Thira Restaurant in Blackburn with Darwen

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Great food lovely staff will be back

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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Delicious, authentic and great value vegetarian thali. Friendly service. Highly recommended. Will definitely pay another visit.

Hands down the greatest curry house in the UK. The chef needs a star :-). We adore this place. We have eaten in Michellin stars up and down the country including one of the few restaurants with 3 Michellin stars and this food rivals them....

Absolutely faultless. I had the Sheekh Kebab as a starter, followed by the Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi with mushroom rice as a main and it was lovely. Not too hot but with a slight zing. Couldn't recommend highly enough. See for yourself if you're in Blackburn!

Very good SOUTH Indian food. To be distinguished from the more common Bangladeshi/Punjabi/Northern Indian food restaurants of which there must be hundreds in this region, many of which should be excellent.Enjoyed everything we ordered: Dosa, Appam, Kerala fish curry, and Kerala chicken curry ( no....

Went for meal at Thira on Saturday afternoon. Was booked to go for Christmas Day,but ended up in hospital instead!.Eventually managed to visit after lots of ill health. It was definitely worth waiting for. We had the obligatory poppadoms and chutneys, followed by an absolutely...

Just visited on bank holiday Monday for lunch. I had fish thali and my girlfriend had the paneer dosa. Popadom set to start. This place never lets you down. Once again the food was spectacular. The staff are friendly and helpful and a credit to...

Superb levels of deep flavours. These dishes are not quick flash fried food. The food is treated with the care and respect you would hope more restaurants could manage but often don’t. The uniqueness of these South Indian flavours are way above the competition in...

Truly excellent cuisine. By far the best Indian cooking we’ve tasted. Highly recommend. Every dish was a wonderful experience. The service too is kind and attentive.

We were visiting Blackburn and wanted to have a good tasty meal. We checked out TripAdvisor who highly recommended here. It wasn't wrong we had the most tasty food and freshly made naan. We will definitely will return. Great range of vegetarian food too.

What a great little gem this is, situated in the centre of Blackburn opposite the Cathedral. Great authentic, very tasty food. We had the lunchtime special vegetarian thali which consisted of; 2 curry's, a daal, a side dish, rice, puri and a small rice dessert.......

The food and service excellent. Best Indian food I have tasted in years. Will be back soon for another visit. Highly recommend.

Really good Indian restaurant in downtown Blackburn. I went there two nights in a row. The first night with a group of friends, where the food came really quick, and the service was really good. The second night alone on St Patricks Day where the...

Great service, amazing food. We created our own tasting menu so we could try as many dishes as possible. All of them delicious. Go there!

Excellent Indian food. Nice service. Got a window seat with a nice view. Love it. Price is reasonable as well. Will visit again.

Great quality, taste, dal is especially delicious , recommend the vegetarian thali and other vegetarian dishes, great service too.

Went for a date night, the service was great. Lovely server who explained items for us. We had kerala prawn starter and chicken 65-both gorgeous dishes full of flavour. For main we had prawn biryani, chicken curry and dosa. Admittedly they were a bit spicy...

Fantastic food,quality, service and reasonable prices. Great central location.Highly recommended You will not be disappointed.

Called in Saturday evening for a pre-theatre meal. Have to say the service is second to none, our waiter (think it could be the owner) went to great lengths to explain the origin of the food , he even brought us a map of region...

I went with family for a special occasion and this is the best place ever. Its very understated and cosy inside. As a vegetarian the menu is very friendly with a lot more options than most places but also a huge choice for meat eaters...

It’s a nice place with amazing food. The service we received was so good and we will definitely be back again. They made us feel welcomed and got a good selection of food to try.

Absolutely amazing meal as always. We have been a few times and have never been let down. Flavours are cracking, portions are fair, service is good. What more can you ask for nnn

thought we would try this restaurant since it changing hands. Food was lovely. I had sheekh kebab to start and butter chicken for main. Decent portion sizes. Food was full of flavour and enjoyable. Service was a little slow to start but soon picked up...

In Blackburn on a family visit and came across this little restaurant it was first class from the pre-meal to the main course the food was excellent tried the Naadan Kochi curry for the first time and it was delicious . The Peshwari naan was...

Service was fantastic and the food was wonderful! We were made very welcome as soon as we entered, there is a big emphasis on the food quality, a lady behind us mentioned the sauce to her dish was a little too spicy for her, the...

We've travelled a long way to try the food at Thira and it was worth every mile. The food is delicious - fresh and authentic with delicate south Indian flavours. Makes a very refreshing change from the usual, heavier Asian cooking. Excellent, friendly service. Recommend...

Just been to the newly opened Thira in Farnworth.What a pleasant surprise!The food was the best Indian I’ve ever had.Other restaurants have menus that are incredibly long.It’s obvious that much of their food is frozen and microwaved.Not here though.It tasted fresh and authentic.The dosas were...

Amazing food. We ordered Dosas and some curries and it was amazing. Loved the atmosphere the calm background music and the staff were very friendly. I recommend everyone to try it, you will not be disappointed.

This place is an absolute wonder ! I am slowly working my way through most things on the menu and so far everything I have had has been exceptional. Not a standard curry house at all, this is genuine South Indian food and it is...

Tried this restaurant on a visit to Blackburn. I had a jalfrezi with Pilau rice and chappatis. My curry was ok. Not a lot of flavour. Rice was a bit clumpy and the chappatis were average. My partner had a diced lamb dish which she...

We ate here last night and the food was amazing. Fresh, authentic ingredients and very well cooked. So glad we have this proper Southern Indian cooking on our (almost) doorstep. Highly recommend.

We were welcomed as soon as we came in to the restaurant. The service was excellent food was superb and would recommend the restaurant to other friends.

We haven’t been here for a few months and this place produced just as amazing food as our last visit. We went with another couple who had never visited before and they loved the food. We all will be back again. The quality and portion...

Found this by accident as we were looking for a place to eat before a gig at King George's hall, we were so glad that we tried it. Food and service is well above what we are used to at most Indian restaurants, my wife...

We have recently discovered Thira & have been back twice in the same week. The food here is simply outstanding. Having been to Kerala, we can vouch the food at Thira is absolutely authentic. We had Dosa & a Thali each. Both were fantastic. The...

Amazing food always consistent Great service and staff are very helpful Too many things to mention that are awesome Takes me back to my trip to south india

Glad to be back, recently had bad experience due to poor service, now service very good as it always used to be, food lovely as usual, really enjoyed it

If you’re looking for off the scale South Indian food this is where to go. Don’t expect a sumptuous restaurant as that’s not what this place is about. The staff are superb and friendly, the service is quick but more importantly the food is off...

Unexpectedly good Indian restaurant opposite Wetherpoons in central Blackburn. Very good vegetarian choices and friendly service. Thoroughly recommended

Amazing food, we have been going there for years, lovely service, friendly staff, highly recommended

Go here regularly food usually great, service for last two visits has not been good, never even got the meal this week as asked for plate 3 times, did not get, 2 of us share meal but for some reason would not get plate, will...

Went on a Sunday evening and had a beautiful meal, brilliant service , very reasonably priced , one of the best meals I’ve had in along time.

We visited Thira last Wednesday, which was our 4th visit in a couple of months and it's been exceptionally good each time. This time, 7 of us went and all of us were delighted with the service and quality of the food. The menus isn't...

On a visit to Lancashire, this seemed like a good choice. It was busy even on a Monday night so I had to do 3 laps of Blackburn (not a place I know) in order to find somewhere to park. The restaurant quickly found me...

Returning customer after a couple of years absence do to not travelling for work because of covid and I’m happy to say the food was as superb as always, so fresh and flavoursome, great service too. This place is an absolute gem shame it’s a...

We were visiting the area and booked this restaurant. The food was excellent ,fresh, tasty and varied the range of species were a delight .The service was friendly and very helpfulWe will definitely visit Thira again when in Blackburn

Just come back from Thira and as always it didn't disappoint! The food is simply delicious; it is keralan therefore a bit different from your usual Indian food (lots of coconut, fish dishes and unusual flavours). The service is excellent and it is great value...