First time trying India Kitchen. Was in the neighborhood for an early dinner. Had come here for the…read morelunch buffet, but missed the time. Dinner time starts around 5-5:30pm. Upon entry, many other groups followed. Seemed like a nice and popular place. Ordered basic Indian items of butter chicken and tikka masala along with the fluffy basmati rice. Both of the curries look very similar but each have their own distinct taste. You can get hints of tomato or coconut.. The garlic naan was very soft but still flaky. Best to dip in curry. Other guests ordered sizzling plates that smelled so good! I got fomo. I want what they got. Next time! This place has a really really nice dining room with red table cloth and silverware on each table. Service is very fast. Right after ordering, food arrived like in like 5 minutes or less. Overall it was a very pleasant dining experience. Highly recommend to check out.

LOCATION: Red Hill/Mitchell, right off the 5…read more PARKING: Lots WHAT WE ORDERED: * Chicken Tikka Masala ($21.95) * Butter Chicken ($21.95) * Garlic Naan ($3.95) * Basmati Rice ($4.95) I've been craving Indian food lately, and this place totally hit the spot! The food is delicious, though the menu prices are a little bit on the expensive side. That said, the service is super friendly, and the restaurant itself is clean and cozy. I'll likely be coming back in the future, especially for the buffet, which looks like an insanely good deal.

This Indian restaurant is truly a hidden gem for Indian buffets in Irvine! The restaurant is small…read moreand cozy, but they make great use of the space. The dishes are flavorful, fresh, and good quality. I also really appreciated the attentive service--there are plenty of servers, and they quickly clear your plate as soon as you're finished. Great food and excellent service. Definitely worth checking out if you love Indian food!

Despite having ordered from here a few times (and the food being) we just dined in on a Saturday…read moreafternoon and had an amazing experience. The menu is a mix of southern and northern Indian staples and the usual CTM for a British influence. The food uses very high quality ingredients and is properly spiced for anyone who likes Indian food. The servers are very knowledgeable and friendly and they were all able to pinpoint vegan dishes without having to explain what you are looking for. The inside of the restaurant was a great surprise as it's a white table cloth setting - highly unusual for Indian restaurants in Southern California and much more typical to the North East of the country. Definitely a top spot for Orange County if you want high-quality food and an upscale experience.

Your new Indian spot for your cravings…read more I had: 1. Apollo Fich 2. Chicken Lollipop 3. Babycorn Manchaian 4. Hyderabadi chicken 5. Dum Binari 6. Irani chai - similar to milk tea. Really yummy, highly recommended

I have been wanting to try the food at this restaurant for sometime and today my friend and I…read moredecided to do so I was surprised to see a wide variety of foods even though the name said "Biryani pot". We were the first to enter as soon as they opened and we decided to try the dosas. I ordered the Mysore dosa and my friend got the masala dosa. We also ordered the fried pepper corn from the appetizer menu. It was fantastic. The dosas were crisp and tasty. We really enjoyed it. As we were eating the crowds started slowly increasing and by the time we left the restaurant was pretty full. It's a nice little restaurant, clean and tidy and service was quick and the servers were friendly and welcoming. I will definitely go back soon and I must try the biryani. Highly recommended this restaurant.

I really enjoy coming to this restaurant. They have have great Indian curries…read more Food: Southern Spice offers offers a wide selection of various and delicious Indian curries. My favorite dishes are the paneer butter masala and chicken korma. Their naan is good as well. The portions are very good for the price. Service: The service here is good, but it can get slow at times. Ambiance: I like the decor inside the restaurant.

it's the only Indian restaurant within a mile and so no choice but to go there. Food is good - not…read moregreat. customer service needs a complete overhaul. Service is slow and everyone in the restaurant is all over each other. 25 minutes doesn't mean 45 minutes!!! If it's going to take 45 minutes .... let us know 45 minutes. I ain't mad at ya... but u need do quit saying 10 minutes Standing here watching two orders getting cancelled by uber drivers due to wait So this was an old review that I had not yet posted up above. Apparently I forgot to post it last time. I thought I'd give these guys another chance so I visited them again today and same issue. They have no idea how to run a restaurant absolutely ridiculous.. The to go orders are sitting on the counter. All the food is getting cold. You got people waiting for 20 minutes just looking at their food on the counter and there's one person that's trying to accomplish the goal of three. Your Restaurant will shut down soon if you don't fix this issue the only reason I even came back is because there's not another damn Indian restaurant within a few miles of me. As you can see, I haven't visited your Restaurant in over a year since my last review absolutely pathetic. Who gives you guys a license to run a Restaurant is beyond me there needs to be an operational overhaul or a manager that takes control of the restaurant. Updating. And we didn't get our rice that we ordered .. horrible!

The Food is excellent! I have been here numerous times!…read moreEverything I have had there has been fantastic! Actually plan on going there today! Looking forward to it! The service is great and patient. The Restaurant is always clean.

I love Natraj restaurants, but this fast food version in the Marketplace on Jamboree was awful…read more The food wasn't hot, and the flavors were really not there. Maybe it was overcooked from being there since lunchtime. (Staff was very friendly)

Service is wonderful. This review is for a catering order…read more We ordered 20 butter chicken burritos (and they offered to turn the order into 40 mini burritos. Perfect!). The burritos individually wrapped and were the right size for the parents, though even at mild, the butter chicken was a little spicy to me. I asked about allergens, and the lady let me know that they were going nut free in a week and everything would no longer have nuts. The butter chicken does contain dairy in the form of queso. We also ordered a tray of the corn bhel (this was AMAZING) and mixed salad (in hindsight, probably not the best order for a bunch of four and five year olds). Both are dairy-free and nut-free. The food was delivered promptly to the venue exactly on time. I paid for the order via Zelle when I placed the order.

What did I just eat?…read more I'm genuinely confused after eating at Maast Indian in Irvine, because I don't know how something can look so promising on the outside and taste so disappointing on the inside. I was skeptical walking in, not gonna lie. The place wasn't exactly packed -- maybe three tables had people and there was one person waiting on an order -- but I figured hey, every new spot deserves a fair shot. The interior actually looks really nice. Clean, modern, good layout, good lighting... it feels like a place that should be delivering quality food. Then I ordered the Tandoori Chicken "Panini Sandwich". First of all... $15 for a sandwich like that is wild. And if you're going to charge $15, the food better be memorable in a good way. This was memorable in the worst way. The flavor was just off. The chicken didn't taste like tandoori should. It didn't have that smoky, spiced kick you expect -- it tasted bland and kind of weird, like the seasoning didn't know what it wanted to be. The whole sandwich felt thrown together, and the "panini" part didn't add anything except disappointment. And what really got me was the value. No fries. No chips. Nothing on the side. Just a sandwich. For $15. During lunch hours. That's crazy. For that same price, I can go to Curry Hut, Curry Time, or other grab-and-go Indian spots and get a full combo plate that actually fills you up and tastes like Indian food is supposed to taste. This wasn't even in the same league. This wasn't a "maybe I ordered the wrong thing" situation. This was a "how did this make it onto the menu" situation. I hate leaving negative reviews because I understand how hard it is to run a small business, and I'm not here to tear anyone down. But the food needs a serious reality check. The presentation and the space are great -- but the kitchen needs to match that same standard. If the owner sees this, I'd honestly love to talk. Feel free to reach out. And for anyone reading this: you know I don't throw out 1-star reviews like that. The only reason this isn't a 1 is because I genuinely don't want to hurt a small business. But this experience was not good.

Went with my wife and 11 and 12 year old kids. Ordered the Garlic Nan, butter chicken and goat…read morecurry. The depth of flavor of the butter chicken and goat curry was amazing. Service was fantastic. Ambiance was basic. The food was the show. Will definitely be back.

I can see why India Gate is rated so well. We were going to grab matcha next door but the smell of…read moreIndian spices overtook us, and what do you know, it happened to be lunch hour. They had Father's Day pricing which was $21.99 but usually I think it's a few dollars less. Either way, we'd come back. The food was hot, fresh, steaming and the area looked clean. Service was fantastic. They are consistent in refilling their dishes. Their garlic naan was so chewy and crispy, held our many dishes well. My recommendations are their butter chicken (must have), vegetable korma, paneer, and fish curry. The desserts were all good, from their mango pudding to gulab jumun and gajar ka halwa. The gajar is a blend of carrots slow cooked into water and milk, it's nice and light. Would recommend, better than some of the already tasty Indian buffets in the immediate area!

Easily one of the best Indian restaurants I've had in SoCal. The ambiance feels upscale without…read morebeing pretentious. The interiors and decor are *chef's kiss. One detail I loved was the screen playing old-school Indian movies in the background. It adds a layer of nostalgia to the experience that's hard to describe, almost like the feeling you get watching classic black-and-white films. The food does take a little while to come out, but it's absolutely worth the wait. Service is friendly. Samosa Chaat (9/10) - An explosion of flavours. I loved that they leave larger chunks of samosa throughout the dish instead of turning it into one giant mashed potato bowl. Great texture and balance. Dahi Puri (8/10) - Refreshing, slightly spicy, sweet, and savuory all at once. Plus, it's a fun dish to eat. Lamb Curry (7.5/10) - The meat was tender and the curry itself was rich and flavuorful. Butter Chicken (8.5/10) - Packed with flavor and hands down the best butter chicken I've had in Orange County. My only complaint is that the portion wasn't bigger. I ran out of butter chicken before I finished my naan

The food was lowkey not good at all... the mango lassi was warm and hard to drink. One of the…read moredishes that I can't remember the name of (is in one of the pictures) was so oily there was a puddle of oil in it. Everything was oily- like actually felt gross by the end of the night. The place itself was cute but there was no windows open and so many tables as well as a movie streaming - I could barely hear myself think. The waiter was really nice I don't have any complaints about the service. The food was also very overpriced. Will not go back.

An affordable and tasty Indian buffet!…read more The weekend lunch buffet was $22, which is around the price you'd pay for a normal restaurant anyways, so this was a great deal to try many dishes. My favorite dishes were the chicken biryani, paneer tikka masala, and chicken tandoori. The paneer tikka masala was better than the chicken, and the sauce went perfectly with the hot garlic naan. The server came by frequently to refill our waters and naan. The food was also was all hot and fresh! The setting is very casual, I'd definitely come back for this buffet.

I went for their lunch buffet and the price is amazing (18.99) but I think their flavors are a bit…read moremore mild than other restaurants and not as memorable. It's good if you want to try a lot of different things but I found nothing to be particularly mindblowing. However, since flavors are mild, I think it is also less spicy than a lot of places so it's more welcoming to those who can't handle space or very strong particular flavor.

Very good Indian - friendly staff, tasty food, and many options…read more Fair pricing too Ambience is not the best as it is a hole in the wall and obviously mostly an "order in" type of place. But that doesn't take away from the food.

Food took super long to come out even though the restaurant was mostly empty. Got 2 chicken dishes…read more(butter chicken plate and chicken tikka) and both chickens were super overcooked and dry. Server was nice though