Curries and Candles — Restaurant in Gouda

It was great to visit this small place with great atmosphere and food. The owner Ruchi served food nicely and at the end she once again asked like a family member if my stomach was full and if not she said she can serve again and also said that her customers should not go without stomach full of eating here😊 it was like someone asking at home. It was nice experience.

They should work a bit on improving quality of food as the curry didn't seem like fully fresh. Also, the price was little high. Otherwise, it was nice atmosphere, hospitality was good, Ruchi spoke in Hindi, she played Indian songs, she was very humble and what not...I felt like being at home for sometime in Netherlands 😊

Also, the way she treated the customers was awesome, she spoke with Indians in Hindi/English and immediately switched to Dutch when speaking with local customers..she has a good skill in managing customers..

A must visit place in Gouda, The Netherlands !!

Curries and Candles got added in my wonderful experience of...

This tiny shop is often overlooked by shoppers in Gouda. At a first glance you know it is a shop that sells candles and then you see a menu advertising vegetarian curries and rotis.... As you enter the shop, you enter into a very different world far removed from the rest of Gouda. The host is a very charming lady who does her best to please her guests. The idea of introducing curries was implemented during corona to help boost the business profile. I settled for the full meal takeaway which consisted of bread of your choice, rice, potato, curry and chutney. You could choose how spicy you wished your curry to be. Well coming from South Africa. I decided on the red bean curry with rice and the hottest chili added. Wow at last I could devour a delicious lekker hot curry! Definitely coming back to try...

Quite a strange experience. We were looking to eat in but the person serving us at the counter was encouraging us not to eat in (it seemed like they didn’t want to us to!). We found this strange as all of the tables were empty.

When our food was ready we were sent off to a bench that the person suggested a 6 minute walk away which was covered in birds when we arrived. Instead, we had to find a different bench and struggled to eat the food. It is very hard and quite miserable to eat thali on a bench!!

The food itself was nice, but a lot of the menu options you have to pay extra for. The server was also trying to upsell us; when we picked our options she encouraged us to get one of the more expensive options. Overall, good food but...