Gate of India in Poole

Lovely meal, friendly staff. Worth noting they weren't serving alcohol but didn't mind us taking some in with us.

Please be aware there is a very creepy waiter called 'Alvin', he asked my daughter and my wife for their telephone numbers whilst I went outside to make a telephone call, its almost 'predatory'. He used to be a taxi driver but he failed the criminal background check?

Amazingly tasty and perfectly priced 10/10 would order from here again!

A real old school traditional curry house. Great menu. Really friendly staff. BYOB. Good value. Probably one of the hottest vindaloos I’ve had! Excellent food. Can get busy on a Friday and Saturday night.

Just had a selection of dishes delivered to try a few new things out with our normals. By far the best indian we have ever had. Literally everything was perfect. One of those meals where you are left like "I need to leave a review!!!"Plus delivery was around 40 minutes so really happy with that aswell.

Fantastic food we love going here for family birthday or just dinner. Very good service and lovely too the children. Lovely.

Great restaurant friendly staff great time bring your own drink as it's not licensed which makes it a fairly cheap night out with co-operative over the road selling beers and wines

Absolutely brilliant, superb food, excellent care of customers. I will return soon, a vindaloo to remember, thanks guys!!

After ordering Chicken Tikka Masala we were served up some white meat/chicken?, that seemed to have been boiled, I swear it never saw tikka spice or a tandoor before it was served to us in a sickly, sweet, vivid red sauce with flecks of coriander. (See photo.)Not to be rude, we tried to eat it but had to send it back and it was replaced with a plain chicken curry. "Can't go wrong there", or so I thought. It seemed to be the very same sort of meat, but in a brown sauce with flecks of coriander.Neither dish had those strong, pungent flavours that come with Indian food.The Garlic Naan was okay, but the ammount of garlic was enough for a side dish. The Tarka Dahl was flovourless and runny. The rice was fine.We were in there early but as we left, the place had filled up. I'm amazed why, if our dishes were typical of the cuisine there.All in all, a meal that lacked a balance of those traditional Indian spices that make Indian food so good.It's a definite 'thumbs down' from us.To end on a positive note though, surprisingly, we weren't ill the next day.

Great service, reasonable prices, family atmosphere and good food