Mr Kapoor Indian Restaurant serves Indian favourites at 62 Manchester Street in Feilding, and holds a 4.6 Google rating. It opens Tuesday to Sunday for lunch from 11:30am to 2:30pm and dinner from 4:00pm to 9:30pm, and you can book a table online or by phone on 06 323 4466.
The measure of a good Indian restaurant is its slow-cooked curries: lamb simmered until the spices mellow and the meat takes on the sauce, the way a proper dhansak balances heat against a little sweetness. Breads and rice matter just as much, since they are there to carry the sauce. Regulars order a mango lassi alongside anything fiery, and finish with gulab jamun, syrup-soaked dumplings served warm. Heat runs differently from dish to dish, so it always pays to ask how hot a curry really is before you commit.
For Feilding, Mr Kapoor puts that kind of cooking on Manchester Street, a short stroll from the town centre.