Chachie Spice

Chachie's Spice is a long-running Indian takeaway near the top of the Hilltown, sitting next door to the ChinaTown Chinese carry-out and serving the same dense residential streets — Stobswell and Coldside running off either side of the hill. The shop trades on a standard north-Indian-style card: tandoori chicken from the clay oven, balti pots, kormas, tikka masalas, dopiaza, madras and biryani sets, with a kebab-and-pizza sideline for the late-evening trade.

The Hilltown's south-Asian community has shaped this strip of takeaways for two generations, and Chachie's sits among the Indian shops that locals still associate with the area's identity. Reviews on Just Eat and Tripadvisor are workmanlike rather than glowing — the shop's appeal is the reliability of the curries and the speed of the collection turnaround rather than any one signature dish. The kitchen runs its own ordering site offering a flat-rate online discount, and the delivery radius covers the immediate Hilltown closes alongside the Strathmartine Road residential streets running back down into the centre. For DD3 households on the upper Hilltown it is one of the default evening options at the lower end of the local price range.