Glasgow · 2026 city guide
Glasgow's Indian restaurant scene spans the city's famous curry-house tradition and a newer generation of regional and contemporary cooking. These picks move from South Indian dosa and Kerala seafood to Nepalese momo, Indian and Persian charcoal grills and modern fine dining.
Our Glasgow guide brings together 12 restaurants across the city centre, Merchant City, West End, Finnieston and Southside.
Central Glasgow
Fine dining, South Indian specialists, regional cooking and Glasgow curry-house favourites all sit within a compact central cluster.
Ingram Street · Merchant City G1
Swadish brings contemporary Indian technique to Scottish produce, with a menu that moves confidently through seafood, game and carefully built regional flavours. It is the most overtly fine-dining restaurant in this Glasgow selection, but the cooking remains rooted in recognisable Indian spice profiles.
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King Street · Merchant City G1
Kinara is particularly strong when the menu turns towards coastal cooking, seafood and the tandoor. There is plenty here for diners who want a polished modern Indian restaurant, but the regional detail gives the menu much more personality than a standard city-centre curry house.
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Albion Street · Merchant City G1
Madha bridges North and South Indian cooking particularly well. Kerala seafood and banana-leaf dishes sit alongside tandoor cooking and a broad North Indian repertoire, making this one of the most wide-ranging menus in the central Glasgow group.
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Stockwell Street · City Centre G1
Madras Cafe combines a substantial South Indian and seafood offering with a broad curry menu. Soft-shell crab, monkfish and coastal flavours give the restaurant far more character than its familiar city-centre setting might suggest.
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St Vincent Street · City Centre G2
Madurai is a contemporary South Indian restaurant with a fully gluten-free kitchen and a menu built around dosa, seafood, grills, biryani and coconut-led curries. It gives the city-centre selection a clear specialist option without becoming inaccessible to diners who simply want bold, comforting Indian food.
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Candleriggs · Merchant City G1
KoolBa stands out for the way Punjabi Indian cooking shares the menu with Persian dishes and charcoal-grilled kebabs. The charcoal grill and Persian side of the menu are what make it particularly distinctive within the Merchant City group.
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West Glasgow
Long-established Glasgow names sit alongside street food and contemporary cooking around Finnieston, Partick, Hillhead and Kelvinbridge.
Argyle Street · Finnieston G3
Mother India's Cafe remains one of Glasgow's essential Indian addresses, built around smaller plates that let a table move between seafood, meat curries and regional dishes. The sharing format makes it especially easy to explore several different styles of cooking in one meal.
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Ashton Lane · Hillhead G12
Ashoka is the most traditional curry-house inclusion in the West End group, and that is part of its appeal. Its Ashton Lane location has long been a familiar Glasgow dining address, but the menu still rewards looking towards its dosa, seafood and speciality dishes.
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Partick Bridge Street · Partick G11
Rickshaw & Co focuses on Indian and Bangladeshi street food, making it a useful change of pace from the curry houses around it. Chaat, buns, grills and sharing plates are the reason to come, with enough larger dishes on the menu to turn a run of snacks into a full meal.
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Lansdowne Crescent · Kelvinbridge G20
The Lansdowne has developed into a broad modern Indian restaurant where seafood and regional dishes sit comfortably beside Glasgow curry-house favourites. It works equally well for someone ordering crab and monkfish or someone who would rather stay with butter chicken, jalfrezi or rogan josh.
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South Glasgow
Shawlands adds both Nepalese cooking and a tighter home-style Indian approach, while keeping plenty of familiar curry-house choices available.
Kilmarnock Road · Shawlands G41
Himalayan Dine gives the Southside selection a strong Nepalese dimension while still retaining the breadth of a neighbourhood curry house. Momos and Nepalese chilli dishes are the clearest reason to look beyond the more familiar side of the menu.
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Skirving Street · Shawlands G41
The Indian on Skirving Street keeps its menu deliberately tighter than the conventional neighbourhood curry house, with an emphasis on home-style sharing, Punjabi cooking and a short run of seafood and tandoor dishes.
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Award-winning restaurants
Other Indian restaurants across Glasgow have also received recognition from established national and Scottish restaurant awards.
2026 · MICHELIN Guide
Paisley Road West · Cardonald G52
Angeethi by Sagar Massey was awarded a Bib Gourmand in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide.
2026 · Spice Awards
Trongate · Glasgow G1
Charcoals was named Scotland's Best Curry at the 2026 Spice Awards.
Indian food in Glasgow
Glasgow's curry-house culture still matters, and traditional curry-house cooking remains an important part of the city's Indian restaurant scene.
That familiar side of Glasgow now sits beside Kerala seafood, South Indian dosa, Nepalese momo, Bangladeshi street food, Indian and Persian charcoal cooking and restaurants using Scottish produce in much more contemporary ways.
How we choose: Curry House Guide considers public reputation, review depth, food-hygiene standards and what is distinctive about the food. Restaurants cannot pay to qualify for inclusion.
Selection and restaurant details last checked: November 2026.