Dower House in Doncaster

What can I say, as always everything was impeccable. From the service through to the fayre, all top drawer. Can’t wait to return again sometime soon!

As a party of 5 who went on Christmas Eve as a family spending over £200 we found that the food was mediocre, the table service was appalling. One man with no hair was particularly rude, grunted when we spoke to him and had little in customer service skills. There are a lot of staff whizzing around and the bar staff were friendly admittedly but given that they brought out the wrong dish, the grumpy man who made us feel uncomfortable, the two round tables pushed together for a party of five that made us feel disjointed and the rice which was not very hot is why we’ve given the review accordingly. We did leave a tip (after all it was Christmas) and we hope this review helps them to improve their service. Such a shame we had the experience we did.

Excellent service & excellent food ... as usual. Dower House is always spot on

After a lovely reception from Ronnie and Rafi, it was straight to the bar for a bottle ( or two) of Jean Paul rose! We once lived in Bawtry, and after cocktails at the best bar in Bawtry ( The Market Bar) we headed to the Indian institution of Bawtry! As always the consistency of fayre was on point. The staff charming and efficient. Everything good, and as usual no complaints.

Lovely service and food....cheers to Ronnie the head waiter

I love the curry's 🍛😋 at Dower House! I visited on a Thursday night recently, a small group of 3, around 18:45, there were a few tables available and it filled up towards 8pm. I booked online 💻 and it took 24 hours before they replied. So I'd say if you wanted to make sure you're booked in contact the restaurant and book 📖. You enter through the side door 🚪and arrive at a check in desk, if nobody is there continue through and left onto the bar and they'll seat you from there. A nice pint of kingfisher 🍺 We had a couple of poppadoms each and a pickle tray, it was all really fresh and the lime pickle was easily the best I've had in ages! 💯 I had Chicken Dansak for main, a nice sweet curry 🍛 😋 and some pilau rice and a garlic chapati (not on the menu but they were happy to make it - it was really garlicky 🧄🧄🧄 🤩) It all tasted great 😃 We all had a starter and a main, + 1 garlic naan, 1 rice 🍚 1 chapati - 2 pints 1 pint of coke and we had white coffees ☕ to finish. It came to just over £100 which I felt was reasonable for the quality and service. The place was clean and tidy and the staff were all friendly 💪👍🤩 My photos didn't come out very well, I only managed the starter! Pakora photo, which tasted great. I can't wait to go back again 😍

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NIce place to visit and has quite a few free parking bays but there doesn't seem to be any Blue Badge spaces. The inside is tastefully decorated. The the staff are friendly and make you feel welcome, atmosphere was relaxed, the background authentic music was at a level where you could converse with ease. Good menu to chose from with reasonable prices. Our party of 12 was attended to in a timely fashion, the staff appear to be a well oiled chain! People that smoke may find it disapointing that there doesn't seem to be a covered smoking shelter. Wheelchair users would find it challenging to navigate inside. Toilets are on first floor which is OK for the fit and able :-) Everyone in our group enjoyed the food, no compliants.

We ordered for a group of family and friends as a takeaway from these guys-they went out of their way to be helpful and managed me calling and changing and rearranging things a few times - will definitely use them again as the quality was fantastic - everything was well balanced and fresh, and left a “curry savvy” group of folks all singing the praises of both portion sizes , flavour and quality of ingredients. Impressive. It rounded off a great day for everyone. Thank you!!

The Dower house is a favourite of ours , but after receiving a very poor meal as a take out last weekend we are left unsure as to whether we would now return or recommend. The regular dish I ordered lacked taste and was very watery with no consistency, my husbands and daughters dish was equally not the usual standard. After addressing this with the owner and not being encouraged to return in anyway I think a new Indian restaurant will have to be found. As a regular customer I was disappointed with his response !1

A really nice curry house. Good selection of food and drinks. Prices very reasonable. Thank you 😊

Very disappointed by the whole experience, lack luster ser ice , average food and over priced.

We visit this indian restaurant on a regular basis and the food is consistently good and always amazing quality. The ombience is good and the team very accommodating! Highly recommended

Dower house for me is the best indian in Doncaster.. fresh food, good atmosphere and great service.

We have not been to the Dower house for a long time. Like many other restaurants it is not as good as it was. We will not be going back.

Amazed to read some of the negative reviews. We had a takeaway last night. The food was ready 2 mins after we arrived to collect. Probably one the best curries I've had!

Lovely place, felt like a nice place to be. A good bubbly pint The currys were not to my taste.

Food is reasonably tasty but all that comes with it is not. Our 9pm booking was moved to 8.30 at their request. We arrived 8.32 and sat in the drinks area for 57 mins until our table was ready. Main courses are £2-3 more than they are down south- what the hell? There must be better available elsewhere

Food OK, service OK, lamb in the Tandoori was inedible, and they overcharged on the bill

We have been to Dower House many times & travel quite a long way just to eat there because we have always really enjoyed our food and experience until our last visit which has put us off for good! When we ordered I asked for mild lamb korma with a boiled egg. I have this every time I go but this time the waiter said " I have never heard of that and I don't believe we have ever made that for you ' I explained that I have it every time I visit but he was adamant and started yelling at me in front of all the other diners saying that he has worked there 19 years and the lamb korma has never been served with an egg before. I asked if he could check with the kitchen if they could hard boil an egg like they normally do for me but it turns out that according to our rude waiter no one in the kitchen can boil an egg. If that is the case they have no place working in a kitchen!!! When our food came out it was not anywhere like the previous standards and my mild lamb korma without the egg was extremely spicy and inedible. My partners meal lacked any flavour and the service from our waiter continued to be offhand and unprofessional. Overall it has put us off ever going back and when there are such other lovely places to eat in Bawtry I suggest give Dower House a miss! Disappointing!!

Just a bit poor. Error on bill charging us for drinks we didn’t have. Service as unbelievably slow. Like order a drink once one has landed. Food ok but I’m in no rush to go back.

Excellent service. Tasty food and lovely staff .

All great food, bharjis were burned but ate them anyway! Would go again for sure

It's Sunday night and I'm at a loose end and still trying out the various local restaurants having only moved back into the area recently. The venue was busier than I expected (always a good sign) and I was soon seated. Service was steady (not slow but occasionally things took a little longer than they should) but it was clear they had staff training that evening. Always polite though. My meal was OK. My starter was not amazing but nothing wrong with it either. My main, although tasty seemed lacking in spice. Again, nothing wrong but nothing to set my world on fire. But it wasn't cheap. I have had much better curry for less money in recent months so it just felt slightly over priced especially given the location hence a solid 4 stars. So I may well return and if you are in Bawtry, it's the best curry I have had in the town to date so you won't be disappointed.

The worst Indian I have ever eaten. The food had no flavour and was definitely not fresh. Extremely disappointed

Known this place for over 30 years. Food always very good, certainly one of the better Indian restaurants.

Excellent food and excellent service every time

Been a while since we last visited.not disappointed, friendly staff and quality food. We'll worth a visit and reasonably priced.

As far as I know they are very generous to the customer.❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

Highly recommend service excellent food out of this world very relaxing friendly staff and the food is to die for👍👍

Rudely turned away at the door because we had a sleeping baby with us. Clearly not a family friendly restaurant. Lancers across the road was a delight- friendly staff, tasty food. Go to Lancers!

If you have a family don’t even bother. They don’t accept kids. Go to Lancers in the opposite side of the road. Great food and better service

My partner and I visited Bawtry last Sunday 28th of August and discovered the Dower House restaurant. We were very fortunate to get a table as it was busy. The service was impeccable and the food was 5 star! My partner loves hot spicy curry but I on the other hand have to have extremely mild curry which a lot of places don't really cater for. I have to say my curry was out of this world!!! It was so delicious and the staff had really paid attention to what we both like. My partner loved his curry to, very spicy just as he likes it! I want to say a HUGE thank you to the team at Dower House. You really looked after us and although we live in Sheffield we will definitely make the trip back to you as this was my favourite curry ever!!!

We ate here on Saturday night . Our rice was appalling and grey in colour and was supposed to be pilau rice . My Chicken Dhansak was so hot I took most of it home and had to add yoghurt to it to cool it down . The waiters appeared disinterested . All in all a disappointing dining experience .

Excellent meal and service Highly recommend The food was wonderful

We had a lovely evening meal last week and the food was fresh and authentic. Plenty for me to have as a vegetarian. Naan bread slightly overdone for my husband’s liking. Good selection of drinks too. Will return.

This was my first (and last) visit to the Dower House. I'd been looking forward to it since moving here 2 1/2 years ago but was bitterly disappointed. I informed the water when I ordered that I have an allergy to bell peppers and cannot even have anything that has touched them. When my starter arrived, I fortunately noticed that there were piceces of green pepper in it! I called a waiter over and explained that I had said that I have an allergy. Ahother man (the owner or manager I think) brought me a "replacement" but then said that all of their "gravies" (sauces) are blended with green peppes in them. I have eaten in many Indian restaurants all over the country and have never heard that before. I've also cooked the dishes I like from scratch using authenitc Indian recipes and they haven't had peppers in them. Maybe it's a regional variation, but I've never had a problem as long as I've told them. But to serve someone the very thing that they've told you they are allergic too is a disgrace - and dangerous. They just didn't seem to care! We should have left then, but I agreed to have Chicken Tikka - something I wouldn't normally have as I don't like dry dishes. It seemed like they couldn't wait to get rid of us. Our main course was served and none of the dishes were put on hot trays (unlike the next table) and we weren't offered desserts or coffee. I found the owner/manager quite rude and obnoxious, and I never got an apolgy for what could have been a very serious incident. Funnily enough, when I rang to book the table I said to my friend that I thought they were a bit rude, just saying it's booked and putting the phone down. This man needs to learn to communicate in a much more pleasant manner. My friend said her food was "okay" but I did not enjoy mine - and the mint sauce that came with the poppadums was very runny and horrible.. I will certainly not be returning here, but I'm sure I'll have no problem finding a decent Inaian restaurant that actually makes you feel welcome and caters for a food allergy locally. I;d have given them 0 stars if I could!

First time we’ve been to Dower House. £50 spent and a weekend of food poisoning to follow. Messaged the restaurant when I was well enough to let them know but so far, I have been ignored 🥲

Had chicken Jalfrezi which was tasteless and watery sauce. Chicken tasted dry as well. Not impressed.

1st time at this restaurant, myself and daughter in law went in and order drinks , then my husband and son came in with baby in a pushchair a gentleman who'd been sat at the entrance came in after them and said you cant bring under 5s in here due to steps and the layout of the restaurant, we wasn't aware as we'd not booked it and bare in mind she's only 7 months old. He was very rude and didnt handle the situation very well . He explained there were signs all over stating this . We didn't see any so he brought us a menu that had the littlest writing saying this . We was a party of 7 so in the end they did let us stay . The food and service from the rest of the staff was really good . Not sure if the guy was the manager or the owner . But certainly wont be getting our custom again .

Tastless, chicken korma tastes like mushroom soup

Visited Dower House restaurant on a few occasions. Attentive staff & eager to please. Staff smarty dressed. Restaurant typical Indian decor. Food a little different to usual Indian restaurants. Extensive choice. Well presented & very tasteful. Will definitely return & would highly recommend.

Tuesday night with friends whom we hadn’t seen in over a year could only mean one thing, large table at the local Indian restaurant. As ever they didn’t disappoint . Lovely warm welcome from the owners and his family and staff. Excellent round table with big lazy Susan in the middle. Immaculate surroundings, attentive staff and excellent food. Great value for money both in terms of drinks and food with a top notch service .

The food was terrible. How they can let those poor effort of onion bharji’s to be served, very poor. Didn’t think anyone could go wrong with a korma. Just tasted of pepper. Will not be returning. The staff were rude and seem to not want to be there. Didn’t want to give it one circle

great staff even better food, get a lot for your money! The place is really spacious and the atmosphere is great - highly recommend to everyone

Just had the most delicious meal in the Dower House. Fantastic service & the food was amazing. Can't recommend enough.

The food was very tasty but the restaurant was let down by surly, inattentive waiters. Perhaps the regular customers are treated in a more friendly manner. We have not been in years and I won’t hurry back.

Ignorant member of staff when asked a question about seating made a comment on what I was wearing set the tone for the rest of the evening food nice but pricey wont be going again .

I haven't been to this restaurant for a long time and that will be the case again!! We had booked for 4 people at 7.30. I got greeted by a rude gentleman who just basically sat us in a waiting corner and left us there. It was 30mins before we got offered a drink and a full 50 mins before taken to a table after I asked what was going on. When being served we noticed the waiter was more friendly with a regular group and was amazed to see them turn up 30mins after us, sit down 10mi s after us and still get their starters before us. All the way through I was on edge as I believed we had done something to offend. It was the first night out with friends where I was still sober inthe taxi on the way home. Strangely as we was finishing the waiter was oddly smiley and pleasant but that soon changed again when he didn't receive a tip for service 🤣 The food was good but over priced. I do not mind paying more when the service is quality but I feel I wouldve had auch better evening in Lancers or over the road at China Rose where the service is always top notch. A completely ruined evening and I will not be returning.

Unfortunately we can’t come as often nowadays, as we’ve moved away from Bawtry. However, when we do return, we make a beeline for The Dower! Fabulous food, great staff, especially Raffi and Almas, and always a nice relaxed atmosphere. Already looking forward to our next...

Our table was a family occasion booked for 6, having a high end chef in our group and in the industry ment he can be quite critical .We arrived to be greeted by friendly , professional staff, and a very welcoming atmosphere.The restaurant is in...

Poor service, Poor quality food... If Ignorance and rudeness is what you want, then go to this establishment.... BUT... Lancers, over the road offers great food (and larger portions)... Plus the service comes with respect and a smile.... The Dower House is a very poor experience... Go elsewhere.

Had a lovely meal last night,never fails welcoming staff prompt service and great value for money.

We haven’t been out for ages, and we had forgotten how good Dower House was, awesome food and wonderful service, lovely touch giving my 26 year old daughter a baby ice cream :) we will be back soon

Food is good, but staff see customers as a necessary evil.

this wasour first visit to dower house and wont be our last. staff were first class and so was the food we could not have asked for better service.

I came here for my 24th birthday with work friends, our waiter was Mo R, he was so lovely! What a genuine polite man, he went above and beyond. I even had a birthday cake with sparklers ✨ Not to mention the food is amazing!...

The food is absolutely perfect and the service even better. All of the staff are so welcoming especially Mo. The price is extremely reasonable.

This place is amazing, the food was delicious, and the staff couldn’t do enough for you, I would recommend this place to anyone.

What amazing food and more amazing service! Went in a group of 21 people and the service was second to none!! Food was the best I have had and soo fresh!! Great value for money too and will be visistinf again

I had a surprise birthday party at the Dower House last night the food and service was excellent, the staff are so friendly everybody in our party commented on how good the night was. ….Thank you very much… I can’t wait to return Carl

Great meal here, served by Jimmy, unreal attention to detail remembering the names of all 11 members of the party. Fantastic food, great evening

Not our first visit to this brilliant restaurant. My nephew Jack's choice for a family meal to celebrate his 21st birthday. Its a beautiful restaurant and the food was amazing. The staff were very attentive especially Jimski😁😁 if you haven't tried it please give it...

Went here for a family meal to celebrate my nephews 21st birthday. Brilliant food, wonderful attentive staff especially Jimski 😁😁what a wonderful guy, he made our night. If you haven't tried it definitely give it a go..xx

Fantastic food and atmosphere. Firm favourite of the locals.

Fab food. Relaxed atmosphere. Going back this weekend 👍

Chicken santara was good. Other main course dishes were a bit bland. Prices are reasonable but charging for poppadoms is a bit mean!

Beautiful food and great service. Last night was my first visit and I will be going back the Garlic Chicken was beautiful and the whole meal was such a reasonable price for 7 people great value for money

Our first trip back to this wonderful restaurant after lockdown. We were warmly welcomed by Ronnie and his team and enjoyed a superb meal. Cannot recommend this restaurant highly enough. Thank you and so good to be back.

Very disappointing ... expensive for very ordinary food!! Decor looking tired 😫 Have been going here over the years but first trip back after lockdown ... hmmm won't be rushing back there anytime soon

Excellent food and efficient, friendly service

Sadly our meal wasn't as good as we had hoped, we had a table booked for 7.30 and didn't get seated until 8,30 which was disappointing

beautiful building , ends there. Food tasteless and bland , staff we experienced was clearly unhappy in his job and quite abrupt. would not recommend this place for indian cuisine .

Great food as usual, felt completely safe with Covid protocols in place. Service quick, food served exactly as requested eg I asked for my curry to be made hotter and my nan to be well cooked

We had a takeaway from here, even when it arrived it was still piping hot as if it was served fresh and for the flavour it’s by far the best Indian in Doncaster so will be the only one we order from and visit from...

We’ve never been impressed with the service in our local Indian restaurant but we’ve always liked the food so we decided to head back on our latest couples night. The service hasn’t improved…in fact it has got worse! But this time the food wasn’t great...

Best curry house in the region!

Went here last night 31 July 2021 worse Indian we’ve ever had was recommended by a friend we were shown to table in bar are was given food Menu then asked what we would like to drink waited a long time for drinks then nearly half an hour before they took our food order before we were shown to table one of our friends had lamb chops for starter they looked burnt were black and hardly any meat on them I had butterfly Chrips prawn which was hard and tasteless mains were no better my friend had chicken korma she said was tasteless my hubby had lamb chops which were black hardly any meat like our friends starter and I had genghas kan masala supposed to have had some king prawns in it and there wasn’t we won’t be coming here ever again there were plenty of staff but they looked like they couldn’t be bothered to serve us waiting long time for drinks there are much better Indian restaurants than this only came here as it was recommended food horrible and tasteless 😡😡😡

I visited Dower house with a group of friends. I love Indian food and was not disappointed visiting here! Absolutely excellent selection on the menu. The staff were friendly. I would go again.

Excellent as always, delicious food and great service.

Lovely meal reasonable price, lovely staff

We came for a meal for our friends birthday. The food was outstanding and the outside area was lovely to sit in for a pre meal drink. Jimmy was excellent, and made us feel really welcome. We regularly get a take away from here, but...

Excellent meal. Very tasty. As you can see finished the meal before I had time to take photos. Lovely

After been a visitor to Bawtry area after been recommend by a friend we had booked the dower house indian restaurant for our evening meal. We had our table booked 21:00 looking forward to our meal we arrived at the restaurant to a mediocre reception...

Visited Doncaster for the first time to see my boyfriend and his dad, the food and service was amazing!! It’s genuinely the best I’ve ever had. The service was incredible; Jimmy (or Jim sorry if I spelt it wrong!) Was so helpful and always kept...

Fab food,staff friendly and always happy to help

Excellent service 👏 Beautiful food Plenty choice. Wonderful outdoor area nice comfy chairs. Friendly staff.

Friday night curry. Always a joy to come in to this renowned Bawtry restaurant. Pleasant staff,attentive at all times. Good drinks selection also. Arrived on time, greeted and seated quickly, drinks order taken and menu app explained. Very good quality pickle tray. All main dishes...

Has always excellent staff and food

Booked in advance for Saturday, once inside took are order for drinks. We were not shown to are table for 15 minutes which was dissappointing this was empty the entire time while we were waiting.☹ 4 mains, 2 rice, 2 paswary. 3 mains good, 1 main sent back 👎 No taste too much oil not good sent back, they replaced this with another, this was piping hot a bit more flavour but still swimming in oil, chicken was tender but hardly had any of the sauce due to all the oil 🤮 Service seemed very slow to bring mains and clear plates 👎 Extremely dissappointing 😠☹

Very very disappointed with my first ever take away from here . It was rubbish

The tandoori mix takeaway looked liked it had been cooked days ago and then reheated, though surprisingly one piece of chicken was still pink and undercooked. It was dry, tough and uneatable we had to throw it all away. £13.50 and the the meal went...

Visited tonight, our first night out after 14 days of enforced lockdown and just the most amazing meal as ever. The Covid precautions all in place, staff all wearing masks but the food just as brilliant as ever, now I remember why it is our...

Been twice recently great flavoursome food always busy, would recommend. Staff are nice. Highly recommended

First time visit. The restaurant was immaculate and thoroughly cleaned The staff were friendly and helpful. the food was excellent and the prices very good i definitely will be returning ☺ 👍

We popped in yet again to enjoy another fabulous meal in this wonderful traditional Indian restaurant. It was a Wednesday night, and “ every man and his dog” was there, as it was still an evening which offered the government’s scheme of discounts. I must...

what a fantastic place this is , the food is fantastic, the staff are brilliant, ive known ronny for lots of years , and he couldn't do more for you , location is good, all covid procedures in place , 5 stars

Social distancing was poor and waiters had to travel up and down between tables. Didn't look to be any less tables since before the virus. Some waiters wearing masks some not. There was a entrance and exit, but people didn't obey and it wasn't policed....

We had a lovely meal and the service was very good which would merit 5 stars. However, they only paid lip service to covid 19 regs:some staff had masks, some didn't, staff were constantly walking past each other. When we left we had to brush...

This is the second time I’ve been to Dower House and on both occasions we’ve felt rushed to eat our meal. On both times it’s started with the staff hovering around our table and looking at us even whilst we’re still eating. Then whilst your taking a breather or just having conversation they came over to take our plates away! Then as soon as I put my fork down, they came over again to clear the table and asked us to finish our drinks in the bar area to free up the table. The total time we had at our table was 1hr and 5mins. Food was nice but this has put me and a few other people I know off going again because they’ve shared the same experience before. Will go to Elachi next time.