THE ROYAL INDIAN 153 Melton Road, Leicester LE4 6QS

"This venue has become the fail safe go to for our monthly curry club. The starters are on par with the best places in Leicester. The recent addition of street food inspired menu with beautifully blended indo Chinese flavours is worth a visit. Recommend the salt and pepper fish, lollipop chicken with the info Chinese sauce and masala chips."

"Please try the specials. Yes you have to order 3 days early but worth it. Biriani is Very very nice"

"excellent food and customer service. correct any mistakes made in orders and go above and beyond to keep you happy . will he back again"

"UPDATE: Went back for a family meal in September 2021 hoping that there had been some improvements but sadly not. We had a new waitress who could not really help and was not being supported. Manager who spent more time taking phone/online orders (even whilst taking our order). Ultra-slow service - we waited an hour for our lacklustre main course. Also the food is underwhelming. I will not be going back I'm afraid.... Previous review - We reserved a table on Saturday night in the ground floor seating area for a group of 12. We were really looking forward to an authentic Indian meal after hearing some good reports of The Royal Indian. This is quite a modern-looking narrow restaurant. Our hopes of a good meal and service were dashed quite quickly. Lacklustre (unattentive at times) service, errors with orders (how could you get a naan order wrong?) and a kitchen that could not cope with a busy Saturday night did not help. Starters were mediocre at best and way too spicy. Avoid the Mixed Grill. It is too dry and lacks flavour. We waited for over an hour for our main course.... What you would expect was a simple order of an "on the bone" chicken curry came to us as a boneless curry. When we raised this, they said they could rectify this quickly.... Indeed our dish did return quickly but after closer inspection we saw that 2 or 3 on the bone pieces had just been added to the original serving bowl. The Kheema Peas was just boring, plain and watery. This was a tasteless under-spiced main course. I am sorry to write that this was a truly unimpressive restaurant and meal. They really have some hard work ahead of them if they wish to improve their offering. Worth avoiding and worth going elsewhere I'm afraid."

"Great little Indian restaurant very small and cosy inside. We ordered the handi dum lamb briyani which takes 40mins as mentioned on the menu.I was not disappointed one of the most best briyani's I have ever tasted !! Great staff loads of options on the menu that you don't find in many Indian restaurants."