Great food and service. Best Indian food & dining experience thus far visiting Cambridge.

The best Indian restaurant in Cambridge! Tried 4 different dishes all excellent. The bread and rice were super tasty as was the chicken and lam. Super service. read more

An absolute travesty. We walked in with only one table occupied and were served two tables afterwards. I suspect it had something to do with us being tourists. Either way we had to beg for water. Once the food finally arrived, it was overly spiced. So essentially, don't waste your money. read more

An wide range of Indian types from all over the country. The jalafreshi was just spicy enough, tikka just right. The chutney and pompadums were perfect. Not neo. Not reimagined. Just good Indiana food. read more

Ok, being a fan of spicy food, I have been sorely missing it in the UK. However, the very nice folk at Curry King were able to meet my needs--with fantastic food. I am a fan. I got a dish that was marked "hot" on the menu. It was hot--for most people (my S/O thought it was a bit too spicy). But I have other tastes. So I asked them for some chili peppers, or to make it spicier. They brought out some naga pickle chili sauce, which was amazing. Seriously, this stuff was like candy to me. I loved it. They told me it was what they usually eat with their food, and I can completely understand why. Yum! For service, it was fantastic. I met my waiter, who is getting his masters degree while his wife and child are back in the states--best of luck to him! The manager gave me his personal email address in case I can't find the naga pickle sauce back in the states, so he could ship some to me. It was their last jar, or he would have given me some. When I come back to Cambridge, this will be a stop. The food is great Indian, and the service really puts it over the top. And, yes, after my searching, someone finally gets what "hot" means. :) Fantastic! read more

Though hidden in the back of that dark brick mini-mall in Cambridge right by the Cam, this place is kind of amazing. The (anything) Korma is the best thing everrr. Except maybe the tikka masala at the Maharajah up the street. If you're a curry newbie (or, say, an American learning British culture one baby step at a time), get the Korma and have your life changed. read more

Can't say I understand the higher reviews here. Maybe it did use to be worse, but coming in with no history, it's not great. First, the place smells like Indian food. There are certain kinds of atmospheres where I'll take that burden of additional laundry, but not at a sit-down place with tablecloths and priced accordingly. Second, the food wasn't anything special. It was all edible, but I wouldn't even say this was a viable place to go if I had a craving for Indian food. The mango lassi was particularly disappointing. The pompadum was pretty good, but you don't go to a restaurant just for that. Finally, the CD player kept skipping. End of story. read more

Being as I am from Glasgow I know I can be a bit harsh on Indians in the rest of the UK, but I don't feel it's particularly harsh to say that the Curry King wasn't a good experience. Firstly the decor, I'm not picky but the room was very brightly lit and seemed to have been furnished with cast offs from a convention centre. Secondly there appeared to be an incredibly loud party going on in the back alleyway, however the staff seemed okay with leaving the back door and alley open the whole time. Lastly, but not least, the food. I ordered a Lamb Madras, which when it arrived was only small chunks of lamb in a very mild, runny, tepid sauce. The only redeeming feature was that the paratha was well cooked and seasoned, and the chutneys were good. I recommend avoiding unless you have a very sensitive palate and appreciate a blander curry. read more

The Curry King. I should have known by the name that it is not a high quality place. Ok, the food is good. But the atmosphere isn't. The staff we experienced seems unmotivated. Used minimum words. Non unfriendly, but a certain amount of enthusiasm is just part of the job. So either bad mood or just not the right person for the job. We met the owner too. Nice guy, but we only saw him when it was time to pay. Location of the restaurant is central, but in an ugly side street. The decoration itself was very average, actually the ceiling was just like the one I remember from high school (with the panels), so made a pretty poor atmosphere. A pint of Kingfisher was 3.50 and curries around 8 pounds. Not sure but I guess average prices. Again the food was alright, but I will not go here again. read more

Came on a Sunday evening a few weekends ago. It was strangely deserted - our group was the only party in the restaurant at around 7 PM. Very weird... but one of our friends had already vouched for the place, so I wasn't too put off by the emptiness. The menu is absolutely ENORMOUS, but thankfully it is well-organized. Being over-confident about my spiciness tolerance and untrusting of English standards of spiciness (I chalk it up to being Chinese and having lived in New York) I was sure I could handle the spiciest thing on the menu, so I pointed to the vindaloo (the menu warns in no uncertain terms that it is "VERY, VERY SPICY") and said, "I'll take the lamb. I can handle it." Holy shit. It was, as promised, VERY VERY SPICY. A bowl of raita wasn't enough to save my taste buds. But. It was DELICIOUS! I'd give it four stars, but the only reason I deducted one more star was because it wasn't clear that they were going to charge us for all the poppadom that we didn't order at the beginning. (We ate it anyway, because, well, it was just sitting there, and we were hungry..) The service was attentive and polite otherwise, but I just don't like sneaky practices like foisting appetizers onto you and then charging for them. read more

The Curry King is my favorite Indian restaurant in Cambridge. The food is outstanding and seasoned perfectly! The restaurant is a bit hard to find since it is down a small roadway off Bridge street but well worth the effort. 5 stars! read more

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Great, delicious curry! It's kindof hidden from the Main Street, but don't be afraid to look for it. The menu is very extensive and descriptive. Be careful about ordering dishes described as moderately spicy; to the lightweight, they can still pack quite a punch. read more

Curry King - Ground floor - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, CAM

Ha, I love that the Bay Areans have taken over the reviews for this restaurant. I'll be direct: the food is VERY good and reasonably priced. I had the lamb rogan, garlic naan, and a half-pint of Kingfisher. Everything was extremely fresh and flavorful. The menu offered plenty of choices and was very descriptive. I'm looking forward to going back. I might go back only in takeout form, though, because the service was rough. I was seated, then not acknowledged for close to twenty minutes. The food came in decent time, but my request for a glass of water took a long time and had to be repeated. When I asked for the check, I again waited for 10-15 minutes before finally getting up, standing at the front, and asking to pay. This was on a weeknight at about 9 PM, so although they were fairly busy, it wasn't exactly prime time. So, in future, my goal will be to enjoy their food without dealing with their shoddy service. read more

A group of my friends made a reservation for 25 people for dinner. It took over an hour to serve our food and half an hour after our food was served we were asked to leave the restaurant because another group was waiting to be seated. The waiter was extremely rude and even asked us to please hurry up already and leave because "the people waiting were getting cold outside". Really! Furthermore the waiter used very insulting and explicit verbal insults as we were leaving the restaurant (He actually used the f*** word!) He even went as fat as to follow us out of the restaurant where he continued his tirade. I have never been so angry! This was SOOO unprofessional! Please join me in never going to this restaurant! It was a truly horrible experience! read more

Delicious! Apparently this place used to be kind of grungy and "drunk food", but it's under new management and really, really tasty. Very friendly and prompt service, all-around great food. The chicken korma was stand-out amazing; next time I'll order two to eat and one to go. They have a variety of different types of curries from all regions of India and tasty breads. Sadly, they only had ice cream - no traditional Indian desserts. read more

I wish I could give it a lower number of stars. That would still be more than this place deserves. Anyways, storytime. We walk in for a rather large birthday party for a friend of mine. There's about 23ish of us, about half girls, half guys, and I'm definitely the biggest guy at the table, which will be relevant later. They seat us upstairs on a long table, and eventually they get around to start serving drinks. So far so good. Then they take forever and nothing really happens. Turns out they were making us wait because they had another party of like 100 people which they did not have the foresight to plan around. So after having sat at our table for about 45 minutes, they kicked us off of our table and downstairs to a table with less than the required number of chairs, such that some of us stood and then eventually squeezed much too tightly around a table. This so they could seat this other group in our place. Still not the worst, but we weren't off to a good start. Food was alright, but nothing to write home about. Here's where we get to the fun part. I'm the biggest guy at the table by far, and I had two beers, meaning I 100 percent ordered more than anyone else at the table, a fact confirmed by our group. I order 18 pounds worth, and tacking on the mandatory 10 percent gratuity for the dodgy service, which we all paid anyways, as we weren't going to make a fuss at our friend's birthday, we count up what we paid for, I pay 20, and everyone else pays their share plus extra, which came out to 16 pounds a person averaged over the table, and we accept that. I counted the money placed on the counter myself, and it was all there. Some people only had water and a single rice and curry dish, but we all paid more than we owed to make the bill come out well. They then come out and say we owe them 140 more pounds. That's an extra 6 pounds for each of us across the table. We ask to see how they came to that number. They produced a barely legible script which would make a doctor blush, and showed us the unitemized receipts produced when each of us individually came up and paid, expecting that to be some sort of proof their math was right. They took these back after about 10 seconds to glance at them; I have a masters in physics, but no one could check their math in that time. They wanted us to pay their extra money and leave. The guy behind the counter says "maybe you ordered more beers than you think." Respectfully sir, those beers were 3.50 pounds. Unless one of us downed 40 beers, died from alcohol poisoning, and we just left them there, I don't think that's a plausible explanation. This place outright robbed us, which I heard from later stories is a common occurrence around this place. We could do nothing because they did not produce a legible itemized receipt for us to compare against, and demanded the money from us without possible recourse. Moral of the story, meh food and outright robbery await you at this fine establishment. read more

Well, I have to confess that I am absolutely astounded by Foodie F's review. My wife and I live near Peterborough and over many years we have eaten lunch at The Curry King whenever we have visited Cambridge. We have always, repeat always found the staff pleasant and friendly and the food among the best Indian in this general area. After all, we wouldn't keep going back again and again if we didn't like it! I just wonder whether Foodie F might have some kind of a problem with his or her behaviour in public. Just a guess! And no, I have no connection with The Curry King except as a fully satisfied customer of long standing. Bernard Watson (aged 82) read more

On our first visit to Cambridge, my sister and I had a craving for Indian food. We stumbled upon Curry King in a side alley, which should have been our 1st clue. We were barely greeted when we entered. It was more like a snort of derision that we received from what we were to learn later was the manager of the place. We began with a pint of beer each and poppadoms. When it came to the main meal, our server spent 10 minutes trying to convince us to order more food than we had. We both have small appetites, and insisted that we'd order more food later if required. The manager then came along and spent another 10 minutes to convince us. When we stood our ground, they walked away clearly miffed. When the meal arrived, I asked for mint chutney, which was just a bowl of yoghurt. I thought they'd misunderstood, so i queried it and they insisted it was what I'd requested. The real issue began when the bill arrived. They'd added £5 of discretionary service charge - for just 2 diners. I asked our server to remove that from the bill, and he called the manager, who insisted that I had to pay it. When I tried to explain to him that we'd been badgered through the visit, he refused to take it off. My sister told me to just pay up and leave. I asked to pay by my card, and he said he could not bring the terminal to my table. So I walked with him behind the bar. While we waiting for the payment to go through, I began to talk to him about where he was from and how the food in South Asia differs from country to country. As soon as the payment terminal came to life and the payment from my card was confirmed, this manager let loose on me. He stepped up closer to me, within inches from my face and started shouting obscenities. He told us that we were loose women because we'd had a pint each. Told me to leave his restaurant. I stood my ground and told him that I'd merely refused to order more food in as polite a way as I could. He would not listen, even raised his hand at me threatening to hit me. My sister managed to pull my card out of his terminal and as the rest of the staff apologized and begged us to leave, this man went and opened the door for us. As soon as I walked past him, he spat in my face and told me never to come back. I have never felt so violated and insulted in my life. I did report this to the Cambridge Police and the London Police. However, I heard back from a very disinterested officer 2 months later that this horrible man had pleaded not guilty (of course!) and wanted to take this to court. I'm a busy person and really did not want to meet this man again. So I dropped the case. It's been a whole year since the incident and I have visited Cambridge several times since then, but have avoided the Curry King side of town. read more

BEWARE - Verbally abusive service. A large group of us arrived at the restaurant. Those who were not eating, maybe 3 out of 25 people were charged 5 pounds to sit down. We were rushed through dinner, and told we needed to hurry and leave after perhaps and hour and a half, most of which was spent waiting for food. As we were leaving, the waiter was complaining about how slow we were. When confronted, he verbally assaulted us, using extremely offensive language, and nearly physically assaulted two members of our group. The waiter in question actually followed us out of the restaurant to pick a fight. From the moment we walked in the door we were treated with utter disrespect. I have never been so insulted in my life. Please, join me in never patronizing this restaurant. read more

The staff (1 male waiter in particular) were extremely rude, impolite, unhelpful and completely put me off the place for life.

The Curry King is a little hard to find, being off a passageway leading from Bridge Street. But it's a very welcoming and spacious Indian restaurant with an extensive menu of generous, well-prepared dishes, with very friendly service not under any pressure of time. Prices are reasonable over a good range-in all it's a very comfortable place, enjoyable and relaxed. read more

I visited this restaurant today with my wife for our anniversary dinner and we couldn't ask for any where better than this place.Very tasty and generous quantity food. We loved the samosa and ordered it twice. Potato Stuffed Indian Bread( Aloo Parota and chicken dhanshak is highly recommended), Staff are very welcoming and provide good customer service.Would definitely recommend it and visit again in the near future. read more