Ordered dinner here with some guys on a weekend evening. Not too many folks also in the place…read more Despite not having a lot of folks helping out behind the counter, they were pretty friendly and helpful, and unusually generous in portions, at least more than I was expecting. Seating is pretty sparse in here, which I'd knock except I walked to the naerby QDOBA to eat with my friends _and_ there are also some covered tables outside, so this doesn't seem like too much of an influencing decision for me. Might be more important for others. But all that being considered, this was a better-than-expected experience here! Not sure if that just reflects a low initial bar, but it would definitely cause me to revisit when I'm craving again.

First...totally unorganized...taking for EVER for a simple order. No, Wait, the web site…read moresucks...online order and payment never went through. Arrived for pickup, and was handed SOMEONE ELSE'S pre-paid order. Waited 20 minutes for what I wanted...and had to correct them several times. Worst of all...the food wasn't even mediocre. Instead of hot meat shaved from the spit...the beef was luke warm at best, sitting pre-cut in a pan on the counter. DON'T GO THERE!!!

delicious chicken shawarma wrap for less than $10! Can't get much better than that. The woman…read morebehind the counter was very nice as well

I placed an order for pickup - I ordered a Chicken Shawarma sandwich, falafel and Arabic tea (that…read moreon the menu reads with mint and sugar)... The Chicken Shawarma sandwich was good; great temperature, the chicken was a good texture and the overall flavor of the sandwich was good. I was disappointed with the falafel - it was overcooked for me/fried really hard and had no flavor :-/ And the Arabic tea - it tasted very similar to Lipton black tea to me and had not even a hint of mint flavor (nor sugar but that I can do without). I would return but I will not order the tea again nor the falafel.

Best of the best halal restaurant In Philadelphia. Their lamb beef and chicken kabobs are cooked…read morefresh on order. Best mutton and chicken Karahi on the east coast. Their chicken Mandi , boneless chicken handi and Tawa Qeema are a must try. New location is amazing and big. Highly recommend for families.

So, I have gone to spot a while back when it used to be around Chestnut/Walnut street in Philly and…read moreI have always dined in. Its been years from the last time I've had food from this place, so I decided to see if they are still open and to my surprise they were open and have even relocated to much bigger and cleaner ambiance. Ordered 2 meals (2 tandoor chicken and chicken sheek kabab). I specifically informed them while ordering that the individual eating the sheek kabab is allergic to chickpeas (choley) which comes as part of the meal. The person taking my order informs me that he will pack it separately. Upon arriving at the restaurant, I was told by the person giving my food that he made sure he packed the sheek kabab separately. I paid and headed back home (40 mins drive back to NJ). Lesson learned - I should have checked and will check moving forward when placing food orders if everything is correct. Of course, we got everything other than the sheek kabab. They made sure it was packed separately - so separate that they didn't even give/pack it with the remaining food order. We called back and spoke to Ansar (think that's what he said his name was) and Ansar said "sorry, we will credit you back when you come next time and get food." My wife asks him "how you going to remember this?" Ansar's response "oh we will we will, just mention and we will take care of it." SMH What businesses needs to start doing is, depending on situations, credit back to the account if a discrepancy has occurred. Of course, if I lived closely, I would have drove back but I'm not driving back 40+ mins for 2 sheek kabab.

Oh no. I gave this place 3 tries in recent weeks after I had a worse experience than in the past. I…read morethought my first bad experience could have been a fluke, so give it a couple more tries to be fair. And sadly experience has only got worse. And now I see they have changed their name slightly so I guess it's under new management. Before I knew it as "Jyoti Indian bistro" but they've replaced bistro with "kitchen" and added the "Nav". Unfortunately in these last three visits, the food hasn't been as good. This last time has been the worst so far. It looks about the same, but when I ordered saag paneer, I received maybe 30% of the amount of cheese cubes that I used to get (they used to have all of the cubes in a separate cup and would cook them per order and the dumped soooo many in.) this time however, I watched him fish out a few floating in the spinach sauce but then just went for spoonfuls of the sauce only. Upon tasting, most of that warm seasoned flavor with the tanginess is all but gone. It's like there are no Indian spices to make it hot anymore, it tastes like spoonfuls of black pepper only. Really disappointing! None of the drinks on display were cold. They used to have tons of drinks in the refrigerator with the closed door and the open refrigerator shelf on the customer side. Now there are hardly any drinks in either, and none of the refrigerators are running. They had several Plastic 20 ounce bottles of Pepsi. At the time of ordering I thought the refrigerator in the back was working, just without a light. So I ordered one of those Pepsi's. Apparently the man working there didn't hear because when he rang me up he did not include any drink. So I had to order a second time for just a drink, and he said they only have Coke that was cold in the back. Why don't they put the Coke out in the front to let people know they have it? Why do they have so many Pepsi's but none of them are being refrigerated in the same place the Coke was? And the 20 ounce bottle was $3.25... Outrageous. As I started to mention, the service has gone downhill just like the food. I don't want to say anything bad about the individuals as individual people. I have nothing bad to say about them personally, but their customer service is poor. The woman who used to work there was so friendly, remembered me, asked how things were. She was easy to understand and she clearly understood me. Now however, these guys didn't really say much, they were very hard to understand, and clearly couldn't understand or hear me since they totally ignored my order for the Pepsi. I ordered the Pepsi twice, to both men. But clearly neither heard the first time. The restaurant was completely empty, there was no music or televisions playing. No loud machinery, and I ordered at the same volume, speed and clarity as I did the food. So why didn't they pay attention to the drink? Expanding on the interior of the restaurant. As I said there was no music, no television on. There wasn't much lighting. Walking by from outside you would be forgiven for thinking they were closed. And it was really hot inside. I understand it's a buffet style Set up, with all the food being cooked in pans in front of you, but it was never this hot before. It's early March - it's not as cold anymore. Certainly not cold enough for the place to run that hot. I AM still happy to have a fairly decently priced quick Indian restaurant in the area. Chestnut Hill and Germantown Avenue have a debilitating lack of fast and easy food. I'm so sick of Wawa and their terrible parking and people asking for money and taking up parking by eating in their cars and the guy from Temple Hospital who comes in and walks around the place around 1pm blasting funk from a Bluetooth speaker. So I don't want people to NOT go to Jyoti. I hope this review helps swing things back to how they were and to offer customers updated expectations of the place. So long story short my negatives from my last 3 visits: - Food tastes worse (tastes like mostly if not all pepper rather than Indian spices) - Employees can't seem to understand English as well and they're also hard to understand - They have no cold drinks on display. And the drinks that are cold are hidden. - Place is too hot. Dark. No atmosphere

The staff is very kind and knowledgeable. They are friendly and were helpful in recommending dishes…read morefor me to try. The ambiance of the place is that of a quaint local hole in the wall which is to say I loved it. I ordered the house speciality of Chicken Tikka Masala, garlic naan, and mango lassi. This place is setup for mostly to go orders but there is space to eat inside.

Food was Delicious I had Two orders of Tandori Chicken Great for a family of 4. Odered on line…read moreService was fast even at 6:00 pm in the Evening!!!

We love the food here, the chicken tikka masala and the naan are full of flavors and fresh. When…read moreyou walk in, someone is always there to greet you nicely. The ambiance is amazing! Thank you for the great food.

They didn't update their menus so the actual food cost more than it says on the menu, I feel…read morescammed because literally the menu says $9 but I was charged $13 which is a whole $4 difference. No one there gave me a heads up, like who tf did I just give my money too?! And I'm glad I paid with a card because when I got my receipt and checked my back statement, the store isn't even called "Aban" it's called "Nil Kusum Food Inc," they didn't bother to change the sign, the menu, charged me an extra $4 so I feel lied to and the man almost made me pay an extra $3 because I asked for rice. HOW TF YOU GONNA HAVE CURRY AND NOT HAVE RICE??! So I said nvm and he decided to give me it for free. What Asian store doesn't give you rice with your curry? These people were not gonna get over on me, especially on my fucking birthday. A whole $16 on a very small portion of food is what they wanted but I was not gonna allow myself to pay extra, shouldn't be charging extra for fucking rice anyway. Don't come here, especially if you're another race, they'll try to take advantage of your money. Dine-in another Paki/Indian restaurant in UD. Disgraceful.

Recently discovered this place and no doubt a definite gem in my neighborhood! First off , the…read moreprice is reasonable for the portion - but the quality of food coming out of the kitchen is definitely home style and darn delicious!! Variety is also nice with an array of traditional dishes and sweets I must say a great addition to the diverse offerings in my neighborhood! The service is courteous,prompt and the place clean ! Too bad I didn't know about this place sooner- check it out if you get the hankering for a Bangladeshi style cuisine, I'm sure you won't be disappointed

Great Halal Food on the Go! Fast attendance…read more Relaxed and fairly clean atmosphere. Good variety of menu options.

The place is very clean, but the food is very lackluster. I got a cheeseburger which was not very…read moretasty and the cheese fries barely had cheese ( I should have clarified I wanted cheese wiz). I've had their chicken wings before which were okay. Ultimately, go elsewhere for a tasty burger and fries, because it was not worth $14.

What's not to like about a classic Philly Cheesesteak with the cheese whiz? Adding onion rings on…read moretop just to add more of a crunch! Rana's is clean and pretty quick. Just ask to have everything made halal and they'll be more then happy to do so

Attention! This restaurant is actually located in Ed's Pizza. I placed a pickup order of sharwarma…read morechicken sandwich through Yelp EAT 24 and had to call them to figure out where they were. The sandwich I had was tasty with fresh veggies and nice tahini sauce, better than most halal food trucks in University City. I will order pickup from them again because it's convenient. Three shiny stars for their above average halal food!