The best restaurants serving Indian food in Hawes and High Abbotside Richmondshire Yorkshire and The Humber

We've been coming to Hawes for many years and always have an Indian meal and given the time of year the restaurant is always quiet. So when we visited this week, we weren't surprised that only two tables were occupied and both of these were ordering drinks and starters. Being older, we can't usually manage a starter and therefore just ordered our main course, which we assumed would be prepared at the same time, or just after the starters for the other two tables. But no, that seemed beyond the ability of the kitchen staff, so we had to wait until the starters and mains had been served to the other tables before they could prepare our one course. However, throughout our wait of over an hour, the kitchen was able to handle takeaway orders in the usual 20 to 30 minutes. Whilst the food was fine, we won't be returning to Voujon on our future visits to Hawes, there are numerous other eateries where the service is as good as the food.

The range and standard of food is excellent. The menu offers some of the old classics but there are also many chef's dishes and recommendations that I haven't encountered before. I've now tried several and invariably, the quality of the food is excellent, with unusual flavour combinations that work very well. The portion sizes are spot on, sometimes, I'm full after the starter, but here you get a decent portion of good food. There tends to be only one person front of house so, at peak times, the service for drinks etc can be a little slow, but the food comes quickly and piping hot from the kitchen. Also, be aware that Prachin only takes cash. A great local gem.