Welcome to
Prince of India Restaurant
A very popular Indian Restaurant. The menu specifically focuses on the popular style of UK curries, known as Bangladeshi style British curries.
The Bangladeshi style British curries are popular throughout Britain. The Bangladeshi community have played an important role in UK curries. (See the second section of this page for the Bangladeshi UK curry history).
The restaurant is located just off 30 metres off Pitlochry Main Street on Station Road. Opposite McKays Hotel and Bar, right in the middle of this beautiful Victorian Highland Town.
Open 7 days a week
WINTER OPENING HOURS
The Prince of India Pitlochry is open all year,
7 days a week 2pm to 10.30pm.
Bangladeshi & Indian Cuisine
You will find all the popular Indian continent dishes. Including authentic Balti dishes, Chef’s recommendation, and European dishes (for non-curry eaters in the party). The chef was trained in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Great value 2-course lunch £9.95 and children under 12 eat for £5.95, 12noon to 4pm (2pm winter). Main evening meals are served from 5pm to 10.30pm each night.
10% discount is offered on all Take Away meals. Phone in or drop in, order, and wait for the meal to be prepared. Unfortunately, there is no home delivery service, as there is insufficient demand.
Our Menu
Special Two course lunch
Adult: £9.95 • Children: £5.95
First Course
Chicken Tikka
Pieces of marinated chicken cooked in tandoori owen
Vegetable Pakora
Mixed vegetable
Soup of the Day
Ask about it
Second Course
Chichen Balti
Pieces of marinated chicken cooked in tandoori owen
Chicken Bhuna
Cooked in a medium spice and onion
Chicken Korma
Very mild cooked with cream and coconut
Meat Madras
Fairly hot
Prawn Dhansak
Fairly hot sweet & sour cooked with lentils
Vegetable Dupiaza
Marinated onions & green pepper in a medium sauce
All served with a choice of rice or chips
Homemade
Special Lunch Menu
Adult: £7.95
Children: £7.95
Gallery
History of Curry
History of Curry in the UK and the important part played by Bangladeshi’s.
Although curry is an Indian dish modified for British tastes, it’s so popular that it contributes more than £5bn to the British economy.
1733 – Curry was served in the Norris Street Coffee House in Haymarket.
1747 – The first British cookery book containing an Indian recipe was ‘The Art of Cookery Made Plain & Easy’ by Hannah Glasse.
1810 – The first purely Indian restaurant was the Hindoostanee Coffee House which opened in 1810 near Portman Square, Mayfair. The owner of the restaurant, Sake Dean Mahomed was born in 1759 in present-day Patna, then part of the Bengal, India.
1940s and 1950s – most major Indian restaurants in London employed ex-seamen from Bangladesh, particularly from Syhlet (in the northeast corner of Bangledesh today). Many of these seamen aspired to open a restaurant of their own. After the Second World War, they bought bombed-out chippies and cafes selling curry and rice alongside fish, pies, and chips, which stayed open after 11 pm to catch the after-pub trade.
Eating hot curry after a night out in the pub became a tradition. As customers became increasingly fond of curry, these restaurants discarded British dishes and turned into inexpensive Indian takeaways and eateries.
After 1971 – there was an influx of Bangladeshi immigrants into Britain. Many entered the catering business. According to Peter Groves, co-founder of National Curry Week, “65%-75% of Indian restaurants” in the UK are owned by Bangladeshi immigrants.
