Scene One — The Idea

Every good film starts with an idea scribbled on a napkin. Ours started with a spice box, a rented kitchen, and a stubborn belief that dinner should feel like the best three hours of Hindi cinema — loud, warm, a little over-the-top, and impossible to forget. What began as one tandoor and a handful of family recipes has grown into a full production. The recipes haven't changed. Only the audience has.

Scene Two — The Kitchen

Indian Cooking, Adelaide Table

Taste of Bollywood is an Indian restaurant and bar on Port Road, Hindmarsh, built around a simple idea: the food of India deserves the same drama as its cinema. Rich, generous, unhurried — and always meant to be shared.

Our kitchen cooks the classics properly. Whole spices are dry-roasted and ground in house. Curries are built on slow-cooked onion and tomato masalas rather than shortcuts. The tandoor runs hot all evening for breads and skewers, and the biryani is layered and sealed so the rice takes on the spice as it steams. From the north come the creamy, buttery gravies; from the south and the coast, lighter, sharper, chilli-forward dishes. Vegetarian plates get the same attention as everything else, never treated as an afterthought.

The Bollywood theme is more than decoration — it sets the pace of a night here. Warm light, colour, music, and a room that fills with conversation. Come for an early family dinner, settle in with friends over drinks and small plates from the bar, or take the whole production home with one of our take-away deals.

Cooked From Scratch

Spices ground in house, masalas simmered slowly, breads pulled fresh from the tandoor to order.

Family Recipes

Dishes carried from home kitchens across India, kept close to the way they were first taught.

Made For Sharing

Generous plates built for the middle of the table — order a spread and pass it around.

Dine In Or Take Away

A full bar and dining room in Hindmarsh, plus boxed take-away deals ready any night of the week.

We don't just serve dinner. We roll the opening credits, dim the lights, and ask you to stay for the whole film.

— The Kitchen

The Final Scene

Written by Tradition

Directed by Flavour

Starring You

A Taste of Bollywood Production