Fantastic Restaurant with authentic cuisine - Great food, very tasty and not your usual run of the mill Indian - it's very friendly and family run and worth a visit of anyones time !

  Authentic delicious taste of South India. - We just visited Richie’s and had the most amazing authentic delicious South Indian food. It reminded us of the food we would eat when we lived in Tamil Nadu a... read more few years ago. We had the Idly, Masala Dosa and chicken Biryani. It was all home cooked and freshly made to order. Flavours were so authentic and so tasty, especially the Idly and Dosa. The service was great and Jothi, front of house, was lovely and friendly. If we are ever visiting on holiday here again then we will definitely be back. Can highly recommend Richie’s if you want a real taste of Tamil Nadu, South India. Thank you for a lovely evening!

  Food and Drink Review - Very Hygienic and Good Food Quality can walk in for the best South Indian food . Owners are the chef here best people ever will treat their customers like family❤️... read more pleased to be there and will visit again very soon.

  Superb, great value, gorgeous flavours, cash only - Fantastic meal, the staff are brilliant.
Other customers are obviously regulars and lovers of traditional Indian cuisine

  Fantastic take away. - Delicious meal
First time to order a take away from Richie’s. We had heard good things.
We chose a set meal.
3 curries and 2 rice, onion bhaji and chapati.... read more /> Excellent.
Great price as well.

  Top Class - This was our second visit to Richies with our friends who were visiting us from the Midlands, Richies did not disappoint, the food was again top class with excellent friendly... read more service and prices. I can highly recommend Richies for excellent Indian cuisine

  MOUTH WATERING, FANTASTIC ! - After having a bad experience at Mahabareth, Bangladeshi owned restaurant the night before (Friday), I really felt we deserved to be treated to a far better meal on Saturday.
... read more /> We found Richie restaurant to have good reviews and responsive to anything of a negative review, which proves they care in the quality of their food and service.

We had the best experience of home style authentic cuisine, with good portion sizes. The flavours were just perfectly spiced. We had fried Cauliflower starters pieces, main course as King Prawn dish, Dosa, boiled rice and chappatti's.

Wish we had discovered this restaurant earlier while visiting Torquay, would have visited much more. The staff were really attentive, and I will never forget the taste of the food. Pleasant small restaurant. Would definitely recommend to anyone and visit again and again.

  Delicious & Authentic Food - We were highly recommended this restaurant at the weekend and were definitely not disappointed. Family run we were given a very warm welcome when we arrived. There’s a great selection... read more of food. We started with a fantastic range of starters to share which were all incredibly tasty including definitely the best onion bhajis I’ve ever tasted. To follow I had a king prawn curry which again was exceptional. We can’t wait to go back!

  Well worth a visit the food is something else very different the favours are amazing the staff a very friendly can’t do enough for you and tell you what the... read more meals are made out of you have to try you want taste anything like it ❤️❤️

  This place never ceases to fail. The food, staff, and value for money are amazing. Been with huge groups and with two or three friends. Suits everyone.

  This is the best Indian food I’ve eaten in the UK. Service was not rushed, we had a wonderful time. The dosa were just like ones we had in Sri... read more Lanka earlier this year. The curries were delicious and the lamb was so tender. If you’re looking for real Indian cooking you have to try this place!

  THE discovery of our recent visit to Torquay. This is a modest looking restaurant at first glance but is nicely appointed. Specialising in South Indian cuisine it provided first class... read more food with different tastes to many other 'Indian' restaurants. Very much a family business, the service like the food was excellent. Highly recommended to anyone who likes Asian food and is looking for something. bit different

  We opted for this restaurant in preference to other Indian restaurants we had seen and were so glad we did. The food and portion sizes were excellent and we were... read more able to try dishes we had never had before.
Great service & friendly staff.

  Fantastic as always. We have been here several times and we always have a great experience, the friends we have taken on a couple of occasions have also thoroughly enjoyed... read more it!
This is the best food and flavour and Jodie is a great host.
Faultless and we are already looking forward to our next visit! Thank you everyone at Richie’s xx

  My wife and I have visited three times in the last month and I'm sure we will be going again this week.

My wife also took a group of... read more friends.

Outstanding food and great service.

They DO NOT do nann bread because their food is Southern Indian.

They do the most amazing parathas though,the food is tasty and not dripping in fat .

Give it a shot ,you won't be disappointed.

  Ignore the negative reviews, this is a gem of a place. Doesn’t look much from the outside but we were greeted with a friendly welcome and a beautiful smile from... read more the Chefs Wife. She explained the menu to us and explained that there may be a time delay as dishes are made fresh. We all chose the heat level of our requested dishes. Although we were a party of 8, dishes arrived at the same time and were amazingly tasty. Heat levels were perfect. Chicken was fresh and didn’t have that rubber texture. Felt like this was a proper family run restaurant. We all said we would return. Give it a try! x

  Fantastic food and a great, friendly and welcoming restaurant.

Great variety on the menu, perfect size portions and the flavours are to die for.
The ability to choose your... read more chosen meal at the spice level you like is also an added bonus and the spicy heat of the dishes were perfect.

Highly recommend giving this family run restaurant your attention.

  Visited the restaurant with my family. The food was amazing! Excellent customer service, the staff went above and beyond. Definitely recommend this restaurant

  Really good South Indian. Lovely food, with interesting dishes and not just your usual curries that you get everywhere. Highly recommend!

  We booked this Indian for a meal based on the trip advisor results, and we weren't disappointed. The food was great. Nice to see home cooking, regional dishes. We both... read more had a South Indian Tamil Nadu curry - mine with small prawns, and my other half had chicken. This was so tasty. Nothing to blow your head off, but a great mix of spices and a rich sauce with it. We also ordered porati (you get three in a portion) these were amazing, the best breads I've ever had in an Indian restaurant. You can tell that there is a lot of love here, and the family are working together to give all their customers a great experience. We're already booked to go back when my parents are here to visit later this month

  The staff, what can be said they are amazing very helpful and telling us thr origins of the food and making suggestions the food was even better we all tried... read more different from our normal and it was amazing the food was so succulent and tasty

  Excellent set meal for 4. Wait time good on a busy Saturday night. We collected so can't comment on delivery service. My lamb madras was really good. However, we are... read more still wondering who got our 4 onion bhajis because we didn't get them We r locals so will be back.

  We have been a few times now to both eat in, and take away, and delivery.
The food is always cooked to order, is delicious and served with a genuine... read more smile.
Highly recommend this stunning Indian restaurant in Torquay.
The Masala Dosa is amazing!

  Ambience was good.staff were very polite.The best thing was the food.It was yummy
the masala dosa and Idlis were fresh and perfectly made

  What a great little restaurant! The staff were so lovely and the food was delicious. My husband ordered the lamb Dosa and thoroughly enjoyed it. I had the Chicken Tikka... read more Masala with vegetable rice which was also delicious. All of the food is cooked fresh but we didn't have to wait long for it to be served. Definitely a fabulous evening

  This little family run restaurant is excellent. The food is cooked to perfection, always served hot and plentiful, and is very reasonable. 10 out of 10

  Not really into Spicy food but have to say the food was cooked to perfection and to the flavour I wanted I had the Lamb Korma and spring rolls and... read more a homemade Yogurt Mint dip even though I was full I was just could not stop eating I definitely will be back

  As Indians who have tried, tasted, and tested foods of various Indian regions and therefore cuisines, we can claim some street cred about (on our own yardstick) what is good... read more Indian food.

As I write this, I acknowledge a slight sense of haughtiness almost like "Anton Ego" (from Pixar's Ratatouille), and have churned through our share of hundreds (if not thousands) of restaurants in our lifetime so far. But very few make you get transported into that warm fuzzy feeling in your heart (kind of like what that ratatouille did to Anton).

Folks, Richie's is a hidden gem, and of all the places one would least expect such a place to be in Torquay. But, by heavens we thank our stars, we are so glad that we found it.

Not only was Riche on dinner plans the third night in succession, but this hat-trick was also broken (sort of) only because Richie's majestic chefs need rest too, and we're closed on the second night we were in Torquay.

Food-wise we tried their Sambar and Tamil Veg Curry, both were stupendously put together with a feast of vegetables that just made the whole thing give you that 'comfort' food feel that you often reminisce from olden days at home. The only minute thing that felt out of order was that the chapatis appeared to be the pre-packaged kind. But other than that, this is the food we would be benchmarking other Indian restaurants for a long time to come.

To further establish how special this was, a testament from my 7yo son sums it up brilliantly. Disclaimer: He is sick of the frequency with which he is exposed to Indian food both at home and at restaurants. However, on this occasion, after the first few bites he declared "This is how Indian food should be", speaks volumes about how good this food was.

Team Richie's ....Take a bow!

Thank you for being a big part of our memory of our visit to Torquay!

At the risk of plagiarising Anton Ego again
It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Richie's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in Torquay. I will be returning to Richie's soon, hungry for more.

  I called Richie Indian Restaurant when we were struggling to find somewhere we could eat. The lady on the phone told us to come and it wasn't a problem at... read more all. Upon arriving we were greeted warmly and it was a pleasant atmosphere. The lady got a highchair for my daughter and interacted with her. The food as a whole was lovely, I had a korma myself and it was great. Great service and great food, would definitely recommend. Will be visiting again next time I am in Torquay. Keep up the good work ☺️

  Unlike about 85% of the “so called Indian restaurants” in the U.K. Richie Indian is the genuine article.
Owned, run and staffed by people from the southern Indian state... read more of Tamil Nadu. Southern Indian food, which also includes the food of Kerala is totally different to the heavy, oily curries you will find in many U.K. restaurants run by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
It is lighter, richer and, in my opinion tastier than the rest. Based as it is on the use of coconut and fresh green chilies the overall result is very much to my taste.
I was fortunate enough to be able to eat Southern Indian food over a period of 23 years when I was working in the Sultanate-of-Oman.
The Richie Indian is a small restaurant in Torquay that has a dedicated following amongst the locals.
The moment we walked in I could smell the difference. I could smell the flavours of my past life.
We were greeted warmly and, even though there were just the two of us, offered a table for four. This gave us plenty of room to stretch out.
Jean ordered a tonic whilst I decided to try a ½ of the Malabar Blonde beer. This is made by the makers of Cobra and is in fact a blonde IPA. It was very tasty and so I ordered another ½.
Jean decided to stick with her “old faithful, Chicken Tikka Biriyani”.
However, I wanted a reminder of the food I had enjoyed on so many occasions when abroad.
So, I was greedy and ordered two main course dishes.
The dishes I ordered were, in my past, actually breakfast dishes but here they were being produced in the evening. No problem with that. I happily ordered the Idli and the Masala Dosa.
Idli are small, steamed, sponge like disks looking like miniature flying saucers. They are served with a bowl of vegetable sambar and a smaller bowl of fresh coconut chutney. For best effect one eats with one’s fingers. Breaking the Idli apart it is dipped in either the sambar or chutney and popped into one’s mouth. Heaven.
The Dosa is a large, thin pancake served wrapped around a large portion of the masala which is in fact a potato curry. Once again fingers are best for the consumption of the dosa. Breaking off a small piece of pancake one makes sure it is wrapped around the potato filling before being dipped in the sambar and/or chutney. Delicious. And, surprisingly filling.
Jeans biriyani was huge, very fragrant and full of small pieces of tender chicken. Jean loved it.
The other thing about this meal was the cost. Surprisingly reasonable.
Tonic = 2.00
Beer = 2.50 x 2
Biryani = 11.50
Idli (4) = 5.99
Masala dosa = 6.00
Total for a very tasty and filling meal. = 30.49
The service was good, waiting staff friendly and efficient.
Many thanks for a lovely birthday meal for me.
Peter & Jean. XXX