We used to eat a lot at this restaurant, just after it changed hands from Xanadu. The new owner was brilliant, so professional and helpful, the food always brilliant. Fast forward a few years to today’s meal. It really couldn’t be an experience further from the ones we used to have. The service was not good at all, despite an embarrassing plethora of staff stood around by the bar. My order came out wrong not once but twice, and only came out because my husband asked where it was when everyone else had nearly eaten their food. We were told they forgot. When it came out wrong a second time, ridiculously spicy to the point of inedible, I was told patronisingly by the Indian female member of staff “Indian food is spicy you know”. No shhh Sherlock. That’s why I had a rogan Josh the night before at another restaurant in Edinburgh (a better one) and have eaten in various Indian and Asian eateries my whole life, my mother being Khmer. I do not expect an embarrassing lecture at a table from someone who cannot get an order right twice. A chap who I assume to be the manager removed the meal from our bill despite the Indian female server saying she wouldn’t. I had to threaten non payment of the bill before she did anything. In the meantime, the young female server decided it was a good time to stand in the kitchen and make comments and giggle. Unsurprisingly about right for this place now. Unfortunately a lick of pink paint and some garlands and wall hangings don’t make up for the poor service, inedible food and a sleep decline in standards. I cannot believe I even have to leave this review as we have loved Gautams for years but I will never set foot in there again nor would I recommend it to anyone.