The Gold Coast’s top five Indian restaurants

Need some spice in your life? We’ve found five of the best Indian restaurants in the Gold Coast ready to excite your tastebuds.

Need some spice in your life? Amber Macpherson has found five of the best Indian restaurants in the Gold Coast ready to excite your tastebuds.

Bombay Cricketers Club

3/49-61 Bells Blvd, Kingscliff

Bombay Cricketers Club modern Indian — the Kingscliff restaurant has welcomed a new chef and a new menu.

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Bombay Cricketers Club has welcomed a new head chef to its kitchen just in time for peak season. “He’ll be working with the amazing team we have there, adding a modern and fresh interpretation of Indian and Sri Lankan food,” Bombay Cricketers Club founder Toby Bamford says. The iconic Kingscliff restaurant is offering a new spring and summer menu, seeing the return of much loved Goan curry, as well as broadening its takeaway offerings. Toby says the restaurant has also secured daily happy hour specials with $10 cocktails and $5 beers.

Bombay Affair

4/20 Scarborough St, Southport

Bombay Affair.

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All aboard the “curry bus” — your free ride to top Indian dining in Southport. Bombay Affair is now offering guests a courtesy bus to and from the restaurant where you can indulge in dishes made from imported Indian spices and an extensive tapas list. Bombay Affair owner Naresh Serai says his diner is the place to experience an authentic butter chicken. “My butter chicken is spicy with no cream and no sugar, which is the way they serve it back home,” owner Naresh Serai says. “We do a huge range of tapas, we also have a wide range of vegetarian options, as well as gluten free naan bread.”

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Indian Empire

3/455 Oxley Drive, Runaway Bay

Indian Empire. Photo: Facebook

Indian Empire is there to match the ultimate curry for your palate. “If someone does like coconut and medium heat, we recommend madras — it’s with coconut cream, milk, and we normally recommend it with lamb,” staff member Pankit Sharma says. Vegetarians are catered for with a number of vegetable-based dishes including the eggplant curry Baingan Masala. As for the spice seekers, Pankit says the vindaloo packs a punch. “A lot of people find it really hot and a lot of people underestimate it,” he says.

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Temple of Spices

2468 Gold Coast Hwy, Mermaid Beach

Temple of Spices.

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This is the Indian restaurant for the cruelty-free consumers with two separate menus. “One is completely vegan, totally plant-based and fresh,” manager Baljeet Singh says. “In the normal Indian menu we use the black angus beef, free range chicken, all the quality spices. We cook everything from scratch in our kitchen.” Beljeet recommends the vegetable korma and vegan butter chicken for herbivores, and the lamb rogan josh for omnivores. “Our dishes are more herb based for the Aussie palate — we use cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaves. fennel, more like sweet style spices.”

Agnee Indian

137 Scottsdale Drive, Robina

Agnee Indian. Photo: Facebook

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Father Inder Jaiswal and his son Arjun worked together to open the popular Agnee Indian restaurant after finding success in their first venue The Indian at Robina Town Centre. The restaurant serves dishes inspired by the northern and southern regions of the motherland, with lavish flavours found in the kormas, goshts and tandoori curries. They specialise in goat dishes including a goat meat curry, ni hari gosht and goat vindaloo. The chicken madras is a top pick, cooked with herbs, spices, coconut milk and cream, while the vegetable jalfrazi is a curry of diced vegetables served in a north Indian style sauce.