The Colonial Neutral Bay
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Restaurant menu
Chef's recommendations
- Vegetable samosa
Lightly spiced potato and pea filling wrapped in pastry and served with tamarind sauce
- Onion bhaji
Fritter of onion and shallots served with tamarind sauce
- Panner pakora
Cottage cheese slices deep fried with autentic special spices and chickpea flour
Scores & Reviews
Favourite Indian restaurant in the area. Love the whole English/Indian vibe right down to the way you can order chips with your curry! The service was great. I think all that could be improved upon is the parking. We will be back soon!
Not enough staff as the place was very busy so service was a bit slow to start with but improved towards tge end. The food was good but not great.
The Colonial in Neutral Bay has been our favorite indian restaurant for many years. We especially love their butter chicken, the vegetarian curries (especially eggplant) and the breads. The atmosphere is good and BYO wine is permitted, but they also have a 50% off promotion for drinks bought there including yummy cocktails. Highly recommended.
Everything is great. Especially love the delicious, perfectly cooked, eggplant curry (Baigan Patiala) and the many different naan breads (especially cheese & olive naan). And my son loves the butter chicken. Highly recommended.
Great service and tasty food as usual.
Close to perfection, as good as a great Indian restaurant in a 5 star Mumbai hotel, fantastic curries (loved the eggplant curry & cottage cheese with spinach, and of course butter chicken, with many types of delicious naan). We're regulars of course. Looking forward to next time. Yum!
Very good curry and great service, will return to try more other dishes.
Meals were nice but a bit pricey for Indian food
Amazing food! We keep coming back
The railway goat was tough!
Food tastes amazing & service is great. We went & they had 50% off all drinks excluding cocktails which was great.
Good quality food although the lamb biryani was a bit
Fantastic Indian.. we’ll be back soon!
nice and quiet, good for a casual mid week dinner.
Always good value and good food. My local!
The food was delicious and the service just the right balance of attentive but not too in your face. We didn’t feel rushed which is often the way in other restaurants. It was also very much like an English curry place so top marks for that! We will definitely be back.
Nice food. Service was a little slow.
Delicious food and great service
The biryani was so delicious! We enjoyed our meal!
great service and nice relaxing place for indian food.
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How to get to the restaurant
1 Grosvenor Street, 2089, Neutral Bay, Australia
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About the restaurant
British-Indian Brilliance
The Colonial offers a new kind of dining experience, introducing diners to the flavours of a long forgotten cuisine in India’s North-West Frontier Province. Colonial's interior is ultra-chic - a far cry from your usual Indian take-away and the menu too offers a delicious departure from the ordinary. The cuisine uses a simplistic style of preparation, where chunks of meat, seafood and veg are marinated and cooked in a Clay Tandoor at a high temp. This means they remain succulent and deliciously tender. The rusticness of this fare and the focus of preserving flavour is the highlight of this cuisine. The Colonial revives the age old cuisine and cooking style to bring you an experience which is a feast for the stomach and the soul.
Best Dish: railway goat curry
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