brought this up at the time, but I feel we would not have been responded to in a sympathetic manner, given what we had been told at the table. Poor quality of food and customer service. We won't be returning I'm afraid. Really disappointed 😞 I have just noted the owners response and am going to take the right to reply. On the first visit we were a table of 5, we had 5 starters, 5 mains, 5 rice and 3 side dishes. Not once did we request a change of table or anything close to that. 2nd visit it was myself and my husband. It was the buffet, as written above, we ordered 2 people for.the buffet, and again at no point t was there a mention of changing tables or sharing A meal , we were never a table.if 4 either. The proprietor is sadly mistaken amd misleading in their responce. Such a shame that a review whether positive or negative cannot be met in an acceptable and truthful manner. It would have been a different review if we had been offered even a small recompense for the 2nd occasion, but we were not. And the written responce just goes to clarify what I suggested would have happened if we had entered a discussion at the time. A further disappointment really.

  • 5/5 Inge H. 9 months ago on Google
    The food was superb and there was no problem for me to eat gluten free! And everyone was so friendly! It was so delicious we decided to go back the second evening we stayed here. I wish we could take this restaurant back home to Belgium!

  • 5/5 Saurabh S. 3 months ago on Google New
    Not the most authentic Indian, kind of fushion, but still tasty. Genuinely priced and good service. Will visit again

  • 5/5 ashley g. 8 months ago on Google
    Arrived just before end of service, travelled 350+ miles, so tired and hungry. Got slotted in quickly. Food was very excellent and staff were brilliant at a busy time. Thank you all, will definitely visit again when in Scotland. Craig and Ash.

  • 2/5 Aishanya S. 3 months ago on Google New
    The food was pretty nice whereas the host(male) at the restaurant was weirdly rude to us. He seemed to be quite sweet to other guests. When situations like this arise, it seems nothing short of disguised racism. Ironically, the said person also seemed to be of the Indian subcontinent origin. The other host at the restaurant was not only sweet but also welcoming.

  • 5/5 WILL GREENHORN (. 7 months ago on Google
    Food is beyond good. I got jaipuri chicken and oh boy... its even better than I thought. The cheese nan was spot on too! 👌

  • 5/5 Andrew m. 11 months ago on Google
    Excellent food. Catered well for Gluten Free and special dietary needs. Friendly service with quality banter. Highly reccomended.

  • 4/5 Derek M. 1 year ago on Google
    Thoroughly enjoyed our meal here recently. Staff excellent and good quality food. 👌

  • 5/5 Amy S. 11 months ago on Google
    We visited here on our holiday. After we drove 6 hours to reach this destination, 2 hungry travellers used google maps to see what was open for food and this little gem was only a few mins walk from our hotel. Once we arrived, our host took us to our seat and provided menus, he was warm and welcoming and involved us in little chitchat which was amusing and delightful. We ordered our food and a short wait brought our food to us on a little trolley. Food was hot, tasty and filling. So glad we found this and we would come here to eat again.

  • 5/5 Shona e S. 1 year ago on Google
    What a fantastic meal we had in here while on holiday in cromarty, staff were so friendly and cheerful 😊 onions were finely cut with the poppadoms, chicken chaat was shredded and amazing 👏 chicken korma dish was delicious the chicken just melted in your mouth , an absolute 10/10 to this place 😋

  • 1/5 Pavan S. 1 year ago on Google
    Drove 2 hours after checking with the owner if they would be open by the time we reach. And we reached exactly 3 mins late and owner argued at the door that we are late and wouldn’t let us in saying we are closed. Very disrespectful of the fact that we called them twice to check if they would let us in coz we were driving so far and the person didn’t tell us the kitchen closing time. We had 2 kids with us and the owner wouldn’t even let us do take away. Never coming back again.

  • 1/5 arthur m. 1 year ago on Google
    Male staff member had his back to us as we walked in....Eventually acknowledged us...Went for a female waitress to attend to us.. We were the only ones in bar a couple leaving. The restaurant filled up and every one was ordering AFTER our order. Most had finished and we were still waiting 1 hour later. They dumped down a hot plate and it had cooled, yet no food. Our drinks were flat and had no ice. I Eventually walked to the bar and said we are leaving. Angry.

  • 4/5 VISHNU K. 2 years ago on Google
    Food was really good especially the chicken biriyani and curry's..was spicy also..staff was nice and friendly..only issue is steak we tried was not that good..also there is no card payment..only apple pay or cash..if you want to try indian food it's a good suggestion. Drinks also available.

  • 5/5 Fraser M. 1 year ago on Google
    I visited Cafe India for take away only when passing through Dingwall. I was really impressed by the tasty chilli garlic chicken and sag aloo that I got, especially for a rural Indian restaurant. Generous portions, good flavours with fresh ginger and garlic, and nice crispy parathas. The only threw in an extra paratha when I ordered two as he thought it wouldn’t be enough. They also gave us a papadum with no charge. I would return in a heart beat to try something else off this menu.


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