I feel so lucky to have this spot so close to my door!! I lived in southern India for awhile, and I love having dosa and biryani accessible at all times. Delicious, authentic, spicy (if you want it) and just overall great. Highly recommended. read more

Very disappointed. Ambience: casual, fair. Parking: metered parking within walking distance. Bathrooms: clean Food choice range on the menu: Good Taste: Average. We were served raw uttapam and brought a completely wrong order. Won't go again. There are many more better options in this part of Boston. read more

Dosa n Curry - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

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I am SO HERE for this place. I didn't even know it existed until it showed up one day as a "near me" when passing through. "Onion rava" was a tad on the spicy side but pretty delicious. The rasam that it came with was fantastic. Much better than the other dosa options in the area. Fixed price menu rates could be improved but maybe the buffet would be better at meeting the criteria for value. read more

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Visited for the first time on a Tuesday and the food was amazing. The paper masala dosa really hit the spot Paneer Tikka Masala was also one of our favorites. If you go on a Tuesday make sure you go early; there's usually a long line waiting to be seated. I'd definitely be back. read more

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I took my family that was visiting from India and they were so happy and so content with their meal -- they literally asked to come here a second time during their visit! This place serves authentic South Indian food, and excellent curries. We ordered a variety of dosas -- the rava onion is my favorite! The regular sized dosas (not unlimited dosa night ones) are a very good portion, and make for a good meal. I really enjoyed the Indo-Chinese options as well. The chhole bhatura (channa masala) was excellent as well. What I appreciate most is that this place is very allergy friendly. My partner cannot eat any dairy and any nuts. Not only is the staff here super knowledgeable about what ingredients are in each of the menu items, they take special care to ensure there's minimal cross contamination. I'm personally not the biggest fan of the unlimited dosa night. It's great if you want to try most of their dosas, but since the portion sizes are small (the dosas you get unlimited as much smaller), I find that I don't enjoy this very much. I really love this place. I recently moved to another city and I miss this place all the time. read more

Came here twice for dinner during my trip to Boston. The food was amazing and authentic. Poondu Kuzhambhu was kick ass and I had it on both my trips. For the uninitiated, this is a spicy-tangy-garlicky gravy best had with rice and a side of appalam. I was craving for some authentic South Indian food after a week long diet of pasta and pizza and salad. The waiters looked like college kids. They were pleasant and friendly. If I have one complaint it is that their portion sizes are massive. I ordered their side of potato sabji which was more like a mound. To their credit, they tried to talk me out of ordering it as it was going to be too much quantity for 1 person but I remained skeptical thinking " how big can the side be, really!". If I lived here that wouldn't b a problem, of course, and I'll take it to go. All in all excellent food, at least the South Indian variety that I got to try. read more

Dosa n Curry - Poondu Kuzhambu Pickle Plain Yogurt - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

When you got a lot on your plate you have to share. That is what their paper masala dosa (Indian crepe) promises. It is one of it's kind, with a size as tall as a 4 year kid, it comes beautifully laid on two plates. As for the dosa the taste is perfect and worth the price! However other items on their menu aren't very promising. There is salt missing on a few items. The Gobi Manchurian could be a little crispier. That being said if you're looking to taste any Indian spice at all this place will do fine. But if you're looking for a mouthful of flavors this isn't your spot. Also this is a vegetarian place, nothing wrong with that. So if you're only looking for meat I would move along. read more

Dosa n Curry - Paper masala dosa (extra large). Also known as the Indian crepe - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

This place charges a fine of $5 for the food wasted. Their food is so bad that it is quite challenging to finish what's on your plate. So, good strategy! Channa masala- Peas were raw Sambar - stale Pav- hard as bricks Samosa- I suspect these were the "ready-to-eat" types bought from a supermarket Dessert- We reached the place at 2:25 pm. Their buffet ends at 3:30 pm. They did not even inform us that they ran out of dessert. Coconut chutney- They ran out of this as well and failed to inform us Dosa- Just so sad There were seven of us. None of us are returning to this place. read more

HAIR IN THEIR FOOD. I would give it a 0 not only for the taste but for hygiene as well. Would think twice before ordering. I got a thali. ALL THE FIVE STARS IS A SCAM read more

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND. We were served stale food, due to which a friend had to be rushed to the ER the next morning and another friend was vomiting. They ate medu vada and paper masala dosa. If you do go in (which will be an unfortunate thing), please at least make sure you do not consume either of these two and also send anything back if you think it not fresh and DO NOT CONSUME IT! The service was also bad, we weren't even half way through our dinner and the server placed the check on our table and in a minute asked if we were ready to pay, not something I am appreciative of. After speaking to the owner, she said that she checked the cameras and that the check was only handed out to us 25 minutes after we were done eating, however, in reality, it was given to us while we hadn't even finished our first course. Upon scrolling past some of the reviews, I found a couple of reviews mentioning the stale food and bad service from a week ago, a month ago, and even a year ago, so this is an ongoing problem. DO NOT VISIT UNLESS YOU'RE UP FOR AN UPSET STOMACH. read more

It is a place with Dosa on its name and the Dosa was very poor. The service was bad. I am not sure about unlimited Dosa but generally I feel al a carte is better than unlimited and so I dont think I will go there again. ​ read more

I love this place! The food is amazingly delicious; so fresh, tasty and bright and the service is always great. I deeply appreciate the musical sound of cheerful diners being able to have relaxed conversations without straining over piped in music. It is a happy place - very special! read more

Best dosa I've eaten outside of India. + Get the Paper masala Dosa + Pav Bhaji is good here too Service and the interiors of the place are OK at best, but the food more than makes up for it. Parking (street) is pretty easy to find. read more

Dosa n Curry - Paper Masala Dosa - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

I would say pretty average food. For a South Indian restaurant the least I would expect is the vadas to be hard and not fluffy. Also the dosa and naan that was brought with the respective thalis were pretty cold. Not worth driving an hour for this kind of food. The only good thing was the chikoo (sapota) milkshake. read more

Sadly, it was not anything close to authentic Indian food. Ordered puri bhaji and got bhaturas instead of the puris and a tasteless bhaji. My friends order Mysore masala dosa and spring dosa which has zero differences, Except one was cut and other was not. The indo Chinese noodles were made in ketchup and vinegar and again was bad like the dosas and puri bhaji. This place needs new chef, who understands indian food and does not ruin it. Terrible food, the only good thing here was the staff that was polite. Don't recommend. read more

Dosa n Curry is my favorite South Indian restaurant in the Boston area. Jyoti is one of the owners and is very kind and accommodating to vegans. The restaurant has mostly vegan food. I normally go there for dosa night or the weekend lunch buffet. My favorite dishes are the idlis, dosas, vadas, coconut chutney, vegetable rice, aloo poori and sambhar. They have so much delicious and healthy food! Won't you try it? read more

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Best Indian I've had yet in Boston! Generous portion sizes and a large menu. There is also a separate Sikh menu.

There were so many things wrong with my experience here. It took forever for us to get seated and our orders taken. The server had no clue what was going on and tried to deliver another table's order to us. We ordered three courses, and our dirty plates from the previous course were not taken away as a new one was brought in. The phone rang constantly, and no one bothered to answer it. There were people waiting to be seated, and they waited a long time. The food was just ok. The rice pudding we ordered for dessert was store bought Kozy Shack. When the bill arrived, I tried to give them a credit card. I was told they did not take credit even though there was a visa logo on their door. Their website also said they took credit. I paid with cash and no one even bothered to come and give me change. read more

Didn't realise this was a vegetarian restaurant until we sat down. Service was excellent, a young man from Nepal was very friendly and we had a good chat about Nepal and travelling. Husband and I shared an appetiser (Idli), which was very substantial and we agreed that it would have been plenty for dinner, but our mains were on their way. Husband had a Dosa filled with fried mashed potatoes, served with three types of sauces (that had also been served with our appetiser), and I had a chick pea curry, served extra spicy (chilli) at my request, which came with plain boiled rice. We enjoyed both dishes but couldn't eat everything. I deduct one point for the sauces, one of which was a watery soup type sauce, as I'm sure they could do better. I deduct one point (sorry if this is TMI) because as soon as I got to bed, I was farting like a Trooper, all night long, which I attribute to the chick pea curry. My poor husband didn't think he was going to make it through the night being in the same room! So avoid the chick peas if you're planning on spending the night with someone special, you may blow them away in the bedroom but not in the manner you intended! read more

Dosa n Curry - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

so good! ordered the paneer butter masala and the chole with roti, along with some ghee dosa. every single item was delicious. in order of preference: dosa, paneer, then chola, but once again, everything was great. nothing was too greasy, but everything was flavorful. the only little thing was that in the paneer dish, would have liked a bit more paneer. other than that, this place is great and 10/10 recommend! read more

Stopped by for Sunday lunch. Love the buffet spread - pan fried potatoes, hearty soups, tasty pakoras/samosas and the 8+ different entrées. The buffet comes with dosa - super large thin pancake (mild sourdough taste) with dollops of seasoned potato tucked inside. Definitely a great vegetarian lunch option without breaking the piggybank. read more

Dosa n Curry - Buffet sampling - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

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Terrible food and service. I was there at 9:40pm and they asked to order soon as kitchen was closing which is fine and understandable but what was the worst is that exactly at 10 they give the check and ask us to pay, sign before we finish eating even the appetizer. They were in such a rush and felt almost like they didn't want to serve anyone after 9:30pm when the restaurant actually closes at 10:30pm. Secondly is the tasteless food. I have never had such tasteless food in the US. They almost forced us to leave so we had to pack all the food. I would never go and would never recommend it to anyone. read more

The service was good. Food was kept in the table in time. Chole bhatura was okay. It was not that spicy as we were told. Dosa was kind of mediocre. In brief, just an average indian vegan restaurant. Might not go back read more

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My parents and newly married wife came here to eat some dosas. We are from Chennai and our standards for dosas are incredibly high, but nevertheless we decided to take a chance on the lunch buffet at dosa n curry. Here s where it got ugly: Half the buffet dishes were gone and the ones that were there we scraped from the bottom of the grimey stainless steel pan. The dosas could be passed of as fairly authentic for someone not from South India but the coconut chutney would be rejected by beggars in Chennai and Bangalore. The coconut chutney was made with disgusting frozen desiccated coconut and garnished with a few mustard seeds and tap water. Sambar was luke warm but dangerously close to tasty. But hey this is Boston, so not too bad so far. As we were eating the above fare, we were following the obvious "rule" of taking a fresh plate each time. But the wait staff refused to clean our dirty plates so that we had a pile of 6 dirty plates next to us as we were enjoying our mediocre food. With no room left in our table, we were forced to use our same plate and were duly told by the wait staff that this was against their rules. When pointed out that their job was to actually clean our disgusting table it was too much for them to handle and this event was quickly followed by an exchange of disgusting words. We obviously left immediately having had enough of this wonderful experience and even tipped them a few bucks out of charity. read more

we went there with four people and this is a great Veg place to have south Indian food. We have been to lots of rest serving Dosa and idlis but this has been a very good find. the veg platter, medu vada and chilly potatoes for app. were great to start with and they were really tasty and upto the mark. I guess the Sambhar was not that good since i did not have it i will not comment on it and base the rating on it. for dinner i got poori and palak paneer. I am a palak paneer aficionado and this place's palak paneer would be in my top 3. It was awesomely good and spicy as per my request. Temple dosas were very nice too and since we ordered spicy they obliged us in a very nice way with the spiciness. The bisi bele bhat were good but i did not like it since , I think i ordered something else than what i wanted since i did not know the name of the rice dish i was looking for but the taste was nice for people who like bisi bele bhat. Overall the place was nice and def due for a re visit sometime but i do want to rant about the order taker. She was rude with her expressions and felt like she forced in to doing her job did not like her. read more

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This is one of the worst Indian restaurants in MA. We tried couple of items but none of them taste good. Not recommended at all! read more

We came in because of the Groupon we had, but we'll come back. The bona fides: I am second-generation Indian, and have had dosas from Andhra to Delhi. I feel reasonably qualified to judge a good dosa. This is not the best I've had, not by a long shot, but it's quite solid, and I've had many worse. We had Gobi 65, a paper dosa, paneer masala dosa, and gulab jamun. Appetizer was excellent; well seasoned, good chutney, pronounced delicious by the toddler who proceeded to consume the entire plate. Paneer masala dosa was well-seasoned, but really needed a lot more paneer. Mostly potato. They really won points on the paper dosa. One of the main goals of the paper dosa is to spread it thin to get that crisp, and they achieved it -- theirs literally fills a table and is taller than my child. The photo got accolades from the folks back in Mumbai. It was decent, too -- good and crispy, with masala that was slightly underseasoned, but came in a generous proportion. I enjoyed the sambar and was pretty sure I found a drumstick (Indian vegetable, check the freezer across the street) in there. Would agree that probably they wouldn't do well on service for a larger party or more complicated order. Things like the pizzas aren't even on the menu. Servers seemed kind of lackadaisical; good thing we didn't need more water. Math on the bill was totally screwy, though in my favor, not theirs. Then again, for a place like this, I'm not expecting very much. It did the basic South Indian stuff well enough that I'd come and explore the menu again. I wouldn't advise getting curries in a place like this, as you're likely to be disappointed, but stick to the veg specialties and you should be all right. read more

Food was tasty and two gentleman waiters were professional and efficient. The rude woman who rudely and callously asked if I wanted the check, without even making eye contact or saying thank you, deserves zero stars and is the reason why this is not a 5 star review. read more

Loved the food. We ordered Gobi 65, hot and sour soup, Podi masala dosa and aaloo tikki with chole masala. Aaloo Tikki was the best of all. We like our food to be spicy. Despite of us telling the waiter to make the dish spicy, it was not served spicy. read more

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My friend and I had visited Dosa n Curry quite recently on someone's recommendation and well, my craving for some good South-Indian food. The aloo tikki wasn't so bad for what it was worth and was probably the best of the three things that we'd ordered, which wouldn't have been such a bad thing if the other two things were masala dosas. As a South-Indian, I'd hoped for a crispy dosa with some masala on the inside (as the name said so) with sambar and chutney which wasn't as watered down as it was. I'd just hoped for a bit more flavor, and that might be because I'm biased when it comes to dosas. The ambience made me feel like I was back home, and the service was really nice (Thank you for reviving my friend's cellphone). read more

This place is AMAZING! I will admit that I'm never excited about Indian food though I often enjoy it when I eat it. I was impressed at the variety of dishes, including many less common items and Indo-Chinese entrees that stray from the usual Indian items. My boyfriend is part Indian and isn't even vegetarian but was impressed with the food. We tried the okra, which was excellent, and the Manchurian cauliflower, which was phenomenal, along with some cauliflower in pickle sauce (achari gobi?), which was incredible and really unique. We also had a vegan pizza delivered from their next-door veggie pizzeria and stuffed ourselves silly. I love this place! read more

Dosa n Curry - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

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Good south Indian food!!! I went there with a couple of friends and we all ordered different dosas and everyone loved the dishes. We had also ordered Gobi Manchurian and it was tasty. I think their Sambar and Chutneys can still be better and their potato masala in dosa can use more seasoning specifically salt. But these are more nitpiks. I still loved the food the way it was. The place is big but they have stuffed it with too many tables back to back. On Saturday evening, there is barely any place to move. Also, finding parking around is not very easy So I would recommend choosing a correct day to go there. read more

I went to this place with my friend on a Sunay morning around 11:45. They offer buffet which looks pretty good. I didn't take that though because I wanted to eat dosa. We took lemonade, tikki samosa Chaat, plain dosa made in ghee and paneer masala dosa. I didn't like lemonade a lot. I'm not sure what other restaurants put extra in their lemonade, but this one was pretty plain and little strong on lemon. Samosa Chaat was awesome. My friend like plain dosa a lot and my paneer masala dosa was good too. Since we were only 2, we had to sit on the first section of the place where they put the buffet, so it was little uncomfortable to have people standing right next to our table in line for the buffet. We had requested a different table but didn't get as that would accommodate more people and they were expecting rush during that time. Overall food was good but could be just a little bit more spicy by a North Indian's spicy standards. read more

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Great place to find vegetarian indian food. The dosa is ginormous, even though i ordered the regular size. I didn't know you can order XXL - it's pretty much the length of the table. Could spice up the food a bit (i asked for spicy when i ordered). The eggplant curry is a healthy dish - the tomato-y sauce blends perfectly with the spicy ingredients. It was awkward to see employees napping inside the booths upon entering the restaurant. In my opinion, it was not a great first impression. I went during down time (after 4:00p, so it was after lunch and before dinner) but they should be professional at all times. read more

Dosa n Curry - Mysore masala dosa - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

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Only to be eaten if ur desperately seeking Indian food...the dining space is split into 2 narrow rooms...feels very dingy. Didn't realize it was vegetarian only... The buffet($12)had a range of North and south Indian and indo- Chinese ... Also with dosa served to the table. The food is so average. Road side parking. read more

Fantastic fantastic place! We went here on Tuesday and this was a great place to have dinner at! There was UNLIMITED DOSA TUESDAY going on when we visited! And the dosas were truly delicious! The music was also good and the place was not crowded despite the Tuesday offer! read more

Food was good and service was kinda ok. South Indian food is favorable. Portion is quite good. Mango lassi is must try. read more

Dosa n Curry - Indian Near Me - Somerville, Massachusetts

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Went to this place today. They have good service, good ambience, menu is a mix of both south and north Indian dishes but famous for their Dosa's. We tried Medhu vada, Ghee roast Dosa and Temple Masala dosa. Medhu vada and ghee roast dosa was good. Sambher is fine. Temple masala dosa is their special in the menu but the masala had no flavor and taste. They serve coconut and tomato chutney with the dishes which did not have any southindian flavor. I would love to go back for their Tuesday unlimited Dosa nights if they add more flavor to their masala . read more

My go-to Indian restaurant ever since moving to Boston (Somerville) 5 years ago. Highly recommend.

Busiest sunday evening for management. Niether food was good nor worth the money spent. Having spent 10 years in NYC, NJ and relished finest cuisines in and around boston area, i felt this place needs proper hand holding and retraining of chefs to fine tune knowabouts of how to prepare basic dosa, sambhar and nonwatery chutney. Hot and sour soup was no more than deep oil stirred boiled vegetable rasam.. I havent tried punjabi or pizza and i would never want to waste money for a super sh*t service where people were struggling to get water served. A complete No-Go "WASTE OF MONEY" read more