The Blue Mountains runs on ski hills, chalets, and the menus that follow a day on the slopes — wings by the fire, a burger, a plate of nachos. The Indian Spice Restaurant & Bar answers that corridor with a tandoor, a rack of clay-oven breads, and a full bar pouring cocktails, lassi, and spiced mocktails. Started by three Indian-food enthusiasts who wanted a proper Indian kitchen where the area didn't have one, it sits along Grey County Road 19 in Craigleith and reaches across North Indian comfort cooking and Indo-Chinese heat without thinning out in either direction.
The cooking runs on specifics. Butter Chicken begins with boneless chicken in a yogurt marinade, finishes in the tandoor, and arrives in a creamy tomato sauce rounded with fenugreek. Chicken Tikka Masala takes the same clay-oven route before its masala sauce; Chicken Vindaloo goes the other direction, Goan-style, hot and sour and built on pickle-style spices. The breads come from that same oven — Garlic Naan blistered fine, Amritsari Kulcha stuffed and served alongside chickpeas. Order a curry and a bread together and the kitchen's centre of gravity shows: the tandoor does the defining work, from the marinated meats to the breads blistered against its walls.
The menu has enough range to move from Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani into Honey Chilly Cauliflower, Vegetable Manchurian, momos, chaat, tandoor breads, mocktails, and bar service.
Reservations, a full menu, bar service, and a tourist-destination identity make the restaurant useful as a planned dinner stop, not just a quick curry pickup.
The BOGO Offers section gives larger takeout and delivery orders a clear value path while the regular menu still holds enough dish variety for dine-in groups.
The restaurant gives the Blue Mountains a compact Indian-culture dining stop, with curries, chaat, tandoor breads, mocktails, bar service, and a story built around bringing Indian cooking to a tourist destination.
The value case comes from range and order design: shared curries, breads, chaats, desserts, drinks, and an all-week buy-one-get-one offer section that helps larger takeout orders stay practical.
Diners who want more than a standard curry order can move through chaat, momos, Honey Chilly Cauliflower, Vegetable Manchurian, Chilli Chicken, Chicken Vindaloo, and Cola Masala.
Comfort cooking is the safe lane here: Butter Chicken, Dal Makhani, Yellow Dal Tadka, Chole Bhature, Garlic Naan, and Amritsari Kulcha give the meal rich, familiar anchors.
Groups can build a coherent meal without everyone ordering the same thing: start with chaat or Honey Chilly Cauliflower, add curries, then use Garlic Naan or Amritsari Kulcha for sharing.
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