Aberdeen · 2026 city guide
Aberdeen has an unusually varied Indian dining scene for a city of its size. Kerala and South Indian cooking sit alongside Nepalese dishes, Delhi street food, polished contemporary dining and a long-established Bangladeshi restaurant with strong family roots. These five restaurants show the range particularly well.
Five independent recommendations across Aberdeen.
Aberdeen city guide
The strongest choices stretch from Union Street and the city centre to Bridge of Don, with each restaurant bringing a clear regional or stylistic identity of its own.
Holburn Street · City Centre
Travancore gives Aberdeen one of its clearest regional Indian identities, with Kerala cooking at the centre of the experience. Dosa, uthappam, seafood and coconut-led dishes make it an easy choice for diners who want to move well beyond the standard curry-house repertoire.
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Union Street · City Centre
8848 combines Indian and Nepalese cooking in a polished Union Street setting. The menu moves confidently between tandoor cooking, Himalayan flavours and richer curry dishes, giving the restaurant enough range for both a casual dinner and a more occasion-led meal.
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Bridge Street · City Centre
Namaste Delhi is built around sharing, with Indian tapas and street-food dishes giving the restaurant a different rhythm from a conventional starter-and-curry meal. Delhi and North Indian flavours are especially strong, with plenty of vegetarian dishes that work well across a table.
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Balgownie Road · Bridge of Don
Mythri brings one of the broadest menus in the guide, but its South Indian dishes are the strongest reason to visit. Dosas, kothu parotta and Kerala-style curries sit alongside the restaurant's more familiar North Indian choices, making it useful for mixed groups without losing its regional interest.
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Rose Street · City Centre
Shahbaaz has decades of history in Aberdeen, but the current restaurant is especially interesting for the family story behind it. Owner Anis Ahmed traces the dining room's greenery back to his parents' fish farm in the Sylhet countryside, while the food takes inspiration from his mother's home cooking and gives it a contemporary edge.
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Award-recognised restaurants
Separate from Curry House Guide's five recommendations above, these Aberdeen restaurants have received recent recognition from third-party hospitality and curry-industry awards.
2025 · Asian Restaurant Awards
Rose Street · City Centre
Named a 2025 Asian Restaurant of the Year winner for Aberdeenshire, adding to a long run of recognition for the Rose Street restaurant.
2025 · Scottish Asian Food Awards
King Street · Aberdeen
Won Pakistani Restaurant of the Year and Asian Takeaway & Home Delivery of the Year at the 2025 Scottish Asian Food Awards.
Indian food in Aberdeen
Aberdeen's Indian restaurants are concentrated around the city centre, but the strongest choices are not all doing the same thing. Holburn Street brings Kerala cooking, Union Street adds a polished Indian and Nepalese restaurant, Bridge Street brings Delhi-inspired sharing food, and Bridge of Don adds another strong South Indian option.
Shahbaaz gives the guide a different kind of depth, combining a long Aberdeen history with Bangladeshi family influences and a menu that is particularly interesting when it turns towards seafood and Bengali flavours.
How we choose: Curry House Guide considers public reputation, review depth, current food-hygiene standards and what is distinctive about the food. In Scotland, qualifying restaurants must hold the appropriate current Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass. Restaurants cannot pay to qualify for inclusion.
Selection and restaurant details last checked: November 2026.