Five Rivers Indian Restaurant

Five Rivers is an Indian restaurant and takeaway at the south end of Nottingham Road as it leads out of Ilkeston town centre. It has built up a solid local following over several years on Just Eat, with a menu that reaches further than the usual British-Indian standards and a kitchen that pulls in repeat orders for both the tandoori and the slower-cooked house specials.

The menu covers the full Indian and Bangladeshi takeaway repertoire. Tandoori dishes — chicken tikka, lamb tikka, mixed grill, sheek kebab — come properly charred off a hot tandoor; the curries run through the standard madras, bhuna, dopiaza, rogan josh, dhansak, korma and pasanda set with a slightly more interesting house specials list above it. Biryanis arrive built around basmati rather than pilau, and the naans come out puffed straight from the tandoor. Vegetarian options are properly developed rather than a token afterthought, and the starters menu covers everything from chicken chaat to onion bhajis.

The restaurant trades evenings for takeaway and collection, with online ordering through its own website and Just Eat. Delivery covers central Ilkeston, Cotmanhay, Kirk Hallam and the immediate surrounding streets. Reviewers tend to land on the quality of the lamb dishes and the consistency from one order to the next.