Kahani Indian Restaurant is a contemporary Indian dining room at 10 Antigua Street in Edinburgh. Located a short walk from the Playhouse and St James Quarter, it offers a friendly setting for a casual lunch, pre-theatre meal, dinner or larger celebration.
Indian street food gives the menu a lively opening, with vegetable pakora and other smaller plates designed for sharing. The tandoor brings char and spice to chicken, lamb chops and further grilled dishes, while kitchen favourites include butter chicken and chicken tikka masala.
Biryani provides a fragrant rice based main, and the wider curry selection gives diners different combinations of meat, seafood and vegetables. Lunch, thali and pre-theatre menus offer more structured ways to sample the cooking, with breads, rice and accompaniments completing the meal.
Kahani welcomes families and groups and can host events or provide catering beyond the restaurant. The kitchen handles peanuts, tree nuts, soy, dairy, eggs, wheat, shellfish and fish, so guests with allergies should consult the current allergen chart and alert their server before ordering.
Address: 10 Antigua Street, Edinburgh EH1 3NH, Scotland
Kahani Indian Restaurant Menu
Traditional Starters
Old School Vegetable Pakora
Potato and onion coated in gram and self-raising flour, served with chilli or meat sauce. V 🌶️
Onion Bhaji
Traditional recipe of green chilli, gram flour and garam masala. V 🌶️
Vegetable Samosa
Pastry parcel stuffed with potatoes and green peas. V 🌶️
Fish Pakora
Marinated white fish in a crisp gram flour batter. 🌶️
Chicken Pakora
Strips of chicken filler marinated, battered and deep-fried. 🌶️
Signature Starters
Chutney Paneer Tikka
Chargrilled Homemade cheese marinated with fresh mint, green chilli, carom seeds and ginger garlic. V 🌶️🌶️
Stuffed Tandoori Mushroom
Stuffed with cheese and chopped spices. Cooked in the clay oven. V 🌶️🌶️
Badal Jaam
Grilled aubergine topped with tomato masala, cheese, celery and cumin flavoured yoghurt. V 🌶️
Aloo & Chana Chaat
Spiced potato and chickpea with a mint, tamarind, yoghurt, and Sweet chilli dressing. V 🌶️🌶️
Pakora Chaat
Vegetable pakora with spiced chickpea, mint, yoghurt, tamarind and sweet chilli dressing. V 🌶️🌶️
Veg Samosa Chaat
Crushed samosa with spiced chickpea, mint, tamarind, yoghurt, and sweet chilli dressing. V 🌶️🌶️
Crispy Chilli Squid
Marinated with crushed chilli and freshly ground spice. 🌶️🌶️
Achari Salmon
Marinated with yoghurt, ginger, chilli and home-made pickle. 🌶️
Pepper Monkfish Tikka
Monkfish marinated with cheese, yoghurt and crushed black pepper. 🌶️🌶️
Prawn Kolhapuri
Marinated with curry leaves, cumin and a crisp chickpea flour coating. 🌶️🌶️
Tandoori King Prawn
King prawns marinated with mustard, fresh green chilli, ginger, garlic and soft cheese. 🌶️🌶️
Hyderabadi Chicken Tikka
Boneless chicken marinated with yoghurt, garlic, ginger and deggi mirch. 🌶️
Mango Chicken Tikka
Chicken breast marinated with ginger, garlic, green chilli and hint of mango. 🌶️
Dohra Seekh
Chicken and lamb mince infused with garlic, ginger and freshly ground spices. 🌶️🌶️
Tandoori Lamb Chops
Marinated with honey and fresh green chilli. Served with Green chutney. 🌶️🌶️
Tandoori Grill
Triple Platter Starter (serves 2)
Aloo and Chana Chaat, Chicken Pakora & Chilli Squid. 🌶️🌶️
Chutney Paneer Tikka
Chargrilled Homemade cheese marinated with fresh mint, green chilli, carom seeds and ginger garlic. V 🌶️🌶️
Pepper Monkfish Tikka
Monkfish marinated with cheese, yoghurt and crushed black pepper. 🌶️🌶️
Tandoori King Prawn
King prawns marinated with mustard, fresh green chilli, ginger, garlic and soft cheese. 🌶️🌶️
Hyderabadi Chicken Tikka
Boneless chicken marinated with yoghurt, garlic, ginger and deggi mirch. 🌶️
Mango Chicken Tikka
Chicken breast marinated with ginger, garlic, green chilli and a hint of mango. 🌶️
Kahani’s Mixed Grill
A mixed platter of chicken tikka, prawn, lamb chop and seekh kebab. 🌶️🌶️
Lamb Shank
Marinated lamb finished off in tandoori (true Punjabi speciality). 🌶️🌶️
Lamb Chops
Marinated with honey and fresh green chilli. Served with Green chutney. 🌶️🌶️
Seafood Curries
Home Style Fish Curry
Cooked with tomato, onion, garlic, ginger & cumin. 🌶️
South Indian Monkfish curry
Coconut, onion and tomato sauce tempered with mustard seeds. 🌶️🌶️🌶️
King Prawn Karahi
King Prawn cooked in caramelised onions, tomatoes, bell pepper, fresh green chilli and ginger. 🌶️🌶️
Seafood Moilee
Squid, scallop, monkfish, mussel and prawn cooked in a coconut and cream based sauce (South Indian favourite). 🌶️
Chicken Curries
All dishes £14.95
Chicken Korma
Mildly spiced chicken cooked with tomato onion, cashew nuts, almond and coconut with fresh cream to finish.
Butter Chicken
Chicken tikka cooked in a tomato based gravy enriched with fresh cream, cashew nuts and honey. 🌶️
Chicken Jalfrezi
Chicken tossed with julienne of ginger, tomato and bell peppers in a tangy sauce tempered with carom seeds. 🌶️🌶️
Chicken Karahi
Chicken breast cooked in caramelised onions, tomatoes, bell pepper, fresh green chilli, garlic and ginger. 🌶️🌶️
Chicken Tikka Masala
Charcoal grilled chicken breast with chopped onions, tomatoes, cashew nuts and fresh cream. 🌶️🌶️
Chicken Saag
Spinach based chicken curry cooked with aromatic spices. 🌶️🌶️
Homestyle Chicken Curry
Chicken (off the bone) made with plum tomatoes, onions and roast cumin. Make it your own by adding either potato, mushrooms or green peas. 🌶️🌶️ (+70p per addition)
Dhaba Murg Chicken Curry
Traditional slow cooked chicken on the bone curry. Make it your own by adding either potato, mushrooms or green peas. 🌶️🌶️ (+70p per addition)
South Indian Garlic Chilli Chicken
Chicken marinated with garlic, chilli, curry leaf and coconut. 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Murg Achari
Chicken cooked with onion, tomatoes & pickling spices. 🌶️🌶️
Lamb Curries
All dishes £15.95
Lamb Karahi
Delicately cooked in caramelised onions, tomatoes, bell pepper, fresh green chilli, garlic and ginger. 🌶️🌶️
Lamb Jalfrezi
Julienne of ginger, tomato and bell peppers in a tangy sauce tempered with carom seeds. 🌶️🌶️
Old School Lamb Curry
Simple by today’s standards, but 60 years ago this dish was a revelation to the good folks of Edinburgh. Slow cooked lamb with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic and lots of love. 🌶️🌶️
Lamb Korma
Mildly spiced lamb cooked with tomato, onion, cashew nuts, almond and cooked with fresh cream to finish.
Lamb Saag
Cooked with aromatic spices and infused in a sauce made with fresh spinach, garlic and tempering of cumin. 🌶️🌶️
Punjabi Gosht (on the bone)
Traditional home-style cooking. Make it your own by adding either potato, mushroom or green peas. 🌶️🌶️ (+70p per addition)
Kodambakkam Curry
Fresh coconut, panch puran (5 spices) finished with cream. If you have been to South India you will know this dish, if not, now is your chance. 🌶️🌶️
Lamb Makhanwala
A staple Indian dish with a smooth and velvety vine tomato, cashew nuts, honey and cream based sauce. 🌶️
Keema Mattar
Fresh minced lamb cooked with onion, tomatoes, ginger and garlic along with green peas, garam masala and a touch of green chilli. 🌶️🌶️
Vegetable Dishes
Main £12.50, Side £7.95
Achari Aloo
Potatoes are cooked with onions, tomatoes & pickling spices. 🌶️🌶️
Paneer Karahi
Fresh homemade cheese cooked with bell pepper, onion and tomato. 🌶️🌶️
Chana Masala
Chickpeas, tomatoes and onions with a tempering of cumin. 🌶️🌶️
Dal Makhani
Whole black lentils cooked overnight on a very slow heat, finished with churned butter and fresh cream. 🌶️
Dal Tarka
Spiced yellow lentil tempered with onions, garlic and fresh coriander. 🌶️
Gobhi Aloo
Cauliflower and potato cooked with a tomato based sauce. 🌶️🌶️
Brinjal Masala
Aubergine in an onion and tomato based sauce. 🌶️🌶️
Mushroom Bhaji
Spiced mushroom curry with onion, tomato, ginger and garlic. 🌶️🌶️
Mixed Vegetable Takatak
Seasonal vegetable marinated and cooked on the griddle with onion, tomato and chaat masala. 🌶️🌶️
Paneer Butter Masala
A spicy dish with homemade cheese cubed, cashew nuts, cooked in a warming tomato masala sauce. 🌶️
Mattar (Green Peas)
A curry with green pea and your choice of aloo (Potato), paneer (homemade cheese) or mushroom. Finished wish cashew nuts and onion tomato sauce. 🌶️🌶️
Saag (Spinach)
A spinach, garlic and tempered cumin sauce with your Choice of aloo (potato), paneer (homemade cheese) or mushroom. 🌶️🌶️
Paneer Makhani
Homemade Indian cheese cooked in a tomato based gravy with cream, cashew nuts, and honey. 🌶️
Hyderabadi Biryani
Aromatic basmati rice served with a sauce and raita.
Vegetable Biryani
Chicken Biryani
Goat Biryani
Lamb Biryani
Prawn Biryani
Paneer Biryani
Rice
Basmati Rice
Pilau Rice
Mushroom Rice
Keema Rice
Biryani Rice
Breads
Plain Naan
Garlic Naan
Butter Naan
Peshwari Naan
Cheese Naan
Keema Naan
Tandoori Roti
Butter Roti
Chapati
Butter Chapati
Tawa Paratha
Accompaniments
Poppadom
Pickle Tray
An assortment of pickles and chutney’s, perfect for poppadoms.
Cucumber Raita
Apple & Mint Raita
Mango Chutney
Onion Chutney
Pickle (Achar)
Kahani Onion
Onions in chilli vinegar.
Green Salad
Onion Salad
Chips
Lunch Menu
Available 12pm-3pm. Two course £15.95, Three course £17.95. Includes pre-starter of Poppadoms & Chutney.
Vegetable Pakora
Julienne of vegetables in a crisp batter coating with ground spices. v
Chicken Pakora
Marinated chicken in a crisp gram flour batter
Fish Pakora
Marinated white fish in a crisp gram flour batter
Lamb Seekh Kebab
Spiced mince chicken and lamb, cooked in the tandoor
Chicken Karahi
Cooked with onion, pepper and tomatoes
Chicken Korma
Chicken breast with tomato, onion, almond and coconut with a touch of cream
Chicken Tikka Masala
Charcoal-grilled chicken tikka cooked with tomato, onions, cashew nuts and cream
Lamb Jalfrezi
Julienne of ginger, tomato and bell peppers in a tangy sauce
Old School Lamb Curry
Slow cooked lamb with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic and made with lots of love!
Paneer Kadhai
Homemade cottage cheese cooked with pepper, onion and tomato
Gobhi Aloo
Cauliflower and potato cooked with a tomato based sauce
Dal Tarka
Spiced yellow lentil tempered with onion,garlic and fresh coriander
Boiled Rice
Pilau Rice
Plain Naan
Garlic Naan
Kheer
Ice Cream
Tea/Coffee
Pre-Theatre Menu
£21.95 per person. Includes pre-starter of Poppadoms & Chutney.
Vegetable Pakora
Julienne of vegetables in a crisp batter coating with ground spices. v
Chicken Pakora
Marinated chicken in a crisp gram flour batter
Onion Bhaji
Traditional recipe of green chilli, gram flour and garam masala. v
Fish Pakora
Marinated white fish in a crisp gram flour batter
Seekh Kebab
Spiced mince chicken and lamb, cooked in the tandoor
Chilli Squid
Marinated with crushed chilli and fresh ground spices
Chicken Karahi
Cooked with onion, pepper and tomatoes
Chicken Korma
Chicken breast with tomato, onion, almond and coconut with a touch of cream
Chicken Tikka Masala
Charcoal-grilled chicken tikka cooked with tomato, onions, cashew nuts and cream
Lamb Jalfrezi
Julienne of ginger, tomato and bell peppers in a tangy sauce
Old School Lamb Curry
Slow cooked lamb with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic and made with lots of love!
Vegetable Korma
Almond and coconut cream based gravy. v
Tadka Dal
Spiced yellow lentils, tempered with onion, garlic and fresh coriander. v
Vegetable Tak-a-Tak
Seasonal vegetables marinated and cooked on the griddle with onion, tomato and chaat masala. v
Boiled Rice
Pilau Rice
Plain Naan
Garlic Naan
Kids Menu
£9.50. Includes choice of dessert (ice cream) and drink.
Any Curry With Chips
Chicken Nuggets With Chips
Chicken Pakora With Chips
Grilled Chicken With Chips/Rice
Fish Pakora With Chips
Chicken Tikka With Chips/Rice
Vegetable Biryani
Aromatic basmati rice with fresh vegetables
Kids Drinks
Caprisun
Appletizer
Apple Juice
Orange Juice
White Wine
Available in 175ml, 250ml, and Bottle sizes where indicated.
Pinot Grigio, Bella Modella Abruzzo (Italy)
A beautifully light, vibrant white to be appreciated for its zesty citrus character and refreshing acidity.
Chardonnay, Costa Vera Indómita (Chile)
Creamy texture and tropical fruit with a zingy lemon finish.
Sauvignon Blanc, Orée Sauvage Languedoc (France)
A rich, textured white that carries a long and vibrant mineral dry finish.
Chenin Blanc- Viognier Lo & Behold (South Africa)
Ripe tropical fruit characteristics and citrus.
Red Wine
Available in 175ml, 250ml, and Bottle sizes where indicated.
Merlot, Costa Vera Indómita (Chile)
Soft, super juicy, ripe plummy fruit with a long full flavoured finish.
The Wrong ‘Un Shiraz/Cabernet One Chain (Australia)
Lush black fruits with touches of woodspice and cassis.
Magnífico Tempranillo, Luis Marin Aragón (Spain)
Strawberry fruit with notes of plum, fresh fig and purity.
Malbec Santuario Mendoza (Argentina)
Plum, blueberry and blackcurrant with plenty of complexity and a harmonious finish
Beers & Ciders
Kingfisher Lager
Bombay Bicycle IPA
Cobra Bottle 620ml
Magners Cider
Liqueurs (25ml)
5WALLA Chai Liqueur
Frangelico
Kahlúa
Baileys
Malts & Cognac (25ml)
Amrut (Indian Single Malt)
Highland Park 12 Year
Hennessy VSOP
Glenfiddich 12 Year
Mocktails & Shakes
Peach Cooler
Muddled lime wedges with mint, shaken with peach purée and topped with apple juice.
Anardana Punch
Pomegranate, grenadine and lychee juice muddled with mint leaves, served over ice.
Mojito (Lime / Mango / Pineapple)
Lime wedges muddled with mint and flavoured with lime, mango or pineapple.