Royal India in Dumfries & Galloway

Visited on Friday evening with friends . The food was amazing . I had tandoori duck it was absolutely delicious. Everyone really enjoyed their meal . The service was 1 st class . Reasonably priced . Will return soon .

I don't live around here, but I've made a habit of visiting when I'm in the area over the past few years. This was my first visit in over a year. I've previously found it to be decent, if not amazing, but worth a visit. But things have changed. The prices are shocking. I intended to get a couple of poppadums. The cost for poppadums and some dips? 5p short of £6. Seriously! Six quid for poppadums! There is an option for just one dip which reduces the price to 'just' £4. I didn't bother. I was going to have a naan bread, but that was £4 as well. Ok fine, I'll just order a main course. Ordered a vegetable curry. £10. I don't eat meat, but the meat versions were another £2 on top of that. Rice was £4. I ordered a coke as well, didn't see the price of that. The food arrived within six or seven minutes of me placing the order, which was a little surprising. But it did taste fresh. Unfortunately, that's all it tasted. It had no flavour at all. It just tasted of nothing. And the portions were tiny. I've never seen so little rice, let alone for four quid. I was still hungry when I left. It was all so disappointing. Then I went to pay. £20. Didn't think anything of it at the time, then later on I realised I'd paid almost £6 for a glass of coke! Not even a pint, a glass. Six quid. I'm a big fan of Indian Restaurants and I've eaten at many. I also know what prices you'd expect to pay. Genuinely, I've never felt so ripped off. Seriously, don't go here.

Was actually a take away I had when it was delivered there was no chicken tikka in my korma phoned up and waited he asked for the tray back as if I was lying and then sent a new one with no rice. A said have I not got a fresh rice? He said no heat it up in the microwave and walked away, when u started to eat it I found three ling grey hairs in it and it put me off totally , I was going to phone and complain again but thought better if it as the customer service I received first time was appalling WONT ORDER again😡

Attended as one of a group of seven friends. First course was, allegedly, a prawn puri which consisted of puri bread with prawns on top, then liberally coated with what seemed and tasted like tomato purée. The head waiter saw my reaction and took it away, saying that this would be removed from the bill. Second course was lamb bhuna, a dish which I’ve enjoyed in many an Indian and Bengali restaurant, in various parts of the UK and also within India itself. I’m afraid that this consisted of lamb which appeared to have been warmed through with nothing more than some (tinned) chopped tomatoes and a bit of curry powder. When I mentioned to the aforesaid head waiter that I had never experienced a version of the dish like this anywhere else, I was informed that “ that’s the way we prepare it here”. All I can add in that case is that it’s an awful long way from Dumfries to Dhaka.

Food and service fantastic! We ate here tonight and everything was brilliant & really tasty and at a reasonable price. We had chicken pakora, chicken achari, chicken tandoori sizzler, rice and naan..everything was perfect & very tasty. We also managed to squeeze in some gulab jamun for dessert too ..... mmmm dessert! The restaurant was very busy (Saturday) so if your planning on eating 7pm onwards I would suggest booking a table