The Gate of India
8 HIGH STREET
STONE HOUSE
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
GL10 2NA
TELEPHONE: 01453 792 525
TELEPHONE: 01453 791 846
http://www.gateofindia.co.uk/
Diners: Simon, Emma, Steve and John
Comments:
Steve: "A mediocre curry but I'm full and would come back"
John: "I had a nice John-frezi"
Emma: "Nice but I would have that curry again as it had a weird taste"
Simon: "I could actually taste that there were different flavours in my curry"
What we all had:
Steve: Gurkha Massala, Boiled rice, Plain Nann
Gurka Massala Chicken£8.75Chicken Tikka cooked to our chefs own unique spices with fresh garlic, ginger, tomatoes & butter. Highly recommended.
John: Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi, Pilau Rice
Tikka Jalfrezi£7.75Chicken tikka cooked with green chilies, capsicum, tomatoes & methi leaves, fairly hot.
Emma: Peshwari Chicken, Pilau Rice, Peshwari Nann
Peshwari Chicken£7.75A speciality from Peshwar diced chicken marinated with tandoori spices & cooked with chopped capsicum, tomatoes, onion & hint of tomatoe sauce.
Simon: Unknown Chicken curry that isn't on the menu we took home, Pilau Rice, Keema Nann
On arriving we had the door opened for us by a waiter. Straight after we informed him that we hadn't booked and it seemed that we may have been in trouble as it seemed to take 5 minutes for the team there to decide if we would be allowed to sit down. Understandable if the restaurant was full but there were maybe 3 other parties in there and it was relatively early in the evening 7.00pm, Friday night, so did seem strange that we wouldn't be able to get a table.
Anyway we were seated and offered drinks and papadoms (70p each, £1.50 for pickles). 3 Kingfishers and 8 Papadoms later we were deciding on what to have for our meal. Forgoing starters as we were all hungry after work we asked the waiter for advice. Steve going first and asking for the the waiters recommendation. This seemed to stump the chap as he paused for a while then mumbled and didn't really give an answer.
My turn was next as I saw two curries in a section called Nappi curries (yes there are jokes to be made) and asked what the flavours were and how they were different. This is as the description for the curry said it was made with herbs and spices to give it a flavour?!? I would paste the description for readers but it's not on the on line menu that I can see. The waiters skilfully infomred me that "It's different" "different how?", "different". This went on for a minute or so until I helped him out by asking if it is hot, sweet, sour? Dry and sour I was told so I went for it asking for it to be hot (as the option for 3 levels of heat was given).
My turn was next as I saw two curries in a section called Nappi curries (yes there are jokes to be made) and asked what the flavours were and how they were different. This is as the description for the curry said it was made with herbs and spices to give it a flavour?!? I would paste the description for readers but it's not on the on line menu that I can see. The waiters skilfully infomred me that "It's different" "different how?", "different". This went on for a minute or so until I helped him out by asking if it is hot, sweet, sour? Dry and sour I was told so I went for it asking for it to be hot (as the option for 3 levels of heat was given).
As the restaurant started to fill up. There was a nice atmosphere with a good mix of people. Looking around the place was clean and well presented with a white theme throughout. It looked like a place you would want to walk in to as we did after Steve eyeballed it from the road.
Food arrived after 15 minutes or so and is pictured above. We all commented on the fact that we had nice big rice portions and that the curry serving were also a fair size with big 'proper' bits of chicken in them.
All curries tasted different to each other and different from their usual counterparts at other restaurants. Whether this makes for a nice surprise or not depends on personal taste but ultimately makes the experience enjoyable regardless as you get a bit of variety in your life and the feeling the chef must have actually paid attention to the menu in order to give the dishes a unique flavour.
Steve was very impressed with the size of his plain nann bread (shown below with a bit taken out). The keema nann and peshwari nann were also a good size with well flavoured fillings.
We finished up the meal and drinks and were provided with our hot towels, chocolates and the bill. The chocolates were orange which Simon and John don't like (mint is always best).
The final tally was £88 for four with drinks being 6 kingfishers (on draught which tasted really nice) and 2 Malibu and coke. This was on par with the Stonehouse area and Gloucester as a whole. We were all full and had the left overs bagged up without issue to enjoy the morning after.
All in all worth a visit just be specific if you ask for any advice.
