Royal India

We’re new to NC and came through this place through google and it had high ratings. We came in and they offered the platter menu. We went for 2 platters with high and medium spice levels- one with butter chicken, chicken curry, samosa, naan, gulab jamun and the other with the same as above with palak paneer additionally. We also ordered 2 orders of Chapathis.

Let’s start with the good aspects— there’s only one and that’s the gulab jamun since it’s store bought and not made in-house. (Thanking god for that) Now let’s get into the underwhelming aspects—

1. The ambience is and the interior is supposed to depict “The Royal India” but it’s no where close. They just have red/green combinations and apparently it’s supposed to look like the Taj Mahal architecture. To my surprise it’s not even close to that.
2. The only difference between the medium and hot spice levels is the curry’s consistency. The medium one is diluted with water and the hot one is a thick gravy.
3. Butter chicken tastes like tomato purée.
4. Chicken curry- I don’t even know!
5. Palak Paneer- there’s no salt at all.
6. The Tandoori Chicken- they just put the red color, salt and baked the chicken and served it. There’s absolutely no flavor at all. Being a naive cook myself, I can definitely cook better than the Chef here.
7. Coming to the MOST underwhelming aspect—— it costed us $51.11 for the two of us which is whooping amount for the quality of food they’ve provided. We din’t even get the breakdown of the items in the bill. The only Royal thing about this place is what we paid for. PUN INTENDED.
8. After all this, Let’s not even talk about the hospitality!

“The Royal India” is a shame to the Country. I would request the owners/ managers to look into it and come up with a better plan because whatever we do will affect India’s portrayal globally. Jai Hind.