Delhi Durbar — Restaurant in Vientiane Capital

Finding ourselves in Vientiane in a hotel situated just outside the centre and needing a not too distant place for dinner, we trawled the usual restaurant review websites for a "safe" place to eat hoping to avoid a dose of traveller's tummy and by a lengthy process of elimination settled on Delhi Durbar. A 5 minute tuk tuk journey later, having given the driver turn by turn directions taken from Google Maps, we arrived at the restaurant. First impressions from the outside were good and we entered the spacious, well maintained restaurant to be greeted by the owner who showed us to our table. At the time of our arrival we were the only customers, but two further sets of diners arrived shortly afterwards. It was New Year's eve. The menu contained an extensive selection of instantly recognisable Indian favourites such as might be found in any traditional Indian restaurant in the UK. I chose a vegetarian dish - vegetarian jalfrezi - and my partner had lamb rogan josh. Rice was complimentary and we had 4 poppadoms as a starter. My jalfrezi was rich and tasty, with a good selection of vegetables. My partner's rogan josh was also delicious, with a rich, tasty sauce and good quality meat. Both of us thoroughly enjoyed our meal and were satisfyingly full by the time we had finished. I can happily recommend the Delhi Durbar to any curry lovers passing through Vientiane, looking for a good Indian meal served by the very amenable and convivial proprietor himself in pleasant, comfortable surroundings. I am pleased to report as well that, as we later discovered, our delicate European digestive systems were not in the least offended by...

Visited because this restaurant was just near my hotel I was staying at. When I arrived, I was offered the menu, and while I was checking the menu, the owner came up to me and said that the menu pricing has changed and once I pointed out an item I wanted to order to him, he told me the updated price. The main issue is that they have increased the prices of all the items, but haven't updated their menu with the new pricing. They still have the old menu with old pricing. It's not convenient.

Now the food. The food was average, but better than other Indian restaurants I have been to in Vientiane. The portion size was generous enough for a single person.

The staff. They had one young Lao guy working as a waiter, but he didn't understood much English but was very polite and seemed shy. Maybe he's new or still in training. The owner himself had to come forward and take my order. But I found the attitude of the owner quite off-putting. He seemed arrogant and had an attitude like he's doing me a favor. I saw him treating the Lao waiter quite rudely and reprimanding him at times. It's fine to reprimand and instill discipline in your staffs, but you don't do it in front of everybody, out in the open where guests are eating.

The bill. I paid with cash. They accept Thai baht and credit cards as well. Although with credit cards they charge 3.5% additional credit card processing fees on top of your bill amount.

Conclusion: Overpriced....

I eaten in Penang Malaysia so manny times Indien street food for 80thb Tandoori chicken with naan bread and the mintsouce .awesome delicious! !!!Here i tryout the Tandoori plate a mix with chicken (ok-dry)mixed Lamp (only dry with no taste)fish (ok if you put some lemon)and 3 big Prawns (horrible!!!stink. Smell so bad.die already 3 day's ago!!!mintsouce not so good,not fresh!!!service really nice!!!!!!!!!!good English and the owner (nice guy )!!!!nice person how change the prawns to small frosen tiny one's!!!then i have naan bread with cheese (no crunch )and oily! I hope your chef had a bad day😘so i will come back and try the rest of the menu what looks really good!i still want you give 5 stars so please talk to the chef to get his feelings back to cook outstanding food!i know he can do🤗good luck see you soon.Best Regards :The Skinhead...