26 Swinegate
York
YO1 8AZ
Opening hours
Open 7 days a week
including Bank Holidays
Sunday to Thursday
12 - 2:30pm Lunch
5:30pm - 12:00am Evening
Friday & Saturday
12 - 2:30pm Lunch
5:30pm - 12:30am Evening
About Us
When The Indian Lounge opened in 2008, it was our mission to provide a superior indian dining experience by offering dishes which were more focussed on rich flavours than hot spices, set against the contemporary background of a modern restaurant.
The restaurant is open 7 days a week and if you are looking for a great alternative venue for a party, birthday or engagement party, we will be happy to cater for your requirements.
A review from The Press had this to say about The Indian Lounge:
"I WAS watching a television news item last week and apparently it is an old wives’ tales that a curry will fend off an attack of the lurgy.
Personally I take such scientific research with a pinch of salt, or should that be saffron? Whatever, I was harbouring a sniffle and a cough when I visited The Indian Lounge in Swinegate and was looking forward to having my ailments purged by some exotically spiced delights.
York curry aficionados may know The Indian Lounge’s owner and manager Rubel Choudry who was at Kings Ransom for 14 years. Rubel’s new venture opened five weeks ago. It’s where Vanilla Black, the vegetarian restaurant, used to be. Billed as “a superior Indian dining experience”, it is perhaps pitched more at the pre-theatre crowd than the post-pub rabble.
At first glance, the inside could be any modem restaurant. It is all neutral colours, dimmed ceiling lights, veneer flooring and cream linen table cloths but a flat-screen TV at the back of the room was showing Bollywood movies. The Redhead was glad to be facing the window instead and I would have been happier if the TV had been tuned to Indian Premier League cricket, or indeed not there at all.
We hadn’t bothered to book a table, confident that the restaurant wouldn’t be at capacity, as we were going early doors on a Tuesday evening. Our hunch was correct, there was only one other diner when we arrived, and we had the full attention of the friendly and courteous staff who would all pass GCSE Smiling with an A-Star grade...
I can still taste a myriad of spices as I write this, three hours after eating, and the irksome little virus seems cured.
Maybe the old wives (whoever they are) were right after all and it is the scientists that have got it wrong? So next time you feel a bug coming on I can recommend a few courses of treatment in The Indian Lounge." Read the full review on The Press website.
We look forward to serving you an opulent taste of India.
The Indian Lounge Team
