The Indian Queen

This restaurant is one of the best I've been to in a long time. The food was amazing and good sized portions, it was all reasonably priced and a good selection. The restaurant was almost full on a Sunday evening with a lot of local people which is a good sign! Nice atmosphere. The service was faultless, everyone was so friendly and obvious they want you to have the best time, they even helped us out, not being local and unable to get a taxi, by giving us a lift back to our hotel a few miles away, everything wasn't any trouble for them. Food, Service and Restaurant are perfection! Well done to all the team, many businesses should take a leaf out of your book!

Our first visit. Great choice of vegie and vegan food. Plenty of meat and chicken dishes, but we stuck to non meat options. Just the right service level. No rushing, no delays, the staff must have been watching. 1830 on a Tuesday and 20 covers already there, so worth booking as popular. Next time we will just have popodoms and mains with sides. Probably the best ever peshwarie naans we have ever eaten. We will be back.

Curry is the nations favourite and I wanted to try out what I have heard refered to as the best curry in Banbury. Location Bit of a drive for this one out to Wroxton area, which on a cold rainy Saturday was not the nicest. But once there the car park is fairly large and the restaurant shines brightly in the dark winter eve. Interior For me, nothing special, the tables are clean and well presented but there wasn't a wow factor on decor. Not bad at all, just not great. We even had a little electric fan behind our table so they must get complaints about the draughts. Service Saturday night is a busy night but we found the entire service to be rather slow, taking a while to order, to clear the Poppadom plates, to serve the mains and eventually clear the mains. It wasn't a disaster but 2 hours for Poppadoms and a main is lengthy. Lucky I loved the company I was with ❤️. The team are however super friendly, welcoming and well presented so apart from beings super busy with all the customers no issue here. Food/drink We had so much food and honestly every dish was amazing and full of flavour. I won't comment on each but we had: Poppadoms & Chutney tray Chicken Tikka Masala - sauce was next level sweet without being sickly Veg masala Lamb rogan josh - a good kick to this and lamb was so tender Chicken korma - I could drink the coconut based sauce Chicken Towa - but dryer but packed with flavour Veg bhuna Saag Paneer - show stealer for me, more sauce than any other I have every had but the spinach and paneer combo with the sauce was just mindblowing! Plain & peshwari naan Drinks Standard drinks menu, we weren't here for the drinks so a pint of Cobra or Kingfisher works nicely Price At under £20 per head including drinks I am not complaining. It isn't winning awards for being cheap but it is for the value of the food vs the cost. Overall A solid curry had by all, the big question about best in Banbury? There are lots of others I have yet to try. I would say this place is up there currently and I will be back again but I am not convinced it's number one just yet!