Tale Of Spice
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About Tale Of Spice
Tale Of Spice is an Indian restaurant at 51-52 Castle St in Trowbridge, with a dine-in room where waiters serve the tables. The menu is built around classic curries and house specialities, with the Madras among the named curries. Chicken tikka bhuna sits on the curry list, chicken naga is a named main, and meals come together from popadoms, starters, mains, rice and naan. A set meal for 4 gives a group of four one option to order together.
Good to know
- ReservationsAccepts reservations
- ParkingFree parking lot · Free street parking
- AccessibilityWheelchair: entrance, restroom, seating
- Good for kidsGood for kids
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention chicken tikka bhuna, chicken naga, takeaway orders and set meal for 4.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention chicken tikka bhuna, chicken naga, takeaway orders and set meal for 4.
Customer Review Summary
Takeaway is the most common thread, and reviewers split on it. Several praise a chicken tikka bhuna that arrived boiling hot and early, a large family order handled well, and a takeaway they say matches the quality of the dine-in food. Others single out a chicken naga with big pieces of chicken, generous portions, and a set meal for four that fed six. Staff are repeatedly described as friendly and polite, and one family says the restaurant was great with their two year old. The complaints are serious and cluster around cooked-food quality. One reviewer says a delivered takeaway arrived cold after more than an hour and met attitude on the phone, and says they binned it over worries it was undercooked. Another reports meat that tasted off and a Madras sauce unlike a Madras, followed by illness after that meal and a poor sauce on a second try. A New Year's Eve diner found the food not piping hot during a very busy service, though still tasty. One reviewer found the entrance not very inviting, and a promised twenty minute takeaway was ready on arrival.
Customer Review Summary
Takeaway is the most common thread, and reviewers split on it. Several praise a chicken tikka bhuna that arrived boiling hot and early, a large family order handled well, and a takeaway they say matches the quality of the dine-in food. Others single out a chicken naga with big pieces of chicken, generous portions, and a set meal for four that fed six. Staff are repeatedly described as friendly and polite, and one family says the restaurant was great with their two year old. The complaints are serious and cluster around cooked-food quality. One reviewer says a delivered takeaway arrived cold after more than an hour and met attitude on the phone, and says they binned it over worries it was undercooked. Another reports meat that tasted off and a Madras sauce unlike a Madras, followed by illness after that meal and a poor sauce on a second try. A New Year's Eve diner found the food not piping hot during a very busy service, though still tasty. One reviewer found the entrance not very inviting, and a promised twenty minute takeaway was ready on arrival.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Ordered a takeaway online, arrived before it was supposed to, boiling hot and hands down, the nicest curry we have had in a long long time! Chicken tikka bhuna was full of flavour and chicken was beautifully tender. Highly recommend and WILL be returning! Thank you”
- Google user
“Takeaway from here was phenomenal. We had quite a large order for the whole family, and tale of spice did a phenomenal job. Great selection of food and drink to mix and match. Portion sizes are decent and priced reasonably.”
- Google user
“We went to this restaurant for the first time last night and had a fabulous meal, all three of us. The waiters were all really friendly, polite and attentive. The restaurant was spotlessly clean and looked really inviting. We had popadoms a couple of starters and 3 mains, rice a nan. My chicken naga was excellent with loads of big pieces of chicken and my friends all looked to be the same, all really tasty and big portions. We will definitely go back and would highly recommended.”
- Google user
“That's two bad meals on the trot. I have used A Tale of Spice a lot over the years and regularly. But the last two meals have been terrible, a Tuesday night a couple of weeks ago the meat was off and the Madras sauce was nothing like Madras and then thought I would try them once more, meat was not off but the sauce yuk. I don't know if they have a new Chef but it is poor won't be using them again made me ill on the Tuesday meal and this one is just poor but hopefully won't be I'll 🤞”
- Google user
“This is the only Indian in Trowbridge worth talking about. Food is incredible, staff are friendly and polite and the Atmosphere is warm and welcoming. The take away food is exactly the same quality as what you get in the restraunt. 5 stars all over.”
Highlights
“A wide range of classic curries and house specialities in a simply styled restaurant, plus takeaway.”
- Great dessert
- Great wine list
- Popular for dinner
- Popular for solo dining
Amenities
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
- Free parking lot
- Accepts reservations
- No-contact delivery
- Takeout
- Dine-in
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- Good for kids
- Bar onsite
- Cozy
- Beer
- Coffee
- Late-night food
- Dining options· 4
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Dessert
- Table service
- Accessibility· 2
- Wheelchair accessible restroom
- Wheelchair accessible seating
- Parking· 1
- Free street parking
- Offerings· 3
- Alcohol
- Hard liquor
- Wine
- Popular for· 1
- Solo dining
- Atmosphere· 2
- Casual
- Romantic
- Planning· 1
- Dinner reservations recommended
- Service options· 1
- Delivery
- Highlights· 2
- Great dessert
- Great wine list
- Facilities· 2
- Gender-neutral restroom
- Restroom
- Crowd· 1
- Groups