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Now enjoy the best value south Indian street food in Edinburgh.
We listen to our valued customers. We now have the feedback from those who had tasted our introductory mini street food menu. As a result, we are glad to announce that we are replacing our existing menu with the brand-new street food menu.
This menu is truly inspired by the streets of south India from the southernmost state of Kerala to Andhra Pradesh. We have carefully crafted our menu to truly reflect the street food culture of that region. The flavours, the spice mix, texture and taste of our dishes stand out as they are not the usual curries that normally influenced by the north India region and even by other neighbouring countries.
The new menu will be available from 1st of August 2021 for both dine in and takeaway.
The southern region of India is a mystical place with tranquil backwaters, exquisite cuisine and haven of wonders. We are the best Indian Restaurant in Edinburgh, and are now expanding to include South Indian cuisine in our menu to comply with the requests of our growing clientele. The South Indian cuisine includes delights and savouries from Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
As for the best south indian street food, each of these states have their unique culture and style that’s reflected in their cuisine. For example, Andhra is noted for red hot chilli flavours, Kannadigas love to include a konkan flavour in their foods, Tamilians have a myriad variety of vegetarian and non-veg dishes, and their curd rice acts as a finishing dish, and nobody can resist the Kerala flavours in all their glory.
We explore the best in these cuisines and create an exact version to enrich the palettes of our customers. Try our bespoke cooking style, and enjoy the culinary skills of our expert chefs.
We have special preparations to make the famous south indian street food in Edinburgh taste even greater.
You must try the wonders we do with rice. Rice is a main ingredient in all our cuisines, and we prepare different rice dishes using coconut, tamarind, chillies, fenugreek seeds, urad dal, tamarind, curry leaves and more.
The best thing about South Indian dishes is its nutritional balance. So apart from the awesome rice dishes that we prepare, there are highly delicious healthy dishes that our customers would love. The visual appeal of our cuisine is another aspect that they love. All the dishes are prepared and displayed with visually enhancing culinary delights and served with great value and respect.
Check out the best south indian street food on our menu.
WELCOME
Dining at Nilgiri
We have safely reopened our restaurant for dine-in services in Edinburgh. The Scottish government's strategy for the Coronavirus pandemic mitigation is in place to make sure your time with us will be safe and enjoyable. Stay home if unwell, wear mask whenever not seated, use sanitisers, wash your hands, keep safe distance. Booking online will help us more organised to serve you better. Visit us for the best Indian dishes in Edinburgh. Most of our vegetarian dishes are Vegan friendly too.
We realize that when you are eating at a well known chain restaurant you may be supporting a local chef, waiters and possible owner and that is good. However, when you choose to eat at a small local restaurant such as Nilgiri Spice your support goes much deeper. At Nilgiri Spice, we buy local meat, we use local bakeries, fresh markets, fisherman, breweries, distilleries and many more. This statement goes for a lot of small businesses not just ours. If you want to truly support local, think about where they get their entire product from and stop in and pay us a visit. Please feel free to share our post with your family and friends and while you are at it let them know we have online takeaway or delivery via www.nilgirispice.co.uk we are open from Monday - Sunday. We would love to have your support, we've missed you!
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BEHIND THE SCENES
The Team
As a team our priority is to make sure our customers are as comfortable as possible from the very moment they step in to our restaurant until their departure with a very satisfied smile on their face. Attention to detail, timely service in the most pleasant way to make sure our customers keep coming back to us whenever they think about south Indian dining. We would love to walk those extra miles to keep you happy at our place!
"An Immediate Favourite
A recent find, although I had already heard a lot of good things about this warm, welcoming and well situated South Keralan restaurant in its previous guise as Mezbaan, in the Tolcross area of Edinburgh..."
ScotlandBlossom
"Delicious South Indian food. I’m from Chennai and loved this food."
Ashwin Muthiah
"Authentic South Indian experience
Food was excellent with a wide range of options and a range of spice levels. There was something for all of us, including my 4 year old daughter who doesn’t handle spicy food, and me who love the heat. It was refreshing not to have standard base sauce in different dishes, but each of them freshly made. There is a selection of dishes which you don’t find usually in South Indian restaurants in Edinburgh. Staff are very friendly. If you want an authentic South Indian experience, this is the place."
Odyssey420890
"Trying something new
This restaurant specialises in South Indian food. I never realised how different this would be from the curry I buy in the Midlands.
There is lots of fish and vegetarian choices, in fact they account for half the menu.
The staff are very attentive and very helpful, as they should be.
I had a Chicken Nilgiri Chef’s Special.
The sauce has such a great flavour, which the menu states that it is prepared using 21 spices.
This is a new place and is well worth a visit.
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Thargon
"Fantastic Indian restaurant
We are a group of six guys who meet up every month for an Indian. This is by far the best Indian Restaurant in Edinburgh we have eaten in for a long while.It has a fantastic menu and service s extremely friendly, courteous and very efficient .The food i superb and very varied. Would strongly recommend and will definitely be returning soon. Trying their carryout tonight!"
Billy2707
"Superb Indian restaurant! Such a gem of a place to eat. Visiting Edinburgh fringe with friends and we saw this restaurant purely accidentally when we were looking for something to eat. "
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Private Dining
For large group booking, the Main Dining Room can accommodate up to 30 plus guests and a secondary sitting area can accommodate 15 guests. Please contact the restaurant to arrange booking for larger groups. Reservations are available online 6 weeks before the date of the reservation.
Private Events
Looking for an ideal venue? Look no further. Corporate dinners, special occasions, Chef’s Table, let us handle your needs. Reservations are available online 6 weeks before the date of the reservation.
Book A Table
Please book at least 24 hours prior to your visit. If you are booking for the same day, please phone us on 0131 229 5578. Kindly return your table after 1.5 hours (2 hours if it's for a special occasion. Terms applied).
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