Raj Tandoori — Restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne

Decided to check this place out after reading the reviews on trip advisor and also go with my gut instinct….

I wasn’t disappointed!

Warm friendly welcome and shown straight to my seat which I booked while in the car driving there. Menu was extensive and interesting with all the classics and some interesting concepts I haven’t seen before.

Didn’t have to wait long for my food to arrive, onions bhajis were superb, sweet n savoury, soft in the centre, crunchy and spiky on the outside.

My main course Chicken Tikka was succulent and punched a very aromatic flavour, pershwari Naan cooked in the Tandoor was soft and undulating with lovely crisp characteristics around the edge.

Pilau rice was perfectly cooked, vibrant herbs with contrasts of different coloured rices.

The owner and his sons are exceptionally friendly and made a great fuss as it was my first time.

I can highly recommend this atmospheric restaurant to anyone and I for one will be back.

Food, service, ambience and V for M 10/10 Sanji, Elisha and all the team...

I had a meal at this place today was absolutely awful for starters the drinks we ordered was cokes they were flat so wasn’t a great start .Then we ordered starters that was awful I ordered a tandoori mix grill was so dry had no taste at all. We also ordered fish pakora that wasn’t the best that was filled with pure oil and it was tasteless. So then I ordered some mango lassi every Indian restaurant you go to you have to order this because it’s traditional. That was so tasteless it was unreal I wanted to vomit🤮 I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone if you’re drunk and out of you’re head then it’s the best place for you. This place is to over priced and the food is absolutely disgusting. Not for me no...

These days, when I eat in Indian restaurants I am usually a bit disappointed. I was in India for a year in the 1989s and loved the food. But uk curries always seem bland - the flavours and spices seem not quite full enough - a bit insipid. But this was lovely. Hot enough so you know you are having a curry, but not so hot that you can't experience the flavours. A tad salty, maybe, but I was so happy to have decent flavours, that hardly mattered. Service was perfect - oh except I got a large wine when I asked for a small, but I was too polite to mention it. And forced it...