Royal India Restaurant — Restaurant in West Perth

Some years ago, when I dined in, a waiter spilled half a bottle of my BYO Cab Merlot all over my guest. It was an accident, I forgave the waiter immediately - but my jaw dropped when they charged me corkage!

Fast forward to tonight. I had finally gotten over the above incident and decide to order 1 beef vindaloo, a chicken korma and pulau rice for delivery. What arrived made my jaw drop again.

Tiniest containers I have ever seen Indian food come in. They were so ridiculously small I just started laughing. It felt like a practical joke. Then I laughed harder when I saw they were each only 2/3 full.

It was literally about 100g of curry in each container at a cost of $24 each. It was about 4 dessert spoonfuls' worth of each curry (we are talking standard, ordinary dishes here). This is not a Michelin restaurant.

I wasn't laughing when I started eating.

The tiny amount of beef in the tiny vindaloo (there were 6 tiny cubes that fit in 2 dessert spoons) was dry and cardboard-like.

The Pulau had no sultanas contrary to what is advertised - just shrivelled peas and horribly crunchy raw carrot in ordinary yellow (turmeric?) rice. Suffice it to say it was very unpleasant to eat and I was left hungry after forking out $60.

In short, this is the worst value Indian food I have ever ordered anywhere in the world hands down. In fact I think it is the worst value of any food I have ever ordered anywhere.

$60 for a few mouthfuls of mediocre takeaway curry from a suburban Indian restaurant is such a rip off it was offensive. By the end of the meal, it wasn't funny anymore. I felt scammed.

Maybe it's nicer when you dine in (you get the benefit of a lovely atmosphere inside when you aren't covered in wine.) But selling takeaway like this is thievery.

One star for...

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!!!

Anyone who's ever dined at this once great restaurant will not recognise the food. It's...... simply beyond belief.... utterly different.

Chicken Vindaloo curry was INEDIBLE... it's like someone took an onion, tinned tomato soup, and chill powder and blended it and then threw in a dash of vinegar and boiled the hell out of it. Bland tomaty soup swill with a raw chilli taste and bits of dry chicken swimming around. I've never experienced anything quite like it. I'm still in shock. Actually I am angry that I didn't return the meal and get a refund. Manager offered to have it recooked ....but it was so far removed from the original dish as to make that impossible. Manager says the original recipe was used... I could not taste anything except watery tomato chilli. No Ginger Garlic... no other spices. Where was the dried methi? Usually the gravy is thick and rich. It's like a child cooked it. Seriously.

The onion bhajis were barely passable ..... cardamom has been removed and the yoghurt mint sauce was terribly watered down. Cost cutting no doubt. Samoosas were unremarkable but at least edible.

I give this restaurant 3 months and they'll be out of business.

RIP what was a fine restaurant for over 30 years......

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Paid for food and was told I wasn't allowed to eat there and to told to leave.

I went here for the first time for lunch, I was considering ordering a meal and a drink and the lady at the counter suggested a special, which turned out to be good value for money in my opinion and the food was good, so to her and the chef thank you.

I sat down outside and waited for my meal, when it arrived it was in a bag. I thought it was strange but it's happened at Hungry Jacks before so I didn't think much of it, mistakes happen.

But here's where the problem arises, when I opened the food to begin eating a staff member rushed outside and told me to leave because it was store policy not to allow people to eat takeout at the restaurant.

Even though I had bought the food from them 10 minutes before they were telling me I was not welcome to eat there and that I had to leave. I have been to many fast food curry stores and a few indian restaurants and never have I been treated in so poorly and made to feel so unwelcome because of a restaurant policy.

If they didn't want me eating at their restaurant they should have said so at the counter before I paid and I would have gone elsewhere for lunch.

Based on my first experience at this restaurant I would sadly not...