Gurkha Chef in Teignbridge

An excellent restaurant that offers great service and great menu, every item ordered off the menu arrived at the table piping hot and exactly as described, lovely tasty food

Food is excellent - tasty, quality, delicious and so good it's difficult not to over eat!

Food was superb, so tasty and freshly cooked. Variety of flavours and spices not oily at all. Lovely friendly place with the nicest of staff, attentive but never intrusive. Prices very reasonable especially for the quality delivered. It is always our go-to place in Newton Abbot

We did not like the food. Very low quality. Not a good experience.

First and last time… Order took 1.5hours to arrive. Order was wrong. Poppadoms were wet. Not soggy, wet! Mint yoghurt dip smelt and had a sour taste. Rice smelt floral. Then to top it off the drinks that were sent were from a multi pack and OUT OF DATE!!! We called the restaurant to tell them to come back and collect. The delivery driver arrived and wanted the food back. Because the food had been put into the bag mixed together they refused a refund initially as they couldn’t re-sell it. We got the refund after a doorstep altercation. Unprofessional and unhygienic at best! For people like me with an autoimmune disease - this standard of hygiene is downright disgusting!

Great food, great staff. Edit October 2024: Still the best place to eat in Newton Abbot. Lovely family-run restaurant.

Lovely indian the mushroom puree on the starters is amazing

Always great food and friendly staff one of our favourite places to eat

Great food and service with a smile

Best curry around Newton abott.try Nepalese dishes you won't be disappointed. Five star service from 5 star rated health and hygiene restaurant. There's no comparison to any other restaurants around and you won't be disappointed.

Unfortunately I have been let down the last few times ordering from here. Not much chicken in the himilayan garlic chicken and naan was like yesterday's. I think this will be the last time we get food from the ghurka.

Ordered take out it’s our favourite Indian restaurant highly recommend. We have ordered from here since moving to Newton Abbot and tried several this by far the best one and hope to go to the restaurant soon

Amazing food, great atmosphere. Probably one of the best curries I've had in the last 10 years!

Last two takeaways have been more than disappointing. Sauce is watery and tasteless, ordered lamb and got chicken. Used to be the best but no more. You have now lost our custom.

Wow!!! Wonderful curry, not commercial and full of flavour and quality. Well done Gurkha Chef I won’t go anywhere else from now on.

The 4 of us at the last moment were able to get a table. We all had starters and mains. My husband and I shared a starter absolutely delicious. My main of chicken in a lovely thick creamy sauce. The nan bread wonderful. All food piping hot and the staff lovely. We will definitely be back. Thank you.

Thank you for our lovely meal last night. Very impressed with the food, service and price. Only problem was we ordered too much food and couldn’t manage it 🤣 We will definitely return and would recommend.

This is the worst indian we have ever had. Ignore the good reviews. Watery curries with no flavour at all. Definitely wouldn’t recommend this takeaway.

Why has it taken so long to find this place! Food was delicious will definitely be reordering!

always great food,highly recommend.

Best take away in the area order from here every week. Food so good. Milkshakes and deserts are the best too

Great menu and service even when busy.

Friends keep telling me about this place but I still Ordered from the big well known Indian just up the road. Ordered today for the first time. Glad I did the quality of the food is excellent the lamb and chicken is so much better really tender and delicious. Honestly the best takeaway I’ve ever had it’s amazing

Really enjoyed something different, busy, fun, good range of food, tasty and not expensive. All freshly cooked and very tasty.

Gurkha Chef are always amazing!

Amazing little gem of a restaurant. The food was as good as I've tasted for a long time and the service was great. Unlike a lot of similar places currently the portions were generous and great value for money. First time we've been but will definitely be returning, thanks to all concerned for a lovely time!

Fantastic food, great breads. Never disappoints.

Very good food. Lots to chose from in Newton Abbot, but this place is my favourite by quite a distance. Lovely staff.

Very disappointed March 2 usually Very good ended up with 2 naan breads a curry with egg in 2 samosas and salad 27 .00 not what I ordered,

brilliant food as ever. never disappointed ordering from here

Extremely impressed, probably the most authentic and good quality restaurant in Newton Abbot. Will be back very soon

ordered at 6:30 to deliver and a 60 to 70 minute wait. Then at 8:15 my order was updated saying it had been delivered when it hadn't. I then called the restaurant and after 5 minutes to asking everyone in there, they said ' oh the delivery driver is just leaving now'. The delivery driver then took 15 minutes to arrive when the drive to our house is 5 minutes. Clearly was not prepared in time and not good service at all. Food was ok but awful preparation ( little bit cold) and efficiency.

What a delicious meal, and excellent service. I loved the Momos for a starter (little meat dumplings), and the lamb Base Camp curry. What was really good, was that - while restaurants face rising costs - all the ingredients were such good quality. No cost cutting. a lovely evening, thank you.

Went for my sons birthday last night lovely food friendly staff and really made an effort for his birthday highly recommended

Tasty Kathmandu lager, good chefs specials based on Nepali style curries. Good momos (dumplings) in simple yet colourful small dining areas.

The best takeaway my wife and I have had in years, the momos were amazing, but everything else was superb too

Great food and service, went with a group of friends restaurant happy to split the bill

The food arrived a little late, but the resturant phoned to apologise for the lateness, and the food was absolutely delicious when it arrived 🙂

Was excited to try out this restaurant as a treat but unfortunately it was underwhelming. Coconut squid was overcooked, soggy and 80% desiccated coconut. Curry was bland and on the same level as a supermarket ready meal. The other items, while pleasant enough, wouldn’t make us order again. For £46 for 2 people, would have hoped for more.

Absolutely excellent meal. Being a vegetarian it has the best vegetable masala I have ever tasted. Full of flavour and authenticity.

Delivery was meant to be 7:30 didn’t arrive until 8:10 we tryed to ring a couple of times to find out about our order but it kept ringing through to answer phone, when we did get it was awful, the poppadoms were soft the food was lukewarm the chicken had absolutely no flavour to it what so ever! We order a lot of Gurkah chef so to receive an order like this is awful, very very disappointing and to of spent £39 what an absolute waste won’t be ordering again anytime soon.

Lovely food but not happy with the wait of over 2 hours when delivery was 60-80 mins, or being told "it will be with you in 20 minutes" only for it to arrive 40 minutes later

Very tasty hot food . Have tried others but always come back to this one .

Fantastic food, interesting flavours and would definitely order again

Fantastic food, great atmosphere and service. We have dined here on a number of occasions since moving to Newton Abbot, it is our favourite place to eat in the town. Family run, it is professionally run and clean with a great menu. We will be returning again and again. Thank you.

We have used the Gurka chef before but the quality of the food has gone down, we thought we would try it again but not as good as it used to be, a pity as we liked it there.

The worst curry Ive had for a while, it was bland, the onion bhajees came with their own oil to cook in, butter chicken was full of dessicated coconut, the chilli chicken onions were very large pieces and uncooked, mint sauce was watery and didnt taste of mint, didnt enjoy it and threw nearly all of it away. Shant order again from Gurkha Chef

Food was great would recommend

The only South Asian restaurant we go to in Newton Abbot. Good flavours, brilliant vegetarian options and not overly oily as you often find with curry. We usually have a selection of veggie curries, side dishes and bread, and get different combinations each time. I recommend the brinjal bhaji, it's delicious. Staff always calm and pleasant and the price is fair. My husband would go here twice a week if I let him.

The food was brilliant, but the delivery time wasn't, although they did phone up and apologise, and the food arrived by the new time. Would definitely order again.

First time ordering. Best curry I have had in Newton Abbot by a mile.

Great meal, arrived early, nice and hot.

I know this is a Nepalese place but we tried the tikka masala and madras and it was far better than any of the indian places in town, really really delicious. We'll be ordering from here from now on! A little bit more pricey but far higher quality.

Best Indian food in Newton Abbot in my opinion. Great selection of Nepalese food served alongside a great selection of Indian food. I can recommend the base camp curry if you like your food spicy. Got to try the vegetable tikka dish also, the tikka sauce was fantastic. Everything on the table including the rice and side dishes was presented beautifully and delicious. The building itself was a little small and more like walking into someone's house rather than a restaurant, but that almost gives it a more homely feel. I would highly recommend Gurkha Chef, I will absolutely be back and look forward to trying a load of items on the menu you won't find in the usual Indian restaurants

We don’t have a take away often but when we do we use Gurkha chef , ordered our meal and it was delivered promptly. We were so disappointed not at all up to their usual standards. The sauces were sloppy and watery the coconut squid was so rubbery couldn’t eat it , the Chana masala was not good, so all in all feeling let down. Spent nearly £60, snd feel it was wasted.

A classic family run Indian, not professional looking but rather, Indian, waitress wearing authentic Indian dress and restaurant looks more like an indian eatery. The jungle I.e. "Camp" curry, one of the nicest I've had!. Highly recommended from the Indian food critique that happily gives 1 star reviews. I will certainly be back!, you've not seen the last of me!!!.

We booked a large group late evening and they kindly accommodated our group. They were able to adjust the spice to cater for our group and the food was absolutely delicious. This was the best Indian food we have had in years! Considering we are of Indian origin, this place is highly recommended. The staff were superb and friendly. We did some research as we were travelling from Cornwall for a stay in Torquay and were drawn to this place based on the reviews. I can confirm the reviews are absolutely spot on! Thank you for the wonderful service and hospitality.

Great food as always no issues, food ready on time will definitely use again👍

Still hot on delivery. All items arrived as ordered. Good sized pieces of chicken and very tasty sauce. Will definitely recommend and order again.

Amazing food, great service. We eat there regularly and it’s always as good.

Terrific food, a little pricey compared to others and the poppadoms were slightly soft. Otherwise a very tasty meal. The atmosphere was a little low as we were in early Sunday evening at opening time.

Delivery was very speedy. Arrived early! Food was very nice, will order again in the future.

Always happy to see the people at Ghurkha Chef. Food always amazing

Fresh, authentic Nepalese cooking. Never fails to disappoint. We always get the Gurkha Lamb which is brilliant, their Onion Bhaji’s are the best and nice, crisp Naan Breads.

Excellent food as always. We have been ordering for some time from this restaurant and it is always wonderful authentic cuisine.

Great service & wonderful food. Lovely flavours. We would visit again and recommend to family and friends 😊 ❤️

15 minutes early, and the food was amazing, 5 star all the way.

The best tasting food I've had for a long time. Now a happy returning client great service well pleased

Second visit, choice is unlimited Very friendly attentive staff I would say reasonably priced to No 62 a house balti with coconut rice I chose on this occasion very tasty and enjoyable Sure to return again as I must try other items on the menu

Don’t judge a book by its cover. From the outside you wouldn’t guess the beauty within. Especially the goat curry was delicious! Really wonderful staff. Would go back again in a heartbeat

Called here everytime we visit the area for past 10 years. Always love the food, tasty & HOT. Service impeccable & although small seating area, always lovely welcome.

Great food, but it was a little bit expensive. Would reccomend .

Excellent, I will definitely be ordering again.

Good food on time would recommend

First visit, nice meal for six, very attentive service, and made to feel welcome, good range of Indian and Nepalese food (try the mixed dal) Avoid parking in the station car park, very expensive..

We went here because reviews were really good and Nepalese is a bit different. Nearly turned away before going in. No kerb appeal, it looks like just a takeaway. Inside is a bit dated but service was friendly, menu extensive (too much choice for me) and food was absolutely lovely. Would definitely recommend it. We were just passing through so not likely to be back which is a shame as would like to sample other items on the menu. We'll done staff team.

Brilliant menu and food. Sometimes not so great on having takeaways ready on time. Overlook that for the quality of the food though.

First time here and really enjoyed it. Fab menu with so many dishes and everything tasted great. Will definitely return.

Excellent nice and hot when delivered, excellent food

Still doing great quality food, cooked fast. Brilliant.

Only negative is that the food we had was very very oily.

Our third visit, all three with friends in a party of six. Lovely authentic local Nepalese Curry House, with menu and warm welcome to match. An understated local gem with many take aways out for delivery. More power to them. Recommended.

Restaurant can seat about 25- 30 diners but was full on our visit. Prompt and friendly service , food great. Recommended If we lived closer we would certainly be regulars.

Always beautifully cooked, fresh, authentic food! Top restaurant! Use regularly.

I Delivered A Pallet Of Kathmandu Beers Yesterday And Helped Them Stack Them Away. Cheekily I Asked Them If There Was Any Lunch I Could Have And WOW. It Was Too Good To Eat In Me Lorry, Got Home Put On A Plate And Was Probably The BEST Lamb Jalfrazi With Long Grain Rice, I've EVER Eaten. Lovely People And Absolutely Gorgeous Food. Thank You Gurkha Chef Hopefully I'll Be Delivering Some More Beers In The Very Near Future HEHEHEHE XX.

Not my first order from here theThe food was nice as always. portion sizes were good. however onion bajis were a tad greasy this time round.

Butter chicken was on point, best one I've had

Always amazing food and excellent attention to detail. Great in relation to allergy requirements and inclusive. Food never fails to be fantastic

Great flavours, never greasy - just yummy

Do Not buy from here. YUK The food is cold, watery. Tasteless , very bland . The worst Indian I’ve had in over 40 years. Having called them to tell them they told us to complain with Justeat and put the phone down. Having had a live chat with Justeat, they said they would not get involved and ended the Chat. What a Scam

Popped in around 6 p,m. on a wet evening. Location very handy as its just down the road from Newton Abbot railway station. Queen Street where its situated is full of restaurants and take aways so plenty of competition. Not that promising a looking place from the outside. Interior colour scheme not to everyones taste and with a lot of dark brown woodwork the interior looks pretty dated. However nothing ventured nothing gained I thought. Place was empty but a polite chap behind the small bar, Gave me menus and let me get on with it. When I ordered he then disappeared so I would guess he was doing the cooking. So I had papadoms then onion bhajis to start. Main course was the Nepalesse mixed grille which comes on a hot sizzler dish. You get a naan bread of your choice with this dish which at £12.95 wasnt bad value for money. Plenty of chicken/lamb pieces plus a small chicken leg. Very tasty. I also had a sag panir as a side dish. Plenty of cheese with the spinach. I had had only a small breakfast that day and no lunch but even so I was struggling at the end to tuck it all away ! Skip the starter in future I reckon. My impression of the food on the night was that this was a chap who could cook. I had a 660 ml bottle of the Nepalese beer at £5.50. Nice taste but when you looked on the beer label you could see it was brewed in the UK so not exactly Nepalese ! A very decent meal I thought but I still landed up with a bill of £29 plus but thats how it is now. These guys have got to try and make up for their covid losses I suppose. Didnt use the toilets but I say again the interior is a bit dated. Phone was ringing for take away orders and two other guys came in for a table in the hour plus I was there. The place is small though so I would recommend booking ahead for a table. I would recommend this place but just take on board that its not very fancy inside unlike a couple of very nearby competitors in Queen Street.

The portions were generous, although the momos were a little overdone.

Both food and service of good standard. Food reasonably priced. An enjoyable experience.

Great food; friendly staff. There’s lots to learn about Nepal, so ask questions. P.S. the papadams and pickles are delicious, but they are not free. 😆

Really great food, the medium goat curry meat really tender

Amazing food and helpful staff but food took over 2 hours to arrive. Food arrived piping hot and tasty but shame it took so long to come.

Absolutely delicious! Can’t fault it will definitely be ordering from here again!

Beautiful food and bang on time

It’s the first time I’ve used Gurkha Chef as I moved here a year ago. This place is 500 yards from where I live. Chose a takeaway and debated whether to ring ahead, or just walk-in. Chose the latter. It’s a small restaurant of around 10 tables and was 1/2 full at 1930h. We chose the chicken tikka masala (CTM), Nepalese mixed grill, Nepalese fried rice and some chips. Took a while to come out but phone orders and deliveries and eat ins all can effect a busy kitchen. Food came out hot and tasty. The two mains were much drier than I anticipated but that’s no bad thing. The CTM was skewered chicken in tikka marinade and no bright red sauce. It came with mixed fried vegetables and fried onions. Same concept for the mixed grill. Extras included was a fresh fried naan and extra poppadom, plus raita and some onions shredded. It was brilliant and all went. I’d certainly pre-order next time I think just to save me sitting around. No draught beers at the small bay but bottled Cobra is what I had. All in all we loved it. It’s a genuine take on westernised styles of other Indian restaurants. The staff very friendly with two waitresses. Definitely worth another visit!

Poor quality food, mushy vegetables and all the side dishes tasted pretty much the same.