Always a fantastic experience! I just love the food, the cocktails, and the wonderful service—everything is fabulous!
Martina
We really enjoyed our dinner at ROOH. The food and cocktails were excellent—highlights were the chicken tikka small plate, the tiger prawns and lamb large plate, and the chai tiramisu for dessert. Everything was beautifully presented and full of flavor. The only thing I wish was different is that the large plates were a bit bigger, as the portions felt more like tasting sizes. That said, I understand the menu is designed for sharing and a more curated experience. Overall, a creative and flavorful meal with a great atmosphere.
Ryan
Always enjoy Rooh, and the cauliflower was fire as usual, but I was underwhelmed by the rest of the meal- as in I'd never recommend any else of what we ordered to anyone. However, the service was great, and they went the extra mile to make my friend's birthday great. Going to call it an off night and will definitely be back, hopefully to leave a better review.
Nadia
It is an all around wonderful experience with the immersive decor preparing you for the eclectic fusion of the flavors to come. The delectable choices of dishes, so elegently presented pay homage to this ancient cuisine in what we have come to know and love as the flavors of India and here with a little touch of poetic flare! We will be back. Thank you the service was excellent .
CL
Rooh was perfect in every way. HIGHLY recommend this restaurant. The food was beautiful and the service was spectacular. Bartender, MaryAnn, will make you the cocktail of your dreams. You won't regret dining there!!
Tony
Food was so good and our server was very knowledgeable of all the taste/flavors. Highly recommend the jaggery salted ice cream!
David
This was our first time back to ROOH in about a year and a half. I wish we hadn't waited that long. We had the restaurant week menu and everything was very well prepared and presented and tasted great. The service was also attentive and prompt. The only negative was that I had informed the restaurant through this app that it was our anniversary, but there was no acknowledgment of that while we were there.
Dyana
My husband and I took his parents during restaurant week and everything was so good. The restaurant is beautiful and we had excellent service. This was our second visit to ROOH and we will definitely be back.
Ilona Szekely
There is a lot of average Indian food out there but Rooh is on another level. It is one that we have only experience at restaurants like Deshoom in London.
The hostess was so wonderful her personality is the best way to walk into a restaurant.
The wait staff was perfection and unlike so many restaurants nowadays the pacing of the 3 course meal for restaurant week was perfection. Each course more tasty and beautifully prepared than the next.
We don’t come to Columbus often but I would consider coming back just to eat here, and we will for sure be back next time we are in town.
I just wish we would have Indian food this good anywhere near where we live. This place is a gem.
Ilona
There is a lot of average Indian food out there but Rooh is on another level. It is one that we have only experience at restaurants like Deshoom in London. The hostess was so wonderful her personality is the best way to walk into a restaurant. The wait staff was perfection and unlike so many restaurants nowadays the pacing of the 3 course meal for restaurant week was perfection. Each course more tasty and beautifully prepared than the next. We don't come to Columbus often but I would consider coming back just to eat here, and we will for sure be back next time we are in town. I just wish we would have Indian food this good anywhere near where we live. This place is a gem.
Dining ar ROOH Columbus was a great experience that artfully blended Indian flavors with contemporary ambiance. For drinks we ordered Gulab Spritz and Paan Clouds which were refreshing and unique. Food menu was equally creative and elevated, we started with Cauliflower Koliwada, sweet potato chat and Lamb Keema Hyderabadi. They all were presented beautifully and were full of flavors. For entrees, we had butter chicken and Feta Saag. Butter chicken was spot on perfectly balanced of rich but not heavy, usually Indian restaurants have cookie cutter saag paneer but replacing paneer with feta cheese was so unique and elevated the whole experience. For desserts we ordered, chai tiramisu and carrot halwa cake and hard to pick one, both were equally good. Top class service just elevated the whole experience to a different level. If you are looking for sophisticated, flavorful, creative Indian food in central Ohio, ROOH is must visit place.
Cassidy
Everything was absolutely incredible, we will definitely be going back. The chili and cheese naan is a must have! We thought about our food the rest of the night.
H
I was excited to try this place after the franklin park cocktail competition.
Got a margarita, a mule, the sweet potato chaat, saag, garlic naan and chili naan. Fellow diner got the pista sour and paan clouds and kofta.
The drinks have great profiles. My only gripe is that it is $14 for an immensely small amount of fluid. My mango mule was served in a comically tiny glass that had mostly ice in it, and I literally finished it in two small drinks. The taste though - fantastic.
The chaat was also very good and I recommend this shareable/starter type plate.
The entrees and naan were terrible. I requested spicy, and there weren't a lick of spice in anything. Both mains (kofta and saag) were shockingly bland, tiny amounts served on noisy textured plates. The saag is a blob of gooey baked feta in a bland green sauce. I did sense a small amount of a cinnamoney type flavor, but that's it. I do not recommend this type of cheese at all for saag.
The kofta was bizarre and actually tasted like unseasoned American breakfast gravy. The pale white stuff, but with no pepper or seasoning.
The bread was insulting. The chili naan is an $8 single piece of bread that honestly looks like a late-night drunk college student's microwave creation. A hardened, greasy piece of bread that someone put some type of yellow or orange cheese on it and it hardened. The garlic naan is a single piece of bread cut in half and served in a casket for precisely no reason.
Obviously we didn't eat it all, and I think I could help the gravies with some seasoning so I asked for togo boxes. They do not offer to box your items, you have to do it at your tiny table, shuffling the plates and glasses to try and make room.
Last, you have to have a cellphone to read the food menu because they don't have paper menus for food, only drinks. That should have been my warning, but I will say that a business that charges 8 bucks for a single piece of bread and $14 for 3 ounces of fluid can afford to print a paper menu for their patrons and box their takeaways.
While whoever is curating the drink profiles is clearly a wonderfully talented and skilled person, I don't recommend, unfortunately.
Giorgio Pereira
The not so good? One thing, and it stings.
The food, our server (Tony, he's cool as hell), the place? All great and fire.
The not so good. The host was friendly enough and the performative aspect of being a host task doesn't escape me. We had gone in there to celebrate a birthday, we went during happy hour and our host asked us if we were sitting at the bar or a table, we indicated table. This is where it goes horribly sideways. This was a Friday, the dining room was not buzzing or too busy. We ordered items from the happy hour menu, and yeah the food is straight fire and Tony our server was great. The issue arose when the bill came up; no happy hour menu pricing was applied and this is because we sat at a table. The host never explained the policy of bar sitting and happy hour pricing whereby sitting at a table is considered non happy hour seating. It is labeled in the menu available on the QR code, but the issue is that this is a Friday after work; the last place where I expect to look over my shoulder is in a hospitality setting and it burns because it feels as though we got taken for a ride. Will I come back? YES!
The food is great, the servers are awesome, the drinks are a direct competition to the food in a ranking sense and totally compliment each other, the policy is poorly explained and honestly kinda trash. Instead of happy hour we went to oh what the hell hour, knocks the place down quite a bit and it's a bummer.
(Service: 2 stars, Tony you get 5 though)
Madalyn Lynch
Food was excellent as always!! HOWEVER even though we went to Happy Hour and have been many times before and were given a happy hour menu apparently if you sit at a table and not the bar—you don’t get the half off drinks and appetizers—nearly doubling our bill. I wish the server or host would have informed us. This had never happened to us before today’s visit and it seems like a money grab/someone could/should have informed us of this updated policy that had never been an issue in the past.
Always a fantastic experience! I just love the food, the cocktails, and the wonderful service—everything is fabulous!
We really enjoyed our dinner at ROOH. The food and cocktails were excellent—highlights were the chicken tikka small plate, the tiger prawns and lamb large plate, and the chai tiramisu for dessert. Everything was beautifully presented and full of flavor. The only thing I wish was different is that the large plates were a bit bigger, as the portions felt more like tasting sizes. That said, I understand the menu is designed for sharing and a more curated experience. Overall, a creative and flavorful meal with a great atmosphere.
Always enjoy Rooh, and the cauliflower was fire as usual, but I was underwhelmed by the rest of the meal- as in I'd never recommend any else of what we ordered to anyone. However, the service was great, and they went the extra mile to make my friend's birthday great. Going to call it an off night and will definitely be back, hopefully to leave a better review.
It is an all around wonderful experience with the immersive decor preparing you for the eclectic fusion of the flavors to come. The delectable choices of dishes, so elegently presented pay homage to this ancient cuisine in what we have come to know and love as the flavors of India and here with a little touch of poetic flare! We will be back. Thank you the service was excellent .
Rooh was perfect in every way. HIGHLY recommend this restaurant. The food was beautiful and the service was spectacular. Bartender, MaryAnn, will make you the cocktail of your dreams. You won't regret dining there!!
Food was so good and our server was very knowledgeable of all the taste/flavors. Highly recommend the jaggery salted ice cream!
This was our first time back to ROOH in about a year and a half. I wish we hadn't waited that long. We had the restaurant week menu and everything was very well prepared and presented and tasted great. The service was also attentive and prompt. The only negative was that I had informed the restaurant through this app that it was our anniversary, but there was no acknowledgment of that while we were there.
My husband and I took his parents during restaurant week and everything was so good. The restaurant is beautiful and we had excellent service. This was our second visit to ROOH and we will definitely be back.
There is a lot of average Indian food out there but Rooh is on another level. It is one that we have only experience at restaurants like Deshoom in London. The hostess was so wonderful her personality is the best way to walk into a restaurant. The wait staff was perfection and unlike so many restaurants nowadays the pacing of the 3 course meal for restaurant week was perfection. Each course more tasty and beautifully prepared than the next. We don’t come to Columbus often but I would consider coming back just to eat here, and we will for sure be back next time we are in town. I just wish we would have Indian food this good anywhere near where we live. This place is a gem.
There is a lot of average Indian food out there but Rooh is on another level. It is one that we have only experience at restaurants like Deshoom in London. The hostess was so wonderful her personality is the best way to walk into a restaurant. The wait staff was perfection and unlike so many restaurants nowadays the pacing of the 3 course meal for restaurant week was perfection. Each course more tasty and beautifully prepared than the next. We don't come to Columbus often but I would consider coming back just to eat here, and we will for sure be back next time we are in town. I just wish we would have Indian food this good anywhere near where we live. This place is a gem.
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Dining ar ROOH Columbus was a great experience that artfully blended Indian flavors with contemporary ambiance. For drinks we ordered Gulab Spritz and Paan Clouds which were refreshing and unique. Food menu was equally creative and elevated, we started with Cauliflower Koliwada, sweet potato chat and Lamb Keema Hyderabadi. They all were presented beautifully and were full of flavors. For entrees, we had butter chicken and Feta Saag. Butter chicken was spot on perfectly balanced of rich but not heavy, usually Indian restaurants have cookie cutter saag paneer but replacing paneer with feta cheese was so unique and elevated the whole experience. For desserts we ordered, chai tiramisu and carrot halwa cake and hard to pick one, both were equally good. Top class service just elevated the whole experience to a different level. If you are looking for sophisticated, flavorful, creative Indian food in central Ohio, ROOH is must visit place.
Everything was absolutely incredible, we will definitely be going back. The chili and cheese naan is a must have! We thought about our food the rest of the night.
I was excited to try this place after the franklin park cocktail competition.
Got a margarita, a mule, the sweet potato chaat, saag, garlic naan and chili naan. Fellow diner got the pista sour and paan clouds and kofta.
The drinks have great profiles. My only gripe is that it is $14 for an immensely small amount of fluid. My mango mule was served in a comically tiny glass that had mostly ice in it, and I literally finished it in two small drinks. The taste though - fantastic.
The chaat was also very good and I recommend this shareable/starter type plate.
The entrees and naan were terrible. I requested spicy, and there weren't a lick of spice in anything. Both mains (kofta and saag) were shockingly bland, tiny amounts served on noisy textured plates. The saag is a blob of gooey baked feta in a bland green sauce. I did sense a small amount of a cinnamoney type flavor, but that's it. I do not recommend this type of cheese at all for saag.
The kofta was bizarre and actually tasted like unseasoned American breakfast gravy. The pale white stuff, but with no pepper or seasoning.
The bread was insulting. The chili naan is an $8 single piece of bread that honestly looks like a late-night drunk college student's microwave creation. A hardened, greasy piece of bread that someone put some type of yellow or orange cheese on it and it hardened. The garlic naan is a single piece of bread cut in half and served in a casket for precisely no reason.
Obviously we didn't eat it all, and I think I could help the gravies with some seasoning so I asked for togo boxes. They do not offer to box your items, you have to do it at your tiny table, shuffling the plates and glasses to try and make room.
Last, you have to have a cellphone to read the food menu because they don't have paper menus for food, only drinks. That should have been my warning, but I will say that a business that charges 8 bucks for a single piece of bread and $14 for 3 ounces of fluid can afford to print a paper menu for their patrons and box their takeaways.
While whoever is curating the drink profiles is clearly a wonderfully talented and skilled person, I don't recommend, unfortunately.
The not so good? One thing, and it stings.
The food, our server (Tony, he's cool as hell), the place? All great and fire.
The not so good. The host was friendly enough and the performative aspect of being a host task doesn't escape me. We had gone in there to celebrate a birthday, we went during happy hour and our host asked us if we were sitting at the bar or a table, we indicated table. This is where it goes horribly sideways. This was a Friday, the dining room was not buzzing or too busy. We ordered items from the happy hour menu, and yeah the food is straight fire and Tony our server was great. The issue arose when the bill came up; no happy hour menu pricing was applied and this is because we sat at a table. The host never explained the policy of bar sitting and happy hour pricing whereby sitting at a table is considered non happy hour seating. It is labeled in the menu available on the QR code, but the issue is that this is a Friday after work; the last place where I expect to look over my shoulder is in a hospitality setting and it burns because it feels as though we got taken for a ride. Will I come back? YES!
The food is great, the servers are awesome, the drinks are a direct competition to the food in a ranking sense and totally compliment each other, the policy is poorly explained and honestly kinda trash. Instead of happy hour we went to oh what the hell hour, knocks the place down quite a bit and it's a bummer.
(Service: 2 stars, Tony you get 5 though)
Food was excellent as always!! HOWEVER even though we went to Happy Hour and have been many times before and were given a happy hour menu apparently if you sit at a table and not the bar—you don’t get the half off drinks and appetizers—nearly doubling our bill. I wish the server or host would have informed us. This had never happened to us before today’s visit and it seems like a money grab/someone could/should have informed us of this updated policy that had never been an issue in the past.
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