The sudden chill during daytime made us crave comfort food, so we headed to this Bangladeshi restaurant. The owner and employees were rather warm and friendly and thus, service was rather good. There were other customers talking in Bengali and the servers were talking to us in Bengali so it made us feel more at home (we are Bengali). The food was good to average to be honest, but when you crave comfort food, even average comfort food can seem heavenly. So, I cannot give this restaurant less than 4 stars. However, I would say that the goat kachhi biryani and the chapli kebab were quite good, and comparable to other good Bangladeshi restaurants' offerings. read more

Darul Kabab - Goat Biryani - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Several years ago, I took my mom for her birthdyto this restaurant. The kacchi biryani was supposed to be cooked with potatoes. When the dish came without potatoes and my mom asked the server about it, the server came back about 10 minutes later and handed her a bowl with a few fried pieces of potatoes. Based on recommendations from family friends, I ordered the same dish for delivery, excited that the chef must have changed because everyone said the cooking is awesome. Truly disappointed! The food is bland and the fried potato piece is hard as a rock. read more

Darul Kabab - Kacchi Biryani-bland food with a hard as rock fried potato - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

It is hard sometimes to find Bangladeshi food, I am happy to say I have found a great spot in the Boston area! The food is incredible and reminds me of my mom's homemade Bangladeshi food, the owner and staff are always so sweet and welcoming to my family and I, as well as a cute ambiance inside the restaurant as well. Clean and nice. Definitely will be coming back whenever I am in the mood for the best goat Biryani in town and a bowl of haleem. read more

Absolutely love that I can get true Bengladeshi dishes that remind me of home. The goat biryani in particular is close to my heart. Grateful for these folks. read more

The service was good, and the Naan -was fresh . The meat was stale . we ordered the mix Kebob platter, and were disappointed. read more

Ordered via Uber Eats. Was craving homemade Pakistani food and came across this place which seemed to have really good reviews. I decided to order via UberEats. I got chicken biryani and Tandoori Chicken. The chicken biryani was OK and nothing out of the ordinary (as the reviews had suggested). The Tandoori Chicken though was really good. The chicken was cooked to perfection and could taste the tikka. The portion sizes are also very big so definitely worth the money. read more

Have been to this restaurant twice in a span of 20 days and the food seems to be consistently good. They have really flavorful biryani both chicken and goat. We also got jilebi which is their special sweet during the month of Ramzan. The jilebis were thick than I am used to but tastewise they were better than any of the one I have had in the recent past in this area. Only downside is their service is slow. We got really good service just a little slow. It is not a place to go if you are in a rush. But if you want to have authentic, homely food in a relaxed setting, you won't be disappointed. read more

Hands down the best Biriyani in the whole region. Being a Bengali myself( although from Kolkata and not Bangladesh) this is the closest of all that I can get which I want. Did just drool over biriyani only? Well their meat preps are really up there and can compete with a lot of other top performing rivals. Not much complaints however 1) the communication and 2) their place being only so much. Sometimes you feel the service can be better. Again, one learns to compromise with everything and focus on the need : "good food". read more

I have been coming here ever since I was little. Their quality of food and service has become the WORST. My family and I went for dinner tonight and ordered haleem. The portions are mediocre and it tastes many days old. Their food is going down hill and they still continue to raise the prices. The last few times were bad as well as they continue to serve old food, but this time the line was drawn. Ruined our evening. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY HERE!!! -100/10 You're better off getting McDonalds read more

Daryl Kabab is our go-to, neighborhood Indian food restaurant. It's delicious, friendly and has parking. We don't eat out much, but we order takeout about once a month from here. We like that they offer more "off the beaten path" dishes like okra bhaji, goat curry, but also the traditional favorites like chicken Tikka masala, veggie samosa (spicy but good), aloo paneer, naans and parathas are excellent. read more

I'm in Boston for last few months ... Of course as a Muslim I always look for halal restaurant so 3 days ago I was looking a halal bengali cuisine restaurant for catering bengali food so recommended by one of my friend because she told me that's her Mama's restaurant ... so I ordered goat Rezala (Bengali style) from *Darul Kabab* which is located in Cambridge,MA Guess what I got Goat curry for $110(Half tray) .. I mean I can make more delicious and perfect by watching video on YouTube so I called them to let those people know about it .. And the guy was telling me sorry * I don't know what was that , I'm new over here so I just placed order to the chef * I don't know is that chef from from noahkhali or no otherwise he suppose to know there is different between goat curry and Goat rejala Thanks for wasting my money Good luck with your business read more

Darul Kabab - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Excellent food really pleased that they have survived Covid. They're an awesome takeout.

I am Bangladeshi American and my mom is a great cook so I am very picky with South Asian Cuisines. I haven't been able to visit my family due to COVID travel restrictions so I thought why not order food that reminds me of home? And boy it did not disappoint! The Kachi biriyani was melt in your mouth good. More oily than my mom makes but hey I was treating myself! The shik kebab and moglai paratha were also great. Most of the bad reviews of this place are people ordering soups/salads.... like bruh go to a regular cafe for that stuff. If you want great biriyani and kebabs then go to Darul! read more

Darul Kabab - Shik kebab Kacchi Biryani Moglai Paratha - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

I'm a Bengali from Kolkata, and this is the closest I have come to finding Kolkata Biriyani in Boston. Their Kachchi Biriyani is amazing - not super oily and the goat pieces are so tender and melt in your mouth. Pair it with the sweet-and-spicy Borhani, and you're set! read more

Our family loves food! We try different restaurants all around the world & we order a decent quantity of food so we can taste a variety on the menu. After a very long time I felt compelled to give a negative review. We are paying customers and should be treated as such. We were completely ignored. Even when we asked for a napkin with the appetizers they said they would give us one at dinner???? The waitress forgot to bring out the samosas (we never got them), they didn't bring out any raita, no salad... & then they brought out a dish of raw potatoes. She took the potato dish back and didn't come back with it anymore. I asked her for the dish and she said she can't fix it, yet she charged me for it. She brought me an extra cup of tea that I didn't ask for and charged me for that as well. The service was horrible. The butter chicken was good. The pani puri was good. The Karahi chicken (we ordered boneless and they brought us with bone and we just ate it) was raw and red. The beef was good. The daal was good. The naan was good. The potatoes were raw and they never did bring it out again saying she doesn't know what to do about it. The mango lassi tasted like they made it for diabetics. The tea had no color but tasted okay. The rice was cooked. Overall it wasn't a good experience, go somewhere else to eat this really wasn't worth it. Leaves me wondering why I left a tip. Looked like the owner was present, but he didn't stop by to apologize about the food. It was loud. Bad service. The best part was the A/C works! read more

This place is halal and great for buffet and takeouts. Really close to HLS. I love their Haleem from appetizers. Service and seating place is nice too. I think this place is seriously under-rated. Its better than a lot of other South Asian places in the area. Should definitely give it a try! read more

Quality has gone down so much over the years. I have to echo the same comment as below about the fuchka being absolutely terrible. The filling literally smelled old and looked grey and mushy. It tasted like it went bad and even the topping looked old like pre chopped and mixed and sitting in the fridge for days. Completely inedible. read more

Great food and great service. Had the Biryani, Haleem, kabobs, and butter chicken and everything tasted amazing. This is the only place in the Boston area that has authentic Bengali Food. Try this place out if you haven't already! read more

If you are looking for awesome Indian food this place is for you. I eat a ton of Indian, and the food at Darul Kabab is definitely my favorite in the Boston area....well, for take-out anyway. Sure you can wine about the service not being perfect, but in some senses it is charming and they are certainly making progress. **4.5 Stars for the food **3.5 Stars for the service/atmosphere **5 Stars to counter-act June M's 1-star review that judges an INDIAN RESTAURANT for a FISH BURGER...what's up with that? I'm glad they have the burgers/pizza/etc on the menu so that your picky friends, or children, can eat something while you get better food. read more

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DK is taste-TAY! I'm never disappointed when I come here. The food is good and the prices are about average for Indian fare. Afternoon buffet dishes are great and rotate during the week. It's the best time to come (IMO) bcz the restaurant is quiet but does a 180 for dinner and there's lots of hustle and bustle going on. The lunch buffet is daily until 3pm and features 11 dishes for $12.99. There is also a dinner buffet on Monday and Tuesdays which has 14 dishes. They've recently added fish curry to the buffet and it was a welcome addition. However, it's LOADED with bones so you need to eat it super cautiously. When you walk in, the open space is welcoming and the colors are vibrant. Can you smell it? The curry? The faint smell of garlic? Tandoori chicken in clay pots? The fresh naan. *my mouth is literally salivating at the moment* The massive flat screens are a bit distracting but after a few minutes you're able to tune them out. After you've settled in and ordered your water, make your way over to the serving stations (proud of yourself for choosing the buffet bcz you get to sample, almost, the entire menu) and 'plate-up'. Once you've made it back to your table you discover the server has brought fresh, hot, glistening naan over. Sit. Feast. It's been a long day and there's nothing like a tasty meal to make you forget about that annoying biker who ran the red light and clipped your side mirror. You have naan. Hot naan. And curry. All is right with the world. read more

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Visiting Boston, this place was highly recommended by locals. Had their buffet lunch on Saturday and fuchka and chotpoti as appetizers. The fuchka and chotpoti was soggy, chotpoti was too sweet. Tasted well though. Their buffet was decent. The potato bhaji and the beef curry were the best among all the items. The fish curry was with tilapia and tasted decent. Two stars because of the soggy fuchka and chotpoti. Four stars for the buffet. read more

Darul is seriously good. Has THE BEST/most flavorful korma I've ever had... and I've cooked and eaten a lot of Indian over my lifetime. The samosas? Also amazing! Generous portions, everything tasted superb that I've had so far. It's my new favorite Indian joint in my neighborhood. They are a new business, so yeah, the banjos on the wall and the cramped seating can be questionable... but the food will always be worth it. read more

So, I flew back to Boston on the last flight before they started canceling flights due to the blizzard. Having been gone for almost a week, I knew there was nothing waiting for me in my fridge, and my food options were getting slimmer and slimmer by the minute. I was pleasantly surprised to find Darul Kabab open as I walked home!! I would have ordered tons of food, but, since I didn't know it was open (having been gone for the holiday and all), I had already ordered dinner from a Chinese take-out place. Instead, I ordered a few appetizers and nan. I will start by saying that the service was great. They quickly attended to me and prepared my food fresh upon ordering. Since this was an impluse visit, I had to pay with credit card, and they didn't get mad at me for busting it out for an order under $10! Now, there is a $10 minimum stated on the menu, but since there was a blizzard maybe he was being nice! In any case, I felt very bad about it and I try not to do that to small businesses, but I truly had no cash on me. The value is great! $1.50 for nan! $1.00 for a giant veggie Samosa! And they were delicious! I also ordered Chotpoti, to try something new, which was a chickpea, tamarind, and egg dish. While I didn't particularly care for it, it was freshly prepared and tasty for what it was, and would probably be pleasing if that was what you were expecting. I know it has tamarind, but I wasn't expecting it to be as tart as it was...some how, I was expecting something creamier or something, I don't know. My fault, I know. So far, this place is tasty, quick, and quite inexpensive! They even have a cool little breakfast menu!! It's menu overlaps slightly with the menu across the street, so I can't wait to go and try more stuff out and then compare! So far, so good! It has a small dining area inside, with table service, but you can also easily get take out service. It looks like while most items are prepared to order, there are some pre-made items (like rice dishes, and curried meats which probably take much much longer to prepare) which appear to be refrigerated on display at the front counter. Perhaps so you can see what the daily special is, I am not sure. Everything looked so good my husband quickly commented to me that he wanted to come back and try more food soon! read more

Darul Kabab - Some premade items. - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Last night, we decided to try a new Indian restaurant and chose Darul Kebab. When we first received the food and opened up the packaging, you could see the separation of the oil immediately. I ordered the butter chicken with garlic naan and my boyfriend ordered a fish curry with garlic naan. When I took my first bite of the food the butter chicken was incredibly sweet. I ate some portions of it but it felt as though whoever the cook was had forgotten or mistakenly included sugar instead of salt. After eating we both had really bad stomach aches and would highly not recommend ordering from here again. read more

It was an average experience. Their website is fancy, so I had high expectations from both food and ambience. We had the mixed kebab platter which had 5 kebabs. It came with small bowl of raita (not sufficient for 2). The salad and raita came late. Kebab and nan came first. It was plain nan. There was no gravy. The kebabs were not that flavorful. They were passable. I asked for green chutney which again lacked flavor. Quantity was ok. Both of us were full.. read more

Darul Kabab - Nan served with kebab platter - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

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I had food poisoning yesterday after eating chicken biriyani. Stomach pain was so bad made me bend over at times. Chicken cubes look old and dry. I usually eat all, this time I couldn't finish because that chicken was suspicious. After twenty minutes in the toilet, the pain was gone. This is it. I've been eating here since 2011. No more. Good bye. Mostafa A. read more

Craving Bangladeshi or Pakistani cuisine? This is your best bet in the area. Food tastes fresh, biryani and curries come out hot and hold great flavor. Kabobs are juicy. Save room for desert. Prices are reasonable, maybe a bit higher than your average South Asian restaurant, but since the food is quite good you'll still be getting good value. Parking is a non-issue since they have a lot. read more

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Inexpensive, and amazing service. I especially love mulligatawny soup; however it wasn't on the menu. Their server said, "no problem we will make it for you". They also created another vegetarian dish with the sauce I like. Now a day, you don't see this kind of service anymore. I will for sure to visit them again when I am in Cambridge! read more

Friend surprised me with lunch today! Tried the buffet. Rice was cooked perfectly, Chicken Tiki Marsala was good beef curry was tender, they had a good selection of Indian, Bangledish and Pakistani items. The naan was absolutely fresh and tasty. read more

Darul Kabab - Indian Near Me - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Very bad service! We had to wait forever to get our food. The food that wasn't that great either.

I love this place. I find it more authentic than most of the Indian restaurants around Boston. I always order from their menu. Their kebabs are really delicious. I was very disappointed having Biriyani in few Indian restaurants around Boston. This place changed my mind. You must try their kachhi Biriyani. I on and off try their Seafood, Chicken, Karahi special. Service is also good. They are pretty friendly. read more

If you are craving for authentic Bangladeshi cuisines, this place has your back. Food quality is great and very authentic.

Look, Darul Kabab. Figure out what your shtick is. I'm rooting for you, I really am, but I'm not betting on you. I've prepared a list for you, Mr. D. Kabab, for your convenience. Once you have addressed these issues, I shall return. Otherwise, I fear you will go down in flames like the ill-fated Banjos. 1. Get rid of the banjos on the wall. They were cute when the restaurant that resided in the building was called "Banjos," not Darul Kabab. 2. Are you a fast food, eat-in, or take out place? The only reason I ask Is because when we ate there our food came out after a reasonable wait, but there were people waiting around for take out since before we got there and were still waiting after we left. Their faces looked like this :( 3. Fire all of your wait staff, or train them how to be waiters/waitresses. Here are some guidelines that I know have worked for other establishments: (a) Refill my water when it is empty, or approaching empty. If the customer asks for refills more than three times over the course of the meal, he will be less than enthused. (b) Be less awkward. Seriously. Stop it. (c) When a customer orders something, please actually bring them what they ordered instead of forgetting about it and then still leaving it on the bill. (d) The owner was very friendly and came over a few times to check on us to make sure we were happy. If all of the staff have his enthusiasm and demeanor, most of your problems will go away. 4. Either rearrange the tables, or get rid of some of them. The waitresses literally were walking along the walls because there was no walking room between tables. All these things considered, the food was very good. Overall, I think they deserved 2.5 stars, but I am giving them three because I love these types of businesses and want them to succeed. I have a feeling they are just experiencing the problems that most new restaurants face and are still working out the kinks. I will definitely come back when I see that the Yelp reviews are improving. read more

We ordered food for take out as I received a 10% off flyer in the mail and figured I would give this new Paki/Indian spot a chance. Well, lets just say half of our order did not make it home as they FORGOT TO PUT IT INTO THE BAG!!! When I called to complain they said I could come back and pick it up--REALLY!!! CAN I COME BACK AND PICK IT UP...what you are doing me a favor by allowing me to make 2 trips to your spot from Ctrl sq at 4 pm on a Thursday...when I requested they deliver it (Mr. Mohammad) indicated he couldn't and that when we return he would give us free dessert....yes that is gonna make up for the fact that you ruined my dinner. Suffice to say I had lost my appetite before I even ate their food. As far as the food: the lamb karai was decent...a bit overcooked. The chicken kebab are too dry and I guess I will have to wait for the rest of my order to report back what it actually tastes like... Overall this place is mediocre and I would not recommend it. As someone who is Pakistani/S. Cal and used to good Pakistani/Indian food: these people are a joke!! read more

Darul Kabab is impressive. Considering the fate of the various restaurants that have opened and closed in that location over the last four years, I hope we finally got ourselves a winner and by winning I mean a place with a little staying power. The food is all there. Tried the Aloo Paratha bread - thick and fluffy good. The DK chicken curry was standard but delicious, not too hot, just right. Thick cubes of chicken, tender and juicy. The DK Lamb Kebab was also excellent - served with a small salad - too many onions were the only real complaint. An oil vinaigrette on the salad. Includes a yogurt dip for the ground lamb and herbs. Basmati rice came with the curry. A glass of iced tea and your set. Prices are very reasonable. Clean setting, personable staff, the owner came over to make sure all's well. read more

I can't help but feel as though Darul Kabab is having an identity crisis. A tuxedo t-shirt immediately comes to mind: is it casual (burgers! pizza!)? Or is it fancy (white tablecloths!)? Nobody knows. DK is located in what used to be a KFC. And yes, it still very much looks like an old KFC. There's no escaping it. The Darul Kabab logo is ultra-sleek and modern, clashing with its menu/posters full of 90s script fonts. But why am I still talking about logos and fonts? My boyfriend seemed to enjoy his meal, while my tandoori salad was mostly iceberg lettuce and a little bit of dry, flavorless chicken. I did order a few other items, but I can't remember how they tasted. Every time I walk past Darul Kabab, it smells FANTASTIC! It makes me sad to see only 2-3 customers in there. I really think that with some marketing help, they would do quite well. read more

So I've avoided coming here for a while due to a decor that isn't exactly chic. I was wrong. Went there for a late night dinner: vegetable samosas, chicken tikka biryani, aloo gobi with naan, masala tea. First of all - everything tasted fresh and cared for. Even at the late hour (we were the last customers of the night). Masala tea - started with this. Asked for no sugar, no milk. Came with leaves and cloves and smelled wonderful. Samosas - very good. Potatoes were in chunks (as opposed to being mashed). Temperature was good. Balanced taste. Good sauce. Solid. Biryani - had a light spice kick to it. Bit down on a few cardamom pods. This is important: presence of cardamoms felt like that means that it was cooked there and then with spices. Chicken was perfectly tender, flavorful, and present. Aloo Gobi - the cauliflower tasted fresh and crispy. Tomatoes went well with it. Tasted home-made. Naan - so I am a bread snob. Here, I really liked their naan. Inside it was slightly soft, outside great fresh texture. I am pretty sure it was just cooked. The main thing for me that seemed out of place was that the decor did not match the food. The food tasted amazing. The decor seemed cheap. I would recommend to change the ceiling, paint the walls a darker color, adjust lighting to be more table-centric. Or don't do any of it and remain one of my new favorite local gems that no tourist would ever accidentally wonder into. read more

Why doesn't Yelp allow me to give Darul kebab 0/5? The only thing good about this restaurant is the first four letters in its name. On a serious note, the (20$/8 pieces) "kebabs" were too fatty, tasteless and dry (considering we received no chutney with our order). Even after telling aunty that I would make her restaurant popular among students who only eat Halal meat, all she did for us was replace a dry naan and a decent raita with two cylinders (they were so shitty that they don't deserve the stature that seekh kebabs command). The problems didn't immediately after consumption of (I repeat) dry and tasteless cylinders. My friend felt the cylinders tease the inside linings of her stomach well into the next day. Gist: Do NOT make the MISTAKE of eating Darul Kabab, even if it is after consuming a lot of Daru. read more

I've been holding out because despite this place being a block away from my apartment, every time I walk by it, it doesn't seem to be populated with people outside of the staff. To me, that's not always a very good sign. I stopped in to get some take-out after a long day of work and school, and I was less than impressed. I had a fairly simple order: Chana Dal, Aloo Paneer (I think-- it was one of the spinach dishes), vegetable rice, garlic naan, and two diet cokes. Given the fact that it seemed that they were just slopping stuff in bowls from what I thought was the warming station up front and then microwaving them, I didn't have many hopes for my intestines post-meal. What I didn't expect is that I'd get things I didn't order when I opened the bag at home. It was seriously like Christmas opening the bag, full of surprises. I did get the spinach dish and the garlic naan, but I definitely did not get Chana Dal-- I don't know what it was. It was tasty, but not what I ordered. I also did not get two orders of vegetable rice-- I got two orders of rice with chunks of something orange colored in it. They forgot my Diet Cokes (and I had asked specifically if they were in the bag, was told yes)... I'm only miffed because I was charged for the Diet Cokes, and really should have looked before leaving, but left without them. When I called back they insisted the cokes were in the bag, but since I had already gone home I wasn't going to argue. I think someone else got my cokes, or someone else got my order. No clue. Now as someone with food allergies (which I told them about up front), it is completely unacceptable that they muffed things up the way they did. I was stupid and ate things until my friend mentioned "Yeah, this isn't what you think it is" and then sat in terror for a good few hours waiting for the havoc on my stomach to begin. Luckily- no havoc. Overall, I HATED the idea that a bunch of food was sitting uncovered and unheated in the front of the restaurant. That little glass covering didn't do much to assuage my fears of cross contamination or general bacterial growth in the food. I was also really miffed that it took SO LONG to get the food, and when I got it, it was wrong except for two things. The taste of what we got wasn't bad, but the mix of general sketchiness and lack of attention to customer requests (I have a food allergy should be a serious one for restaurants) will force me to pass. I'll just go across the street to Annapurna when I'm craving Indian-type food, or out to Inman. I definitely will not be back here without some serious changes. read more

We have been trying Indian food all around and this place is really good for our taste. Also very conveniently located. Its strong enough to be authentic and mild enough to feed us Mediterranean people! read more