Firefly Indian & Indo-Chinese

Firefly Indian & Indo-Chinese is a small restaurant and takeaway on College Lane, with about fifteen seats according to one reviewer. It is not on Tripadvisor; on Google it scores 4.5 from 13 reviews, still under the fifteen needed, so it is listed on the Index but not ranked. The reviews were re-read on 6 September 2026, and the newest is from August 2026.

The praise is specific. A masala dosa said to taste exactly like India, Sunday specials worth catching, a lemon tikka masala one German couple thought a knockout, a chicken korma with cheese naan, and what one local rates the best peshwari naan in Gibraltar. Prices are called cheap and fair, there are many vegan options, and the room and toilet are described as clean.

But two reviews from April 2026, a week apart, report feeling ill afterwards. One calls the food tasteless and the hygiene a joke; the other simply describes a bad stomach and nausea the next day. We report these as the reviewers' accounts rather than established fact, but two in a week on a thirteen-review base cannot be waved away.

Since then four reviews from June to August 2026 are all five stars, praising value, vegan choices and the naan, so the most recent picture is good. Whether April was a bad patch or something more is not something the reviews can settle.

Come for the Sunday masala dosa, the peshwari naan and cheap vegan-friendly curries if you are near College Lane, weighing the two spring illness reports against a run of happy diners since. Nobody from Gibraltar Index has eaten here; this write-up is drawn from the reviews.