Bayleaf Restaurant Inverness

Walk into Bayleaf on Academy Street and you're getting proper North and South Indian cooking, not the Anglicised stuff you find everywhere else. The kitchen respects its spices—you taste them individually rather than everything tasting like the same curry with different names. Service staff actually know what they're talking about when you ask questions about the menu, which matters when you're trying something unfamiliar. It's the kind of place locals come back to regularly, not somewhere that relies on novelty.