Tiffins & collection

A complete Indian meal in a traditional three-tier dabba: rice, your chosen main and seasonal vegetables, with two chapatis wrapped separately.

Choose your dabba

Vegetarian £8.50 · Egg curry £9.50 · Chicken or paneer £10. Vegetarian mains rotate between dal and yellow-pea matar.

Five meals, agreed service days

Five vegetarian meals £40. Five mixed meals £45: three chicken or paneer meals and two vegetarian meals. Arrange five collection days before ordering. Existing prepaid commitments will be honoured separately.

Bring it back

Return your complete dabba at your next collection and exchange it for a cleaned, prepared set. We do not refill returned unwashed containers.A new dabba set has a separate £20 refundable deposit. Choose “New dabba set” when ordering for the first time, or “Exchange” when returning a complete set. Return a complete, serviceable set for your £20 deposit refund.

Collect from The Cook’s Tale

14–15 Beer Cart Lane, Canterbury CT1 2NY. Call 01227 200777 to agree your collection days and discuss dietary requirements. Tuesday and Wednesday are currently closed.

Order takeaway online and select an available collection time.

What comes with your takeaway?

Curries: rice and bread ordered separately.

Biryanis: one 100 ml yoghurt raita per biryani.

Dosa and uthappam: 250 ml sambar, 60 ml coconut chutney and 60 ml onion chutney.

Fried and grilled starters: one 60 ml dip as listed. Poppadoms include one chutney. Extra pots are optional.

Two launch bundles

Dosa lunch £11.95: masala dosa, sambar, both chutneys and a 330 ml can.

Biryani for two £29.95: two chicken biryanis, two raitas, three onion bhajis and one dip. Bundles cannot be combined with other discounts.

Fish and allergies

Our Odia mustard fish curry uses sea bream or huss. Ask which species is being served when ordering. Fish pakoras use their own recipe. Please speak to us about food allergies before ordering.

Less single-use packaging

Reusable dabbas are for collection. Takeaway curry mains and biryanis use 1,000 ml containers; this states container capacity, not the amount of food. Pani poori components travel separately; rasogolla is packed securely with syrup.