The Royal Kitchen in Angus

I reviewed here a few years ago, so time to try again. Nice staff and reasonable prices. A chicken chow mien and a lemon chicken. The lemon chicken was nice and very lemony. The chow mien was a bit tasteless and a bit devoid of chicken. I’m in two minds about here, so just a 3 stars.

Royal Kitchen Add a photo Royal Kitchen 4.3 (81) £10–20 Chinese TakeawayOpen OVERVIEW MENU REVIEWS PHOTOS BY OWNER ABOUT Reviews from the web 3.9/5Facebook · 7 votes Google review summary Reviews aren't verified 5 4 3 2 1 4.3 (81) Rate and review Share your experience to help others Reviews All Service Meal Price delivery10 money3 salty3 prawn crackers3 +6 Sort by Most relevant Newest Highest Lowest james hurst 22 reviews Absolutely the worst Chinese takeaway I've ever tried. The chowmein is discusting, like a pot noodle has more flavour. Roast chicken is discusting to. The crispy chilli is anything but crispy. It's slimy and tastes of nothing. We asked what …More Taisonas Butnorius 1 review 3 months ago Take out | Dinner | £10–20 It looks like that people leave reviews only when they have bad experience, but here I will leave a good review from my experience because I don’t see enough good ones. …More Alan Urquhart Local Guide·112 reviews·106 photos 3 months ago Delivery | Dinner | £10–20 The food is not great, the fried rice is a bit bland and dry. The delivery speed is a joke though. Usually an hour and half, sometimes more, whether busy or not, can go collect slightly faster but not by much. Worst Chinese in Forfar by …More 1 Kirsten Dear 2 reviews 3 months ago Take out | Dinner This is my go to Chinese takeout in Forfar. The best food, service and chefs! Highly recommend and they can deliver further out of town too! …More L Helen Local Guide·120 reviews·2 photos 5 months ago Take out | Dinner | £1–10 First time trying and it didn't disappoint. Food was so delicious and great portion sizes. Lovely friendly staff. Will definitely return …More Amanda Scott 4 reviews 6 months ago Delivery | Dinner Such a shame the delivery lets this company down. Ordered and after half an hour of waiting past the delivery expected time I called to see where the food was. Food was really nice when it arrived and they did give me discount because was …More 1 Jorgie Hill 1 review 3 months ago Delivery | Dinner | £10–20 Lovely customer service and always a great meal. Have delivered to my home in kirrie several times. Highly recommend …More 1 Mairi Dobie 4 reviews 5 months ago Take out | Other | £40–50 Highly recommended the takeaway, the food is ALWAYS piping hot, even with a 30 minute drive home to Edzell Woods, really good that you can order and pay online, can drive down while it is being cooked. …More C. O'B. 4 reviews 8 months ago Take out | Dinner | £10–20 We’ve used The Royal Kitchen a number of times and the last two times have had: 56. Sweet & Sour King Prawns Hong Kong Style …More 1 Royal Kitchen (owner) 8 months ago Thank you so much for your kind review, we are so glad to hear you enjoy our food! We appreciate you taking the time to write this, and we look forward to cooking you food again! Nat Chojnacka Local Guide·15 reviews·1 photo 4 months ago Take out | Dinner | £20–30 Takeaway inedible. Ordered 3 different dishes, all FAR too salty and one was burnt. Took over an hour to arrive …More SKINHEAD 201 37 reviews 11 months ago Take out | Dinner | £30–40 Fantastic takeaway. We were just passing through and popped past for a takeaway. …More Royal Kitchen (owner) 11 months ago Thank you so much for your lovely review! we are so glad you enjoyed our food and we really appreciate you taking the time to do this! We will feed this back to the team. We look forward to cooking for you again ☺️🫶🏼 Jordan Lovegrove 7 reviews 6 months ago Delivery | Dinner | £20–30 Probably in my opinion the best Chinese in Forfar by far love there chicken curry plus other things you so definitely try this place out …More Jacqueline McAndrew 8 reviews 9 months ago Dinner | £30–40 Ordered at 7pm. 30 mins later order was updated to 9.10pm. Contacted them at 9.20 pm to be told would start cooking soon. Cancelled order. Similar experience in May but thought I would try again. Never again …More Royal Kitchen (owner) 9 months ago Thank you for your time to write this review and I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We're sorry for the inconvenience we may have caused. Due to unforeseen temporary closure of another take away, we had an unexpected high demand of orders in the result of added wait time for orders tonight, especially any outside of Forfar deliveries which we have kindly expressed on the website during the placement of order & in the confirmation email. It is important to us that we update our customers so all is informed of what goes on. While the online orders were coming through, our printer was only able to print one order slip at a time ( In chronological order according to the time stamps of all online orders placed ) so the time confirmation email would have only been sent when we receive the physical printed order on our end. While we appreciate the unexpected flow of orders, our main priority ( and what always have been our main priority ) was that the orders are freshly cooked; maintaining our standards and not rushed or effected by the demand and are delivered immediately so they arrive to you fresh and hot to the plate. Our team takes pride in the quality of food we serve and has been and will always be working hard to provide warm and comforting food for all to enjoy. We will immediately look into improvements going forward, and will come up with a solution to prevent this from happening again. We apologise once more for the inconvenience of last night and we wish you the best, take care. Samantha Paton 3 reviews a year ago Delicious food! My family drive from Carnoustie to pick up as its the best takeaway around. Particularly love the chicken and cheese spring rolls. Delish! x …More 1 Kamil Zięba 4 reviews 3 months ago Take out | Dinner | £1–10 Without a doubt the best of its kind in the area. Very highly reccomend! …More Michelle Laird Local Guide·78 reviews·145 photos a year ago We've had takeaway from here a few times and it's pretty good. The service is quick and portions well worth 2 meals. It's not heavily salted either. Worth a try. …More MARGARET MCCARLE 3 reviews 4 years ago First time to try the Royal Kitchen, but boy it won't be our last. Portion sizes were really good as was the quality of the food, both our dishes were delicious. The free prawn crackers were superb as was the free fortune cookies. At last a decent carry out in Forfar !!! Royal Kitchen (owner) 4 years ago Thanks MARGARET MCCARLE for your comment it means a lot to me From ROYAL KITCHEN THANKS A LOT you welcome all the time hall231000 5 reviews a year ago Take out | Dinner | £1–10 Lots of people in Forfar said they had never tried The Royal kitchen. But it was a Monday night and most others were shut. So I took a gamble and it was brilliant. Best Chinese I’ve had in a very long time. £28 for Chicken Chow Mein, Sweet …More 1 Royal Kitchen (owner) a year ago We are so glad you enjoyed your experience with us, thank you so much for a lovely review, we appreciate it! We look forward to serving you again, take care for now! Nigel “Badger” Hyde Local Guide·206 reviews·1357 photos 2 years ago Take out | Dinner What a cracking Chinese, ordered in person and waited and 2 meals which were prepared within 15 minutes. Took home and wow what great size portions added by the fact they tasted …More 1 Royal Kitchen (owner) 2 years ago Thanks Nigel for your compliment you are welcome 🤗 thanks again Gary Bell 4 reviews·2 photos a year ago Take out | Dinner | £10–20 Chicken curry with fried rice ingredients chicken curry powder water onions all you will need to do is throw it in a pan boil it up throw it in a carton guaranteed to be super bland and tasteless congratulations on having the worst curry …More Royal Kitchen (owner) a year ago Thank you for your time to write this review and I appreciate your feedback. Rest assured that we make our food with our best and freshest ingredients, and that our curry sauce is one of our best sellers with great feedback on the richness of taste and just the right amount of spice. Our curry sauce is made with a combination of spices hand picked and cooked with care to deliver you comfort in our food. We’re sorry you didn’t experience that and would love to take your order number to help resolve this matter. If you could please reach out to us on 01307 469700 to speak to one of our staff members, they will be able to assist you further. Many thanks for your time. Take care Catriona Gourlay Local Guide·133 reviews·72 photos 3 years ago Ordered the meal for 2 which is great as there’s lots of choice and good value for money. Portion sizes were big. Chicken satay was good but would much prefer if you could order breast of chicken and pay a little more as the normal chicken in chinese dishes can be quite rubbery. Royal Kitchen (owner) 3 years ago Thanks catriona Much appreciated Gordon Mills Local Guide·168 reviews·1 photo a year ago Take out | Dinner | £10–20 It's a bit hit or miss, sometimes good , sometimes not so good. I had roast pork in black bean sauce it was way too salty for my taste. …More Craig Local Guide·40 reviews·1 photo 4 years ago Never again! Could break glass with the chicken, chips tasted like they had been cooked twice and left to cool.. only decent thing was there curry sauce and noodles. Pritty much paid 40 quid for noodles and curry sauce. Do not buy unless you've been before and know what your getting! Stephen Hill Local Guide·87 reviews·5 photos 2 months ago Tasty takeaway with nice staff and good service …More james hurst 22 reviews Absolutely the worst Chinese takeaway I've ever tried. The chowmein is discusting, like a pot noodle has more flavour. Roast chicken is discusting to. The crispy chilli is anything but crispy. It's slimy and tastes of nothing. We asked what side came with the roast chicken amd was told none. So payed for a portion of chips and got 2 massive bags of chip because it did come with chips. Honestly tesco Chinese meal for 2 is better and thats discusting. You should be embarrassed to serve this rubbish. I will 100% never go back again. I spent 36.00 on food ghat I wouldn't even feed my dog. I had to stop at McDonald's to get something for my daughter because the roast chicken is anything but. Avoid this place if you like Chinese food. Discusting Food: 1/5 | Service: 1/5 | Atmosphere: 1/5

Second time, though I’ll give it a fair chance. Food is inedible. Crispy noodles consists of uncooked egg noodles served with topping of 5 prawns and uncooked vegetables. Binned both dishes.

Fantastic portions, food is fantastic. Would not go anywhere else... fresh, tasty and really helpful if you make a mistake with your order. Myself, family and friends would not go anywhere else. Best Chinese food in Forfar in a very long time 👍

Have seen mixed reviews for this takeaway however I have used it regularly and find it good value for money. I order either online or via phone. The girl answering the phone is always pleasant. Delivery is usually quite quick - slower at weekend sometimes as to be expected. Overall very happy with the meals.

Waited over 2 hours from ordering food at 7pm, no offer to compensate for the wait, just kept being told it would be here at 8:50pm….still no food.

Ordered takeaway at 7pm. Was informed 30 mins later that it would now be 9.10 pm for delivery. No further communication. I contacted takeaway at 9.20pm to be told we will start cooking soon. Cancelled order. So disappointed. Similar incident in May but thought I would give them another try. Never again

As it was our last night at Forfar Caravan Site, we decided to treat ourselves to a Chinese Takeaway.. We ordered a set meal for 2 with adult. Spare ribs. They delivered quickly to the site, which was good. However, the food was not. The duck and ribs were dry and tasteless, the crispy beef was drowning in sweet chilli sauce and no longe crispy & the chow mien was limp and gloopy with 6 prawns. We normally love our Chinese, but this was possibly one of the worst we have had. Very disappointing.

Been to this takeaway a few times and each time it never lets me down. Brilliant food, everything tastes amazing. Food always delivered hot. Delivery time is never too long and especially on a Saturday it didn't take long on arriving. Will use again

Decided to try the Royal Kitchen for a take away. I ordered the spare ribs and crispy shredded beef. The ribs had been over cooked as they were tough to eat and didn’t fall of the bone as other ones do. The shredded beef was tasty enough but to much carrots in it and there wasn’t much beef in the dish. Will just stick to the Chinese take away that I usually go to.

Delicious food and fab service! 2nd time we have had takeaway from The Royal Kitchen and it’s now our favourite Chinese takeaway in Forfar! Also have to comment on the lovely girl at the end of the phone! So cheery and helpful, she is an asset to your shop.

Twice we have had food out here and twice had food poisoning. won’t be using it again. We had the chicken balls both times and in looks like it’s that.

Have tried a lot of the menu and for the most part, it's all been good - some misses but on the whole very tasty. I especially like the thin fried noodles and the chicken spring rolls. Unlike other Chinese, there is actually identifiable fillings in them. The hot and sour soup is also very nice and the munchy box is great value. Also, although I never order the beef dishes at a Chinese take-away, I really like the beef and veg dish - very light and the beef is so tender.

Thursday 12 Mar myself and my wife called in for a takeaway. I had chef special curry. Within an hour I felt sick and had severe food poisoning that took all weekend to get over. Never been this ill in all my life. I phoned them and they took my details. They have made zero effort to get back in touch. Disgraceful food will never use again.

We had heard good reviews about the royal kitchen so decided to try it. A chicken chow mien, a lemon chicken, a crispy shredded honey chilli chicken and a prawn one the same with various rice. Quickly prepared. I found the chow mien was a huge portion of very tasty noodles, but was a bit skimpy on the chicken and veg. The shredded chilli chicken was nice but again not enough chicken, ditto with the prawns and the lemon chicken was very lemony. I have given 4 stars as it was a very tasty, filling meal. Will try other dishes and will recommend.