Ekam Palace in Argyll & Bute

Delicious as usual shame you’ve closed down

Ordered takeaway via JustEat. Drove 5 miles to collect, paid cash. When I returned home, I discovered I had been given the wrong order, but when I went onto Justeat to try to sort it out, the restaurant had cancelled my order - I can only assume to prevent me making the complaint.

Poor experience. Ordered a takeaway for collection via JustEat. On arriving home with it, discovered I had been given the wrong order, and when I went onto justeat to report the problem I found the takeaway had cancelled the order - despite me having paid in full, in cash at the shop. I can only assume this was to avoid me raising a complaint.

One of the worst resturents in dunoon .food was utter waste and makr sure u get the proper bill otherwise there is a high chance u get cheated in ur bill please dont go

Amazing work! First time eating from Ekam! Portions for price was great, got more than expected, a couple more chunks of chicken would of been nice, but the amount of rice and poppadom's was a great counter to that! Flavour was wonderful, only issue I had was the sheer amount of onions, never seen so much in this dish before which was a shame, delivery time was spot on as well.

It was a superb curry, I'd have to say one of the best I've had. This restaurant is the best Curry House in Dunoon's bar none.

Visited here on Saturday, food was delicious! Our waiter Mohinder was extremely pleasant & a helpful in assisting us with our choices! When We went to pay the bill tge reader was faulty! No problem at all as the trusted us to bring money next day! Would definitely go back here & highly recommend the restaurant!

being early is not a complaint. food was excellent despite the aloo saag being a little hotter than expected

food was excellent, arrived a bit late but worth the waiting,

Curry, rice, nan, popadums, pakora and raita were perfect. Pity they forgot the sauce for the pakora but everything was so good I couldn't mark them down. 5 stars :)

Most amazing meal onces again.x

Can't write a second review so editing this one😁 great food great service. We came last time we were home and came back this time, nothing has changed great job guys Thanks from the Law's 👍 Great food and good service. We were home on holiday and were lucky enough to take away and dine in. Both times the experience was awesome. Thanks guys from the Law family 💕

Chicken must have been fed on iron filings

Whilst returning from a short trip to Toward point lighthouse,i Googled indian restaurants in Dunoon.It suggested Ekam Palace on Argyle st adjacent to the old Argyle hotel. The unassuming street entrance leads you to an exotic Aladdin's Cave of eastern delights.This is a very beautiful restaurant tastefully furnished where authentic music enchants you as you browse the very exstensive menu. Our very attractive waitress answered our many questions on menu content and was extremely kind and helpful.The food is really superb, beautifully cooked and delicious. Here was our choice, Poppadums and spiced onions Chicken Tikka Starter Veg Pakora, all for sharing Prawn Sizzler on a bed of fried onions with piquant curry sauce and side salad. Shredded Lamb with peppers and onions accompanied by Patia sauce Plain Paratha, Roti bread & Pilau Rice. A feast of generous portions fit for a mogul King. Best of all is, it is moderate in price. Check the pics to see how good it really is. All that you see for £54 for Two people. Excellent value. It is a shame it is such a long way from my home in Glasgow. I thorougjly recommend this wonderful place to anyone in the area who has a taste for superb indian food. Thank you Ekam😊🌹

Best meal I had and great prices. Will be back.

Food was cold, watery and tasteless, it’s a bad day when popadoms are the best part of a 3 person meal deal

The starter of spiced onions was like a main and the lamb achari was outstanding. I had it with chapatis rather than rich. A bit of a kick but not to the extent of being challenging. First visit but definitely not my last. Very friendly staff. A great choice.

Appalling quality food...tasteless, generic sauces ,dry meat, not hot enough, questionable freshness...AVOID

AVOID!!!! Would give no stars if possible Very Poor quality food...celonese chicken korma in sugary sweet sauce...advertised as having lemon in it. Chicken dry and tasteless. Naan bread flabby and tasteless. Lamb bhoona tasteless and generic. Out of a tin? Food not hot ...reheated possibly. Set menu for two is very cheap...you get what you pay for ...but this was appalling...l would rather pay more for some quality. Recommend that you avoid this place if you like true east Asian food. It's not worth the money and insults the intelligence.

Food and rice cold, the 2 poppadoms were smashed to tiny pieces, so could not spread the expensive (£2.50) yoghurt on them, the sauces were bland and tasteless, the tandoori chicken was nice, but the chicken was cold and the salad was hot, chips ok

Not as good as previous visit bit tasteless this time 5 buffets £120.last visit was much better 4buffets £64.?????……..

Food was really good but I ordered 4 pompadoms and got a small bag with what looked like 2 small smashed up pompadoms , disappointed as I was charged £3 for it

Food was okay. A bit cold when it arrived and the popadoms were in 1000 piece when they arrived unfortunately

Love Ekham Palace! Great food delivered quickly!

Really nice pardesi and rogan josh.

Didn't get salad with my tikka or the special salad that I ordered and paid extra for separately, for next day. Sadly didn't notice until I went to get it. Advise you check order carefully.

Over 2 hours late I phoned 3 times and the guy was rude on the phone and kept saying it will be here in ten minutes. i eventually just got them to cancel it and got my money back. I will not be ordering again

I've given consistently glowing reports about about the restaurant which is why I am so disappointed to say that you fell well below your usual standards tonight. Having to phone, when you were the best part of 30 minutes late is the least of the issues. I don't know if it was then rushed or if the person delivering had problems finding me but the curries were warm at best. Not only that they were okay, when they are normally eceptionally good. I don't know if it was a change of chef, or a shortage of staff but I expected better. I dislike having to write this but I can't just skip over it. The curry was mediocre, barely warm and the peshwari nan`was almost a plain nan which was also undercooked and the 2 popadums which I ordered came as 1 popadum smashed into little pieces. I don't know what went wrong this time but if you value my custom, and you should know how much I spend in your premesis, you need to sort this out. Decidedly not what I am used to.

Food was warm but not hot, delivery was estimated no later than 5 to 9, arrived at 9.30 after calling up to chase. Wasn’t really happy with the food and we were missing a portion of rice. Disappointed.

Sharing platter was spot on especially the veg pakora.

Lamb Bhuna was really tender and the Frontier Chicken is a favourite of my wife. We shared the two so we got the best of both worlds. Superb curry, rice and Peshwari Nan.

Ordered chicken pakora with my meal, double checked in restraunt and had to tell them again. Got home to these?? Funny looking pakora 😅

Terrible experience for delivery. Waited 3 hours and the order didn't arrive. Phoned to check on the delivery and was told the driver was just leaving. 30 mins later called back and was told the driver would be with us soon. I cancelled as a no-show and asked for money back. The restaurant told me it could take 2 weeks to refund as it's a just eat order. I wait 2 weeks and no refund. Just eat say its been longer than 48 hours, so they can't help. Called the restaurant, and the coward manager won't speak on the phone or call me back. As far as I'm concerned, they have stolen my money and couldn't deliver a meal. On the previous times I've had food from here, it's only ever been average, unfortunately the town lacks good Indian food so nowhere else to go.

Wasn’t sure what to expect but I was really pleasantly surprised. Tasty food which arrived warm despite the long distance it traveled.

I had my usual Lamb Bhoona, superb. My wife for a change had the Chasni Shasni Chicen Tikka. It was an excellent choice. I don't think you could make a bad choice, the food is first class.

Great quality, superb flavours, friendly staff and very well priced.

We arrived and frankly the owner and his friends had no interest in us and spent the time downing beer at the bar. We sat next to a dirty table, our wine glasses dirty and stained . One napkin between us on the table . Service slow and there were just 2 tables in. The mixed tandoori grill was missing prawns and the kofta was mush. The popadoms stale. Don’t bother . Ladies toilet tired and stained wood frames and loose toilet seats . Basically terrible

Sorry to say it was the worse Indian meal we have ever had. Couldn't finish it and put it in the bin. Maybe because we have come from Birmingham were there are a great many Asian food outlets, we are used to a different taste. Nice people but sorry, rubbish food.

Ordered lamb, received chicken. Has happened before. Paid £0.50 extra for lamb

Poor first impression. Sticky floors. Menus stained. Waiter friendly but service slow. Food was freezer bag stuff heated up. Probably the buffet or post-pub service is best offer.

Been here for 15 minutes it’s not busy and no order taken. Food came slowly chicken dish had no chicken, kingfisher beer tasted like dish water. Liens was good but unfortunately now I am ill. bill was not itemised, just given a total which seemed on dear side. I won’t be back . Not impressed

Spot on food. Well worth repeating.

We have used Ekam Palace quite alot and always order exactly the same dishes and the food is always excellent until last night, our order was delivered and was missing the Nan bread we called and this was quickly rectified, the food was cold and had to be reheated we ordered fried rice and were given boiled rice, we were very hungry by this point so heated the food and ate it. We did notice a big reduction in the amount of chicken. Fingers crossed it was just a blip as we really enjoy the food they make as the quality is always spot on.

The delivery driver has just charged me a further £5 because he said I was too far away, it was on just eat and I had already paid the delivery fee! I was also missing my drink from the kids order!

Just finished eating at the restaurant and the food was delicious, decent sized portions, currys were filled with meat, service was friendly. Will definitely return. Only negative was the radio was just playing bbc1 haha.

Tried this for the first time! Food was genuinely tasteless! No flavour, no authentic curry spices really not curry! Dishes seem to be made with the same mundane tomato base gravy which has minimal salt, no richness and no real taste of a proper curry! This is far from any form of true curry! Avoid!

We have ordered from our local curry house many times and have alway's been happy with the service and meal. Although this particular weekend ( revival) we ordered our usual and 3 hours later we were still waiting - being told, it is only 15mins away! On the last call we made, asking when our order would be delivered, they asked us to RE-ORDER 😫 not exceptable! If they had just been honest at the start, it would have been better, allowing us to order from somewhere else. Very dissapppinted!:

Order was placed at 6.30 and delivery time was between 7.15 & 7.35pm, i phone twice 7.45 & 8.02 to check on delivery I was told it would b 5 minutes! Order eventually at 8.20!! Absolutely ridiculous service for a very local address. Will think twice about orders next weekend.

Very good, definitely going to be back

This is the worst Indian restaurant I have been in. The buffet was awful. We were given dirty plates, there was no meat in the dishes and we had to ask for some chicken to be put in. We had to order rice rather than it being in the buffet. All the floors were slippy, like they had all been cleaned with the same greasy mop. Toilets were filthy and full of mould and the kitchen was disgusting. I have no ideas how the place passes food hygiene standards. Disgusting. Don’t waste your money by eating here.

You've just got to give these guys 10 out of 10. First class curry.

My entire order went in bin, oh the dog got the lamb tikka. Disgusting and not even hot, salad missing. I suggest the chef tastes the food before sending out.

Having arrived in Dunoon to find everyhere booked or closed, this was a nugget of a find. The restaurant is situated in an old building but the inside is more akin to a 1970s/80s office than somewhere you would eat; nevertheless don't let that put you off, the food is excellent. You can off the menu but they were also had a help yourself but buffet on the go. A whole section of starters, breads and salad, as well as about eight different mains, a couple of rices and a vegtable section. Me and the wife both had a full plate of startes, and both went up twice to the mains section. Just trying a bit of everything. It was all very good and with two large and one small bottle of Cobra, it only come to around £ 45.

Perfect. We read other reviews and went for the lamb boona and chicken tikka masala, absolutely delicious and so much we had leftovers for lunch the next day. After a long trip to Dunoon, this place puts you into the place you want to be - total relaxation. Thank you.

I ordered online, and a arrived to collect, order had not processed so had to wait 10mins, don’t let that put you off, the food was superb, I live down south in England, this was really good Indian food, the South Indian garlic and chilli was top tier, as well as the other curries we ordered. I’ve got nearly 2 weeks of my holiday left , so I’ll be going back for round 2 👌👌👌

Ordered a carry out on a Saturday evening at 8pm. Waited 3 hours and did not deliver. Tried to telephone and cancel on 3 occasions and did not answer the phone. Very unprofessional and unreliable service. I would definitely NOT use this restaurant again.

I should have gone with my gut feeling as I slid into the place because of the grease on the floor!! Food all tasted the same! Not good.

Superb Curry delivered early and piping hot. They consistantly hit the spot

Arrived 6pm for buffet advertised starting 4:30 pm . In the restaurant entrance we had to negotiate our way through a staff meeting - a chef in filthy apron and whites , another one also in less than clean uniform and another 2 gentlemen , it had the feeling of staff argument. When inside there was no buffet set up - we were told it would be out soon. We reflected on the cleanliness of cooks uniforms and left without eating. Very disappointed.

been getting food from here since opening up again(new owners)usually order on the phone for pick up.phoned in last night (21st)went to shop to pick up as usual.everything as normal as i waited for my collection to come out kitchen.then 2 kitchen staff appeared from a side door,one elderly guy with an apron on (presumably the main chef),he was covered in so much curry stains and whatever else he had been dealing with in the kitchen(really looked as if it hadnt been washed for weeks,disgusting)also a younger male appeared(with his normal clothes on(no manky apron)he was covered in head to toe in food stains also.it was disgusting to see and made me think what it must be like in the kitchen hygeine wise.surprise surprise,we have had 2 family members up all night sick after eating a chicken curry meal,others had lamb and they are ok.i wont be eating anything out here again after what i saw while waiting on my order.not a good advert and will put you off if you see what i seen🤮🤮

Order from here a lot but every time I end up getting a bag of crumbs instead of whole popadoms!

Food was mediocre, would have been better without the waiters thumbs in it

Food was absolutely delicious but really late arriving.

First time ordering from here and it was absolutely amazing. Food was great and arrived earlier than expected which was fine ☺️, definitely be back again. Delivery driver was also lovely!

Amazing hot tasty food, delivered early

The food is really delicious, but I can't reccomend ordering from Ekam Palace (through Just Eat). 2/3 times the food is over an hour late, or just never arrives. When calling the restaurant to enquire, they give you little information other than 'it's on it's way'. We live less than half a mile away, and waited 2 hours for our order before deciding to ask for a refund and ordering food from somewhere else.

Lamb Bhuna that you wouldn't need a knife for, just falls apart it was so tender. Compliments to the chef.

Really nice food enjoyed by all. Initial mixup on timing but was resolved with no fuss.

Great experience first time ordering and my meal was lovely

Fast delivery, fantastic food, enjoyed and will be ordering again...brilliant

The best indian restaurant i have been to... Staff so friendly and evetything cooked to perfection.. Will be back 👍

Delivered early, food was hot and quality, as always, was excellent

Really enjoyed it! 10/10 and came quick 😋

Takeaway, so can't rate atmosphere. Chicken Tikka starter was very nice. Chicken Balti wasn't great. Asked for egg rice but got a rice that had chicken in it! In general, it was ok. Prob wouldn't use again.

consistent good food however tonight the chicken was a bit tough

Amazing hot food and quick delivery

No idea of the food quality as meal still has not arrived. Restaurant not helpful when I phoned to asked. Been over 2 hours unfortunately. Text saying food was arriving sent an hour and a half go.

Great service, was delivered on time, and was delicious 😋

Strongly recommend the Frontier Butter Chicken and Lamb Bhoona, both are so good that we always end up sharing the two. Perfect chicken and lamb that falls apart. Top marks.

Food was amazing. Totally recommend. And great value.

Driver was courteous and food was lovely and excellent value for money

Had many food deliveries and every time the food has been superb.

We were a 20 minute drive from the restaurant so the 40-50 minute delivery time we were told to expect seemed reasonable. However, it was over an hour in the end and the driver wanted an extra £7.50 for delivery on top of the £2.50 we had already paid through Just Eat. The food arrived hot and was tasty, but I would only reorder in future if I was closer to avoid unexpected costs and delays.

Excellent service and great curry.

Great food, great value, fast delivery. Recommend.

Food is lovely, delivery always earlier than expected. Highly recommend this restaurant.

Delivered late received a text to say good on the way. Took another 35 minutes after that. Shop is 5 minutes away! Not very hot when arrived! Poor service.

Our food was delivered right on time. Everything was nice af hot. All the food tasted amazing and the portion sizes were very generous.

Absolutely delicious food! Ordered Set meal for 2 ..it came in 20 mins and every part of it was cooked wonderfully! Thankyou.x

Charged extra delivery when there is no option on there for that like the driver told me there was. Also not the correct drinks and no drinks on the menu to order

Ordered for delivery at 6 by 7 it still hadn’t arrived phoned was told it had been delivered elsewhere they would cook a fresh one and deliver it when arrived it was cold . Won’t be ordering again

Good portion size, warm, tasty. Would highly recommend.

On hols with family. Wandering around town, when we came across Etam. Took pics of menu and decided to give the takeaway a try that evening. What a good decision. Extensive choices, reasonable prices and the food proved first class. Ready on time, all correct and very hot. Couldn’t fault it. Shame is so far away from home. Would definitely recommend

We got quite a large takeaway order for a family of 5. We arrived to collect and food was ready on time, smell was lovely. This was the tastiest curry I have had for a long time, Lamb Pesanda. Lamb was so tender and lovely big, lean chunks of meat. Others had Chicken Korma x 2, Chicken Butter Masala, Special Biryani. Rice and Naan and everyone said the food was delicious. Definitely worth a visit or take away.

Lovely authentic food, excellent service. Would definitely order again.

That was one of the nicest curry’s I have had in along time, excellent value for money too. 5 ⭐️

Food was amazing, and the service even better! Even though I had made a mistake when ordering, The restaurant was kind enough to correct it, as I say even though it was my own fault! Very lovely people, very delicious food, can’t go wrong!

Lovely new food, excited to have a new place to order from. Thank you.

As ever fantastic tasty food but unfortunately asked for a pashwari And got a boring nan bread Their pashwari Nan breads are the best we’ve ever had before Spoiled a good evening Shame January and February are even going to be less take always

Exceptionally poor service, waited around to be seated, waited a LONG time to be served. No menu (Food or drink) was given. When I was finally asked for drinks (2 Cokes) we were kept waiting even longer. There were only 2 other tables and 2 members of staff who seemed to be having a heated discussion behind us which, along with no music or ambience of any kind, made for an unpleasant atmosphere. Food was average.