If you look more closely at most of the reviews for this place, you can tell they are mostly all purchased/written by bots. (i.e. short, once-sentence reviews, all from accounts with only one review, no profile pic, that says almost the exact same thing. Including one person who claimed that they dined in and rated the 'atmosphere' 5/5 despite this being a ghost kitchen that does take out only...but I digress...) Despite that, I still decided to give it a try for an old standby, the tikka masala and naan. When ordering, I was slightly disappointed that there was no option to choose a spice level, as I like things pretty spicy. I have to say, the tikka masala packs a pleasant heat that I am super happy with, but I think would probably be too spicy for the average person. The accompanying rice was overly spiced. Not spicy, but including a ton of herbs and spices and I had to pick out several bay leaves. Despite the good flavor, the tikka masala curry did not have very much chicken, and the naan was not fully warm.
Jules Mandel
Don’t be fooled, it’s a ghost kitchen not a real restaurant! I’m getting really sick of being tricked into ordering from the equivalent of a chain restaurant rather than local restaurants, which I’d rather support.
Olivia Rosenkoetter
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Paul Oshinski (Paul O)
Acceptable food, dystopian vibes.Ordered pickup and barely found the place given its one of these ghost kitchens that don’t have any decorations or food signage. I go in to pickup and not a soul is working here. All I see are lockers of food and a giant cafeteria kitchen. I had trouble opening the locker but no one was to be seen, just iPads and a dark, silent restaurant.The food itself was bland—the biryani was too simple and had maybe 5 pieces of chicken, basically paid $15 for a giant bowl of rice. The naan is unlike naan I’ve ever had at an Indian restaurant and had a weird chewy consistency (usually it’s crisp).Seems to be one of these corporate ghost kitchens with no real connection to this city. No dining room, no owner or staff to greet you, just iPads and lockers in a dark room. It felt like a Black Mirror episode in there.Won’t be back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Mason E.
Terrible food and terrible service. The people were absolutely rude. Why maybe because I don't like spicy food and they sell that as an insult not sure why that is. I do recognize some workers there as they come to my restaurant and we do not treat them like trash, unlike I was here. I asked for spicy food and when I received my food, it was extra spicy. I don't know if this is some sort of sick joke you have but hopefully you can stray out your entire business if that is anything about the ambience? It was OK it was actually quite interesting but that's about it. I'm not gonna post any pictures of the food as it was disgusting.
Siddharth C.
Food was awesome! Loved special chicken biryani and chili chicken was very flavorful. The complimentary dessert was yummy!
Arjun Cheerakathil
Food was quite good, especially the biriyani. Usually restaurant biriyanis are way too oily, I didn't feel super guilty eating this though. The chicken Tikka masla did have a raw flavor of masalas but maybe that's a one off, will give it another try at some point. I didn't realize that this was a ghost kitchen as we were just passing through Austin but having said that there were some picnic tables to sit at outside.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Steph Buongiorno
Eating this was a chore. No spices -- squeaky paneer -- the kofta balls were so hard you had to force your spoon into them. I just wanted to add an honest review here.
Sree R.
Ordered lamb curry and chicken 65 spicy. Food was flavorful and rightly spiced. Will try again.
If you look more closely at most of the reviews for this place, you can tell they are mostly all purchased/written by bots. (i.e. short, once sentence reviews, all from accounts with only one review, no profile pic, that say almost the exact same thing. Including one person who claimed that they dined in and rated the 'atmosphere' 5/5 despite this being a ghost kitchen that does take out only...but I digress...) Despite that, I still decided to give it a try for an old stand-by, the tikka masala and naan. When ordering, I was slightly disappointed that there was no option to choose a spice level, as I like things pretty spicy. I have to say, the tikka masala packs a pleasant heat that I am super happy with, but I think would probably be too spicy for the average person. The accompanying rice was overly spiced. Not spicy, but including a ton of herbs and spices and I had to pick out several bay leaves. Despite the good flavor, the tikka masala curry did not have very much chicken, and the naan was not fully warm.
If you look more closely at most of the reviews for this place, you can tell they are mostly all purchased/written by bots. (i.e. short, once-sentence reviews, all from accounts with only one review, no profile pic, that says almost the exact same thing. Including one person who claimed that they dined in and rated the 'atmosphere' 5/5 despite this being a ghost kitchen that does take out only...but I digress...) Despite that, I still decided to give it a try for an old standby, the tikka masala and naan. When ordering, I was slightly disappointed that there was no option to choose a spice level, as I like things pretty spicy. I have to say, the tikka masala packs a pleasant heat that I am super happy with, but I think would probably be too spicy for the average person. The accompanying rice was overly spiced. Not spicy, but including a ton of herbs and spices and I had to pick out several bay leaves. Despite the good flavor, the tikka masala curry did not have very much chicken, and the naan was not fully warm.
Don’t be fooled, it’s a ghost kitchen not a real restaurant! I’m getting really sick of being tricked into ordering from the equivalent of a chain restaurant rather than local restaurants, which I’d rather support.
Hair in food
Acceptable food, dystopian vibes.Ordered pickup and barely found the place given its one of these ghost kitchens that don’t have any decorations or food signage. I go in to pickup and not a soul is working here. All I see are lockers of food and a giant cafeteria kitchen. I had trouble opening the locker but no one was to be seen, just iPads and a dark, silent restaurant.The food itself was bland—the biryani was too simple and had maybe 5 pieces of chicken, basically paid $15 for a giant bowl of rice. The naan is unlike naan I’ve ever had at an Indian restaurant and had a weird chewy consistency (usually it’s crisp).Seems to be one of these corporate ghost kitchens with no real connection to this city. No dining room, no owner or staff to greet you, just iPads and lockers in a dark room. It felt like a Black Mirror episode in there.Won’t be back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Terrible food and terrible service. The people were absolutely rude. Why maybe because I don't like spicy food and they sell that as an insult not sure why that is. I do recognize some workers there as they come to my restaurant and we do not treat them like trash, unlike I was here. I asked for spicy food and when I received my food, it was extra spicy. I don't know if this is some sort of sick joke you have but hopefully you can stray out your entire business if that is anything about the ambience? It was OK it was actually quite interesting but that's about it. I'm not gonna post any pictures of the food as it was disgusting.
Food was awesome! Loved special chicken biryani and chili chicken was very flavorful. The complimentary dessert was yummy!
Food was quite good, especially the biriyani. Usually restaurant biriyanis are way too oily, I didn't feel super guilty eating this though. The chicken Tikka masla did have a raw flavor of masalas but maybe that's a one off, will give it another try at some point. I didn't realize that this was a ghost kitchen as we were just passing through Austin but having said that there were some picnic tables to sit at outside.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Eating this was a chore. No spices -- squeaky paneer -- the kofta balls were so hard you had to force your spoon into them. I just wanted to add an honest review here.
Ordered lamb curry and chicken 65 spicy. Food was flavorful and rightly spiced. Will try again.
Food 5/5
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If you look more closely at most of the reviews for this place, you can tell they are mostly all purchased/written by bots. (i.e. short, once sentence reviews, all from accounts with only one review, no profile pic, that say almost the exact same thing. Including one person who claimed that they dined in and rated the 'atmosphere' 5/5 despite this being a ghost kitchen that does take out only...but I digress...) Despite that, I still decided to give it a try for an old stand-by, the tikka masala and naan. When ordering, I was slightly disappointed that there was no option to choose a spice level, as I like things pretty spicy. I have to say, the tikka masala packs a pleasant heat that I am super happy with, but I think would probably be too spicy for the average person. The accompanying rice was overly spiced. Not spicy, but including a ton of herbs and spices and I had to pick out several bay leaves. Despite the good flavor, the tikka masala curry did not have very much chicken, and the naan was not fully warm.
Spl Mughlai biryani was delicious.
Food was amazing . especially the Biryani!
Best place for indian varities with quality food.
Perfect place to have authentic biryani