Hot N Chili Indian Restaurant

111 W Avenida Palizada, San Clemente
(949) 299-2781

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Lawrence Kaufman

Fun meal with the family

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Diana Corzine

Wow wow wow. I have had Indian food from all over the US, and this is some of the best I have ever had… if not, the best! Perfect paneer, delicious curries, great portions, and wonderful service. They deserve all the praise!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

shelley herbelin

Chicken shish kabob and lamb Curry were phenomenal and the lamb cheese bread was delicious and best thing to have is the mango smoothie the people there that run it are very very nice nice service beautiful atmosphere well worth the go

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kris Brand

My husband and I were thrilled. It's delicious, it's unbelievable. We ordered the dal soup, prawns, lamb and curry chicken. We asked for everything not spicy. The soup was not spicy at all and was very tasty. The rest of the spicy dishes were just perfect, a little spicy. Thank you to your chefs. Highly recommend this place.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

tijma Sport

It was overall a good experience

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

PixelShibaInu Shiba

Very good chicken saag :)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dharmendra Vishwakarma

Tried Sunday buffet, food needs to be hot and spicy. Only samosa, Briyani and halwa was good. Rest all items were not even to be categorised as okay.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

Nikki Choudhary

The owner is very bad and so is the manager :Stella that's not the way to talk and the owner is very arrogant and selfish

T Hartman

I don’t post reviews online unless I feel strongly about something. And I feel like I owe a public announcement after my experience last night. I’m not blaming the restaurant but hear me out.

Please stir your dal (lentil soup) if you order an individual bowl. It seems to me like my dal was heated in the microwave even though the sweet server told me it wasn’t. Either way, please stir, stir, stir and test the temperature. My soups usually are steaming when I cook at home. However, visually my bowl was very deceiving because there was no steam coming out of it.

The dal was brought out first, which is not how I’m used to eating since I’m been eating dal my whole life. Usually it’s paired with rice or some sort of flatbread. Anyhow, I was first served the bowl of dal, and I waited for the rest of my food. When it didn’t come, I worried about my dal getting cold and had a little spoon off the top layer. It was ok. Next I took a spoonful. OMG!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🥵👅☄️ 😱😳The spoonful of soup sat right in the back of my throat and was scalding hot!!!! There were diners around me. 🫢😳 And I didn’t want to gross them out by spitting out this yellow dal! In retrospect I should have! 😢 Oh my lord! Turns out the dal had hot spots. I thought I was going to die. I decided to swallow and the scalding spoonful burned the back of my throat and esophagus on its way down! I immediately went inside and asked Stella, the server for ice and told her the reason. She didn’t seem to think it was an emergency because she then went on to chatting casually with other customers while I waited for ice. Turns out later that their “ice machine was broken.” It came about ten minutes later. Luckily, I had my water bottle that had cooler water than what was served so I kept chugging down water.

Please be warned and be careful when you order soups because they could have hot spots like they always warn you when you use the microwave. I’m a mom and I always test the temp for my kids before serving them if I use the microwave. Sadly this time, I didn’t realize it had been heated that way.

Otherwise, the food that I was able to taste towards the front and middle of my tongue seemed very good and the flavor was on point. Unfortunately, I couldn’t enjoy it like I normally would have. I had scooped out the place the night before and was so looking forward to it.

So for service, I give 5 stars for friendliness because Stella was very nice and friendly, 2 for service since the I’ve didn’t arrive in time and there was no explanation till it came why it was late ( I would have just asked the server from the next restaurant myself since it was close to a medical 🆘 emergency ‼️., and TBH, 5 stars for the flavor.

So enjoy the food but just cool your ENTIRE bowl of soups down before you take a gulp. 🙏🙏🙏

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Arash Begloo

Definitely 5 stars
Great quality food, great taste. Nice staff

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Juan Camilo Vanegas

No wonder it’s the most highly rated restaurant in town.. the food was absolutely spectacular. So much flavor and generous portions. Stella, our server and also the manager, was so lovely. She provided excellent service with great recommendations and made us feel so comfortable.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nancy Urdaneta

Great find Indian food! Love their delicious lunch buffet - fresh yummy food! We go here almost every weekend! I would recommend then highly!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mustafa Syed

Delicious food👌

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Randy Wyner

Great food and service

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kaylee Van Hise

Loved the palak paneer and the mint chutney is sooo good!

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