Simla Indian Restaurant
Simla
A family-run Indian restaurant on the Quayside, open since 1981. Known for tandoor dishes and lamb leg curry, with service that is often praised.
Simla is a family restaurant that opened in 1981 on Side, in the Quayside area. It was refurbished in 2016 and now serves modern Indian food, with a menu drawing on classic dishes from across the Indian subcontinent. Signature dishes include tandoor-cooked dishes, gunpowder prawns, Kashmiri lamb leg curry, scallops and Goan fish curry. Malabar chicken and apricot lamb are also recommended. The staff are warm and attentive, and the head waiter is especially popular with diners. Homemade flatbreads and mango chutney are served before the meal. The restaurant won a Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice award for 2025. It gets very busy in the evenings, so book ahead.
Opening hours
Dinner daily (check the website)
Nearby sights
- Newcastle Castle
- St Nicholas Cathedral
- Tyne Bridge
- Laing Art Gallery
- Grey Street & Grey's Monument
- Grainger Market
- The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
- Quayside & Gateshead Millennium Bridge