The best restaurants serving Indian food in Craven Yorkshire and The Humber

After reading the reviews, we booked for dinner here. I have to say, given all the reviews and all their accolades, we were expecting great things. Firstly, the staff seemed disinterested and bored. The restaurant was pretty cold, despite the fact we were sitting next to a radiator. I had the vegetable Balti, which was just OK. It tasted like they had used mixed frozen vegetables and the sauce was nothing special. My husband had Hydra Badi Chicken, and said it was one of the blandest curries he had ever tasted. It wasn't a bad meal, but did not meet the hype...or come anywhere close.

We have benn to the Bollywood many, many times and it is by some margin the best in the area. Good, consistent, authentic Indian dishes, well balanced spices, well cooked, with good quality ingredients. Good naan breads , chapati and nice pickle tray. Good rice, the Murchi rice is awesome, a real spicy kick. Half a tandoori chicken on the bone is excellent, my go to dish, good quality and well balanced spices. I've read some reviews saying the dishes lacked flavour, no idea what they expected, all dishes are different. The beauty of Bollywood is that they have dishes to suit everyone. If you want delicate, creamy spices then go for the rich and smooth butter chicken with big chunks of chicken. If you want a powerful spicy tangy curry, go for the Naga chicken, especially with the spicy Murchi rice, full of flavour, it will bow your socks off ! When we eat in, the service is always efficient and friendly. If you do eat in, I recommend the shashlik, delicious, tasty, good quality meat with onions and peppers on a sizzling platter, great spectacle 😊.

The best Indian take away we have ever had. The food was delicious, particularly the onion bhajis and biryanis. Excellent value for money.

All dishes were flavoursome and really tasty. If you live in the area or visit Skipton, try their food. It is excellent. The staff were genuinely helpful and friendly.

Great food as always and even fulfilled my extra request in the notes, bang on time as well what more can you ask for 👍

Beware if there is only 2 of you wanting to eat out here. Waiter refused to let us sit on a table for 4 because there was only 2 of us. There were 3 empty tables for 4 plus 1 table for 2, but that was pushed up to the service counter and that was the table the waiter offered us. We didn't want to sit immediatly next to where customers would be hovering over us whilst paying for and collecting take-aways and where the phone was ringing and conversations between the waiter and customers were regularly taking place. When he said we couldn't sit elsewhere, I said 'we'll leave it then'. Then the waiter responded, in a sarcastic voice, with a 'BYEEE'. So that's a loss of income for them of between £1500-£1700 over the next year as we would have called in for a sit down meal for two every fortnight, plus a takeaway for two once a fortnight. We then had a meal at one of their competitors and then walked around Settle before heading off home. Whilst walking around Settle we looked into the Spice restaurant again to see if all the tables that we had been refused the use of, had now been taken. There were still 3 tables for 4 that were empty, plus the same table for 2, that is pushed up to the counter, was also empty. PS We had been to the Spice a fortnight earlier and the same waiter had tried to have us sit at the same table by the counter. On that occasion we asked if we could sit on another table and when he said no, we asked 'why not?' He then said 'ok' and we sat elsewhere. We didn't want to go through the same 'negotiation' for a second time. It's dimple, if they don't value us as customers then we'll spend our money elsewhere.

Our second visit, while staying nearby on holiday. Generous portions and great value. Could have done with a reminder that it is cash only when ordering by phone, but a cash point is just round the corner. Looking forward to our next visit

We order from this takeaway regularly. Decided to order via phone rather than just eat, to save us extra charges and them. When they show up they charged us extortionate prices for the bare minimum food order we ordered. Put it this way they were very expensive kebabs and donner meat and chips! When rung and confronted about this price they told us they charge just eat prices even without just eat taking the extra cost from them which they don’t state on their business website and had no explanation for this really either. Poor customer service and quite frank a Robbing service too! Think before ordering as I’m sure you could get the same food at half the price elsewhere. Daylight robbery whether they’re over charging or the delivery guy is pocketing the extra money!

We absolutely love this place ! Jamal, Sam and team are absolute diamonds and will create any dish to suite your mood... Tonight for example I had a king prawn ( in the shell ) syletti naga, with lemon,onion and garlic rice with a thin an crispy garlic nan bread and a pea salad ..... Non of it as per menu, I just told Sam what I felt like and Jamal created it .... Awesome food which arrived in good time with clean warm plates and a really nicely chilled white wine.... I've been to many a fancy restaurant and this is anything but and yes it does need a lick of paint and a new chair or 3 but this little gem just hits the spot with what matters... The food and wonderful service. Love Carl and Alicea

Loved the vibeshere loved the tapas and mohitos had the best comments from the printer guys thank you for a quality and unique night

Superb food and service. The food at Aagrah is the best I've had. Utterly delicious. Went for vegetable Madras: without doubt, the very best I've ever had. Great service throughout. Very highly recommended.

Ordered food via just eat and got a call from a very rude man within minutes of placing my £60 order saying that we are over 2 miles away so need to pay a delivery charge on arrival despite it saying free delivery of order over £20. He kept hanging up on us and was very very rude. I was on google maps and we was only 1.8 miles away from the restaurant but he continued to rant about he is too busy. I am just so glad I ordered on credit card as I will be doing a chargeback based on service/order not received as he has refused now to make our food. Never order with this place as service is well below the standard of any other place I have ever used.