Went for buffet, wasnt expecting food to be great but to our (not so much) surprise it was horrible... everything was atleast a couple days old except the white boiled rice...
Karolyn R.
Not a great selection and the food was just ok. Not worth the $20 buffet price. Palak paneer had no paneer, and the chicken was not the best quality. Dishes were warm, not hot. So many complaints.
Safa Balal
I just came here from baltimore. My whole family was very upset on the food it was soo cold and not fresh.
angela stowman
The service was good, but the food was terrible. Tikka Masala tasted like tomato soup with chicken added. It was very thin sauce. The Beef Korma was greasy. Only thing worth eating was the chicken from the chicken biryani. The naan looked good, but had no flavor. It definitely needed salt.
Khalidah Javed
We recently organized a lunch party for our family friends (around 30 people) at Mina’s. Raza was very helpful from the start to end. He was very accommodating with any menu changes and allowed us to come to the restaurant before our lunch to decorate the place as we wished. We told them our plan to arrange all tables in a certain way and have table cloths on all tables which the staff had already arranged prior to our arrival. That saved our time and we got to begin decorating and setting up everything. The lunch went very smoothly. Raza and Kiya made sure to clear plates, refill the buffet, and provide anything we requested. The food was delicious and the guests enjoyed the menu and loved everything, from appetizers to desserts to the mango lassi. We forgot to take pictures of the food, but everyone complimented it. The rate to host such a party was also very reasonable and you can make changes to the menu according to your budget. Overall, a wonderful experience and we will definitely keep Mina’s in mind whenever we host our next event. They are just amazing.
sid z
Went for a weekend buffet. We were the only family, no customer walked in after us. Not surprised because they have the worst food I have ever had in USA.Vegetable roll barely had any filling in it, Chickpeas were raw, Saag/Spinach you could see water floating over it. Butter chicken pieces were so hard they had to be cut with a knife, qeema aalo was also no different with tons of salt, chicken haleem is not even remotely related to haleem. Did not have courage to try bbq.Fountain drinks mostly out of order but even more horrible was the disgusting ice dispenser on it - most likely had fungus on it.We went as party of 4 , 2 kids. One ate a piece of butter chicken and the other one took one bite of vegetable roll - nothing els but charged full amount for all 4, Total bill 82.90$.I am all for small business / family owned but if you advertise yourself as authentic cuisine then make sure you put out authentic food.I will never ever recommend this restaurant to anyone.
yazdan ahmed
Food tastes great! Problem was an hour before closing half of the kabob items including Chapli was not available. So I order karahi, but the portions were so small! 2 drumsticks and a chicken neck. Maybe they ran out of food, I’m not sure, but very very disappointing. I would not order take out again no matter how good the food tastes. And considering the location and atmosphere wouldn’t eat in. Crossing this off my list sadly.
Souvick Mukherjee
Awesome buffet at a very reasonable price of around $17. Feel like the visibility of this restaurant is less and few people know about it. People from the indian subcontinent should give it a try. Buffet includes - chicken, goat, beef.
Jehneh N.
First time here. I ordered a takeout for butter chicken and also some sooji halwa. I havent had much halwa in the past so i have nothing to compare it to. But it was good. The butter chicken on the other hand, did not taste like butter chicken at all. It wasn’t creamy or sweet. It was watery and tastes like tomato sauce :( I honestly think it was a watered down tikka masala sauce. It was very disappointing to eat. I chose this restaurant arbitrarily since the usual indian place i go to opens late on fridays. But if i do find my way back here again, i just hope that their butter chicken is better than what i initially ordered. Very sad :(
Cecilie W.
DO NOT GO TO THIS RESTAURANT!! FALSE ADVERTISING!! I've been a member of yelp for as long as I can remember and this is the first restaurant review I have ever written. Unfortunately I can't review the food because I didn't get that far. I went far out of my way to try this restaurant expecting the lunch buffet to cost around $12.99. When the hostess approached me she said the buffet costs $17.99. I was taken aback by this cost and asked to speak with a manager or owner. None were around! She did say one would be back soon. I waited for half an hour but none showed up. After 20 minutes past the hostess told me I could only wait for 10 minutes. I left my name/number for the manager to return my call but I doubt will happen. There was nothing special on this buffet and no seafood to raise the price.
I went when they first opened and got the Mina's Special for 2, which was really good. I've tried a couple times to order it again along with other items, but was always told the kitchen was closed and it was buffet only. I just figured the kitchen closed after a certain time and I was trying to order too late in the evening. Now it seems like they only offer buffet... which is not as appealing to me.
Rasha Mohamed
I asked for the menu and i surprised that the buffet is only option, the food wasn’t taste good at all. My kids they didn’t eat their food (they say we don’t like it) and i decide to take it with us(the food we already pay for it and my kids didn’t eat it, the lady in the front counter call me and say it’s not allowed to take it with you unless you pay again!!!!) i say okay we will not take it!They wrote outside the price for buffet is 9.99$, when we entered to dine in they didn’t let us know the price for dine in will be 14.99$. I feel surprised when they charged us. ( I told the lady on the front counter to make the price clear for customer’s or write it out side,the price for dine in is 14.99$)The buffet looks bad and without soup or salad !!To be fair,the only good thing the place was clean.We will not come again and I don’t recommend it for anyone.
Jessica L.
I wanted to like this so much more than I did. Not my first time to this type of food and this buffet was lackluster at best. The rice was undercooked and crunchy - and not in the purposeful way of like a clay pot. The butter chicken was greasy. The saag was meh. The one saving grace here was the naan - that was excellent. Fresh and delish.
Tehseen Iqbal
Made a reservation for iftar timeI called in advance and asked if their kitchen is open past the listed 7:00 time since we wanted to order fresh food instead of the buffet and my kids won’t eat anything from buffet and they said yes it will be open. Upon arrival we were told kitchen is closed because they had too many take out orders. If we were walk in that’s fine but i called in advance to make sure I can order straight from the kitchen and would not accommodate even chicken tenders for my kids. Absolutely horrible customer service and would not return. To turn away customers at iftar time that called in advance to make sure fresh ordered food could be accommodated is not ok. FYI all the guest sitting there had fresh ordered food and not the buffet food which did not even look great, and I was told I would have to pay full price for my 3 year old to eat from the buffet (and he eats barely anything)Stay away!!
Raquel Wilson
No. Not an experience to repeat. I must have missed the memo, but I went on a Saturday night and the buffet was the only option. The food looked a little tired. Should have taken that as my cue and left, but it was late, around 7:30 and I was hungry and tired. We went for it. Of the meat dishes, one goat dish had a few scraps of meat amongst five pounds of bones. The meat I could find was the best of the buffet. The goat's feet dish had no meat I could find. Likewise the beef dish. I took 2 pieces I thought had a chance of being meat. When I took a bite I learned I was mistaken. I had to spit it out. The ground beef with potato was barely edible. The chicken biryani was dry, as was the tandoori chicken. The spinach was oversalted but passable. I didn't touch the mixed vegetables as the green peas looked very old. The naan brought to the table was passable. I asked for raita to try to salvage more of the meal and was brought something green with the consistency of water. My husband went up to order a menu item takeout for my son, which is when we learned the kitchen was closed. He filled a takeout container with butter chicken, mostly gravy since there wasn't much chicken left, and some of the beef with potato and basmati rice. Sad meal for my son and for his parents. Perhaps this place is great if the kitchen is open. I wonder how the stuff got to the buffet that night. Probably should have just closed the restaurant.
Went for buffet, wasnt expecting food to be great but to our (not so much) surprise it was horrible... everything was atleast a couple days old except the white boiled rice...
Not a great selection and the food was just ok. Not worth the $20 buffet price. Palak paneer had no paneer, and the chicken was not the best quality. Dishes were warm, not hot. So many complaints.
I just came here from baltimore. My whole family was very upset on the food it was soo cold and not fresh.
The service was good, but the food was terrible. Tikka Masala tasted like tomato soup with chicken added. It was very thin sauce. The Beef Korma was greasy. Only thing worth eating was the chicken from the chicken biryani. The naan looked good, but had no flavor. It definitely needed salt.
We recently organized a lunch party for our family friends (around 30 people) at Mina’s. Raza was very helpful from the start to end. He was very accommodating with any menu changes and allowed us to come to the restaurant before our lunch to decorate the place as we wished. We told them our plan to arrange all tables in a certain way and have table cloths on all tables which the staff had already arranged prior to our arrival. That saved our time and we got to begin decorating and setting up everything. The lunch went very smoothly. Raza and Kiya made sure to clear plates, refill the buffet, and provide anything we requested. The food was delicious and the guests enjoyed the menu and loved everything, from appetizers to desserts to the mango lassi. We forgot to take pictures of the food, but everyone complimented it. The rate to host such a party was also very reasonable and you can make changes to the menu according to your budget. Overall, a wonderful experience and we will definitely keep Mina’s in mind whenever we host our next event. They are just amazing.
Went for a weekend buffet. We were the only family, no customer walked in after us. Not surprised because they have the worst food I have ever had in USA.Vegetable roll barely had any filling in it, Chickpeas were raw, Saag/Spinach you could see water floating over it. Butter chicken pieces were so hard they had to be cut with a knife, qeema aalo was also no different with tons of salt, chicken haleem is not even remotely related to haleem. Did not have courage to try bbq.Fountain drinks mostly out of order but even more horrible was the disgusting ice dispenser on it - most likely had fungus on it.We went as party of 4 , 2 kids. One ate a piece of butter chicken and the other one took one bite of vegetable roll - nothing els but charged full amount for all 4, Total bill 82.90$.I am all for small business / family owned but if you advertise yourself as authentic cuisine then make sure you put out authentic food.I will never ever recommend this restaurant to anyone.
Food tastes great! Problem was an hour before closing half of the kabob items including Chapli was not available. So I order karahi, but the portions were so small! 2 drumsticks and a chicken neck. Maybe they ran out of food, I’m not sure, but very very disappointing. I would not order take out again no matter how good the food tastes. And considering the location and atmosphere wouldn’t eat in. Crossing this off my list sadly.
Awesome buffet at a very reasonable price of around $17. Feel like the visibility of this restaurant is less and few people know about it. People from the indian subcontinent should give it a try. Buffet includes - chicken, goat, beef.
First time here. I ordered a takeout for butter chicken and also some sooji halwa. I havent had much halwa in the past so i have nothing to compare it to. But it was good. The butter chicken on the other hand, did not taste like butter chicken at all. It wasn’t creamy or sweet. It was watery and tastes like tomato sauce :( I honestly think it was a watered down tikka masala sauce. It was very disappointing to eat. I chose this restaurant arbitrarily since the usual indian place i go to opens late on fridays. But if i do find my way back here again, i just hope that their butter chicken is better than what i initially ordered. Very sad :(
DO NOT GO TO THIS RESTAURANT!! FALSE ADVERTISING!! I've been a member of yelp for as long as I can remember and this is the first restaurant review I have ever written. Unfortunately I can't review the food because I didn't get that far. I went far out of my way to try this restaurant expecting the lunch buffet to cost around $12.99. When the hostess approached me she said the buffet costs $17.99. I was taken aback by this cost and asked to speak with a manager or owner. None were around! She did say one would be back soon. I waited for half an hour but none showed up. After 20 minutes past the hostess told me I could only wait for 10 minutes. I left my name/number for the manager to return my call but I doubt will happen. There was nothing special on this buffet and no seafood to raise the price.
Restaurantji Recommends
I went when they first opened and got the Mina's Special for 2, which was really good. I've tried a couple times to order it again along with other items, but was always told the kitchen was closed and it was buffet only. I just figured the kitchen closed after a certain time and I was trying to order too late in the evening. Now it seems like they only offer buffet... which is not as appealing to me.
I asked for the menu and i surprised that the buffet is only option, the food wasn’t taste good at all. My kids they didn’t eat their food (they say we don’t like it) and i decide to take it with us(the food we already pay for it and my kids didn’t eat it, the lady in the front counter call me and say it’s not allowed to take it with you unless you pay again!!!!) i say okay we will not take it!They wrote outside the price for buffet is 9.99$, when we entered to dine in they didn’t let us know the price for dine in will be 14.99$. I feel surprised when they charged us. ( I told the lady on the front counter to make the price clear for customer’s or write it out side,the price for dine in is 14.99$)The buffet looks bad and without soup or salad !!To be fair,the only good thing the place was clean.We will not come again and I don’t recommend it for anyone.
I wanted to like this so much more than I did. Not my first time to this type of food and this buffet was lackluster at best. The rice was undercooked and crunchy - and not in the purposeful way of like a clay pot. The butter chicken was greasy. The saag was meh. The one saving grace here was the naan - that was excellent. Fresh and delish.
Made a reservation for iftar timeI called in advance and asked if their kitchen is open past the listed 7:00 time since we wanted to order fresh food instead of the buffet and my kids won’t eat anything from buffet and they said yes it will be open. Upon arrival we were told kitchen is closed because they had too many take out orders. If we were walk in that’s fine but i called in advance to make sure I can order straight from the kitchen and would not accommodate even chicken tenders for my kids. Absolutely horrible customer service and would not return. To turn away customers at iftar time that called in advance to make sure fresh ordered food could be accommodated is not ok. FYI all the guest sitting there had fresh ordered food and not the buffet food which did not even look great, and I was told I would have to pay full price for my 3 year old to eat from the buffet (and he eats barely anything)Stay away!!
No. Not an experience to repeat. I must have missed the memo, but I went on a Saturday night and the buffet was the only option. The food looked a little tired. Should have taken that as my cue and left, but it was late, around 7:30 and I was hungry and tired. We went for it. Of the meat dishes, one goat dish had a few scraps of meat amongst five pounds of bones. The meat I could find was the best of the buffet. The goat's feet dish had no meat I could find. Likewise the beef dish. I took 2 pieces I thought had a chance of being meat. When I took a bite I learned I was mistaken. I had to spit it out. The ground beef with potato was barely edible. The chicken biryani was dry, as was the tandoori chicken. The spinach was oversalted but passable. I didn't touch the mixed vegetables as the green peas looked very old. The naan brought to the table was passable. I asked for raita to try to salvage more of the meal and was brought something green with the consistency of water. My husband went up to order a menu item takeout for my son, which is when we learned the kitchen was closed. He filled a takeout container with butter chicken, mostly gravy since there wasn't much chicken left, and some of the beef with potato and basmati rice. Sad meal for my son and for his parents. Perhaps this place is great if the kitchen is open. I wonder how the stuff got to the buffet that night. Probably should have just closed the restaurant.