Thira Restaurant in Blackburn with Darwen

Fabulous buffet for 30+ people! After visiting Thira several times and always having fantastic food and excellent service, today I had my birthday lunch buffet here and it was super! Highly recommend, thank you!

I know I should try other places, but why bother when you have found a restaurant that is so consistently good? I visited four times this month, and the food and service continue to be superb. Friendly, authentic, unpretentious...I really recommend it.

We visited for a second time, a few years after our first visit. Not much had changed, it's a no frills dining area in a no frills part of Blackburn. But holy moly is the food good. It's seriously good. We are big fans of South Indian cuisine so made a special trip from 10 or so miles away just to eat here. We shared an excellent dosa with chutneys followed by chicken 65 and lamb chops. They were both superb, moist meat, richly spiced and perfectly seasoned. The lamb chops in particular, were to die for. We shared just one main course, a Kerelan fish stew. Once again, the protein was faultlessly cooked in a beautifully spiced, rich and velvety sauce. The seasoning was again, perfect. We had that with rice and a naan. The only miniscule thing I'd have had slightly differently would have been a little more charring on the naan but it was a genuinely top drawer meal and with good service and friendly waiter. We are not going to leave it years again. In fact, we may not even leave it weeks. Its that good it merits the trip out and a 20 mile round trip.

After a long time I had authentic South Indian food.. Completely satisfied.

Went tonight, my 6th or 7th visit. Always stunningly good. Very friendly staff and the food - best Indian / Asian food I’ve ever had. Had the kingfish starter and it was just perfect, spicy and super tasty. The main course with coconut rice was 10/10. Lovely friendly owner and staff. I’ve never had better food. By far the best “Indian” in the north west. Thank you 👍

Excellent, well presented food, polite staff, a great dining experience. Would highly recommend for a genuine Indian meal.

This restaurant is not a big place and sited right in the town centre opposite pubs and takeaways. It’s nothing fancy but the quality of the food is excellent. Probably the best curry we have ever tasted. Everyone in our party agreed.

Absolutely delicious, authentic Indian food and served by wonderful staff. We loved our meal there and would highly recommend.

Amazed to find the superb restaurant on Uber Eats, tried their home delivery for the first time and from placing the order it was on my table within 35 minutes. Hot, fresh and plentiful! A mix of chicken tikka, poppadoms and onion bhaji to start, all with fresh sauces. Followed by a chicken biryani and King prawn masala with I think mango and tomatoes. Astonishingly good all for just over £30.00 to the door, so excellent value. Next time we’ll visit the restaurant itself. 10/10!

Second time there better than last time beats akbers

Arrived unannounced and received a very warm welcome. The menu is a southern Indian flavour, very gentle. Portions sizes are perfect, no wastage and the price very decent

The staff was incredibly friendly and welcoming, and the aubergine curry was the best I ever had. 💯 recommended. Amazing vegan options - ask for their aubergine curry, and you won't be disappointed.

My first visit to the restaurant gutted I didn't know about it 8 years ago. My friend and I thoroughly enjoyed our southern Indian culinary experience. The poppadoms were light, thin and crispy, onion bjais were delicate and delicious with chutney and fresh salad. I ordered the prawn mango curry and lemon rice , prawns cooked to perfection. The spices did not overwhelm the dish everything was perfect. My friend ordered spinach and chicken with mushroom rice and she could not fault anything. The staff were warm and friendly with beautiful smiles. The owner made us feel very special, thank you 🙏 . Restaurant busy with regulars and I'm happy to say I'll be a regular too. Can't wait for my next visit, I can highly recommend a visit and you won't be disappointed. I know my food and I scraped the dishes because I was too polite to lick the plates 😋😋😋😋😋 Everything was freshly cooked, portion sizes just right and definitely not overpriced. See you soon 👍😁

Good is amazing but service very slow

It’s like being back in Indian here.. the dosas are fantastic. I also tried the fried mushrooms too.

OMG, honestly just so delicious! They have an ability to accommodate options with no seed oils. Like Naadan beef with coconut oil, Aapam, or ginger lamb chops with toned down spice.

Amazing food, great drinks, beautiful decor, ambient music and very polite staff

Absolutely delicious food. We had a range of meat and fish dishes and everything was cooked to perfection. For me, the best Indian food I have tasted!

Had a prawn thali and it was fantastic. Service was good. Eating here is the highlight of my stays in the town. Looking forward to visiting again.

Amazing place, food and service is always fantastic and they always go the extra mile for everyone.

We just walked in to the nearest place to our accommodation and found a delight. This is a really great indian restaurant with very well done & varied food at very reasonable prices. The service is also friendly and effective. You could not ask for more.

chicken 65 had 10 small pieces of chicken , no salad at all and for £6 I find very expensive , £11.50 for the lamb rogan josh came in a small container and that was it, not even any boiled rice . portions are ridiculous for the price . if I could add photos I would . won't be ordering again . way over priced

Excellent food, incredibly attentive staff. Good accessibility, and tasty vegan and vegetarian options.

Excellent service brilliant food best place 👌 👍

Fabulous food! Really tasty and something for everyone. We felt like going for something different to our usual traditional curry (they still have that as an option). Definitely recommend!

We were in the area for business previously and had to try this place. Wow so glad we did! So fresh & tasty. So authentic too. We’ll be back ❤️

Outstanding food - will be neck for sure

Excellent Food, great Service, the best Indian restaurant in Blackburn. Definitely recommend.

My parents recommended this place and it didn’t disappoint! We enjoyed a mid week lunch. We ordered poppadoms, onion bhajis, paneer with peppers, a Thali each and a take away for my mum 😁 everything was delicious! Fresh, fragrant and authentic… The gentleman serving us said that the owners are from Kerala, South India and this is the food their mums make every day. Service was warm and welcoming and our meal was thoroughly enjoyed by all, we will be back :)

I remember it was my wedding anniversary and they served me cold and burned dosa... I will never visit thera again...

Tasty food , best place to hang around with good food and a beer.

We visited here recently based on the good reviews and we're not disappointed! It doesn't look much from the outside and it's very basic decor inside, but wow, the food is so different to any Indian restaurant we've been to before. The staff were lovely too. And the prices are very reasonable. We will definitely return and I highly recommend if you're looking for Indian food that's a little different.

Fantastic authentic Keralan food, the staff are amazing, this is NOT your standard curry house. A must for all Genuine food lovers. Keep a look out for the auto rickshaw (tuktuk) often seen outside.

We stumbled across this little gem by chance, and we’re so glad we did! Whilst it may not be the most salubrious looking place, the food was outstanding, and very reasonably priced! Staff were excellent too. Well worth a visit 👌

Went for lunch with my wife. We shared a Masala Dosa and a Chicken Thali Lovely food and excellent friendly service, A lovely unpretentious restaurant with great food.

Delicious food and friendly, welcoming staff. Would definitely recommend

Delicious food and friendly, welcoming staff. Would definitely recommend!

We took our vegan/vegetarian neighbours for lunch . They had never eaten South Indian food.It was a wonderful experience for them and for us too. The food was excellent and theservice was great . We highly recommend it . Our friends are planning to return soon with their family.

Everybody in the family loves the food from Thira.

What a treat. Unassuming Southern Indian restaurant near to Blackburn Cathedral that serves delicious food from a wide ranging and interesting menu. Wonderfully polite and attentive staff and a charming owner who proudly showed us his latest award which is so well deserved. Fantastic value too. Would love to return.

Main meal was Luke warm Arrived as I needed to leave for an appointment so couldn’t eat the food

Disappointed. Wasn’t the same as we ordered last time. Was hard and barely any potato. Lentil and coconut sauce was watered down.

This restaurant is an absolute gem. The food is exceptional, full of flavour and just enough heat. Excellent service. We'll be back soon!

Lovely food and good value for money. Friendly staff too. Everything you want.

Delicious scallops and chicken to start. King fish Alleppe and masala prawns as main alongside vegetables with coconut and parota. Gulab jamon and kulfi to finish. Having just returned from Kerala it was a delight to eat such authentic food. I will definitely come back if I visit this area again. Thank you!

Never had such a fantastic mix of flavours and great value for money. Great service and atmosphere. We will be back thank you

The best Indian food I have tasted for a long time, with lovely service. Had the Fish Curry and it was fresh and delicious. Lamb starter also fantastic. Can’t wait to try a Dosa next time.

First time here...found the food very good if a little different..staff very friendly and helpful, explaining foods you didn't know..Will go again

Food amazing, the most tasty & different Indian dishes. Our waiter was very friendly and professional and nothing was too much trouble. We will definitely revisit

We visited for the first time last night,and will not be the last absolutely first class,very busy at 5 thirty,a lovely clean place,excellent friendly service,the food was faultless,and very good value 👍

Amazing food. Taste of home country cooking. Very friendly and smiling staffs. Highly recommended. We travelled for the food and we're very satisfied with the overall visit and food. Thank you🙏

Delicious, fresh, tasty and authentic food. Friendly, happy staff. Very reasonably priced. What’s not to love! Thumbs up from us 👍

Friendly staff, nice atmosphere, attentive service and more importantly great food. Absolutely loved our meal, I couldn't recommend highly enough.

We really enjoyed our Christmas Day Meal. Food was amazing. Staff were awesome and couldn't do enough for you and definitely value for money. We would give 10 stars if we could .

My visits to see my elderly parents in Blackburn have in the past couple of years been enhanced by visits to this simple lovely restaurant. It feels out of place surrounded by take aways offering processed foods such as Kebab and Burger, or fried chicken. On 20th December 23 my partner and I took a table and enjoyed the most flavoursome peppery Rasam followed by Prawn and Mango curry, Brinjal Masala, a thin King Fish steak packed with flavour, some Appam and Rice. This was my fourth experience of Thira (other than visiting Santorini!). On each visit the waiters and waitresses have been as friendly and efficient as the food is exquisite and tasty. It has been This is quality food not fast processed food; sometimes it takes a good while for the food to arrive the price reflects the costs that this involves. As an occasional treat it is well worth it for me. I hope that the sibling venture in Bolton succeeds and that this wonderful Blackburn branch continues to delight diners for many years to come.

Great food lovely staff will be back

My visits to see my elderly parents in Blackburn have in the past couple of years been enhanced by being able to enjoy delicious food at this simple lovely restaurant. On 20th December 23 my partner and I took a table and enjoyed the most flavoursome peppery Rasam followed by Prawn and Mango curry, Brinjal Masala, a thin King Fish steak packed with flavour, some Appam and Rice. This was my fourth experience of Thira (other than visiting Santorini!). On each visit the waiters and waitresses have been as friendly and efficient as the food is exquisite and tasty. It has been This is quality food not fast processed food; sometimes it takes a good while for the food to arrive the price reflects the costs that this involves. As an occasional treat it is well worth it for me. I hope that the sibling venture in Bolton succeeds and that this wonderful Blackburn branch continues to delight diners for many years to come.

the lemon rice is banging,abit stingy on dosa filling tho when you consider it £8.50! had about 4 different curries from here now & they basically taste very similar…I love thira but the curries look & taste size for £10.50 curry shud be abit bigger

Absolutely fantastic food at a reasonable price.

Food very nice u can get a discount if u know vishal

Always excellent food a refreshing change from the usual.

We’ve had Thira many times but last night they forgot to put a couple of items in our order.

Me and my friends went to Thira for food and ordered appam and stew. Stew was good but the appam they served was so thin even the fishing net is much thicker than that appam. We told the waiter about the appam but they didn't care to bother about anything. I don't think it is fair to serve food like that to customers when they are charging a good amount of money. I forgot to take a picture otherwise i would have posted pics of that appam.. Coz it was that so disappointing experience. 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽

I visited for the first time today for dinner with my partner and two children. We had already looked on here and decided we'd all try a Thali each but was informed these are only available Monday to Friday so we were abit disappointed however our food was all amazing. I ordered the butter chicken, my partner ordered a dosa with a tarka dhal, daughter ordered a tikka masala and son ordered a prawn puri with chips. Everything was perfect and we will definitely go again to try a Thali :)

The food we ordered was delicious. We have been to the restaurant a few times but today it was too cold to venture out again. The quality of the take away food was just as good as when we visit. It’s become one of my favourite places to eat in Blackburn.

Excellent food, as always, delivered on time!

Still the nicest place for Indian food that I know of in this area - outstanding cuisine, great service and a lovely, easygoing ambience.

What a super little place this is. Lovely, polite and efficient staff and beautiful food. Much to be recommended, and we are looking forward to visiting again.

From the door being opened for us and seated down, this restaurant does service and speciality on another level. The staff are so lovely, polite, know what is in the dishes and friendly, The food is nothing short of outstanding. This is better than indian food which i love but this restaurant takes it to another level. Absolutely loved it and came back again the next day for more. Try the Dosas....

So the food and atmosphere was generally good. However when I was served my jalfrezi the waiter dropped it and the sauce spilled all over my table and windows. I got an apology but no discount or refund at all! Waiter thought it was funny I would ask for a discount!

Had a takeaway from here and it was so good. I love Indian food and think this is my new favourite place. There are dishes on the menu that I’ve not heard of before and can’t wait to try them. I hadn’t had a masala dosa before and it was delicious, really light and tasty. Would recommend the seek kebab and the king fish. Also really lovely parathas, not greasy at all. Ordered the chicken tikka masala for my little boy and it was so much better than your average tikka masala. They should be very proud of their chefs! Excellent.

This was great food. The spices and flavours are amazing. Love it when you get both and the taste is like a good fine wine dazzling your taste buds. Well done. And an excellent value. Starters and mains with drinks. £37.50. What’s more to say.

This restaurant is 5 star. Authentic.

Really enjoyed our meal on Sunday. Food came in good time and was delicious. Reasonably priced too. Our waitress was lovely, thanks !

Brilliant food exelent service lovely helpful staff will be going back cheap as well

Wow, I was impressed! Firstly the food is cooked fresh to order, yes even the meat, and it makes such a difference. The spicing is excellent and there are distinctive flavours as described in the menu. Service is excellent and the owner cares enough to come to every table to ask if everything is ok. Authentic and absolutely delicious.

Our first visit to Thira after hearing many great reviews .... and it definitely did not disappoint !! We loved it !! Food, service and ambience all really good and we will definitely be back. The menu here offers a really big selection and some really interesting dishes we`d never tried before or even seen on other Indian Restaurant menus. I had the scallop starter, which was delicious. There were clean plates all round at the end of our meal and it looked to be the same on all the other tables. Highly recommended.

Easily my favourite Indian restaurant. A real southern Indian specialist restaurant. Our favourites are chicken 65, lamb niligiri and medu vada. Absolutely delicious

Excellent food and service , coped well with a large table of 11, food quality was excellent . Will return

Delicious meal, really great sauces and great value. Paratha was amazing too. Up from London and can always get a good curry in Blackburn.

Came to this restaurant all the way from Preston and we were not disappointed. The seafood soup had a beautiful coconut flavour to it and the Biriyani, prawn mango curry with appam were spot on. Would definitely recommend this place

Fabulous food, especially the sea bass and lemon rice. We also had lamb rogan josh, with a choice of how hot it would be. This was delicious too. Really helpful and attentive staff.

Come here once a year when I'm in Blackburn. The food is amazing, especially the seabass and lemon rice.

We've been here many times, the food is always fantastic and the staff are the nicest people you will meet.

Great food with a very different menu to the run-of-the-mill Blackburn offerings.

Outstanding again - management managed to find us a table despite a huge party and overworked staff...kitchens produced beautiful food - they take the time and the trouble. A great place.

Stunning food, good service and excellent value for money. Highly recommend when staying at the Premier Inn in the town centre

Dosa was bland, it got very soggy. So we didn’t liked it. Sambhar was also not good. Earlier when we ate at restaurant, both were tasty,but now I felt quality was not appropriate.

We really enjoyed our food. I'm not even much of a fan of dosa but when I tried my wife's it was one of the best I've ever had. All the food was excellent and there were lots of things on the menu which weren't...

Brilliant place right in the centre of Blackburn Fantastic food Their Thali is to die for and the kingfish was delicious. Very clean and friendly can't wait to go again

The paneer wasn’t spicy as requested , it was sweet The chutney and sambhar not authentic Medu vada dry

Visited on recommendation .handy location in Town Centre, Friendly staff, nice choices on the menu, food was excellent and prices reasonable.

My partner and I had an incredible experience and Thira. Literally the best Indian food I have ever eaten in my life! We started with poppadoms and chutney, lovely and fresh. The onion chutney is beautiful. Onion bahjis and scallops to follow, my partner said...

Won't be using again curry was extremely watery and very little taste, starters tiny for the amount charged

Fabulous Keralan food. Little boy's first Indian restaurant and he loved it - the children's meal he had was just right in terms of size . Poppadoms came with a beetroot chutney I'd never had before which was very interesting. The waiter asked if we...

10/10 every time! Best curry 🙌🏻

This restaurant is the best in Blackburn by far. The flavours are immense, each dish we have tried has just been so good. Great potion sizes and great choice on the menu. I will never get a curry from anywhere else but here again.

Called up quite late on a week day for a takeaway and popped in to collect, all the staff were so friendly and obliging although was quite late. The Masala Dosa was delicious! I paired mine with the Koonu Mezukkhupuratti (Mushroom side dish) which was...

Second visit to Thira, this time with my extended family for a late Fathers Day lunch. The food is great; my Dad and Brother-in-law are more used to Bangladeshi restaurants but loved the food here. Definitely worth a visit if you’re in Blackburn. Recommended

Amazing delicious food! Authentic and healthy. Veg Thali is amazing value for money. Repeated visit and we will come again.