Our favourite Indian restaurant in the Wiltshire area. They are always very friendly and you can…read moreorder ahead online to pick up at a time that suits you, which is great. We've tried various curries and sides from here, including the korma, butter chicken, rogan, jalfrazi, biryani, veggie curry, sag aloo, and a few different naans. No complaints about any of the flavours with these curries! Their peshwari naan is packed with coconut and sultanas and goes really well with the more mild curries. They usually give us extra papadoms when we order them too. For takeaway, I'd recommend booking online if you want to eat early as they are often very busy at opening. We will continuing being regulars here!

A cold, wet, windy October night I was on the hunt of something warm, filling and tasty to eat…read more Enter stage left the Tale of Spice. And old pub converted into this fabulous Indian restaurant and takeaway. A full car park which is always a good sign, diners packed into the dining room noshing away at bowls of golden curry, fluffy rice and fresh crisp naan breads. There where four of us and we had booked because quite honestly you have to. I'd be very surprised if you got a table if you'd just walked in off the street. Again another very good sign. We where greeted by a friendly member of staff and shown to our table. Drinks orders where taken and poppadoms brought to the table. The pickles that accompanied the poppadoms where delicious. Not too sure if they where made in house or not I'm guessing not, but either way they tasted good. We did have starters and with quite an extensive collection there is a lot to choose from. I had the king prawn butterfly. A deliciously perfectly cooked king prawn fried in golden breadcrumbs and served with a small side salad. For the curry then, I had a lamb rogan josh. Quite a mild dish with only a little spice added. To accompany that I had a keema rice and a couple of chapattis. The rice dish is enough for two to share as the curry itself is quite filling. But it was a lovely accompaniment. Not too overpowering with the spiced meat and not too overloaded with onion they got the balance just right. The rogan josh was delightful. It's the first time I've had it and I was impressed. Delicately flavoured and packed with tomato and onion. The sauce was really tasty there just wasn't enough of it to dip the bread in. The meat itself was nice a little tough for my liking but still very nice. The chapattis where beautifully cooked, fresh and hot strait out of the tandoor they where perfect. Not too small you think what's the point. And not too bit you think what am I going to do with this? The meal was finished off nicely with complimentary liquors. We decided not to go for dessert because we'd had such a good meal there was no more room. The service in this restaurant is very good. The staff are friendly, polite and helpful. They are only to happy to recommend a dish to you especially if you a first time curry eater. The restaurant itself is very contemporary, spacious and inviting. I'd highly recommend this place to any curry lover or someone who wants to go to a curry house for the first time. I shall definitely be going back in the not to distant future.

We ordered a takeaway by phone, then I went round to pick it up and get a discount. It was ready…read morebagged when I arrived, but then I was a bit slow! Still piping hot when I got it back to the parents though When we opened up we at first though there'd been a mistake and we'd been given soup! A couple of the dishes appeared at first sight to be all liquid and no solids. It did turn out that there was stuff down the bottom but then some alarm was caused by there being half bananas in one of the dishes. My mum had chosen mild dishes for the sake of a none-adventurous diner, but that much banana in a savoury was a little much for them! To be fair, having got over these problems, the food was reasonably tasty. Nothing actually not nice, and the Bombay potato was rather good. All that sauce went nicely with the pilau rice and naan. Very reasonable priced too. If there was somewhere better locally, I'd probably choose it. But I wouldn't be too unhappy to eat from here again either. Hence an 'OK' 3 stars. Not bad, not good, just average.

This is by far my favourite Indian restaurant by far in the UK. The menu has all the usual dishes…read moreplus some actually specialities. All delicious. The atmosphere is very relaxing and the staff are very polite and efficient. The restaurant itself is a little out of the way at Foxhill, but being in the middle of the countryside in the converted Sheppard's Rest pub is half the charm. I would recommend this to anyone or any occasion.

This is some of the best Indian food I have ever had, and I've had a lot of Indian food. The…read morerestaurant is very nice, inside and out. The ambience is definitely upscale. You can smell the delicious food as soon as you enter. Everything we tried was absolutely delicious. We had four different main dishes to share. We chose one butter chicken, the lamb, beef, and vegetarian peas and mushrooms. The sauces are freshly made, and totally distinct from one another. The garlic naan was fantastic with actual chunks of garlic on the exterior. The food was beautifully prepared and served. The service was great. It was mid week and they were not super busy, but the servers were attentive yet not hovering. Drinks were refilled properly, menu suggestions were totally on point, and the food came out coursed as needed. I would highly recommend this restaurant. Ask for dish suggestions, and enjoy!

This s really excellent dining in Indian/Asian Fusian (read that Thai) fashion. I thought it was a…read morepub and drove right by, but no it is a fine restaurant manned by folks who know their way around a kitchen. It is not quite a "100 Foot Journey", but it is an interesting combination of excellent Indian, some Thai, a great bar, a charming host, thoughtful servers, Movenpick ice cream, 1oo% fresh ingredients in everything and some standard English deserts mixed with their own creatons from India. We started with six beautifully fried Asian fish cakes with a mildly spicy/sweet dipping sauce and then had a big, thick salmon steak with a reduction of soy, miso, chilli, spring onions and ginger. It worked so beautifully that I gobbled 1/4 of my companion's fish.I wanted the Korma which was a rich blend of vegetables, heavy cream, coconut milk, almond, and yoghurt served with a light pilaf. Our desert was Gulab Jamun (milk solids from freshly curdled milk and rich rich rich vanilla ice cream dotted with a fruit sauc and mint. They had my favorite sparkling water, Badoit, which is something I always have trouble finding. All this with a beautiful decor to boot, puts them on my list.

Food was amazing! Service was a bit more leisurely than we usually like but it was a lovely evening.read more

The reason this restaurant doesn't have many ratings is because Europeans post to Trip Advisor, not…read moreto Yelp. Hopefully Americans will see this post and realize that. On Trip Advisor, this restaurant had over 230 ratings with a rating of 4.5/5. My wife and I had the Chicken Masala, a chicken curry dish, a cauliflower potato veggie, and a coconut and almond naan- Peshwari Naan. And it was all excellent. Give this restaurant a chance. They have friendly, great service with delicious food. It was a welcome change from the "typical" English food that we had eaten while in London.

We didn't book but were offered a choice of table and it was perfectly placed near the front…read morewindow. The restaurant is beautiful and immaculate. The staff were all very attentive and helpful. Food was amazing. We have eaten at lots of Indian restaurants and this one shines above the rest. There were tea light warmers to keep the food hot and it was all served piping hot in copper bowls. Plenty of sauce and rice served with our meals. The naan were slightly dry but still good. A glass of wine was £3.75 and tasted fine. They brought us over a drink of our choice on the house after we had paid the bill. We had a whiskey, baileys, a coke and a lemonade. Very kind and polite. Highly recommend.

I thoroughly enjoyed this Indian Restaurant. I am not a Swindon regular at all, this was my first…read moretime. But the food was delicious, large drinks selection, an over abundant amount of choices on a vast set of menus. But overall standard things like Biryani, Tikka Marsalla and lots of Curry options. Basically very traditional fare. I chose the Lamb rubbed in Tikka in the Balti style. The deep black pan makes for a rich , reduced sauce that has plenty of tomato and rich chilies that come on slowly. Good stuff. I tried for the first time a Cobra beer, which as the story goes is a bit ale-smooth but still very refreshing for taking the heat off of a curry. For dessert I tried the Mango Tropical which was a layer of dairy (frozen yogurt?) with mango ice cream. It was all frozen including the fruits on top. This was a slight disappointment. Overall this place is a winner, and provides great service, a classy ambience and so many meal options.

Second night in a row that I let Mr. Snarky suggest a dining establishment and he came up with The…read morePalm. He had been here before and thought it was quite good, so why not?! It is about a 30 minute drive from the west part of Swindon and it really is in the middle of nowhere. When we were driving through Marlborough, we just kept driving through. We nearly missed the turn in as it is next to an old gas (sorry... petrol) station and if you turn too early you will end up there. So keep an eye out! When we pulled in the car park was almost full... and it was a week night. If you keep driving to the very back there is usually some parking available. The restaurant is quite modern and upscale looking. Make sure you go through the second door behind the desk and computer as I'm not sure that any of the wait staff would know you are out there. The staff are extremely friendly and hospitable. They were bringing out cakes and singing happy birthday to various groups... so it looks like a popular place for the birthday dinner. I had a bit of trouble with the menu... 1) because I'm not that knowledgeable about Indian food/curries and 2) because there were so many choices that I was having trouble narrowing things down. As we were waiting one of the staff asked us if we would like Poppadoms and some relishes, so we did. They were lovely, but they do cost extra. Because of that we decided to forego starters (didn't want to be too full for the main), although there were about two pages of starters that all sounded wonderful. The mains are broken up by house specials, new dishes, Tandoori Dishes, Seafood, and a section of the "usual" dishes. The dishes do have a spiciness rating, but I didn't see anything that said you could ask to have the spice tailored to your liking, so you may want to ask. They also have an option where the chef creates a dish for you with your preferences. A nice option for the adventurous or the undecided. I may have had a bit more difficulty as well since it seemed like there were a number of dishes containing cream and while my lactose intolerance can tolerate a small amount of dairy, I never know how much dairy is being used and a 30 minute drive with not much on the side of the road was too much of a gamble. Lactards beware! I ended up having the Garlic Chilli Lamb with Pilau Rice and a side of Tarka Dhall (entirely too much food, but now we know). Mr. Snarky had the Chicken Tikka Masala with Garlic Naan and a side of Sag Aloo. Shortly after our order was put in, lots of dishes came out... too many for the table really. The Garlic Chilli Lamb did have one pepper next to it on the menu, so I knew it would be a bit spicy... it was a little bit spicier than I anticipated, however, it was absolutely delicious! And the Garlic Sauce that came with it was amazing and I could have had a bowl of steamed rice covered in that sauce and I would have been happy. The lamb was so tender and even Mr. Snarky thought it was a great dish, despite the heat. In hind sight I would have ordered the white, steamed rice instead of the Pilau as I couldn't taste much of it because of the Garlic Chilli Lamb. The Tarka Dhall was nice, but not my favourite Dhall. It is a good thing that Mr. Snarky did have a side because unlike the large heaping plate of Garlic Chilli I ordered, there wasn't much Chicken in the Chicken Tikka Masala. So that was a little disappointing as I had too much and he had too little... although between the two of us, he did have other options to choose from. The Sag Aloo was very nice... never had it before, but I quite liked it. We ended up spending just over £40, but considering the amount of food we ordered, that wasn't a big surprise. The food was delicious, the service was wonderful... we can't wait to come back and try more of the dishes!

This is in the middle of nowhere! Friends recommended this place, but if we had just turned up we'd…read morehave kept going. It's very unprepossessing but the interior is a vast improvement. There is a huge menu a minority given over to old favourites and the rest to dishes you won't see often elsewhere. Starters range from £4-7 and mains from c.£8-13. Interestingly the dishes are rated by spiciness except the starters, so ask before you order. The staff are really friendly and the food is good. I had the freshwater baby lobster and it was delicious. Lots of fish dishes on the menu, but desserts are your standard pre-made icecreams etc. Very busy and quite loud and with the ubiquitous huddle of smokers out front you have to fight through.

First time visiting this restaurant. I got a takeout for 4 of us and it was excellent. We had…read morelamb bhuna , chicken korma , chicken bhuna and lamb korma. Lots of meat and the sauces were exquisite. The rices and breads were also excellent. The greeting on entering the restaurant was first rate with three people there to greet and two behind the counter. Though we didnt eat in the restaurant it looked very clean and the conversations at the tables were muted by the soft surface in the room. As one of our party is in a wheelchair they commented that they were equipped for guests with disabilities as a number of their regular guests were in this category. Overall my impression of the restaurant make me want to return to enjoy their offerings.

Best Indian I've ever tasted and everyone else I went with agreed. The staff there are caring and…read moreengage in conversation, and the restaurant has a very classy, clean look. Would definitely recommend!

Excellent service! We had the chicken biryani and the Goa fish curry. Both were delicious!!…read moreEveryone around us seemed to really enjoy their meals. We would definitely recommend this restaurant

This place was lovely. Very clean, but the magic was in the dishes. Spice balance just what I would…read moreexpect from a fine UK indian food experience. The highlight was the fresh butter naan. Freshly baked and just the right balance of chewy crispy and buttery. Made my day! You won't be disappointed.