Cafe Tandoor

I gave this 5 stars 4 years ago. This was my favorite Indian restaurant. Yesterday, June 4, 2022, I drove my family of 3, 35 to 40 minutes on a Saturday evening and arrived at 7:30, and there appeared to be about 6 tables of guests. The restaurant looked like it was at 1/3 to 1/2 capacity. At first, I was told they would not take us. Then that it would be a 45 minute wait. We left. I doubt that I will waste gas trying to go here again.

Food was just OK compared to other Indian restaurants in the area (Indian Delight, Ruchi and Desi Chowrastha. For the quality of the food served and service, I personally feel they are over priced. Naans were good. Chicken tikka was nowhere flavorful. It tasted just like boiled white meat. My biggest disappointment was their chicken biryani. It looked more like porridge than a biryani. It got spoiled within few hours of keeping it outside. I will never go in again.

We really like the food there and that’s why we ordered food for Mother’s Day. I ordered online and got a confirmation to pick my food up 55 minutes later. I arrived at the restaurant and was asked for the name. They went back in the kitchen and told me it will take another 5 minutes. After 20 minutes I asked again and actually figured out my order slip was still in their printer 😞 Now they told me that they will work on it, but they are out of some stuff. So I didn’t get what I want and waited 50 minutes for it.

Today first time we went to this place and was expecting to have some Indian flavour food. We ordered chicken biryani for my kids, one vegetables tandoor grilled and Rogan gosh, that served very fast but food was not at all close to any indian taste. In particular the biryani they served I had never seen and ate such baseless and tasteless biryani ever and same with all the other dishes we ordered. I am sure the biryani they served was even 1%close to actual taste of biryani. In the name of India they are making fool to other people and spoiling the name. Try paradise biryani parma if you want to see the difference or for vegetarian Annapurna ..ridge road parma is good particularly their Punjabi Thali and chat.