Royal India Restaurant

everything is awesome
specially butter chicken i love it

Excellent food its worth

Wow yammmy chicken madras and garlic naan me and my partner l loved it its worth

4 hungry adults walked away totally impressed. Meat, prawn and vege dishes all first class (meat pretty hot but that's what we wanted), plus garlic naan, pappardums, rice and a bottle of wine all for $30/ head so no complaints on value for money. Service was slick as well so despite late start made it to the Dragon concert at Vertigo on time. Contrary to expectations, the concert wasn't the highlight of the evening, the meal was!

Great food, Great prices and good service (not what you expect in Cairns!)...loved it ...going back this weekend

Ordered a home delivery and the food is fantastic, but beware - just found out menulog charged me $5 for delivery but the driver asked for $5 again! not happy

I had the Lamb Madras (the hot version). I found the taste very much to my liking and the lamb was extremely tender. It wasn't hot enough in terms of chilli strength though but not many people like it this way so I understood their holding back.
I like some whole seeds releasing their flavours.
On the down side - the red wine was warm so we had to ask for ice cubes and then a bucket of ice. Also the table wobbled and it was sometimes hard to get service.

This pleace is making amazing tandoori chicken and butter chicken i have tried three times all three times past 2 months same tast. Its cheper then other restuarants on the esplanade its really worth

food excellent very authentic indian food ppl need to try nice and spicy curry go to royal india on the esplanade its worth for me at the lagoon its really good pleace

curries are very good its one of the best butter chicken in cairns good service

first amazing location on the esplanade joyable second food is very authentic food the best butter chicken i have had in australia third pricing reasonable price and cheap on the esplanad service was good. i saw that they do free home delivery was great service

The curries are terrible and not constructed well... While spiced properly the spices used are whole, and plenty, so if you like to move from a whole mouth of cardimen to a whole mouth of star anise Royal India is for you...

As for me, even McDonalds over the road would have been a better vote

I couldn't even eat half my curry because, even though we requested mild, it was really hot. We even confirmed with the waited that it was mild, but my runny nose and flaming throat said otherwise! The samosas were good, the paratha was average and quite small for $5. Another thing I didn't like was that you have to order rice separately with the curries, so it's not such good value as other Indian places. I won't go there again, but it's probably ok if you like chilli.

Disgraceful!

After reading the reviews on this site we had high expectations.

The service was typical Cairns blah. The food was ordinary to say the least. Portion size - 9 Prawns in an entree, 6 Prawns in a main. I do not appreciate being ripped off.

Do your wallet a favour, take it elsewhere.

Mmmmmm Beautiful.

and when we requested Indian Hot - we got it !

Beautiful!

Delicious northan style cusine, very friendly staff, beautiful location on lagon, food is very yummy in reasonable price, BYO but there is no corkage charges at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!wow

Excellent food, very authentic, staff are very good also and the prices are reasonable. At the moment until they get their licence it is BYO so it is good value.