The Royal Spice in South Hams

Decent Indian take away and restaurant.

A culinary experience like no other. The Royal Gurkha Spice is easily the best curry house in Modbury, if not the South Hams. Raj treats each one of his customers like a long lost relative. No ask is too great, no desire goes unquenched. They say the Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. I say it is the Raj Mahal. I teared up, overcome with emotion at this evening's service, but it may have been the chilli pepper I mistook for a green bean.

No matter if it’s a last minute takeaway to take home or a dine in meal for 20+ friends, we have never had a bad experience here and consistently recommend Raj and his great food to all of our friends.

Even more delicious than usual - thank you so much! Always friendly service too! 😁

What a great find this was, friendly owner greeted us warmly on arrival. We were interested in trying the 'Trevor Special' and was not disappointed! Chicken tikka masala best I have had in years too, great service and reasonable prices.

Blown away!! Absolutely blown away!! The onion bhajee in particular was the best I’ve tasted so far in my whole life;

First take away from this restaurant as my sister in law has just moved to Modbury. Delicious freshly cooked takeaway and will definitely be returning again! Portions are sizeable and we shared 3 mains between 4 of us ! Plenty of choice

Delicious takeaway. We had visitors and they were very impressed. All of the dishes were good and piping hot with fresh herbs and a variety of spices. Very friendly and helpful too.

Got a takeaway tonight and accidentally used an old menu to order! Called up and asked for a stuffed pepper (which isn’t on the menu anymore) but they made it for me anyway! Always lovely and always remembers our family! Amazing food, never been disappointed!

We had an excellent meal, Myles is 10 and this was his first curry and would really recommend the shashlik and King Prawn Pakora. Such attentive service, perfect food and a great family night out Thank you

Had a fantastic meal here. I love a hot curry and the vindaloo was banging!! All tasted freshly cooked, rice and Nan bread 10/10 from me

One of the best takeaways I have had in years. Will be eating in the restaurant soon!

Great food freshly made very friendly service my partner and I go at least once a week if we can. Just love Raj cooking.

Thank you for a delicious meal. We had lots of wonderful food, some vegan dishes and more. The chef was wonderful and he is also very kind and friendly. Thank you very much! Lovely poppadoms. We would recommend!

Could have done with more staff on our visit. Like many of these places the chicken for instance is bought in already cut up in big chunks from low quality poultry suppliers which shows when you get your meal. The chutneys were very small and I have had better poppadom's. Wash it down with plenty of beer and you will be OK

Good food, dated restaurant. Lovely family that run it.

Staying in the local caravan park and this was the nearest. We stopped in a premier shop on the way what sold home made curries in cartons on the shelves and I guarantee they would of been ten times better than the garbage we just got. Please venture further out I promise you’ll regret it if you eat here. The vindaloo was in the top three worst curries I've ever eaten. I picked out 8 bay leaves before I gave up and threw it on the bin

Best place for Indian cuisine to try out and would recommend to others as well

We have just had an amazing meal. It was superb and worth every penny. Service was excellent. Food was some of the tastiest we have had in similiar establishments. Cant wait to visit again next time we are in Devon

The most worst place I been ever . They looting people on the name of Indian food but actually they are using very bad quality rice , flour and other vegetables . Our chapati was hard and burned Paneer chillie has hardly 4-5 pieces of Paneer . Firstly they tried to misguide when we asked if it is HALAL ? when we asked for certificate he was changing statement and finally we go for vegetarian option. If you don’t do Halal food , you should not falsely say yes it is. You can simply say no. He forcefully gave us full tray of papadam without asking quantity and charged lot for that. When we ask about it he started to behave very badly . Very bad customer service . Local people or people who never tried Indian food , he is making fool of them .

The food was overpriced for the quality!! They didn’t deliver everything that we ordered by missing out 3 items of our order!!! The food made us ill! If you want chips order at least 4 portions per person! And the service was terrible!!! Never again

Spent over £50 Order was missing a chicken tikka main and a mushroom rice. The delivery driver said something about less chips but enjoy.... turns out we got half a portion of chips for the same price too! No complementary salad for our broken poppadoms or for either of the chicken tikka mains we ordered. Tikka massala was very sweet but otherwise the food tasted okay, hence the 1 star. Called restaurant immediately who said they would wait for the driver to getting back then started arguing with kitchen staff, still not heard anything with one of our party out of pocket and hungry. No apology, no offer of re delivery or refund. As my closest Indian, it is a shame to waste our first treat in a long time through such poor service. I'll never be using again and will be spreading the word.

Took 2 hours to deliver (2 miles away if that) very poor quality food that had been left standing as it was cold, dried up and tasteless. Rip off for over £100 bill! 1 star is for the poppadoms!! Communication very poor too!!

Grubby place, proprietor was wearing a dirty shirt and looked like his hands needed a good scrub. Was in two minds whether to order or not - I ordered, as I was embarrassed at waiting so long to be acknowledged - it was overpriced, I then got my card out to pay (as he had a card machine there on the counter) he was extremely rude when I explained I didn’t have cash. Tutting, rolling his eyes muttering ‘people around here know it’s cash’. Cancelled my order and got a ready meal.

Nice little And cozy restaurant around the corner in Modbury for spending your time with your friends and family 🙂.

We have visited this place on several occasions. Every time it’s been fabulous. The chief is very accommodating and will happy modify to individual tastes. Superb

I enjoyed some excellent popdoms and dips along with a chicken jalfrezi dish. Considering it was a bank holiday it was very quiet, but that didn't detract from a great meal. Worth visiting.

Visited the Royal Spice tonight and sat in the restaurant. Every curry I have from here is absolutely faultless. My go-to curry is the Chicken Tikka Makhani and get chef to make it Madras hot. Please don't believe the negative reviews some people have left against this lovely family business. The food is cooked fresh to order and the food quality being so good, yes it does get busy and you may have to wait but you know the wait will be worth it. Thank you Royal Spice 5 Stars from me *****+++

Really bloody tasty. The staff are incredibly friendly and can't do enough for you. The best Indian restaurant there is.

Walked in on a Sat night and placed a huge takeaway order for 10 of us. Everything cooked beautifully and tasted amazing. Highly recommend

Had an excellent meal Saturday evening, everything was terrific, my wife and I are vegetarian and meat eater respectively and have nothing but compliments for our food and the friendly service we received . Will definitely be using again

Great curry house! Good food and good people. Go there every Sunday! Delicious!

Went there Thursday just gone, Turned up one person was there, He had to cook the food, serve the food and he also had to do deliveries, how can the place run like this. No good, Service was no good, food was no good and when i go on holiday towards devon i will not go to this curry house again.

We’ve just had an excellent meal and would like to say we are reasonably experienced when it comes to Asian cuisine, this is our first visit but definitely will not be our last

We eat here regularly and the food and service just gets better and better. Lots of meat in the curries, a wonderful selection of beers including a Nepalese beer. The restaurant has changed hands and the quality has improved. Highly recommend!

We ordered a takeaway from the restaurant when we were visiting Modbury. I ordered a Tandoori Mixed Grill and my wife a Lamb Tikka, which was totally inedible. The lamb was so hard and dry it was impossible to chew. The chicken in the mixed grill was not as bad but certainly too hard. There was a complimentary salad that should have come with a health warning. The shredded lettuce was brown and after a rummage there was one slice of cucumber and a quarter of a tomato. They also included two popadums which were crisp but left a weird aftertaste. We both agreed this was the worst takeaway either of us have ever suffered.

One of the best indian meals I've had ever. Starter of onion bhajis, super crispy and tasty. Then main of the chef's special, a tomatoey sauce with chicken, prawns and lamb chunks. The lamb was PERFECTLY juicy. Pilau rice and naan as sides were excellent too. Loved it, just wish i lived closer to it to go more often!

Wonderful service with a very polite waitress. Food was perfect and I definitely recommend gurkhali tiger prawn as a starter and gurkhali salmon, pilau rice and tarka dhal for main meal. I tried it and it was an amazing combination - I loved it!

Excellent food and service. Would recommend!

Never experienced anything like it.. not in a good way. Partner went to collect the curry at the time specified, 50 mins later he wasn’t home (5 min walk) an hour after he left he finally came back .. opened the bag, not our order! Went back.. 20 mins later reappeared with another bag.. overcharged and only half the order correct. Terribly unprofessional.

Ordered a takeaway. Phoned ahead to order to collect, a very friendly lady answered the phone and took down our order, and gave us a 40 mins wait which was spot on. The food was great, particularly the Lamb Vindaloo, Chicken Tikka Pasanda, Chicken Tikka Masala, Chicken Murkhani and Salmon. The butter chicken sauce seemed to have split, as the cream had risen to the top and was a touch watery when stirred in. But all the other dishes were incredible. We ordered some onion bhajis but unfortunately they were missing when we opened the bag, otherwise this would have been 5*.

Not hurried but very accommodating for our needs. Personal service quite good

Avoid! Takeaway service terrible & rude staff. We ordered our meal not long after it opened and told it would be delivered within 45 mins. We waited over two hours despite several phone calls where we were told it was ‘15 minutes away’ - they lied. We complained and the delivery guy wouldn’t give us our food until he had all the money (I suggested £20 compensation - a quarter of the bill). To top it all off, they missed one of the meals out! I went into the restaurant the next day and they guy didn’t say sorry but did offer us food as compensation. I refused so we got £20 back (minus the missing meal, so more like £10). All in all, don’t bother. This place is a disgrace.

We ordered our meal not long after it opened and told it would be delivered within 45 mins. We waited over two hours despite several phone calls where we were told it was ‘15 minutes away’ - they lied. We complained and the delivery guy wouldn’t give us our food until he had all the money (I suggested £20 compensation - a quarter of the bill). To top it all off, they missed one of the meals out! I went into the restaurant the next day and they guy didn’t say sorry but did offer us food as compensation. I refused so we got £20 back (minus the missing meal, so more like £10). All in all, don’t bother. This place is a disgrace.

Waited nearly 2 hours for delivery when was told delivery within an hour then food cold and delivery driver didn't even give me my change . Never order from there again

Excellent veggie dishes. Lemon rice dish nice surprise!

We had a takeaway. It was very tasty. We picked from the ‘specials’ and we’re not disappointed. The Bindi Bharjee was dry and full of flavour. They only take cash but the coop has a cash machine in it. If you like a curry, I can recommend this restaurant.

I love this place. The food is exceptionally good, especially when you consider we’re in the middle of ... nowhere really and they serve up the best authentic, beautifully flavoured food. Actually just thinking of the place is making me salivate. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to get their ‘curry fix’ and the staff are all fabulous too. Polite and attentive.

It’s never happened to me in the past, having to cancel a takeaway delivery for being too slow. Unfortunately this place has ‘broken my cherry’ after 41 blissful years - over 100 minutes waiting and still not arrived. No warning when ordering nor when phoning after an hour to check if everything was ok. Unfortunately, customer service wasn’t a strong point. A shame as we’ve dined here before but never again if it risks being THAT slow!

As visitors to the area we were looking forward to a good curry. This was not to be. What a waste of £71.00. King prawn madras was not hot and tasted nothing like a madras. This king prawns could have come from Iceland frozen foods, definitely not the lovely ones we get in our local Indian restaurant (they come from the Bay of Bengal). They were also tough and overcooked. The chicken rezzala was bland and unmemorable. The butter chicken and the murgh maltan were indistinguishable in flavour, so much so we weren’t sure which was which. The spicy chicken tikka was neither spicy or appeared to have any chicken in it. There were four of us and they generously gave us three popadums on the house. Big deal. Our usual takeaway is less than £10 a head. This was a rip off. Would not recommend to anybody.

I had a takeaway last night from you and I have to say the chicken korma had no flavour it was really watery and didn't taste of anything I spent 37 pounds on my whole order, and to get 2 poppadoms and no side salad was disappointing, very over prized won't be using again

Waiter had no idea what he was doing and spent the whole time we were there on his phone. The food was not what we ordered. The service was terrible.

I have had a couple of takeaways and both have been as good as you could expect - and with free popadoms!

We live locally and regularly get takeaway delivered from royal spice, the food is always really nice and arrives promptly. The chefs special- Rezzala chicken is amazing as are the royal Gurkha prawns!

Collected our take away, and it was pretty good. Tasty and spicy, with free poppadums. Good service. Worth a visit .

What a disaster. Overpriced Prosecco that you can get in Lidl for £6! Place need renovation. Ordered one dish that came with old egg, egg yolk was black! Coconut rice was topped up with so much sugar to make it sweeter. Overcooked meat. We have been told that this place has a good curry. No, thank you, had better,elsewhere!

Bhakjis, samosas and pakoras very nice. Would highly recommend the lamb mint coriander curry! Very satisfied!

Was passing by after a day at the beach, the smell from the restraunt led us in. We had a very tasty meal and the service was really friendly too. I'd return again and would recommend.

Really excellent food. Ordered at 6.30, pick up 7.30. Delhi Korai Chicken, really recommend, plus sag Aloo and vegetable curry and rice. Perfect service, just wonderful.

Had a great takeaway delivered from here tonight. Tasty, thick, rich sauce. An excellent variety of spice and flavour. Generous portions and good attention to detail. Timely delivery and friendly courteous service. Highly recommended.

Small restaurant, a very pleasant meal

Middle of the road Indian restaurant which also does take away - only really does well as no other takeaways deliver to Modbury BUT it's OK all the same!

Excellent quality food ..reasonably priced. Service was good...only grumble they had run out of Nepalese beer.. so had to have cobra Food was superb .....

Staying just outside Modbury and decided to have a take away curry.......wished we hadn't wasted our money. We had lamb boona, chicken dansak and garlic chilli chicken......save your money, if you want an equivalent taste for less money go and buy a jar of curry sauce from your local supermarket and add meat.....it will taste so much better. Would not recommend this curry house.

The Saturday night of the Bank Holiday weekend and we ordered a very large order from the restaurant to take away. It was so busy in the restaurant but we thoroughly enjoyed the meal and would recommend the restaurant. The food is high quality and very tasty.

Great curry house.It’s all a bit manic, the waiter trying to serve the restaurant diners and deal with the take-away que through the middle of the tables, several people deep at times but it kind of works here. Very pleasant service, very reasonable prices and the best curry I’ve had in a while. Toilets are spotless too.

This is clearly a popular take away restaurant but do you really want to eat in the middle of a take away queue? A pity - the food is generally good but the staff clearly struggle to balance the two sides of the business.Service was slow, slow, quick, quick slow depending on the takeaway queue. When the correct food was finally delivered after an initial error we enjoyed everything except the rather boring king prawn curry. On a wet evening we had no complaints but wouldn’t rush back.

Second time in 2 weeks we been here all good curry like to try something different each time I visit here staff a welcoming just a nice place

Worst curry I have ever tasted, horrible. Went in the bin steer clear.

I always have the lamb vindaloo from here with a pilau rice, as that is my absolute favourite meal from an Indian restaurant, their garlic naan is great too. Very good staff too lovely atmosphere

Picked some food up for take out, rice and naan were good. The curry’s ranged from being excellent to just average. The food was ready in good time and was tasty. Some of the dishes were a little on the hot side..... I know each place is different but I do know my curry’s. For a local curry place this is good.

Dropped in on the off chance to get a table or take away as we had only just got up and left The White Hart for bad service and it was getting late and we were hungry. Best idea we had, food was gorgeous and staff polite, will definitely be returning soon.

Great choice of dishes we chose from the gurkha menu and both meals were excellent. Pershawi nan was particularly good. Good value for money and very friendly service.

Visited on Saturday with friends. The meal was very very good. We all thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Will definitely go again

Lovely food and very attentive service. The stuffed pepper starter is delicious. Good value for money and the wine was ok to.

Mouth watering dishes, friendly staff, homely environment; best restaurant in torbay area.

Whats not to like. Interesting Menu with not just the usual stuff. Ive eaten here a few times over the years and think it's great now (2018). Good takeaway service , you can find the menu if you google it.

I have never sat in the restaurant and had a meal (Really need to) but have always had a takeaway. I always order the Chicken Makhani and always request it spicy hot. It seems every time I make the order it gets better. Food is always piping hot and plentiful. Staff are friendly and welcoming. I would drive out of my way to visit this restaurant. FIVE STARS ****(

Had a takeaway whilst staying in modbury, food was good but I recommend you call in your order - bit slow.

My family and I have eaten from here a few times in the last couple of months and it’s getting better and better. Good service and great food.

My husband and I went to this restaurant on a Sunday night and were turned away because we had a child with us. They said they had no space for a child even though the restaurant was completely empty and they had no reservations for the night. The front of house staff made us feel discriminated against for having a child. We go out frequently with our child and never before has it been an issue. Shame on this establishment.

Great meal in this incredibly friendly restaurant, really busy but still lots of care and attention, we will be back

Like most curry houses, this offers both eat-in and take-away food. We've only ever eaten in, and found it consistently good and welcoming. Quite small, however, so may be good idea to book a table if there are 4 or more of you. Parking tricky as it's right on the corner of the busy A379 through Modbury, but usually possible to park (pay & display) round the corner in Poundwell St

We came here on Saturday we was early around 630pm the Resturant was empty but they where doing a lot of take ways I guess that’s why we was waiting

Food delicious and very friendly service from Nepali waiters. Free parking after 6.00pm in car park behind the White Hart. Well worth a visit.

The staff are always so friendly and helpful here, and the food is just great. We live in Modbury and this is always our favourite take away!

Excellent restaurant with amazing service. Shhh don’t tell everyone!

Excellent meal with wide choice. Lovely chef eager to please. Would definitely recommend

Very friendly, great food and always happy to adjust menu to suit individual tastes.

Brilliant as always, love the Nepalese dishes and the staff are always very friendly, the best Indian food in the area

Really nice although was distracted by the werewolves.

Great food, good service, good selection of drinks.

Love this place the staff cannot do enough for you they have delivered on foot through the snow, they have even picked up supplies from the coop and delivered it with are meals highly recommended.

We have eaten here a few times and have always had a lovely excellent meal. The food tasted really fresh and they do the nicest naan bread I have ever tasted. Really good, friendly service and very welcoming to our family group. We will definitely be going back again.

Looking for somewhere to eat last Friday we found The Royal Spice. It was an excellent choice. The food and service were first rate. It is great to find a restaurant where the staff actually look pleased to be there! The menu was extensive and provided very good choices. The lamb biryanis was delicious. This family-run business deserves success. Thoroughly recommended.

Despite heavy snow I rang up for a delivery and the lovely owner cooked and delivered through the snow, the food was so fresh and tasty will definitely be ordering again.

Inspite of it's slightly tired interior, do try this fantastic Indian restaurant. The Nepalese dishes are great - quite hot so ask if you don't like it too spicy as they can tone it down for you. We love the Nepalese Chilli Chicken and the lamb Hari Murchi Bhuna which has spinach. Boiled rice is better than the pilau and the Naans are quite heavy but the quality of everything else is superb.

very accommodating and tasty food

This restaurant has changed hands since my last review. Since then we've had two passable meals over the summer, but not as good as before.

Was staying in Challaborough and look8ng for a good takeaway not too far away.Drove past this restaurant and picked up menu. Phoned through order and picked up food about 25 mins later . There is a cheap car Park 10 p just around the corner. Staff pleasant , and restaurant looked clean and recently refurbished and would have been happy to eat there. Takeaway food very good . Cost reasonable with main , rice Nan and shared side dish for 3 was abou5 £35 . Free papaDom’s as usual. Food hot even afte4 journey back to Challaborough. Would use again and recommend .