Cardamom Black @ The Old Empire Theatre

• Rebecca Habron★ 5/5

  5 months ago

  Loved this place! Atmosphere was ace. Quiet as we came last orders but let us seat just after 9pm, food was HOT, Naga & masala ‘madras hot’ accommodated our requests, food was spot on, beer lively, staff great, food great. We eat a LOT of curry & most of the time it’s not hot for what it says & meat lacks quality. Loved this place. Will return. Thanks guys 5*

• Joey Van Doran★ 5/5

  4 months ago

  Great food, lovely atmosphere, and staff are very attentive. Been twice we will be back. The chicken poppers and pakora starters are delicious. Had a lamb main with bread both also delicious. We will be back.

• Shelan Shah★ 5/5

  9 months ago

  Food was amazing and very flavorful. Service was spot on, and we were treated like family. Will come here again, our favorite Indian food in Harrogate. My wife had the vegetarian thali with vegetarian tacos. I ordered the garlic lamb and chicken sizzler. It was so all so delicious.

• Kevin Stanley★ 5/5

  a year ago

  Excellent Indian restaurant. Really good food. Really friendly staff. Attentive and helpful. Raihan was especially good, helping us to choose the most interesting dishes. The food was well spiced, and the portions were just right. We were visiting Harrogate for our wedding anniversary as we do most years. We've been to loads of Indian restaurants across the country, and this is going straight into our top ten. It's housed in a really interesting building that used to be a theatre. We will definitely go to Cardamon Black again.

• Dawny Watson★ 2/5

  a year ago

  Came here for an engagement celebration 18 of us in total, they put us up in the top right corner on 2 separate tables, it would have been much better if they put the table into a U shape. We sat down around 6, came for the order around 6.30 someone took starters someone else took mains. By 1935 food started to come out, no order at all my mains came first, drunken prawns, the alcohol just swished on my plate and wouldn't light, so it got taken back and brought back out again, where a pathetic flame was present, unfortunately this did not burn off the alcohol sufficiently and a couple of the prawns did not taste great and had a mushy consistency. My starter still hadn't appeared. My friends who ordered the sizzle plate unfortunately had no sizzle and the meat was undercooked. One person ordered the chicken bhuna which was nice but her starter never turned up at all and another ordered onion bahjis but they were frozen in the middle. We had lots of missing dishes and only one person said sorry, they really seemed like they couldn't be bothered.my starter eventually came but it looked very much like my main and tasted very similar again with one of the prawns been a strange consistency. Unfortunately we won't be returning

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