There is no Raj's Corner in Adamstown. The kitchen that feeds this part of Newcastle sits at 116 Beaumont Street, Hamilton, with twenty two curries cooked fresh this morning and kept hot on the counter, around twenty more cooked to order, and breads baked to order in the tandoor. Walk in and order at the counter, order ahead for pick up, or check whether your address is in the delivery area.
Adamstown does not have a Raj's Corner of its own, so this page is for people in Adamstown who want Indian food and would like to know exactly where it is cooked. The answer is Beaumont Street in Hamilton, open seven days from 10:30am to 10:00pm, where the family has been cooking since 1998.
The heart of the menu is North Indian: the curries on the counter, the tandoor breads, biryani, tikka masala, korma and rogan josh. Kuldip Sangha was born in Budhlada in Punjab and cooked the flavours of North India in Sydney from 1991 before bringing them to Newcastle, and that is still what the kitchen is built around.
The curries on the counter are cooked fresh this morning and kept hot. They are a same day batch and are never held over, which is why they are ready when you order instead of being started when you walk in. That is the quick way to eat if you are driving in from Adamstown.
The counter is the fast option rather than the only one. Any dish on the menu can be cooked fresh to order, so if what you want is not out, or you would simply rather yours was made from the start, say so and the kitchen cooks it. Breads are always made that way: naan and the tandoor breads are baked to order every time and never sit on the counter, and South Indian dosa is cooked to order on the griddle.
Samosa pastry, naan dough, dips and sauces are made on site every day. Nothing is cooked with MSG and nothing arrives frozen.
Spices come from Raj's Spice and Groceries, the family's Indian grocery next door on Beaumont Street. Every dish on the menu carries its GF, NF, DF and V codes, so you can order without a long conversation about ingredients. If you want a place to start, the butter chicken is the mildest of the counter curries.
Mains come in three sizes, so one person and a family of five order from the same board. These are the Hamilton prices.
$10.90 small, $14.90 medium, $16.90 large. Dhal, chickpeas, eggplant, paneer and the rest of the vegetable counter.
$11.90 small, $17.90 medium, $19.90 large. Chicken, lamb, beef, goat and fish, including tikka masala, korma and rogan josh.
$17.90 vegetable and $18.90 for chicken, lamb, beef or goat. More on the biryani we cook in Newcastle.
Plain naan $4.50 and garlic naan $4.90, baked to order. The tandoor breads come out of the oven when you order them.
Rice runs $5.50 to $7.50 and combos start at $9.90, which is the quickest way to try a curry, rice and a side together.
$1.90 to $4.90, including the samosas we fold on site. Easy to add a few to a pick up order for the drive home.
Order ahead and collect it on Beaumont Street, or put your address in and see whether delivery reaches you. Delivery is free after 5:00pm within 5km of the restaurant.
Kuldip and Sylvia Sangha opened the counter in 1998 and added the dining room in 2011. The business has stayed in the family the whole way through.
There are no bookings and no table service. You order at the counter, where the day's curries are cooked fresh this morning and kept hot, so they are ready when you order. The dining room is there for anyone who wants to sit down and eat.
Naan and the tandoor breads go into the oven when you order them, every time. They are never held on the counter, so they reach you hot.
The counter is the fast option rather than the only one. Ask for any dish on the menu to be cooked fresh to order and the kitchen makes it from the start.
Samosa pastry, naan dough, dips and sauces are made fresh every day. No MSG, nothing frozen, and spices from the grocery next door.
Every dish carries GF, NF, DF and V codes on the menu, so a table with different needs can order in one go.
No. There is no Raj's Corner shopfront in Adamstown. The nearest kitchen is Raj's Corner Hamilton at 116 Beaumont Street, Hamilton NSW 2303, open seven days from 10:30am to 10:00pm. There are no bookings: walk in, order at the counter and eat in the dining room, or order ahead for pick up. The phone number (02) 4962 1827 is for orders and enquiries.
Delivery is free after 5:00pm within a 5km radius of the restaurant. Rather than guess, put your address into the ordering page and it will confirm whether you are in the delivery area. If you are outside it, ordering ahead for pick up on Beaumont Street is the other option.
At Hamilton, vegetarian mains are $10.90 small, $14.90 medium and $16.90 large. Meat and seafood mains are $11.90, $17.90 and $19.90. Biryani is $17.90 vegetable and $18.90 for chicken, lamb, beef or goat. Plain naan is $4.50, garlic naan is $4.90, rice runs $5.50 to $7.50 and combos start at $9.90.
Dosas, Utthapam and Idli Sambar stop at 8:30pm, because they are cooked to order on the griddle rather than held on the counter. The rest of the menu, including the curries, biryani and tandoor breads, runs through to 10:00pm.
Pick one curry from the display and one made to order, then a naan to share. Butter chicken or korma if you want it mild, rogan josh or tikka masala if you want more spice, and a biryani if you would rather have one dish that covers rice and meat together. A combo from $9.90 is the low risk way to try the counter for the first time.
The restaurant sits on Beaumont Street with the family's Indian grocery next door. There is a dining room and no booking is needed, so you can walk in, order at the counter and sit down, or order ahead and collect it. If you are further south and Darby Street suits you better, Raj's Corner Newcastle at 126 Darby Street, Cooks Hill NSW 2300 is open seven days from 10:30am to 9:30pm on (02) 4926 2443, with its own menu and its own prices on the ordering page.
