Prince of India in Scottish Borders

We visited The Prince of India for a weekday evening meal whilst on holiday to Peebles with our young daughter. We were seated opposite the bar and promptly given the menu. Drink orders were taken and delivered fast and once we ordered our food the service was snappy there too. Unfortunately as we began our meal we started to feel very uncomfortable, the waiter stood Infront of The bar watching us, at first we thought it was just to make we were enjoying everything but slowly we realised we were being closely monitored. In fact it became very obvious when the waiter had to run out for an errand and got the chef to take his place beside the bar monitoring us. We thought it to be rather over the top behaviour considering the fact there was a CCTV camera also pointing at us the entire time. Altogether very off-putting and we really didn't relax to enjoy the meal, which was not too bad but on the next downside we found it to be very overpriced for the portion sizes and quality. The meal for 2 adults sharing with a little one came to 75 pounds, and that included the cola and large beer. It was quite an eye watering price just for an informal weekday meal out, and we left feeling quite sorry that we had chosen to eat there as we were basically treated like criminals and had to pay through the nose for the privilege, definitely would not return and we were actually kicking ourselves that we didn't go to Francos Italian just a few doors down.

Excellent Indian Restaurant. Good value, good ingredients well cooked and efficiently served, couldn't ask for more.

Food was very poor and overpriced , very disappointed

Sneaky overpring for very average food. When we ordered soft drinks, we expected standard bottles or cans were given pints of cola and lemonade and charged £5.50 for each. one starter, one main course, single naan, a japati, popodams and rice came to £64. On paying the bill an extra 10% service charge was added " when I questioned this and asked where on the menu it said this I was told this is standard. !!!! I was then told cash only as card machine not working. ( probably don't like paying merchant fees) I said I don't have cash and suddenly card machine was working again. Would never go back again as I felt totally ripped off.

I’ve been here previously when visiting the area so thought I’d stop again. Didn’t need to book as it was a week night and quiet. We were one of two couples. Menus given and drinks order taken. We asked for diet cokes and were surprised to receive pints of coke mmmm £4.90 each. We would have been happy with half pints but weren’t given that option. The popadoms and pickle tray was lacking the mint sauce pot. Only three pots: onions, chutney and pickle. We don’t eat the pickle so wasted on us and that left us with some runny chutney and onions that looked old. On to mains. The chicken tikka main was about 5 cubes of chicken for about £16 on a sizzler plate. The Rougan Josh was bland and the texture was bity. Just not great all round. The male toilets are downstairs and are not pleasant compared to most restaurants and don’t touch the hand rail on the way down as it’s sticky and not clean.

The restaurant itself was lovely and the staff very friendly but…….that’s where it ends. We have experienced Indian cuisine in many places in the uk from Cornwall to Birmingham and in between for many years. This was ludicrously overpriced and the portions were very small. We had king prawn dansak, king prawn jalfrezi and tarka Dahl (couple of spoonfuls) and pilau rice. The rice tasted stale, as if it had been left over from a few days before and reheated. The dansak had a tinned pineapple ring in it! The flavours didn’t reflect the prices. Underwhelmed and not recommended.

We are from the US and make frequent visits to the UK. When in a small town where we do not know where to eat, we have always defaulted to the Indian Food on High Street. Our one visit and we found traditional food that was average but not great. Shrimp dish was sizable but no tastes impressed me as they oftern do. A perfectly okay meal but not exceptional. Service was good.

Had a few deliveries recently and all dishes have been outstanding. Thank you

Amazing food best Indian iv ever had

Starters great, rice great, sides great, service great, beer great..... Stairs to toilets area little steep..... Overall....great!

Initially thought it was nice, table at the back window, authentic decor etc. Had a bottle of overpriced Cobra each, 2 poppadoms each with bland accompaniments. Ordered chicken chat and prawn puri to start & after that we were stuffed so asked for the bill. The very rude man said we had to go to the till to pay & when we got there he started lecturing us on how we should have had a main course, we misled him, you cant just have starters??? How rude. We were full & had no room for mains, it's surely our choice? Anyway he slapped a £3.50 service charge on the bill taking it to £35, he continued to have a go at us - so I informed him we would never be back & he needs to brush up on his customer service skills. Rude rude man. He should have been grateful cos the place was empty on a Thursday night, can't think why. Avoid.

SERIOUSLY £82 for the following is a joke!!!!!! 2 poppadoms with miniature bowl of chopped onions 2 flat very greasy onion Bhaji 1 small portion korma sauce 1 chicken bhuna [no rice] 1 small chapati 1 ice-cream (value quality) with half a flake 1 bottle beer 1 small glass house red wine + £12.50 service charge The crockery and cutlery had also “SEEN BETTER DAYS”

I've eaten here twice now and really enjoyed the food the second time around. Everything we ate was fresh and very tasty. The atmosphere is lacking as there have only been a few other diners while I've been there. My visits have been out of season, which may explain it. I refused the 10% service charge the first time but accepted it the second. Remember, you don't have to pay it!

A bit disappointed with the flavours and pieces of what we ordered. I ordered a paneer dish that had very little pieces of it (4) and mostly peas. Not really worth the price in my opinion. On the plus side, our server was pretty attentive and kind.

Very tasty food and great service. Would definitely recommend this for anyone who loves a good curry

Very poor quality tonight 6 pieces of lamb in meal and price quoted to me was different to delivery very poor meals tonight

One of the best curries I have had!

No atmosphere (only 1 table occupied on a Friday evening, rest of the restaurant was empty). Very grumpy staff. Really expensive for what you get. Even charging a 10% service charge whilst prices for the 'sit-in' menu are already higher than the 'take-away' prices. Food not the best, definitely not for the price paid.

Met friends to celebrate our engagement told them when booking for set lunch Menu given at table, set lunch when bill arrived they had charged us for the alacarte menu, refused to pay this bill x

Third quality food. Pls buy some frozen Indian food from any shop and you will get better quality and taste. Can't even rate 0 which is too much. Pls avoid.

Quite Monday night. Excellent food, good service.

Excellent food, I highly recommend this restaurant.

I can’t recall ever having a worse restaurant experience. The customer service was non-existent and the food was awful. The curries were very sweet and distasteful and the naan bread was pink (food colouring???). The waiter and the staff working there were outright rude, not helpful and acted very unprofessional and arrogant. Very disappointed.

I felt a bad experience from this hotel right now. One of the staff was disrespectful towards us. He was rude at telling the space needed to be reserved before, through booking.

Lovely and reasonably priced Indian food.

Fantastic improvement. Food was good as was the service but we were the only customers so poor atmosphere.

First time eating here and we were not disappointed. Full compliments to the chef. All our dishes were amazing. Staff very friendly and welcoming. Well worth the 5⭐

Different to the usual Indian restaurant. Lovely food

11 of us had a meal here and we were all pleased with our choices. The tandoori chicken was spicy but not too hot. The shashlick was sizzling and tasty with onions peppers and tomatoes. Garlic rice was a little greasy but still tasty.

I can honestly say one of the worst Indians I have had. The food was well below regular high street standard. Extortionate prices for the tiniest portion. They advertise a tandoori mixed grill online with all the trimmings, going into the shop to order they say it’s all paid seperate. The mixed grill had a horrible dry bit of boned chicken and a tiny piece of the rest. And the Naan, if you could call it that, was so small it was almost not worth having. For the cost and quality. Avoid Service wasn’t that great either and we were taking away!!!

£10 for 2 cake balls. Shameful. Portions tiny, ate in a tent for a laugh. One and done ordeal.

Very expensive Very small portions there are other Indian restaurants on the borders that are much better than this I won't be back here again complete east of money

Very mediocre…decor is very dated and was obviously very nice back in the day, could do with modernizing! Service very average and food absolutely nothing to write home about at all! Meat not marinaded, wished we’d got a take away from Shukria just around the corner! Watch out for the service charge that gets slapped on the bill which, if anybody does that to us, I request for it to be taken off! I’ll tip depending on service level not because you feel like adding another £10 onto already very overpriced food! I pay good money for good food, not good money for poor quality food! Won’t be returning, not a great experience for us!

I ordered a £35 order of King prawn biriyani, sag dall & vegetables. The prawns were rubbery and had very little taste and neither did the rice or sauces. I then stupidly ordered again from them this evening. Chicken pakora (which I don't actually like and meant to order vegetable pakora, but that was my mistake, so decided to eat it anyway as I'd paid for it and didn't want to have to call again to complain). The batter was soft not crispy as you would expect the batter to be. The chicken was as dry as old leather boots and completely tasteless. The salad tub had very little salad in it and the cucumber did not taste very fresh and had a funny taste. The sauce with the pakora was about 4 teaspoons in the tub and hardly enough to feed a pigeon. The garlic nan was also not dry cooked enough and was very pale and doughie & like cardboard round the edges I could hardly bite a mouthful from the bread as it was like eating cardboard. I'm so disappointed in the whole 2 orders costing in total £50 and a complete waste of money and will never order from them again in the future as the last 3 previous times I've ordered, there have been issues with the orders being wrong when they arrived. I gave them so many chances to get the food orders right and to provide me with food that has taste, texture and fresh tasting food and they just don't come up to par with other Indian cuisine I've ordered from other places in the past and being the only restaurant on just eat where I live; next time I will drive to the next village to a more reputable Indian restaurant who can cook Indian food authentically. I don't know how this restaurant survives as I've had so many issues I'm surprised they are even still in business. I would definitely not recommend this restaurant if you are looking for well cooked authentic and tasty Indian cuisine as it doesn't come up to standard and is the worst I have ever tasted.

Couldn't eat the food. Far to spicy

Lovely place will definitely be back again

Me and my better half was out and about and decided to stop off in Peebles to have a wee look around. We decided to get something to eat to save cooking when we got home. We went in here,, was told that they was fully booked but if you come back around eight o'clock they might have a table,, we returned at eight o'clock to find a beautifully set table for two. The service we received was second to none and the food was delicious. I would definitely recommend the Prince of India to anyone. We will definitely be going to dine there again.

Terrible one of the worst meals I've ever had would not recomend or return

Had a takeaway. The naan was lovely and soft and well-flavoured. It was really nice food!!

Very quiet but great food and service.

Great food, with good portions + lots of variety. Had a lamb madras and Allo mushrooms and it was really nice. Rice portions are small so recommend 1 a person. Naans were also really great

Booked a week before ,arrived and no booking and the woman was rude . Got seated ,she then started taking the drinks order ,the manager came over and said don't listen to her she knows nothing . Ordered our mains they arrived and they were four different dishes ,however they all tasted the same but varying degrees of strength. Hardly any chicken in them and mine was bland . I'm writing this on the toilet you make your own mind up . Awful

Very yummy food and very friendly staff, we really enjoyed it so much! We had lots of different dishes to share, all super good!

I was working in Scotland and I tend to stay in Peebles where I can. Very nice place. So I decided to go out to dinner here and I thought the food was really tasty, freshly prepared and the service was excellent. I'll come again.

We had a fantastic meal on Saturday 18th Feb. Myself, my husband & two children had starters (vegetable & chicken pakora) , poppadoms & 3 main meals (chicken tikka masala, chicken balti jalfrezi & chicken balti) & 3 pilau rice. Every single thing was extremely tasty, very well cooked & brought to us at well timed intervals. I would definitely go back again & definitely recommend going to those that are unsure! None of us felt bloated or overly full, which I sometimes feel after eating at Indian restaurants. Well worth the money - you get what you pay for 🙌 Great job - well done Prince if India 🤩

Underrated. Food was tasty, discernible spices as opposed to generic mush. Bahjis were particularly good...

No idea why the average is 3.x this place is entirely above average for a curry house. I'd rate it 4.0-4.5, but rating it 5 to bring the average up. Service excellent, cost is on the cheap side, quality of food was great. Would definitely recommend and visit again.

Great food and hospitality, if your visiting peebles, make sure you pay a visit

In for dinner with a colleague. Great friendly service and delicious food. Will be back next time I'm in Peebles

We had a buetiful meal the lady was very nice the only downside was we had a meal each shared 1 rice between us and shared a large bottle of beer. When the final bill came I questioned it as it was £12 more than my calculations and her answer was everything has went up in price don't go by the menu prices Had she said when we arrived that wouldn't have been a problem instead I had to question it and was very embarrassed on having to do so.

very expensive, slow service and frankly bland food

Dreadful. Worst ever. Was like a faulty towers experience. That was 4 months ago tbf, however can only recommend to avoid. Absolutely hopeless, rude and thoroughly incompetent from start till finish. Food o.k but pricey for quality

Great authentic place for Indian food! Great vegetarian options too👍👍

Very very poor, pint of Diet Coke poured for a plastic bottle, was flat and charged nearly £15 for 3 of these. Add £4.94 for a service charge, also not been well since I ate at this place. 🤢🤢🤢

Paltry portions and high prices and to cap it all a service charge for not very good service basically throwing the meal at you and not good quality

We were staying in Peebles last week and were recommended this little gem during our stay. A traditional Indian restaurant where the service was fast and the food was piping hot and delicious. We were not disappointed and would definitely recommend. If we ever returned to the town we would be back again!

Very average food. Expensive and watch out for the service charge on top.

I cant fault anything with this place, the food was very good, so many times your let down.... not here, 10 from me

Really enjoyed our vegetarian curry meals

Staying in Peebles and fancied an Indian so chose to order a takeaway for two from here as looked good from the outside. We should have read the reviews, in short the food was very poor, lacking in any real quality. Easily the worst Indian meal I have ever had. H

THE CHICKEN TIKKA WAS HORRIBLE IT WAS'NT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS WORSE I WON'T BE ORDERING FROM HERE AGAIN.

Service was very slow and had to ask several times for drinks. Plates were boiling hot to the point that the waiter told us we could take one as it was too hot for him to pass 😂.. Staff were ‘entertaining’. However, we cannot fault the food - it was delicious and worth waiting for! I think they are clearly having staffing issues which is a problem for all businesses and not their fault. Overall a good night was had!l - we had a good night!

Enjoyed the food.Good service.Peebles is a beautiful place.The air is better here.

A wee gem. Good old fashioned curry house, warm welcome from proprietor, stunning food. Tandoori grill absolutely gorgeous. Highly recommended.

Food was nice but prices very high not sure I would return at these prices.

We visited Peebles previous week where we noticed the menu. Unfortunately it was to early and the restaurant was closed. The menu was so interesting that we revisited the next week Brilliant choice of food for meat eaters and veggies. My partner had mixed kebab which had flavoursome meats, As for myself I had mushroom stuffed with mince never had this before but will definitely have again. Once again something new for both of us Garlic fish and Kula Kata Massalam Both dishes amazingbfull of flavours. The choice was so good made it difficult to choose Needless to say we will have to return to sample more. The place had a nice atmosphere bright and airy. Nice to have a wee break between courses Would have no hesitation in recommending this restraunt

Overall not a great experience The food was below average and the staff were pretty stressed out.

ordered at 18:04 for takeout delivery, eventually arrived at 1945 (when it says 45minutes for delivery), food was barely lukewarm so i had to microwave everything. also, peas in an onion bahji is just no! this was the first order since around 2016, had a bad experience then and this has not changed that opinion. definitely will never order or eat here ever. again. Shukria FTW!

Absolutely incredible- the starter was totally delicious and the main was superb! Would totally be back here whenever I’m back in Peebles!

Second visit to this place and both times the food and service were excellent. Would recommend and will surely be back when in Peebles.

Excellent food (I had vegetarian) Service level 5 star, cosy atmosphere

Really delicious food! A real treat.

Great and friendly service. Superb food.

Really nice food more expensive than any Indian restaurant including a service charge when the service not brilliant ended putting empty bottles on another table empty when we went in @7.15 started filling up when we asked for coffee after our meal was asked to leave as they wanted the table not impressed Wil not be going back even though very pleased with food not with service or not allowed to finish our meal

Amazing food highly recommended Amazing specialities

If I could give this restaurant zero stars I would. Went in on Saturday night,.no booking, waitor tried to put is in a bad positioned table, we refused , the female started speaking to the waitor in their own language, luckily for us the person I was with could understand and spoke up. We then got moved to another table, the female member of staff came over to us and asked us "what we wanted to drink" then the phone rang and she just answered , no excuse me or anything and walked back to the bar. We stood up and walked out. Her attitude was a disgrace ... If you want to go somewhere where they appreciate your custom then avoid here. Plenty of other establishments in Pebbles where they will make you feel welcome

Visited this restaurant last Sunday night . The food was outstanding and so was the staff . We were pushed for time but the owner went above and beyond to have our food out quickly and booked us a taxi . Best lamb pathia I have tasted and my friends were equally impressed with theres . Will definitely be returning next time we are in Peebles 10/10

Food was delicious. Reasonable prices. Best do a reservation as its popular.

Worst Indian restaurant in the history of Indian restaurants!

I was there on bank holiday Monday & I wasn’t offered a drink after waiting 40 mins so we all left -ignorant owner ,under staffed ! 1 star is over rating .

Fantastic food, loved it, friendly staff.

The food was very average and little expensive for what it is worth...

Nice place. Good food. A bit slow. 😐

Delicious meal and service. Thank you.

Delicious food for eat in and takeaway and great service. So nice to eat out again. The Balti is exceptional!

Lovely place. Meal enjoyable but watch out for service charge of 10% sneakily added to bottom of bill

Banging curry, excellent service, nan bread was delicious!

The food was good. I think it was a bit expensive (£11 for a curry). I was annoyed that 2 people, ordering poppadoms, 2 mains and a naan to share, were hassled to buy more rice and naans. It was the perfect quantity for us, more food would have been unnecessary, and we ordered drinks. Just felt rude.

Food was good but one starter came out frozen still and was given different Naans to what we ordered and the bill was slightly incorrect Food 4/5 Service 2/5

Good food good service bit cramped if you are a bit worried about covid

Fantastic meal tonight, best Indian meal by far x thoroughly enjoyed it - veg korma, chicken biryani and lamb was delicious x

We have ordered food from Prince of India for years and always been very happy. We ordered a takeaway through their website for collection. A 24 mile round trip but usually worth it. When we got home we discovered they had failed to give us 6 of the items ordered. I phoned them and an extremely rude man shouted at me. Over the next week I phoned again and sent multiple emails asking for a refund of £20 for the missing items. No response. Eventually had to involve PayPal who took the payment and have finally been issued a refund. Very disappointed with the restaurants attitude and sadly won't be ever ordering from them again.

Restaurant very clean and quiet. Staff very helpful and polite. Our meal was with us very quick but excellent when it did come

Just had a delivery from this restaurant, and it was easily the best we have ever tasted! great prompt delivery, piping hot, and fresh! really delicious!! would highly recommend!!!!!

Great food, am amazing service even in times as such, prompt takeouts.

Ordered for collection half a dozen times from 'The Prince of India' the set meal for 2, which included: the lamb madras curry, pilau rice, chicken pakora, salad, poppadums and sauces... I'm a big curry fan, and I have to the food is absolutely excellent, and the staff are very professional and friendly... I can see why this restaraunt/takeaway has won awards, i would definately recommend The Prince of India to friends and family!

4 of us with varying tastes from korma to vindaloo all were delicious and prices very reasonable.

Quite the worst meal I’ve had for some years. Was celebrating a new job with a takeaway, and was so totally disappointed- both meals were filled with half cooked cauliflower and cabbage, watery sauce that seared my tastebuds. I usually support local business but this was something else. Phoned to let them know and they could not have cared less. Don’t bother unless you like getting ripped off. Shukria in the old town is 400% better.

We eat Indian food regularly. We shared a starter of pakora which was plenty for the both of us. We each had a different main course. Both were great. Will certainly be back next time we are in Peebles. Certainly social distancing when we were there

Had a lovely meal. Korma was the nicest a've had for a long time!