Modern Cuisine Restaurant

Modern Cuisine is the long-running Chinese takeaway on Friar Gate, working the western end of the Cathedral Quarter alongside the older Indian and Italian rooms on the same parade. The menu runs the recognised Cantonese-British takeaway template — set dinners, hot-and-sour soup, crispy chilli chicken, Yung Chao fried rice, chow mein — and reviewer feedback regularly picks out the hot and sour soup, the crispy chilli chicken and the wok work as the strongest parts of the kitchen. The shop is closed Wednesdays. Delivery runs within a four-mile radius across the central Derby postcodes with a small minimum order, and the operation handles both phone and online ordering through its own site. Friar Gate is one of the more architecturally distinguished streets in central Derby and the takeaway sits among a small parade of independents stepping back from the cathedral end.