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Haveli Indian Grill

4.2 (352 reviews)
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Moderate noise
Good for kids
Outdoor seating

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Chicken tikka bowl and cheese garlic naan
Kathy H.

So good! Stopped in and ordered to go on my lunch break. Ordered the chicken tikka masala bowl and cheesey garlic naan. Had to take a quick pic before I inhaled it. I ordered it medium because I had to go back to work but next time I'll have to get it spicy. So delicious. Should've ordered a chai to go with it. Staff was friendly and the food got out to me fast. Excellent, will be coming again. I wanna try the lamb next.

Benjamin F.

I've been eating at Haveli Indian Grill on Buena Vista for a few months now, and I just have to share how amazing their food is there. Owned by a local indian family. The butter chicken is very fricken delicious , their garlic naan is excellent. And their tandoori chicken sizzles from a sizzling plate, full of flavor and grilled to perfection! There aren't many Indian places I personally can vouch for, I use to eat and love at Zaika if anyone remembers it. But Haveli takes the icing for me as the best Indian cuisine local to Bakersfield.

Samosas
Lanze A.

I love love love Haveli. My smile goes from ear to ear whenever I ask a friend where they'd wanna have dinner and they say Haveli. I feel safe trying new things here. Indian food is known for heavy seasoning but dang does this place have it down. So savory you just get an insane medley of flavors. So make sure you order the naan! It's the best medium for all the amazing flavor. My friend ordered something off menu, it was this cauliflower dish that visually resembles orange chicken. The spices worked with it so well! I'm not huge on vegetarian food but I could eat this forever! I wish I got the name! I also tried their Lamb Vindaloo cause I was feeling adventurous. Freaking amazing. Soft, tender, fall of the bone! Vindaloo is now my new favorite. I highly recommend it. The gravy is different from the usual western favorites such as tikka masala and butter chicken. It is so worth a try! This place opened my eyes to it and now I order it every time I have Indian food! I heard this place has a great happy hour but I have yet to give it a shot. Hard to pass up a good buzz and delicious food!

Butter Chicken Bowl and Garlic Naan
Brizette C.

This is my second review on this place as the quality, taste and presentation of the food has gone down and was so disappointing. Pre Covid it was great. Post Covid it was ok. And now, currently is has gotten bad even more. About two or three times before this I had coke to eat during lunch hr and the food tasted and looked different. A simple butter chickens and Gobi Manchurian that I always ordered was no where close to what it had always been. I decided to give it a few more tries as I loved this place and the waitress explain that a new and different cook worked in the mornings and the usual comes for dinner time. This time around I came for dinner hour and again ordered the above plus tandoori chicken. We unfortunately did no even eat the Gobi Manchurian. It looked to artificially red. We were informed the cook accidentally overdid the food coloring. And the taste was more like sweet and sour sauce than Indian spicy. Very disappointing. When they realized we were not satisfied we were informed the cooks had switch schedules for the day.

Butter Chicken and rice- level Spicy. It's to die for!
Miranda J.

This is my first time at this establishment for a to go order. I had a big warm welcome from staff, and placed my order of Butter Chicken- spicy. I asked the gal how spicy is their "spicy" because I'm a huge heat fan. Upon tasting, I could definitely go the next level up "Indian spicy" I work right across the street and can definitely tell I will be a returning customer!

Chai masala

This was my first time trying indian cuisine. I have been considering trying this spot down the street from my house and after being recommended a dish by a coworker I decided to take the leap and I am so glad I did. My coworker boasted of how good masala and naan are, so I ordered those along with a side of rice. I decided to start with a cup of chai masala( I am a tea lover) and it was very delicious. Next the food arrived and the first bite of the chicken tikka masala was a shock to my taste buds and I wasn't sure if I liked it, but after a few more bites I was hooked. I loved dipping the cheese naan in the masala and eating it with the chicken and veggies. The rice with the masala was good too, but the naan was the superior option. Towards the end of my meal I ordered another cup of chai to relax after a large meal and I took plenty home. The servers were friendly and took my order promptly and the food came out in a short amount of time. The interior is nice as well with (I'm assuming) indian music playing at a low volume. Overall a wonderful first experience with indian food and I look forward to returning and trying the lamb masala.

Tandoori Chicken
Allen A.

Ordered yesterday, the tandoori chicken was terrible. You can see from the pictures that it doesn't even look anywhere near what it should look like. We just threw it out. We have been ordering from this restaurant for many years. Usually very good. Don't know what is happening? We Also order chicken tikka masala and we got a dish that looked like butter chicken. It was also not very good. Probably will not return.

Door dash
Zoe T.

We ordered dinner through DoorDash. We had the veg samosas, garlic naan, butter chicken, mushroom marsala, and veggie biryani. Everything was delicious and really hot the spot. We also ordered three desserts and it wasn't my taste. The kheer rice pudding was decent.

Samosa Wrap & Gobi Manchurian
Philip And Dahlia A.

We enjoy dining here and always find the experience consistently enjoyable. Go check them out if your thinking about, you won't be disappointed.

Chicken Tikka Masala Bowl
Eriny D.

The food it's not the best feel old, the host busy on her phone talking no any attention to customer over all price is expensive for the service

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The food was amazing you have to order the tikka masal the best I've had in Bakersfield literally

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Ask the Community - Haveli Indian Grill

Are they still open? I can never get ahold of anybody the last couple of days?

Yeah just had some delicious Indian food there last week

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Punjabi Dhaba

Punjabi Dhaba

4.7(370 reviews)
2.5 mi
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First of all, I've known this place since it was a food truck in the middle of nowhere, and I've…read morealways been a big fan. I moved out of Bakersfield but every time I visited, I had to make sure I go to this place. This time I brought my friends who also live in bigger cities, but everyone ended up falling in love with this place and couldn't stop talking about it. I'm so happy that they moved from the food truck location to a nicer place and more central to the nicer part of Bakersfield (near riverwalk) . My friends who I took to this place, still rave about the food they had here. It's so authentic, delicious, and just special. You ordered at the counter, and during lunch time there are options to get the lunch combo which are two types of dishes with rice or naan. I usually chose the usual, either tikka masala, butter chicken, or curry. But this time I wanted to try something I never got from the menu, which is the Shahi Matar chicken. Oh.My.God, it was the bomb! It's sooo good. The other thing that I always got was the veggie pakora. It goes sooo well with the curry dishes. Amazing. Services were pretty fast, around 10mins of wait during busy lunch time. If you didn't finish the food (which they give you really good portion), they have the lids for everything and ready to take home. Everytime I go back to Bakersfield, I always ensure to come here and bring my visitor friends here too. I already miss all the food here.

Thanks to Michaela J. for recommending this place! Who would have thought I'd find mesmerizing…read moreIndian food in Bakersfield that comes close to what I first experienced in England? I'm glad another business has moved into this location. The Asian fusion restaurant that was here previously was also very good, so it's nice to see another great dining option in the space, I can visit right after my doctor's appointment. On this visit, I ordered the 16-ounce goat curry.. I wanted to make sure I liked their goat curry before committing to the 32 oz beast.. Personally, I recommend ordering it with no added spice if you really want to appreciate the individual ingredients, the flavor of the goat, and the delicious curry sauce served over the rice, but I don't like spice so that's just my opinion. The goat Curry was great my only beef... pun intended was that they were just as many bones as there was meat. Also there were tiny bones almost too tiny which I did not expect. 3.5 out of 5 stars This time, I also tried the garlic naan, and it was very good! It had generous chunks of garlic throughout, with the perfect texture and softness. It was excellent for soaking up the sauce 5 stars The people I dined with ordered the butter chicken and chicken curry both 5 stars The rice here was good it seemed as if it was freshly cooked I wish it was a little hotter to the touch but overall really good 4 out of 5 stars Everyone I at the restaurant was friendly and courteous, and funny. The people here are real and we were able to talk about food in other countries, they were also happy to explain the menu items when asked, which I always appreciate, especially when exploring a cuisine with so many wonderful dishes, I have never tried before. The operating hours for Punjabi Dhaba in Bakersfield seem to be every day 1000 am to 8:30 pm. This means they're open on both Saturdays and Sundays, which is a plus. I visited on a Sunday, and although the restaurant wasn't empty, it had just enough customers to create a short wait for the food. My order was served in a timely manner, and just a pleasant experience. Apparently, this restaurant started as a food truck, but I never had the opportunity to try it back then. I'm glad I finally got the chance to visit them at their brick-and-mortar location! If this visit is any indication, I have a feeling there's a lot more delicious food waiting for me to discover.I'll definitely be back to try the butter chicken and some of the street food items on the menu 4 out of 5 stars

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NEW LOCATION! Plenty of parking and plenty of seating indoors

Aroma of India - Green goodness is Pachi mirchi chicken fry

Aroma of India

4.6(77 reviews)
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Yeah, so I think this might actually be my favorite Indian place I've been to in my life, excluding…read morebuffets. I was here a few weeks ago, day one of the 10-day California road trip I'd planned out to visit a bunch of interesting, less-visited parts of California and go to a bunch of historical state parks, which required being there when they're open, which required a pretty detailed itinerary so we could be in the right place at the right time, with food then planned around where we'd be at the time. Over the course of the subsequent week and a half, we ate a *lot* of sandwiches of varying quality in the interest of speed, but when I saw this super highly rated Indian place right midway between SoCal and Fresno, and especially when I saw they had a bunch of interesting, affordable appetizers I don't generally see at the more Americanized Indian places I'm used to - I gambled on having enough time to have a sit-down meal. Gambled quite successfully - this was one of the best meals we had that trip. First off, service-wise, we sat down and then ordered pretty much as soon as we sat down (it was admittedly along empty, a random Saturday around noon). The lassis are premade (fresh, but earlier in the day), so we had a lassi like 30 seconds after ordering one. The appetizer was out in 15 minutes, the 2 entrees in 20 (an entirely reasonable amount of time to get food made from scratch.) Great lassi, too. (We got a second one. It also arrived in 30 seconds.) Wonderfully rich, mango-y, not too sweet or too thick. Great. The appetizer we tried, mirchi bajji, or rather, I tried (I love peppers, my wife... doesn't), I don't have a comparison for, as I'd never had it, but it's quite tasty. Was funny though, the waitress asked to make sure I knew it was just peppers when I ordered it, I was like... yeah, you're correct to assume I've never had it before, but I looked it up, and that's *exactly* why I'm ordering it. It is not actually particularly spicy, but I enjoyed eating it all to myself, anyway. The entrees we shared - a lamb curry, and a lamb biryani. The curry is wonderful - certainly *one* of the best lamb curries I've had - but not terribly large. When it arrived, it looked like a *tiny* portion, but it's also quite rich, so it was bigger than it looked, and wasn't an unreasonable amount for the price, with how expensive everything (like lamb) has gotten. It doesn't come with naan, but you *have* to get naan with it obviously - you also get a good amount of naan, their naan is perfectly fluffy and great, and you can't have curry without naan to sop it up. Wonderfully stewed lamb, too. Not unreasonably priced at all, but we ate all the curry and all the naan. I say that because the biryani, by contrast, was also wonderful, but it was also *stupidly* huge. We stuffed our faces until we were stuffed, still took a bunch of leftovers of the biryani with us, weren't at all hungry for our original dinner plans in Fresno, and ended up both just eating the leftover biryani for dinner in our airbnb. It was a lot of biryani. I hope by saying this, they don't read this and fix this, because I absolutely plan on making this my stop on future trips between SoCal and NorCal, and I absolutely want to get biryani and have leftovers again. Admittedly not literally the best biryani I've ever had (I'm still trying to find anywhere else that makes biryani quite like the the first place I ever had it, 20 years ago...) - but excellent. Anyway, I wish this place would open an off-shoot much closer to me, but I definitely intend to drop by whenever we drive through Bakersfield and have time for a quick sit-down meal instead of fast food. They have a lot of interesting food items I don't usually see on Indian menus here, that I want to try!

I feel odd writing this and am conscious of how it may sound. I love Indian food firstly. The food…read morehere was good and the service was attentive and friendly. The part I feel weird saying is that this place was named perfectly. My husband and I couldn't get the smell out of our hands for days. We kept talking about how different this place is- the aroma stayed with us. We thought maybe it's a regional thing? I tried a new food that leads me to believe it is regional. Essentially jalapeño poppers but Indian. The masala flavor was amazing and they burned my mouth in a way that lingered. I love spicy so these were perfect. All in all- good. Not amazing, not terrible. Just good. Factor in the smell we couldn't get out (again- I love the spices and scents that come with Indian food I just don't want it on my fingers for days) and it's ok. I think this place is authentic, flavorful, and affordable.

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