Not bad for a buffet lunch. They serve all of the classics that you would expect. The food was good, but not as good as it it as Amber on Santana Row. I would eat there again, if someone else suggested it, but not the amazing Indian spot I was hoping to find. read more

Wow, I can't believe this place does not have at least 4 stars. I went to the restaurant in two different occasions and was so pleased with the quality of food as well as the price that I felt obligated to give them the prop! The weekday lunch buffet is about $12 per person and $15 for weekend. The place has so many choices of food each time I went, and their mango ice cream is sooooo good! I am definitely going back for the 3rd time read more

Brought 48 people here. Literally took up the whole restaurant. I was afraid they would be slow in filling up the buffet line, but the cook did an excellent job keeping up with group. Vegetarian selection was very good, though the non-vegetarian was limited with two chicken entree selection. The staff was very friendly and very helpful. I would definitely bring another group here again. They will also work with you and your budget! read more

Worst food and worst restaurant!!Fried rice is not biryani and this is the worst ever service

Typical Indian all you can eat buffet. Like that they have quite a spread for the starters arranged on street style food carts. Quite some options in curries and rices. Some good desserts and mango ice cream to finish. Their butter chicken is my favorite so far. read more

I'm not sure why the average reviews are so bad, but Passage to India is among the best of the lunchtime buffets in the south bay. There's a reason this place is packed every lunch time. There's a huge variety of food to choose from both for vegetarians and carnivores alike. read more

I've been there twice and found the selection at lunch to be large. The food isn't bad but if you eat lunch later than 12:30 you are bound to end up with some dried-out food. I suggest going at the beginning of lunch and food quality will be better. I like the lamb curry and chili chicken. Vegetable fried rice was not good. Mango ice cream was bad also, tasted like a mango hard-candy melted into a bowl of ice-cream. A friend that went will me kept biting into bones so beware. read more

I've been to this place a couple of times, since it's a convenient location for me. I always have the buffet and try as many different dishes as I can. The have a large selection and they're all very tasty. They have classic dishes like chicken Tikka Masala and saag Paneer. Service has been attentive and the buffet price is reasonable. read more

I've only been to this restaurant once but I'm already a huge fan. Tried about 5 different dish and none of them disappoint. Very flavorful and tasty. Will definitely Be coming back again very soon! read more

I ordered twice from this restaurant. Once for Butter Chicken and another for tikka Masala. I'd thought there were rice and side dish included because the Masala cost 20 usd. Sadly, it turned out to be just a portion of butter chicken and tikka masala... which is so small for a male customer like me... So not recommending their products. At least some rice and nan would do, but nothing was included. Terrible experience and overly priced. read more

Wow!!! What great service and food! Tried all kinds of things in the buffet that I have not seen in any other Indian Restaurant. Everything was presented beautifully. It was clean and the servers were right on toop of everything! I highly recommend this restuarant. I like spicy food and find that most restaurants say they have "heat" but never really do... They had a couple nicely spicey dishes. I tried goat for the first time. It was very good. Reasonable and family oriented! Give them a try! read more

I am only giving 1 start to the quality of food they served. Food was bad and the service was okay. We 5 of us went for dinner at 7:20 PM tonight. There were about 20 people in the restaurant. We started with snacks area such as dosa. Liked the idea of mini dosa. But dosa was cold but it was not too bad. However, things went south after that. Mutton curry - cold and rubbery, I did not touch any chicken dishes -- one of our members tried it and did not like it. Likewise, many other dishes were cold felt old. It felt like food was cooked for lunch and continued to serve the same buffet food. It was not a good experience. Bad food and hence bad review. Uttam read more

Always a pleasure to eat at this place. Huge spread of delicious food. Same faces have been serving for years. They must be doing something right. read more

It was ok'ish. Took my team here for dinner - and boy it was nothing I had hoped it would be. The quality of food was ok, but service was really poor. Some of the food we ordered appeared to re-heated and not fresh. There was too much oil which is typically a sign of bad grade indian food. Overall the ambience of the place was ok. read more

Great food and excellent service. I will return when I'm in the area ! The staff pays attention to the details of service as well as quality of the products being served. read more

Nothing special but Not a bad buffet at a reasonable price, the mango shakes are terrific

I generally order food with waiter.com and with multiple try with different sabji I have come to the conclusion that none of the sabji is worth ordering. Simple kadhi looked as if there is so much acid added, it was sourest kadhi that no one would like to eat more than one bite. The baigan bharta looks and tastes so artificial as if it is the gravy of any other sabji. I generally like to give good reviews only. But my repeated experience has led me write this review. Very disappointed, how can you mess up simple sabjis... read more

We have been to this place for dinner. Trust me this place is not for Indian authentic food lovers. The menu is overpriced, food tastes awful. We ordered a assorted veg pakora, the samosas served were either frozen or stale. Fish masala was the worst dish I ever had, no masala at all, just pieces of boiled fish dipped in tomato puree. The garlic naan was worst, I guess the flour mix was stale. Mango lassi was diluted with water. I would say this place is not for Indians. During my visit I saw lot of non-indians, they might like this food as they do not know what real Indian food tastes like. I pity them!!!! read more

We tried the weekend dinner buffet and sadly we were not impressed. The food was cold and looked and tasted stale. The chaat corner looked so non palatable. The pav bhaji and masala dosa were tasteless. Saag aalu, malai kofta, veg manchurian, veg noodles, tandoori chicken, veg and chicken biryani were decent and fish pakora, goat curry and gulab jamun were good. The pastry was dry and stale. The rice particles on the biryanis had dried up. The ambience and service were good. We will not be returning. read more

I have been eating at this place for 10-12 years and has really gone down and needs to shut down. During Diwali week they used to have amazing sweets and specials. Visited today for lunch buffet and the selection was pretty limited. The curries were watery, salty, with no flavor. They seem loaded with baking soda to discourage ppl from eating, almost doing them a favor. Only good item was the chicken tandoori. Will probably not visit again. read more

I was pleasantly surprised by their Saturday night dinner buffet last week! They had so much variety, even for vegetarians. I loved the starters- they had a sweet potato fries, pav bhaji, mini dosas, mini bhaturas with chole, mini paranthas, and pakoras. The bhaturas were warm and chewy, and the fries were very tasty. For the vegetarian dinner they had paneer makhani which had plenty of paneer cubes in it (unlike at other buffets where it's only gravy), saag, black eyed beans, and other curries. They also had a nice selection of Indian-Chinese food, which is my favourite!! They had chow mein, chop-suez, gobi manchurian, and this really tasty Thai green curry with tofu. And I was way too full for dessert.. but they had some nice stuff that my family enjoyed. Would I go back? Maybe when I want classic Indian buffet food and I'm back in the Bay Area. read more

The ambience is fine, the buffet spread is pleasing, however the taste wise it didn't match the indian taste buds.

A friend of mine recommended this place for the lunch buffet so after he took the LSAT's, I decided to reward him for his hard work with this buffet. We were not disappointed. I sampled every meal dish there and I really enjoyed the variety of food from vegetarian, to meat dishes, to even the naan and other bread-like items. I can't handle spicy well but I survived with water and a mango lassi. For dessert, I had some mango soft-serve ice cream. I thought the food was fresh and tasty. I was glad to see many Indians here. That's a sign that this food is really good! I'll be back. read more

Wow.... went here again for what is probably the first time in ages.... this used to be one of the more expensive Indian places around... and I never quite understood...... and i still don't. It's not bad... the seating is pretty good as it's a decent sized restaurant... the selection is ok... the service is pretty good... but just not a lot of compelling reasons for me to want to go back here. read more

I like this place! Buffet Lunch was so much better than I expected. mind you, I don't really like Indian food - but I can say it's probably because I haven't had good Indian food until here. I haven't tried the sit down stuff, but the Buffet blew me away. I will be coming back here! read more

Dinner buffet ($16 pre-tax) was pretty good, and i was totally stuffed afterwards. Some highlights... butter chicken - very tasty and chicken was shredded so flavor gets soaked in gobi manchurian - i was addicted to it, but it may be just me. garlic naan - sooo good when they come out w/ fresh ones Fish coconut curry - tender and tasty Byiriani - was very fluffy, could have used more spice flavor. chaat station - made myself some yummy pani puri at the end of the meal lamb curry was only ok. I like the one at Bombay Garden better. Food: 4 stars Service: 3 Ambiance: 4 Overall: 4 stars read more

We generally go to the Passage to India Bakery for the buffet on weekends, but one day, we decided to head to the restaurant for a change. Right off the bat, this weekend buffet is more expensive than the Bakery's buffet. But, it also offers more options, including about 4 meat options (lamb, two chicken and seafood), 3 dessert options plus mango ice cream, sambar, chaat station, and dosa. I certainly appreciate the variety, but to me, those additional options do not offer additional value that warrants the price. I can be happy stuffing myself silly at the Bakery. And for less! Also, beware of extra charges! Our waiter asked us if we wanted chai tea at the end of the meal. We said yes and he brought out two espresso cups of chai, which cost $2 each. He never mentioned that it would cost extra. So before you get that mango lassi, you should know what it's probably not included in the price of the buffet. The atmosphere is definitely more upscale than the Bakery. I do appreciate that there's cloth napkin and actual silverware, but I'm not sure it's worth the additional cost. The food is still tasty and fresh, but I'd rather spend my money at the Bakery's buffet. read more

My boyfriend LOVES Indian food, especially "all-you-can-eat". He first introduced me to the location adjacent to the bakery. I am nowhere close to being a vegetarian, so I had a hard time feeling satieted. And the selection was limited. So, the next time, we came here. Meat was definitely on the menu :) and there were tons of items on the buffet spread. I have difficulties with spicy foods, and was happy to find curries that were tolerable. The owner was there one night & I told her I wasn't sure what to eat that wasn't going to upset my stomach. She walked with me around the WHOLE buffet and put samples on my plate of foods that were "safe". How does customer service get any better than this? Needless to say, she was very, very sweet. Atmosphere here is nice. Restaurant style and you can also order from the menu. I make fun of my boyfriend for wanting to go so often that he thinks I don't like Indian food. Not true babe! Thanx to Passage to India, I do enjoy Indian food. :) read more

love this place. Really miss their weekend buffets, hopefully they will start these again soon. Miss the friendly service during the weekend buffets and the great selection of quality food. Definitely the best buffet around. During the pandemic, this has been one of my regular take out spots. They are always really responsive to any special requests, and the quality of the food remains as good as ever. read more

Any reason I am giving star more than 1 is because of its ambiance, seating area and enough dishes variety. Maybe we arrived late for the buffet but food quality and taste was unacceptable. Normally good desserts change my views and moods but unfortunately they had minimal left. They had icecream dispenser but were short of cones. All the variety that they serve cannot make up for the fundamental shortcomings. I sampled most of the dishes and was still hungry after the dinner. The only second serving I went for was curd Raita. Having said all of the above the ambiance, parking and the amount of seating capacity can make for some value get-together venue. If possible Avoid it! read more

Pretty tasty indian food. We got the chicken curry and paneer with tomato sauce with garlic naan and everything was delicious. Service was courteous and fast. We had originally wanted to order chicken tikka masala, the paneer, or butter chicken and the waiter told us they were all the same sauce...which apparently is the sauce I like. Just for variation we changed to chicken curry which was great. Food is very hot when it comes up. We could've used more naan/rice for two people...but I think it was pretty cheap and we should've just gotten a second order. Just came back here tonight and got the paneer with tomato butter sauce the chicken korma. Chicken korma was amazing, plenty of favor and very creamy! read more

Passage to India has consistently left me wanting for better food. There's nothing totally wrong with the place, per se but I have never had a satisfying meal there - be it a buffet or not. It is average at best. This is probably the fourth time I visited - this one after almost a year - so that I could see whether I feel differently, but I don't. The dishes are decently prepared but often there are a few things that prevent them from being great. Potato not cooked enough, too much oil in a dish, rotis a bit too crisp - these things add up. The service has generally been good and the ambiance is very nice, but ultimately, it always boils down to the food and it wasn't good. read more

4.5 stars. I have been trying Indian buffets around the SF bay area, and I find this place one of the best. Reasonably priced, and the variety is very wide. They have named their stands serving food from different corners of India in a very funny manner. (Ghanta ghar ka mittha for chat!! Lol) Anyway, all of their curries taste and feel different texture wise. Paneer was soft not chewy! Multiple variations of rice and biryanis. They even have a Cylo-Indian counter. Their mango ice cream is good, but seems overdone (i could feel ice crystals in there) read more

Ordered delivery. Aloo methi was good but paranthas were completely undercooked. There was raw dough all over the place making it inedible.

Good selection of food items at the buffet. Great service! Reasonably priced. Recommended!

My family & I have dined at this restaurant many times throughout the years. We loved it. The food was good and the wait staff are good. Yesterday, we took our 3 kids there for dinner and when we went to pay, we were told the price was $21, rather than the usual $17 for the buffet. We were told that it was the "Mother's Day Brunch" price! First of all, we were there for dinner, not for the brunch. Second, there was NOTHING different in the buffet line that should have warranted the higher price. We know because we've dined there many, many times. I think it's horrible to overcharge that they customers just because they can. For Mother's Day, too! There are many, many good Indian restaurants in the area that don't try to overcharge their customers like this. I'm so disappointed in a place I liked. read more

Yummy, though more expensive than I like Indian buffet to be. Nice combination of north and south Indian fare.

I work right next to this place and I can always smell the food (smells great.) So we finally went and I am glad we did. Food is good especially dinner. Lunch buffet was tricky for me because I didnt know what things were and was put off by that (im a picky eatter and need to know what the dish is made of) but all in all it was yum-o and I will be back! read more

I'm not an expert on Indian food, but this is at least the best Indian buffet I've been to. Every dish was excellent, from great tandoori chicken to my favorite, the goat curry, and everything in between. After 3 giant plates of everything, I topped it off with a great, extra sweet mango softie. This place looks a lot better and is more crowded than the place with the same name down the street. Nothing to complain about, and excellent food! read more

Amazing food! I have only gone there during the dinner weekend buffet. The price is great for what you get. The options are numerous, the quality of the food is excellent, and the host and servers are all very friendly. I just wish I had more room in my tummy to eat more, lol! read more