Helmsley Spice in Ryedale

Extremely friendly service good menu really tasty food and value for money

Friendly and attentive service in cosy friendly atmosphere, traditional surroundings and clean dining area. Low beams in this old building give some character and set it apart from other Indian restaurants. Busy Friday night at 2030 with many takeaways flying out, some of which I heard had been mixed up and orders were coming back. No such problems in the restaurant as all meals came out in good time.Food is excellent. Just really nice, fresh, non too spicya (curry, peshwari nan, onion bhaji, pilau) with cold cobra in large 660ml bottles.About average on price. £40 for two curries, 2 rice, 1 nan bread, onion bhaji, 4 poppadoms and pickle tray. £20 for 2 bottles of large and 2 bottles of small cobra.

Be warned they only take cash. I drove 20mins to get this after putting in a phone order and didn’t take my atm card. Would be helpful if they mentioned it when you call to place the order!Food smelled lovely though.

Overall, it is worth a visit, but there was a few not so good points for us.We had to wait an hour to actually start eating. Starting from 10 minutes when they forgot to give us a menu.Ordering food we were said that the recent Putin's business means their suppliers raised prices and lamb is sold at king prawn's values. The place is surrounded with the fields of lamb but ok. My husband used it as opportunity to choose king prawns, but I like the taste of lamb, so chose that. And judging how hard it was, it was born well before Putin. Don't order lamb.Order more poppadoms, because they are served with a _lot of tasty sauce.Except of the truly horrible Captain's Choice with lamb, the rest of the food was delicious. See the video I attached with sizzling plates!The first waiter, who forgot to give us the menu, quietly moved. The other guy was very smiley and served us really well, so got good tip :) Great management.We came in just before 7pm and got a table without booking. In 20minutes the restaurant was packed. I saw a few people waiting for takeaways, sitting on chairs in main hall among the eaters. They mentioned 15 people pre-booked this rather small place (by the way -mind the wooden beams!). Do book your table early. And, probably, look elsewhere if you are concerned about Covid.

Been here a few times and always a good curry. Everyone in our party commented on the quality of the food. It misses out of the five star as its cash only and although the staff were really helpful, they were overstretched when we were in resulting in slower than average service.

Take a way meal. Brilliant, freshly cooked and not expensive. Highly recommended.

Excellent meal. Good sized portion. Very Tasty

We had an absolutely marvellous takeaway from here tonight. The menu is wide and varied with an adventurous mix of flavours and the portions are large.This is probably the best takeaway meal we have ever had.Strongly recommended

Our take away (which we picked up ourselves) was delicious and excellent value - portions were very generous and the spice level was quite restrained. The lamb done in honey and cinnamon was especially tasty. Recommended.

Great meal, fresh and well prepared food. Menu selection seems too big, but all our food was quite distinct in it's taste and representative of the description. Good service and real value for money.