Cafe Taj

Cafe Taj is one of the longer-running Indian dining-rooms in central Gravesend, established for over twenty years on Parrock Street — the residential strip running north from the central ring road toward the Riverside Leisure Area. The kitchen runs a classical north-Indian and Bangladeshi-British curry-house list: tandoor section delivering chicken tikka, lamb tikka and sheek kebabs cooked over charcoal, biryanis dum-cooked under sealed lids, a long list of sauce-based mains across the standard heat ladder, and the broad nan-and-rice section. The restaurant runs a seven-day evening buffet alongside the a-la-carte menu, which keeps the per-head spend down for diners who want to graze across the card rather than commit to a single main. Service is sit-down dining with table-service alongside collection takeaway and delivery through Uber Eats. The premises holds a 5-rated FHRS hygiene score inspected in December 2023. Closed on Mondays — a fixed weekly closure — with the rest of the week running 5.30pm to 11pm. The restaurant's history includes some genuinely unusual delivery anecdotes — orders flown across Europe by helicopter and aeroplane are part of the operation's public-facing story.