Royal Leicesters — Restaurant in England

DO NOT GO!

Me and my friends went for dinner here on a Saturday evening after seeing it had won the curry award for 2024. We have been to a few other bar/grill Indian restaurants and thought this would become our new favourite but boy was I wrong.

When we first arrived we were put in a separate area to the other diners and our table was a plastic picnic table covered with a very thin green tablecloth. The waiter was a lovely man, very happy and tended to our needs. I cannot fault the service.

The food however was a different story, we had ordered a variety of dishes including a royal sizzler, chilli paneer, chicken lollipops and a Lamb machuzi curry.

The Royal sizzler was big and you did get a lot of food however the sizzler itself wasn’t like the photos online. It was very saucy but all you could taste were raw and bitter spices. The chicken was overcooked and there was hardly any lamb on the chops but overall it just tasted bad.

The chilli paneer was dreadful, the paneer itself was very small chunks that tasted boiled and it was served in a very dark tamarind colour sauce and it just wasn’t nice.

The chicken lollipops were the best thing we ate that night but even they were very underwhelming. There wasn’t any flavour at all, wasn’t spicy or sweet or salty; They were very bland.

The lamb Machuzi curry was a massive let down, the colour was so dark and it was just full of big pieces of star anise l. Really wasn’t a good flavour. The only saving grace was the texture of the lamb, it was soft and very nice but put it in a dark bland sauce; not good.

In conclusion me and my friends really didn’t enjoy any single piece of food that left the kitchen. Considering they won this award for the best curry I was shocked. The food was very expensive compared to similar restaurants around the area. To pay that amount of money for the bad quality of food was really upsetting. To anyone reading this review, I would recommend either Three kilns or The Broadway. Either of them are in a different realm to the food that I was served here and very cheap in comparison to Royals Leicester. Will not be returning in...

A year ago I gave 5 stars. So let me explain why 1 now. Firstly very dishonest. They give 2 receipts when you pay the bill. But it is all added on 1 reciept. Some months ago they let us pay both which was over £100 extra. They did not correct us but took the money even though our group was regulars there. We let it go as a bad experience but they forget I can leave a new review. The last time we went was. Terrible. Sorry, the starters were good. Goat curry was tomato flavour. £45 a pot. Keema had no flavour. I did not try the chicken. Pan was great.

They probably lost the chef.

That's another restaurant in Leicester for us to avoid.

When I worked out our food bill a few months ago I realised how we paid twice for drinks but the goat curry was still worth returning for. It was not Rocky but the other person who took the extra money and said nothing. We have probably been ripped off before.

No issue now as we won't go back as food not nice.

2025 I compromised and visited again. Had a great time and food was much better. It has really improved. Looking forward...

So we have been going to Royal Leicester for numerous of years we have got numerous of takeaways we absolutely know the owner very well as well Rocky sleep fantastic character and his hospitality when it comes across his absolutely lovely but this time round as we going to eat there it's been absolutely Ferocious food where the food quality has been not well whether butter chicken has been made very spicy for kids Plus on top as well we ordered garlic chilli chicken there was extra gravy and 34 pieces of chicken the starters were called the atmosphere was not buy I don't think they should be deserving Awards going forward is absolutely bad how they have basically come to they really need to shape up their food to bring it back to where it was it's like they have stopped caring about their business...