Curry Cafe

Out of everything we tried, the only thing worth coming for was the tandoori chicken. It was the perfect combination of great Indian flavour and great barbecue. The only reason to eat here but it’s reason enough.

Convenient curry sure, destination restaurant not so much. I have lived in Westgarth and had fine mid week housemate dinners here… when we were over every other restaurant.
The décor is hanging on to 90’s artfully dishevelled laminex furniture and mis match chairs. I usually order the lamb saag, butter chicken or chicken vindaloo. The food is good and relatively inexpensive with mains around $ 13 and naan for $ 2. You can split a few mains + rice + naan and get away around $ 16 each.
Westgarth is kinda white and I think thats where the lack of authenticity fellow reviewers mention stems from, it caters to white customers.

The curries here are good, not great. There’s something lacking in the authenticity of the place also, like it’s a bunch of hippies that think they can make a few curries, so it kind of lacks an Indian-​ness that I look for in my curry houses.
In fact, maybe it’s the concept of a curry ‘café’ here that rings strange to me. It’s not that I’ve got anything against either of those things, but ‘café’ to me indicates coffee and somehow coffee and curry are, and should remain, mutually exclusive in my mind.
Gripes aside, I can’t recall having a bad experience here, though none have been memorable. Really, though I’ve eaten here plenty of times while waiting for the movie, I don’t remember a damn thing good or bad. Maybe this joint is some kind of alien brain sucker? Or maybe it’s just a bit plain.

I am so ambivalent towards this place I almost find it hard to write a review. I am a massive fan of curry and I just find this place all too lacking in the intense spicy flavour that any good curry should have. Don’t get me wrong — the food at the Curry Café isn’t bad, it is just that it doesn’t exactly have me coming back for more.
The rice is also a weird yellow colour — which is not that abnormal considering the wide use of spices such as tumeric and saffron in Indian cuisine, but it just tastes weird like maybe it just has yellow food colouring in it or something, or maybe it’s the fact that they don’t use basmati rice?
The vibe inside the Curry Café is really nice and relaxed. So if you are looking for a few beers and a relaxed dining experience with some friends then it isn’t a bad option. Just don’t expect to be wowed by the food.

An artful little Indian café located within Westgarth shops, the Curry Café is a good, if not excellent bet for — you guessed it — curry. Serving a wide variety of traditional Indian Curries, Curry Café is friendly, the value excellent and, provided you order your food carefully, pretty damn good.
When I first visited the Curry Café I was under the impression that every single patron had ordered grated carrot to accompany their meal. Not so, Curry Café’s distinctively orange rice immediately marks this place out as a quirky — or ‘retro style’ according to its owners — little Indian restaurant with a menu taking in all of the old curry favourites.
My favourite dish? Curry Café’s Chicken Makhani — or butter chicken — a steal at $ 13 considering the portion sizes and more than enough to share between two. Curry Café does seem to have its own take on the Indian classics with a smokey flavour pervading almost all of the dishes on offer. Definitely worth a try to see if said smokiness is your culinary curry thing. A very good value local Indian.