I just arrived in Springfield and saw this Indian restaurant on Yelp. Took a chance and had dinner there. Food was excellent. I've eaten at numerous Indian restaurants in NYC for several decades and this is a solid 4 stars! read more

I was stuck in Springfield and this place was walking distance from my hotel. I saw good reviews so I gave it a try. Honestly it was just okay. I am sure it is the best Indian in Springfield, but that is not saying much given the state of the city. I would go back if I ever had to spend another evening in Springfield, which I hope NEVER happens. The food had a level of sweetness to it that was out of the ordinary, despite my ordering "spicy" from their choice of mild, medium, or spicy. Nothing was spicy at all. The lentil soup was pretty good as was the roti. The entrees were bland but edible. Prices were $12-$15 per entree, which is a bit high for the location. read more

This is by far the best Indian food in the area! Service is great. Everything I've tried is great. Lunch specials are a great value.

The food waa really good. I ordered medium spiced which was too mild. I like mine spicy.

Great food and service. Loved the samosas. Ordered the saag paneer... It was great. Loved the garlic naan. The condiments were great. The overall food was good. read more

Delicious!! Love their chicken korma!!i get mild on spicy level and love it! My friend ordered the extra spicy on the fish dish and she couldn't finish it it was so hot so beware!! read more

After living in England, we've been looking for YEARS for good Indian food. Read other's reviews, and thought...why not try it. It turns out it's BETTER than the the top reviews. I had the chicken Korman and by husband the lamb curry...Really, really good. As a tradition in our family, we eat out on birthdays, and this will be the restaurant of my choice! Thanks for the delicious dining! read more

Pretty Amazing food, I love various types of cuisines, but Indian has a real place in my heart. This place is great in my opinion, pick and anything on the menu, it's all good! read more

Most delicious Indian food I have had. Always consistent and tasty. It is not cheap, but I think it is reasonably priced for this type of food. I love the samosas, chicken tikki masala, and the lamb korma. Also, their nan is delish! read more

This is my favorite curry place. I prefer it over Puntis, but every now and then I do get a little sick from eating it.

I just got here and the place looks good and the food seems to be good. I ordered to go and was about to check-in on Yelp, which comes with a free soup. When I asked about this offer to the server that was helping me, another employee immediately snapped at me 'this is only for dine-in'. That's fine, but there is a way to communicate that in a friendly way. There's no reason to be rude to me just for asking. Putting a disclaimer on the offer would help too. I think it's sad how poor service can ruin the mood for a restaurant pretty much 2 minutes after walking in already. read more

Best Indian in the area by far! I love the Tika masala. Great food, nice staff and good traditional environment!

Good Indian food in Springfield, MA. I still miss the previous place that was here though, formerly called Sitars. The Shrimp Curry is the best thing on menu, pair it wish naan bread and a mango lassi - you won't regret it. read more

Pretty good Indian spot I hit last time I met a friend in Springfield. Personally I am more of a Pintus fan (West Springfield), but this place has good lunch specials. Portions and amount of meat in the curries wasn't something I will comment positively on... we ordered 1 lunch special smaller size, to be expected, and one standard size portion, and standard size portion had roughly as much meat. Nan and Paratha breads were also quite good. Service was fine. When we arrived at 11:45 I started getting worried, but it filled up quite a bit as the Friday afternoon lunch crowd came in. Good takeout option for those working downtown. Tried standard chicken curry and lamb korma (one of my favorite Indian dishes) and both were pretty good. read more

Delicious bhaigan bhartha- different from what I'm used to. also fantastic murg makhani. we ordered both hot and they were perfectly flavorful and spicy. i think the super hot would have prevented me from further stuffing my face. The samosas were alright and the chaat pati was pretty bland. read more

I love the coconut soup here, but only get this if you actually like to chew slivers of coconut! Food is always great, and so is service. We usually eat lamb and chicken. I had chicken tikka masala and my partner had the lamb. We also got veggie and meat samosas, always a favorite. Tamarind sauce here is delicious, and I point that out because I have had some really nasty tamarind sauce. Give it a try here! read more

Where should I start? Shannon, our waitress, was friendly, attentive & helpful. The decor pleasing, clean and comfortable. The food was fabulous, every dish was tasty, the rice delicate and yummy, and the naan? Oh the naan was light, baked just right with all the flavors coming through! This meal brought smiles to all our faces. Easily the best Indian we've had in the Pioneer valley in the last few years! We will be back! For the record we had Keema Samosas, Tadka Dal, Lamb Boti Kebab Masala, Lamb Korma, Lamb Saag, and the Aloo, Padeena & Onion naans. Lamb was oh so tender. read more

Entree was ok, but I won't call that authentic. They served me rice, that were dried up, apparently had been cooked earlier during the day and had dehydrated sitting out all day. I am a big fan of Indian masala chai. They had masala tea, served as black tea with ice cold milk on the side, huge disappointment. Who serves boiled tea bag tea at an Indian restaurant? read more

Great,easy meal to pick up and take back to my room. I needed something healthy and fast after a long day of travel and it was just perfect. The food was flavorful and hot... and I was glad because I wasn't driving back! read more

My first time trying Indian Cuisine. I was pleasantly surprised. I picked up my order at the restaurant and the staff were very pleasant. The food was delicious, wonderfully seasoned and fresh. I will be ordering again. read more

the only place you should go for Indian food in the Springfield area. tried them all and nothing compares.

I always get the chicken curry here. It's amazing. Also, make sure to try the coconut soup. The waiters are super friendly as well. All in all, a quaint gem of amazing Indian food in Springfield read more

I cannot believe this place has gotten such high reviews. I was in the area last night and went there based on the high reviews. I ordered the punjabi thali and I found that the food just wasn't tasty like you would expect from a punjabi restaurant. The seasoning was not right and I wouldn't recommend it from the price. I've had MUCH better. read more

Delicious Indian food,chicken curry is amazing!! Nice people,nice environment,only downfall is no parking and high prices.

Stopped in because of the yelp reviews I read when I was doing business in Springfield. Great Indian Food in Springfield? Who knew?!? Had the chicken curry (great flavor and moderate spice) and onion naan. I'll definitely be back if I visit this area again. read more

Panjabi Tadka is Sitar under a new name (same owners, chefs, location and best of all, food.) We would often get takeout from Sitar and were sorry to see them close. We had our first dine-in experience at the reopened restaurant last Saturday. Our table ordered several different plates to share. We enjoyed our meal thoroughly, especially the Chicken Tandoori, Aloo Chole (spicy chic peas) and Tandoori Shrimp Masala. The service was excellent. They do not have a liquor license, but our server was happy to provide us with wine glasses and an opener for our bottle of wine. We'll be back soon! read more

I decided to try this restaurant because I've been trying to experience new things and I've recently tried Indian food because of a groupon I purchased for Priya in Chicopee. I've been there a few times and enjoyed the good and had pretty food experiences so while reading reviews on Priya, I saw that this was another Indian restaurant in the area and that they had lunch specials, something I don't believe Priya has. Anyhow, I'm still pretty new to this type of cuisine so I ordered what was most familiar to me: curry chicken. I ended up paying $6.95 plus tax fruit the curry chicken lunch special. It also came with rice. I took it home and it tasted good, pretty similar to what I've tried at Priya but one thing that kinda stood out to me is the portion size. Through poking through the curry, I could only find 5 small chunks of chicken but there was plenty of rice and curry "gravy". Although the food was tasty, I was really disappointed that I paid so much to get so little. read more

Had very high hopes for this. Ive never had bad vegan indian food until i ate here. Vety bland, asked for "hot" and it came out more like mild. Took almost 20 minutes to place our order. Staff was rude and gave me attitude while i was waiting in the doorway on the coldest day of winter while i was waiting for my cab (nobody was coming in or exiting) you would think theyd want to be nice to paying customers and not literally force them out. Definitely will not return. read more

overall everything was good. Came with a big group (`15) and it worked out well. Haven't been to other Indian places in teh area, but I would recomment this place if you're craving some indian food. read more

Came here based on Yelp Reviews. WAYYY OVERRATED. Was quite disappointing and expected much more. Food flavors was ok but seemed old and reheated. Only thing that seemed fresh was the nan. Tandoori chicken was undercooked. Just very uninspired for the price. read more

my workmates and i get takeout from panjabi tadka every wed without fail. great prices and delicious food. baigan bharta is delicious.I kave had most of their vegetarian offerings and find them all worth ordering. lentil soup is the best i have ever had. read more

Found this place on Yelp while returning from NY today. After reading reviews we entered the place with high expectation for service and food. Unfortunately the service is poor and selective. The restaurant was mostly filled with localites and we were the only Indian family. For some reason our waiter did not enjoy serving our table and gave us the least attention. There were 2 families who came in after us that were served with food before us and we had to wait for 45 minutes. He left us stacked plates and asked us to place it ourselves. We ordered Chicken Murg, Bhindi and Bartha. The food was ok but very disappointed with the selective attention. If they cannot appreciate folks and patronize their own it's quite pathetic. We asked for Raita and they did not even bring that. When reminded they brought after we finished our dinner and rudely asked us if we still wanted or they can take it back. No apologies nothing. For left overs he did not care to give a plastic bag while the next table to us got theirs and he served them with a smile. Not ever stepping back if this is how you treat your own!!! read more

Friday night. 9:40. I was turned away by the wait staff... I recall the website said they close at 10:00, so I was a bit confused. My confusion was quickly turn to disappointment. Apparently, the kitchen closes at 9:30.. Let me get this one straight... The kitchen in this restaurant closed a half hour before the restaurant closes? So I was turned away. A take out costumer turn away? This is a Friday night in a city? The food is good but it will likely be the last time I have any from Punjabi. The thing is, I have little free time but I found an opportunity to go to Punjabi but if I can't honestly believe they will be open for their posted hours why go at all. I appeared a fool when I questioned this backward process and they lost a customer. Remember this is a Friday night not a Tuesday. The whatever response from the staff solidified my belief they don't really care about business or customers and shudder to think what goes on in the kitchen to make more money. read more

Oh man! Good Indian food is nirvana! The chicken tikka masala (hot, but not Indian hot) was rich and flavorful. Very generous portion. I got it to go and took it back to my hotel room. It was excellent! read more

WONDERFUL! This is in the location where the Indian restaurant Sitar used to be, and rumor says the new place is being operated by the same people. (We did recognize a couple of the staff as having been at Sitar.) The food was very much like Sitar's, if not better. It's only been open a couple of months, we went on a Friday night and the place was only about 1/3 full. The menu has very good plain-English descriptions of all the dishes. Pleasant, courteous wait staff. BIG PLUS: They don't have a liquor license yet, so for the time being, it's BYOB - everyone there had beer and wine they had brought with them. Meal for two with shared appetizer cost us $35. Easy on-street parking. We'll absolutely be back - soon. read more

Food was very poor and service was also too bad. And it was not Punjabi for sure, they should look for some other name.

Order taker asks for 6 entries forcefully for our table of 4 adults and 4 kids. We mentioned we're ordering 5 starters and less entries but he was adamant on his ask. He categorized that's a general US Restaurant policy. Never had such a bad experience in any restaurant. May be because that's in a suburb of SPRINGfield and not expecting more customers! read more

Had little problem to spot it on google maps as well as Apple maps, so had to call them to get directions like older days with no gps :D we ordered malai kofta and chapati and dal makhani all dishes were very good!!! Recommended and we wud come back for sure!! read more

Great service. Have ordered lunch and dinner. We order coconut naan, vegetable pakoras, vegetable samosas for appetizers mostly. Consistently delicious, and the accompanying sauces and chutneys are always fresh. We've ordered chicken biryani, aloo chole, chicken curry, chicken vindaloo, tandoori chicken, and saag paneer. We ask for most things spicy, and they always deliver. We've been to a bunch of Indian restaurants, but this one is absolutely the best. I recommend it to everyone I know. read more

Our hands-down favorite restaurant anywhere. By far the best Indian food in W. Mass., and better than those we've tried in N. CT. It's a local place run by Indians who know how to make great meals! We've been going here for years (formerly called the Sitar but same menu and people). We go at least once a month, sometimes more, and they are consistently great. The servers are friendly and helpful and the atmosphere is comfortable, clean and relaxing. They do run quite hot, so keep that in mind - friends who usually order "spicy" at other places have been surprised at how hot it is there. If you order a step down from what you normally get (mild instead of medium, for example), you should be fine. Take-out is also very efficient and relatively quick if you want to enjoy their delicious food at home. Can't say enough! read more