The Royal Raj in Derby

Reviewing on delivery. Used around half a dozen times now for delivery. Service is exceptional, food always hot and delivered by a proper dapper bloke with a smile as big as the sun. He always brings a smile to my face, top man. Food is exceptional as well, going through the menu and a distinct difference with the dishes, unlike many other places that use the same base sauce and screw the dish up with unnecessary spices. A total joy to eat. Highly recommend The Royal Raj. Well done team. 10/10

These guys get better and better. The standard of the food and prices is by far the best in Derby. I’ve tried pretty much every well known restaurant and was brought up eating curries in the 80’s when the full moon and the palace were worth visiting Normanton for for a food night out. Keep doing what you do and fly the flag for Allestree. Faultless , thanks guys

Recommend The Royal Raj food is lovely.

Was absolutely lovely, all warm , very tasty, will definitely order again

Absolutely delicious food and friendly service. Highly recommend.

I don't order very often but when I do the food is excellent I recommend this restaurant.

Always good food from this amazing restaurant! we had a takeaway tonight but it's also such a beautiful place to sit in and eat.

Went tonight with my friends for a dinner date and omg what an amazing service and food we had. 🥘 From their delicious hot cheese naan 🫓 to their scrumptious biryani & beautiful tandoori prawns 🍤 everything was so on point 🤌🤌🤌 Highly recommend this place xx

Love this restaurant in the centre of Park Farm Shopping Centre, really delicious food cooked to perfection, great vegetarian options as well, the mushroom Korma was mouth-watering! They also do takeaways. Free car parking in park farm shopping centre, though time restricted to 2 hours I think, but check first, as I walked there so didn’t use it.

always steady - good food and service

Tandoori salmon was wet and miserable. Not eaten. The rice was full of green beans. Yuck. The special tandoori was cold, and dry and tough. Will not order again.

Excellent quality food. Rapid service and piping hot. Many thanks.

Great food clean place gd atmosphere

the Chips were like cheap microwave chips, the boiled rice was boiled rice, the naan was very nice all 3 items are over priced and poor value, the Chicken and the Jalfrezi were outstanding and priced fine so 50/50 which is a shame as the Chicken Jalfrezi was as good as any I have had I will happily use again but not with the extras hopefully and review that can help you improve the extra's both in price and quality as the rest was outstanding

Average at very best unfortunately:(

Excellent meal, great and very tasty food. The service was brilliant, very good staff. I recommend the lamb Namaste Kathmandu.

Delicious food as always.Quality and quantity fantastic. Would recommend.

Great service and excellent food quality and quantity as usual. Thank you so much.

Can’t express enough our satisfaction great service delicious piping hot food and a great atmosphere we arrived a bit late for early bird special but they still allowed us to use the offer a great experience for our daughter first experience of a proper Indian restaurant

Amazing meal. Chicken so tender and brilliant flavour

Great fresh quality food with generous proportions. Always delivered early or on time with excellent customer service. Would recommend.

really enjoyed this today was really nice

Great curry, great service as always in my favourite restaurant.

I requested delivery, wasn’t delivered yet I have still paid. Refund please!!

Curry and the pickle tray were one of the worst we’ve sampled.

Always excellent service and quality.

Quickly delivery and food nice and hot.

Didn’t have much sauce and food was greasy

Received text message at 19.40 to say ready to collect my partner is still waiting at the restaurant for the order at 20.05

Great food, fast delivery....as always!

Big night out with friends... a lot of friends! The staff at the Raj took it all in their stride - faultless service delivered with just the right amount of humour. Going to revisit with just the missus in the new year?

Would definitely recommend the best curry house I've been to, everything perfectly proportioned, very polite staff, lovely atmosphere. Piping hot food played.

Always great quality ingredients and very tasty food.

Stilla great meal, bit expensive though.

Sorry but this was the worst curry we have had. Not very tasty at all. Past ones have been lovely. Very disappointed

I’m a bit baffled by the reviews on here. Just ordered a takeaway and it was AWFUL. Dry, pink, flavourless chicken when I ordered a chicken tikka clay oven. It was inedible. Ordered a chicken biriyani that was dry and lacked flavour. Just awful. I’d post a pic but Google reviews doesn’t seem to allow it. Service was prompt and delivery on time so no quibbles there. Hate to post this as it’s my local curry house and I believe in supporting local businesses but I won’t be back.

The food was good. However we ordered vegetarian and one of the dishes delivered was the meat version and a person had eaten some before realising that it was mince meat and not just a sauce with he paneer cheese. Not impressed. Phoned to complain and the original order was sent out. However there was no compensation for the mix up. Not greatly impressed.

Delicious food, cooked to order. Paneer balti and tikka masala. Polite personal service by one waiter. The second, the head waiter came over to check how we were and put his hands on our poppadoms and starters. He patted them down. It's slightly odd.

Didn't get what I ordered , the order was wrong

**First and last time ordering from here** Ordered the vegetable samosa, chicken garlic tikka, chicken korma, lamb bhuna, pilau rice and a garlic naan. Near enough £40! The vegetable samosas appeared to be straight out of a freezer not too disimilar to Iceland's I imagine. No complaints about garlic tikka. Chicken korma was extremely bland, lamb bhuna was dry, tough and lacking in flavour. Pilau rice could have done with a bit more cooking. Finally the naan was ok nothing special. Overall very disappointed for the amount spent. I shall be reverting back to my usual takeaway of choice 'Mount Everest Ghurka'.

Very rushed service, felt like they just wanted the table back. Food very average for the price. Would definitely not return.

Everything was really nice, good quality, taste etc. The only thing being slightly too much oil in saag paneer.

We love our takeaways from here. Great curry! Friendly staff.

Food is always good at the Raj. Everyone's so friendly, and nothing's an effort It's definitely worth another visit.

This was delivered within 20 inches. Brilliant thank you.

Excellent food, tasty, fresh and plenty of it. We’ve never had a bad meal from the Royal Raj.

I think that was the tastiest takeaway I've had!! The raj is always great but that seemed better

Best curry I’ve had in Derbyshire after moving here from Bradford 10y ago.

Had a really enjoyable evening at the Royal Raj. A lovely restaurant with great quality food and service

What a fantastic evening. A group of 19 well catered for with the banquet set menu. The food just kept coming... Food was 10/10..... Thank you to the Royal Raj team

Really I’m so happy to celebrate my wife ‘s birthday in Royal Taj looks very grand and very quality food and very tasty and the way revive and serve very polite I really appreciated Ms Parv for the given tremendous service to us really you will feel very happy ones we visit Royal Taj you will receive very caring and very respectful service by Ms. Parv . My treat to my wife occasion of birthday felt sooo happy because of Royal Taj . I can give 5/5 rating for the overall service and ambience and quality of the food

Has to be the best Indian food I have ever tasted would never order from anywhere else

A bit too spicy for our tastes and rice was forgotten but quickly delivered after we let them know.

Probably the nicest food I have ever eaten, I would recommend to anybody

As always, Great food and speedy delivery.

We were missing the rice on our order so did not enjoy at all not happy

Brilliant food never disappoints

As always brilliant food wouldn’t go anywhere else for our Indian

Lovely food & came early (which was perfect because I was starving!)

THE best Indian we’ve ever had. What more can I say?

Our first time trying the takeaway food from this restaurant, I don't normally leave a review however spending over £30 for rice, nan bread and 2 curry's isn't cheap for takeaway. We were very disappointed with taste and quality, the lamb dish was nice however the chicken dish was over cooked, the chichen was dry and hard, the rice was undercooked and garlic in the nan bread was very bitter given a weird taste. Sorry for the not so good review.

Really tasty meal and all the meat well cooked and tender

Top quality! Great food and great friendly staff!

To say the food was bland would be overly kind. I genuinely believe I could purchase a better Biryani from Iceland frozen foods. My colleague ordered something completely different which again had a bland, watery sauce overly filled with red food dye. I seriously believe all dishes were pre prepared and reheated.

Worst korma ever ordered , half the curry was water, had to drain the water out. Watered down with no flavour. Terrible.

Second time of ordering with them and both times we’ve had items missing

Honestly the best food I’ve had in a long time , the meat was beautiful and so was the flavours and sauce big portions on rice and meat within the curry couldn’t recommend anymore .

Always happy to order from the Raj

Excellent food and always delivered early.

Very tasty food, delivered hot and on time. Would order again

Excellent food and never disappoints

Very easy to book a table from a friendly waiter. Lovely greeting on arrival and there is a lift for people with mobility problems like myself. Excellent friendly, fun service. And the food was fresh and lovely. We will definitely be back next time we visit Derby.

Great food, great service! Highly recommended.

Absolutely brilliant, food is out of this world,

Loved the food we will defiantly be coming back

Always fantastic service and exemplary cuisine. Curry at its finest!

Delicious food and arrived earlier than expected!

Consistently good food and service

Yet again, The Royal Raj prove them selves to be the premier, Derby Indian restaurant! Great food, fast delivery and all round exemplary service. Can't recommend them highly enough!

Excellent food and delivery time. I've not had a better curry anywhere else!

We didn’t get everything we ordered.

Poppadoms didn’t arrive but pickle tray did. Cheese and tomato naan was a plain naan

All the currys were amazing. Great balance of flavour, spice and heat.

Just picked up a takeaway and have been overcharged. Given the previous review I have tried to send a message through their website to tell them about their false advertising but it won't go through

Takeout ordered. Overcharged. Food order short. Staff rude when queried shortfall and hung up phone whilst still talking.

Possibly the worst take away ever. I asked and paid extra for a Pea Pillau rice but just got a plain rice. The Prawn Madras was like soup and the Prawns were shrimps. I have never had a problem eating in, probably they are reluctant to serve rubbish food where you can complain but never again will I be having a take away😩

Really great food and service. I asked for a curry that was flavoursome but not too hot and that is what arrived. It was delicious.

We love the Royal Raj for several reasons, the flavours, the ambience and attentive staff. Last nights meal was no exception everything was so good and we all enjoyed the delicious food. The service from the kitchen is fast but not too quick that you have only just been seated! Today we put off our Sunday roast lamb as we were still feeling full after quite a feast! If you are looking for a great Indian restaurant just out of town with free parking then make a booking at The Royal Raj - you won’t be disappointed!

Back again after a long time and we had a great meal. Super food and really well looked after once again by the staff. Would definitely recommend. First visit last night for dinner with my friends. Food was really good and we all enjoyed the curries that we had and enjoyed the whole experience. Fair to say we will be back.

We hadn’t been to The Royal Raj for a few years, despite it being local, so we decided to go early evening last Saturday. Friendly and attentive staff. Also, they were knowledgable about which dishes were vegan (for me). The food was outstanding. Lovely, fresh ingredients and great flavour. I have just booked again for our son’s birthday. I had forgotten how good it is!

15 members of my family visited just after Christmas and everything was excellent, the staff were polite and friendly and the food was delicious. What more can I say!!

The food was as good as always, service is quality! The only minor hiccup was the delivery driver missed a bag of food. But with 1 call and less than 5 min the restaurant sorted it with no hassle! Sign of a place that cares!

Amazing flavoursome food absolutely delicious

What a great way to enjoy Christmas Day lunch, fabulous choice of food, well cooked, presented and best of all very tasty and at a very good price, no worries of what people like/don't like just go along and enjoy the day with family with very good service from the staff.

Been visiting the Raj over the last 10years and it’s had its ups and downs in terms of consistent quality foods, never been bad but just sometimes would take a dip in quality and taste. Just visited with my family on a Sunday, and whatever the place is doing now needs to be sustained, absolutely delicious, best food I’ve had here in all the years visiting, curry’s deep in flavour and perfectly balanced, pops and pickles never been so fresh, naan bread soft fresh and packed with cheese with just the right garlic, rice just perfectly cooked and not too oily, chips (for kids) again perfectly cooked not too oily and tasted fantastic. Keep this up and there’s a lot less need to be visiting the curry houses in town.

Raj curry house Allestree, whilst always had a positive experience, tonight very poor & confrontation with who said he was the manager & if he was ? Absolutely shocking !!!! He Needs Customer focus which for some reason seemed to have no Customer focus at all.

Lamb tender. Madras curry sauce.. Bisto gravy with a little spice. Horrid

The food and service was excellent. The place was a little bit grubby, carpets needed a clean. The tables are very small for 4 people

Regular-ish customer of The Royal Raj, pretty much every order we’ve made for the past few months has been very high quality. The food is lovely and delivered in a timely manner, everything is always accounted for. Unfortunately tonight, we’ve not been given 1 order of Pilau rice. Not the end of the world just hope it doesn’t happen again. The rest of the order was lovely though.

We went for a birthday meal with friends, we did not tell the restaurant this but they spotted the birthday cards and gave a free drink a thoughtful touch. The food was brilliant as well, Naz who served us was attentive and helpful.