Center of the universe center of DuPont filled with energy flavor! This place should be the epitome of all things GREAT in DC! Reality. People who are very very very upset and very inpatient. I , walking with a party of 6 wanting to having dreams of their exotic spices and flavors. Reality I was greeted with abrupt service, abrupt food distribution, and probably not the best of what sacrificial Lamb could offer. If they could fix frontline distribution of food, maybe add a smile, a system to get orders out in the order they were ordered (not by the easiest to throw together), oh, and don't just throw food in the togo container, Sacrificial Lamb might have all of the potential to get all of the stars. But as of now I might have to wait until better management and better calm people up front. Believe the low stars people and make the trek to ANY other kabob place..... read more

I hate to say it, but every time I visit this place gets progressively worse. My first time at Sacrificial Lamb I was drawn in by the quirky name zipped to my Android screen by a late night yelp search and I was not disappointed. The Curry Chicken redeemed Indian food for me...after a bad experience even when I was less than hopeful and settled on plan ole' unadventurous kebabs (but even they were glorious, and I knew whatever sacrifice they refer to in this little eatery's name was not in vain YUM) The second time I went back to satisfy the kebab craving that would not quit and it was ok but something was different...not as good. The third time I figured it out...they changed the chickpeas. Blasphemy....I cannot believe they changed the chickpeas. I asked, the cashier confirmed they did. I carried out...so it wasn't until I got home that I realized that not only was my hopes of having the delicious dish that made me love SL dashed against the rocks....my kebabs weren't done. Uggg, it was the first time the trip to Virginia to Kebab Palace seemed like a far better choice. Raw meat...and weird chickpeas, NOT HOT Sacrificial Lamb. read more

This kid ordered neither a kabob nor a wrap. She went with the chicken tikka masala. For the low, low price of $10.95, you, too, can experience the greasy delight that is this dish. Served in a bowl FULL of sauce and enough pieces of chicken, it is also accompanied by peppers (yellow and green) and some whitish stuff and some greenish stuff and a heaping container of rice. You'll want to splurge the extra $2 for naan, because there is a buttload of sauce in this guy. The food itself is probably 2 star quality, but I'm really excited that I just had a complete meal, and have leftovers, after spending just $4. I'll definitely return for more the next time I find myself in the office and craving something other than Panera. (Kudos also to Groupon for their Groupon Nows and $5 off deal today). read more

Quite possibly the worst kabob place in dc. I ordered for delivery and my food came 2 hrs later. This would have been okay if the food was fantastic. The food was even worse that the service. The chicken kabob was poorly seasoned and dry ! Rice was over cook and when it was delivered my food was all over the place in the bag. Thank God I thought to get a salad and thank god that DC has other great restaurants to choose from. Don't waste your money on this place. You will regret it! read more

I want to like this addition to our neighborhood in spite of the 'Kinks" Lisa mentioned. For example, what do you expect to be served after reading the sign outside their basement location: "Sacrificial Lamb Grand Opening Special $4.95 Charcoal Kebab & Fresh Clay Oven Naan Eat-in / Carry out" After I insisted, I got a delicious round of Naan, wrapped in aluminum foil. What I got was a styrofoam container with generous servings of boneless chicken in a tandoori-like sauce over rice, sauted cabbage with a few peas cooked with full bodied spices, and chick peas in a different full-bodied sauce, with an almost smoky flavor. But about "& Fresh Clay Oven Naan"? "$1.50 extra!" Then change your sign. Do you think the tasty cabbage and also the smoky chick peas make up for not including the Naan? btw, "We proudly servce Halal meat." read more

I tried this place after reading the positive ratings on Yelp. However, I was totally disappointed with the food quality. We ordered the beef kabob, a chicken dish, naan and a mango lassi. The beef kabob was extremely hard and rubbery. The chicken dish was dripping with oil and the naan was completely burnt. The mango lassi looked and tasted like it was really old. Will never go here again or recommend it to anyone! read more

Chicken korma was very spicy and lush, while the lamb biryani was enticingly flavorful. It's kind of pricey for a hole-in-a-wall, but worth my dolla bills. Wish I had room for dessert! The manager was very sweet and really appreciated how much we loved their food. I would come back here in a heartbeat. read more

I order from here frequently using seamless.com. This place gets five stars because the staff is awesome. They are polite, prompt and most of all they treat you like a friend. For example, they once called me to let me know that the dish I ordered (eggplant) required a long cooking time and therefore they would be 10 minutes later than originally estimated. When they arrived they apologized again for the delay and threw in some free naan. Nice touch. The food always hits the spot for me. It's Northern Indian cuisine and therefore they have both kebobs and what I typically think of as "Indian Food". My favoriate dishes are the Palak Paneer, Buttered Chicken and Paneer Makhani. The dishes are rather large and come in high quality containers (you shouldn't have to worry about them spilling). Great place for quick take-out Indian food and Kebobs. read more

This is definitely not a dine-in place. The food is pretty good (I tried chickpeas, lamb biryani, buttered chicken, and samosas. My main compliant is that the lamb and chicken both have almonds, and it isn't advertised anywhere on the menu. So sucks for people with nut allergies. Also, I ordered samosas and chickpeas seperately. The samosas already come with chickpeas (also not detailed on the menu), and the guy on the phone didn't tell me that. Minor annoyances aside, I'd order again. I just wouldn't have high expectations. read more

I've finally found my go-to delivery place for Indian food! Ordered the veggie platter. According to their website it comes with your choice of 2 veg curries (I got paneer makhani and palak paneer... I really like paneer), bhaji fritters, daal/lentils, and raita or chutney. Well, I didn't get any bhaji or daal, but I did get chutney and naan as a bonus. Despite the missing items, for 12.95 it was a ton of food (more than half is in my fridge now), and really delicious. Some places the paneer makhani is really hit or miss (to me a miss tastes too much like green bell peppers); Sacrificial Lamb's is creamy and tangy, and oh so good. Their coriander chutney is yummy too, even though there were no fritters to dip in it. I'm not sure what the menu screw up is about, so it's a solid 3 stars for now. Despite that, I have a really happy tummy right now! read more

In general, meh to good - depending on what you get: Atmosphere is a small basement space - one Yelper complained of space and fluorescent lights,..come on, that's a quarter of NYCs greatest foodie places - just don't expect frills here. Friendly staff, perhaps owner and his wife working the counter, with one cook in back on a slow, late Saturday nite. NAAN BREAD large piece - earthy, thick, flakey, and moist. Winner! CHICK PEAS, served with some of the entrees and apps are some of the best I've eaten - perfectly tender in a light savory curry sauce. Yum! VEG SAMOSAS 2 modest sized perfectly-done crispy morsels served w/a raspberry? dipping sauce - excellent! ONLY NEG: The kebob "platter" - I ordered boneless chicken - had only 4-5 SMALL pieces (more like mini-nuggets) which were tasty, but slightly dry hidden by heaping shards of iceberg lettuce and red cabbage. Wouldn't mention this other than this was their most expensive $10 entree which looked much larger than the menu board. NOT a good value. I'll be back for another try and review... read more

Ordered delivery from this place. I got the lamb curry and tandoori naan, and asked if I could have a side portion of saag paneer. Apparently they took this as a request to give me a smaller portion, omit the rice, but still charge full entree price (or very close to full - not sure, since the driver took both stapled-together copies of the reciept after I signed and I didn't think to ask for mine). The saag paneer was flavorless and cheese chunks were sparse. The lamb curry was OK, I guess - it had lots of sauce, not much meat, and way too much salt. The naan was good, and still warm. Delivery was pretty quick and the driver was friendly. It wasn't bad enough that we won't probably cave in and order again the next time we're craving Indian and are too lazy to leave home, but it wasn't good enough to enter the regular delivery-options rotation. read more

This was just spectacular. I got the lamb naan wrap platter, substituting the rice for a second vegetable. While I was waiting for my order, another woman came in and ordered just naan. I thought that was odd. Until I got my sammich. It was seriously the best naan I've ever had and believe me, I've consume a lot of naan in my day. I will go back just for the naan. And then of course the delicious lamb and everything else. This would place would have gotten five stars but for the super grease factor: the veggies (chick peas, eggplant) were swimming in oil. Of course they tasted great. But when I'm grabbing food on the go that's not McDonald's, I want it to be healthy. So I will only go back to Sacrificial Lamb when I've had a good workout or some other way to deal with the caloric intake. Or I'll just get the sandwich sans platter. So many options. Oh yeah, and the portions were magnificent. I left disgustingly full but very, very happy. read more

I ordered from GrubHub at 1:08 pm and didn't get my food until 3. Around 2:20 I had called the restaurant to see where my food was and told the guy my address. He misheard it as N Street and I had to correct him a few times. Around 2:45 I got a phone call from the delivery driver, asking where I was. I was standing outside and didn't see anyone. He repeated my address to me and realized that he was on N Street, not F Street. This would have been a simple mistake had I called in my order, but since I had placed it online, they should have had my address in front of them. What it seems happened was they forgot about my order and when I called in, the guy who answered the phone quickly wrote down my address (the wrong address) and handed it to the delivery driver. The driver was nice and apologized, saying that the restaurant had been very busy, but there's really nothing that makes up for my food taking 2 hours to get to me (or an hour and a half if you include prep time). It was cold by the time I got it. The food was still tasty, but I probably won't order from here again. read more

Kebobs, Pizza and Butter Chicken? What more could you ask for? Honestly if you like middle eastern /indian / drunk food youre going to like this place. I'd give it another star if it was open when the bar was closing. That being said it has one of the best lunch deals around, with a la carte cafeteria style that makes it easy to get in and out on the cheap. The staff is friendly and you can get a sample of most of the stuff on the line. Worth trying if youre local. read more

This place was yummy nummy. Went in for lunch, kinda late 'round 2. Nobody there but me, the 'rents and some business folk. Ordered up a beef kabob, lamb kabob, and chicken naan. All were superb. Lamb (mine) came with green peas and chickpeas as well as a nice round of bread. The peas, both, were in a nummy sauce that I lapped up before I even paid attention to the meat. The lamb was tender and well seasoned. Quite good. Dad's beef was also flavorful, if a bit tougher than the lamb, but that's to be expected. Mom's chicken naan wrap was nummy as well! Got a side of chickpeas and rice with hers. All in all, a great experience. The owner even stopped by to ask if we liked the food. Yes! read more

One night I absolutely had to have some kind of Indian or Eastern-inspired dish. I also didn't want to have to go anywhere to get it. Off to grubhub I went and found this place listed. I saw for 14.95 I could get butter chicken, rice and chickpeas which was exactly the kind of meal I had in mind. I also tacked on some samosas for good measure. About an hour later the food arrived at my door. I tore into my bag of goodies, starting with the samosas. They were solid, maybe not utter perfection on a plate, but they weren't overdone or *too* greasy and all around a good start to the meal. Now I was ready for my butter chicken. Oh, the butter chicken. I consider butter chicken to be sort of like Asian soul food. When done right it is completely satisfying and this, my friends, was it. The rice was fine (it was rice) and the chickpeas were pretty fab, too. They also included a dallop of some saag paneer which was pretty good but I tend to like it spicier than they cooked it. All in all, the entire meal hit the spot, so much so I ordered again a week later. This time around I got a double helping a chickpeas along with the rice and butter chicken. I like suprises and all but it leaves me wondering if I just got spinach last time because they were trying to get rid of it? Or they were feeling generous? Or the person doling out the servings didn't know any better? I was looking forward to eating it again so that was sort of a bummer. The butter chicken and chickpeas made up for it. My boyfriend ordered the mixed kabob plate and while he seemed to enjoy it, I think the butter chicken knocks the socks off anything else I'd tried from there so far. Also, not sure what it should be considered. The butter chicken and samosas were on the Indian-cuisine side of things but the kabobs were more Middle Eastern. I guess if you can't make up your mind what you want, then you've got a lot of options! read more

I'm in love. Let me first state, that customer service is my pet peeve, no one knows what that is now days. When I called to order some food after subsisting on chips and beer and cookie dough for days (I was super starving and nutrient deprived to say the least) the man on the phone was so nice, and let me know what he had made for the day. I was clearly looking for veggies, but in the absence of daal settled on the white people indian dish of tikka masala. The guy said he could just make a plate for me and thow in some veggies, I readily approved and walked over to grab my much needed meal. When I got there they guy happily threw in some naan for me, and everything came up to about 10 bucks, I didnt even open the box, I asked if he had red pepper, he was nice and went back and added to my dish to make it spicy. When I got home, still not knowing what too expect I opened my box to see a feast. Chicken Tikka, rice, channa masala, veggie korma and palak panner. Needless to say they now have a neighborhood repeat customer. Close, friendly, yummy, and warm....this winter will be tasty indeed! read more

Always very solid and extremely well priced. Awesome butter chicken, and the chef's choice appetizer platter is killer. Great gyros as well.

Delicious takeout, large portions. Recommend garlic naan and Madras Chicken Curry for a little spice

When I moved to Dupont this summer, I was delighted to find out that I'd also moved down the street from Sacrificial Lamb which quickly became a staple for my boyfriend and I. The food (when its on) is awesome and the prices cannot be beat (read its cheap). Both of us are more than stuffed for just about 20 bucks. I tend to stick to the Butter Chicken daily special which comes with basmati/jasmine rice, chickpeas, and the other vegetable available, but I've also tried the naan wraps and the kabobs which are all excellent! One time when I was in getting my standby butter chicken, the owner offered me a sample of the chicken curry which tastes very similar to the chickpeas - I havent yet gotten a full order of that but the sample was very convincing. The owner is very friendly and willing to give out samples and also is very reasonable with prices, i.e. he's thrown in naan for me on a few occasions which is definitely worth it cause its some fantastic naan. The reason I had to knock my rating down to a 4 is because one night the butter chicken was considerably tomato-heavy but it clearly was an off night for Sacrificial Lamb, and I don't hold it against them. I guess my best advice would be to check out the color of the butter chicken prior to ordering it...or just get a sample to make sure its up to snuff. Long story short - lots of food for not a lot of money, they deliver, they're friendly and I love the place. Definitely worth trying! read more

I was hesitant about going in here because the name was weird, but my coworkers brought me one day, and I was very pleasantly surprised. First amazing thing: Indian food and middle eastern food in one place, walking distance from my office. Second amazing thing: I was advised to get a chicken naan wrap, so I did. I don't know how to describe the thing other than heaven in your mouth. It's so amazing. Third amazing thing: They managed to take orders for all five of us and get our food ready in a surprisingly short time, and not mess anything up! They were very friendly, too. Fourth amazing thing: The other stuff I've tried (veggie samosas and chickpeas) were also delicious. I'm kind of hesitant to rate this five stars because I don't want it to start becoming too mobbed at lunch time, it's that good. read more

The skinny: Good Korma, decent prices. The specific: When I call because my Seamless order is an hour and a half, replying "well I don't think it's been an hour," is not a great opening. read more

Too pricy for that quantity and quality !!! Only 3 small pieces chopped chicken with samosa for $20 !!! read more

Sacrificial Lamb Kabobs & Wraps - Tasted really bad and too pricy !! Madras chicken and samosa for $20 . There are only 3 small pieces chopped chicken - Middle Eastern Near Me - Washington, DC, District of Columbia

The food at Sacrificial Lamb is great. I especially love the butter chicken and the palak paneer. Delivery is generally very quick and accurate. The reason I'm only giving it 3 stars is because it is crazy expensive and it seems like they've slowly made the portions smaller over time. I'd suggest ordering an appetizer or two if you're only getting on entree per person. read more

So dang good, tiny space, they do it authentic and it's delicious, home cooked flavors shine, do yourself a favor and check it out!

I travel from Laurel to eat here. Great food and friendly staff. It is worth the trip to DC. read more

AWFUL PALAK PANEER! There were two small pieces of cheese in the sauce! I almost fell out of my chair. I have never seen palak paneer so skimpy on the paneer in my life. It was laughable. The abundant palak was terrible and definitely did not make up for the absence of paneer. The naan was my meal's only saving grace. read more

This is some of the best Indian food in DC. It's a hole in the wall and you can't beat the price. The butter chicken special is amazing!

I had convinced myself that good, affordable Indian food didn't exist (for me anyway), but this hole-in-the-wall gem showed me the light. I got the Butter Chicken, which was simply prepared and delicious. My friend got a gyro and she was really happy with it. Plus, the service was great. Our cashier was super friendly and cool about everything. Unfortunately the restaurant isn't very close to me, but I hope I find my way back there next time I'm in the neighborhood. read more

I tried SacLamb for the first time after hearing all about it from a friend of mine for the past year. It did not disappoint! First of all, it's open late and serves real food... not pizza or any of that other junk you find in DC late night spots. There is nothing fancy about it and is really best situated for to-go food, but the people are very kind and the food was great! The chickpeas were delicious and the curry chicken was quite good. The naan was fluffy and delightful. I ordered two dishes and naan and it was plenty for two people. Just as good the next day too. I can't wait to return and try the butter chicken, aloo gobi, palak paneer and vindaloo! Will review again once I've tried more options. read more

My most favorite Indian take-out spot in DC. I normally prefer spicier Indian options, but there's something about the Chicken Tikka Masala here that prevents me from ordering anything else. It's incredibly flavorful and perfectly balanced. If I'm lucky enough to be splitting two entrees, the Lamb Vindaloo is a close second. And, you can order through Seamless (with a pretty large delivery radius)! read more

There was nothing redeemable about my dinner from SLK&W. I ordered delivery and everything, I was not given garlic naan, the entree was greasy and flavorless, and the desert was greasy and flavorless (baklava). I don't know what went wrong, if they were having a bad day, or if they were upset that they had to deliver my food. I just know what I have experienced MUCH better Indian cuisine in DC, and this place does not measure up. read more

Best Chicken Tandoori I've had in my life. Hands down. I still haven't been able to try anything else on the menu because I am always lured in by it. Naan is also amazing. So I guess this review is just for the chicken tandoori and naan. But, hey, it's a great meal. read more

This food is remarkably bland. Like, so bland I had to come on here, as I'm eating it, and make a remark about it. Indian food is supposed to be flavorful. That said, if you add salt it gets the job done. Even if you don't add salt you can still drag your way through the meal. It's good for delivery- I would never go outside of my house and ask someone to serve me this. That people have ranked this among the best indian food in DC either speaks to their lack of experience with indian food or DC's lack of good indian restaurants. It's not terrible, it's just decent and gets the job done. I had to come on here immediately and counter all the rave reviews. Oh yeah, I ordered the chicken vindaloo. read more

The naan kabob wraps are HUGE and delicious. The lady that always serves me is really nice. It seems a little shady when you walk in, and the A/C was out so I def. wouldn't eat inside, but I'd get delivery/takeout anytime. I actually went because its on Scoutmob and I got 50% off, but t worked-I'll go again! read more

Really nice guys working here. The cashier gave me 3 samples of the vegetarian choices they kept in the warmer just for looking curious. Chickpea, paneer, eggplant all tasted good but I chose Chickpea. They gave a ton of Chickpea, (more than I would've liked!) and their naan was fluffy, great for dipping into the sauce. read more

Love the Lamb Biryani here! They really got their spices to perfection

First time and won't be our last. Very authentic and delicious. We tried six dishes and couldn't decide which was our fav.

My credentials: I'm indian with an AMAZING cook for a mother and know good (and bad) indian food. Eaten at restaurants in india, new york, chicago and dallas as well to compare. Ambience: Unassuming place that really seems to exist for the take-out/delivery market. Only a few barstools and not much space inside. Service: Very decent -- they're on time and friendly. Food: Butter chicken tastes like the standard you'd get at any indian restaurant (not too spicy, but good). Chicken biryani (which I got spicy) was very good with tender meat and nice spices. Naan and mango lassi also very good. Other: Delivers with a minimum order, pretty unique for indian places and gives you another option outside of pizza or chinese. Overall: Good for a night in, not for a night out. Meets the standard for indian places, and is now my stable delivery-take-out indian restaurant. I recommend. read more