The India Palm — Restaurant in Scotland

My partner and I love curry. We eat curry regularly, both at home and in restaurants. We often travel upwards of 2 hours to try recommended curry houses. Tonight, we thought we would try one closer to home.

And we have both agreed that this is the absolute worst that either of us have ever been to…

It started off fairly promising. The place is warm, and we were seated quickly in a booth. There were some questionable stains on the table cloth, but we overlooked this, and our drinks order was quickly taken, followed by our food order. Unfortunately the carpet had more personality that all of the waitstaff combined. Literally. My feet stuck to whatever was growing in it.

The started was a selection of deep fried chicken and veg. It was fine. Basic, but fine.

Then arrived the main course. My partner had ordered the Karahi from the “hot” section and I had gone for the Pardesi from the “medium” menu. Neither had any heat whatsoever, or any flavour. Had they not been different colours, you could have been forgiven for assuming they were identical. The nan bread was like a thick duvet, and my cheese and garlic nan had was literally nan bread with half a bag of grated mozzarella on top!

When the waiter asked how things were, he scuttled off before waiting for an answer.

Despite all of this, we could have got over this, had there not been the attempted theft, the addition of a significant amount onto each item on the bill. When this was flagged up, the excuse was “well I haven’t got a menu to hand”. Hello Trading Standards - needless to add, when a menu was presented, the price was very incorrect, and the additional sum removed.

If dreadful food, staff who clearly don’t want to be there, and attempted theft are your thing, then sure,...

If you have enjoyed the Indian food in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Lucknow and especially the Punjab region then definitely you will think twice to go. I will not recommend it. It's not a complaint but a suggestion to management which I would like to type here.

Wastage Though you provide 4-5 kinds of Chutneys, it's absolutely a wastage. Your variety of chutney is very dull and does not match with the recipes you serve. If you claim that you are the Taste of Punjab then win your customer's hearts by traditional “Mint, ginger, garlic, coriander and chilly chutney”. Be Authentic.

Food Quality Mix tikka plater was horrible. It was not fresh and was disappointing. The the mushroom was stinking. It was Market meat just you guys fried it.

Food Taste We ordered Dal Tarka, Lamb curry(Lahori style) but it was like sweet corn soup. Dal was overcooked and interestingly it was not a recipe of Dal Tarka. It was excess sugar in dal and lamb which is an old trick to serve non-Asian customers (especially European and American) I burnt my money. Not good You served the best roti in the town. Congrats.

Weird recipe Cheese Nan. Crazy. I was almost faint. I

Service It was a fantastic service.

Ambiance. Fantastic.

Sitting arrangement. It was lavish. ...

Where to start. Came down to Dumfries for QoS v st.mirren match. Quite a few saints fans in here on Saturday night. Booked a table for 8 pm guy couldn't find booking. Eventually got seated about 15 minutes later . Ordered the usual poppadoms and stuff, was nice. Then it was down hill all the way. Partner got chicken tikka sizzler, was very dry , also came with the wrong curry sauce. Mine was lamb with spinach (pardesi) off the medium curry range and it was cold in the middle. Naan bread was the worst I've ever tasted in an Indian restaurant. Then the waiter dropped a dish of sweet chilli sauce over my jeans and trainers. We were there for over 2 hours and the phone never stopped once, oh and nobody answered. Waiting for an hour and a half between courses is ridiculous. The table behind us was where all the take away orders were placed. Not one was delivered while we were there. No wonder the phone was in meltdown. It was starting to get on everybody's nerves. Shame for the people of this brilliant town that the worst Indian restaurant in paisley is better than your best one . I'm giving you one star as I'm not allowed to...