New Delhi Indian Restaurant

New Delhi Indian Restaurant sits on Triq Sant Antnin in St Paul's Bay, the busy resort town on the north-east coast of Malta. The kitchen is built around the experience of Indian cooking: the scent of spices, the hum of pans from an open kitchen, and meals made for sharing with family and friends. Service covers lunch, dinner and takeaway deliveries, from early afternoon until nine in the evening, which suits a holiday that mixes beach days with relaxed evenings. Our page on restaurants in St Paul's Bay shows what else is nearby.

Starters, soups and salads

The starters are grouped by main ingredient, with beef, chicken, lamb, fish and vegetable choices, and the photographs show many arriving on sizzling plates with peppers and onions, including kebabs and marinated pieces. Soups come in four versions: chicken, tomato, mushroom and mixed vegetable. For something lighter there is a Greek salad with feta, red onion, cherry tomato, pepper and black olives, a Caesar with croutons and parmesan, and a grilled chicken salad marinated to the chef's own recipe.

Curries, rice and breads

Indian main courses follow the same pattern as the starters, grouped under beef, chicken, lamb, fish and vegetable. Rice has a section of its own, from plain basmati and jeera rice with cumin and butter to shai pulao with green peas, saffron vegetable pulao and mushroom pulao. There are biryanis made with vegetables, chicken, lamb, beef or prawns, as well as Delhi shai rice, which is tossed with egg, peppers and soya sauce. Breads and sides have a separate list, and the pictures show naan and flatbreads beside little pots of chutney, so a sharing table with several curries in the middle and rice alongside is easy to build.

Indo-Chinese dishes and pasta

A distinctive part of the menu is the Indo-Chinese list. Egg fried rice, chicken chilli gravy, garlic pepper chicken, chicken sweet and sour, fish chilli and prawns chilli sit beside stir-fried noodles made with prawns, chicken, lamb, vegetables or egg. It is a useful spread for a group with mixed tastes, since one table can order a curry, a noodle dish and a pasta plate. Pasta has its own short section: Maltese ravioli filled with cheese or spinach in tomato or cream sauce, and penne with chicken, prawns, salmon or vegetables.

Desserts and allergies

Three desserts are priced on the website: two pieces of gulab jamun for €3.00, gajar ka halwa for €4.90 and ras malai for €6.90. A food allergy notice lists milk, eggs, wheat, soybean, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish as ingredients the kitchen may use, so tell the team about any allergy when you order.

Around St Paul's Bay and Buġibba

St Paul's Bay takes its name from the shipwreck of Saint Paul recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, and it is now the most populated settlement in Malta. Remains found here date back to around 4000 BC and include the megalithic temples of Buġibba and Xemxija, while the Wignacourt Tower of 1610 is the oldest surviving watchtower in the country. The Order of St John later added Qawra Tower in 1638, and the bay was Malta's main harbour for a time after the Maltese rising against the French in 1798.

Today the area is a large cluster of Buġibba, Qawra, Xemxija and St Paul's Bay itself, and its population climbs to about 60,000 between June and September as visitors fill the hotels, especially in Buġibba and Qawra. See our guide to hotels in Qawra and St Paul's Bay if you are choosing where to stay. Heading north brings you to Mistra Bay and on to the village covered in our Mellieħa guide, and heading west across the Wardija Ridge leads towards Ġnejna Bay and Golden Bay.

Hours and enquiries

New Delhi Indian Restaurant opens from 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Monday to Saturday. Sunday hours are not published. For ideas to fill the rest of your trip, browse things to do in Malta and our guide to Indian restaurants in Malta. To ask about a table, use the VisitMalta.co.uk enquiry form on this page and we will pass your message to the restaurant.