Great kebabs. Some of the best in the area. Some people may like the old school quirky ambiance…read moreof the place. Plenty of seating, and usually empty, perhaps because they do a lot of takeout. But you can't go wrong with the kebabs.

If I could give zero stars I would. Food was old, oily and nasty. I didn't even make it out of the…read moreparking lot before I went back to return it. The owner was nasty, saying that he wouldn't refund my money because I opened one of the containers so he was unable to sale it again. That is absolutely disgusting. I wish that I had recorded him saying that. So he really intended on reselling my returned food, even though he had no idea what could have possibly been done to it. I will be disputing this charge with my bank and I will never eat here again.

I've had takeout from here a number of times now, and if anything the food seems even better--fresh…read moreand flavorful, with really excellent ingredients. The Maxx may be the best deal I know in dining, twenty bucks and change for enough delicious food for two people. By all means give it a try!

Love the chicken kebabs for the Apple Harvest Festival! Nina and Atif are the best! Be sure to try…read morea red refresher and mango lassi!

My daughter loves Namaste India, so we decided to give it a try. We ordered the lamb, goat, and…read morechicken dishes. While the chicken and lamb were flavorful and well-prepared, I was particularly looking forward to the goat. Unfortunately, the goat dish was a letdown--mostly bones with very little meat, which made it less enjoyable than I had hoped. On a positive note, the sides complemented the main dishes nicely, adding some balance to the meal. However, the experience left me wishing for more consistency in the quality of the dishes, especially given how much I was looking forward to trying the goat. Overall, Namaste India has potential, but there's definitely room for improvement. Cheers

Great Friday night dinner here. It's been years since we were in the area but it's as good as ever!…read more Delicious food, (mostly) friendly staff ... our specific server was kind of grumpy and sullen it maybe he had a bad day. The rest of the staff were wonderful! Their lamb pasanda is delicious aside from a little grisle, the butter chicken and tikka Marsala were lovely. Their onion bhajis and chicken 65 were the best!! I'd go back just for appetizers! The place is always clean and bright and nicely decorated!

Tandoori chicken was really dry, wasn't a fan. Might have been just sitting a while. Poori was…read moregood, came with a white curry like sauce. Not my favorite spot in the area but definitely not bad, just wouldn't recommend that dish. Good size portions

This little spot is a dark horse. Tucked into a nondescript strip mall you might just drive past…read moreit, but that would be a mistake. The menu offers a very broad list of Regional Indian Cuisine. Lamb, goat, chicken, seafood, variety of basmati rices and biryani, vegetarian dishes, dosa, tandoori, curries, Indo Chinese, a dozen different types of naan and kulchas. The four stars are for the food only. We tried the cilantro, chicken soup and the onion PAKODA, fritters, which were outstanding, the Indo Chinese vegetable fried rice was excellent, Kodi vapudu very spicy dry rub with green chilies. It was a bit different than I've had before with the addition of cashews and dark meat instead of white meat, but it was spicy and good. Ambiance is basic with fun Bollywood movies and music in the background and on the TV, clean and organized. But apparently they do a ton of takeout rather than dine in. The service was by the the owner who was incredibly friendly, very hospitable, enthusiastic about the regional cuisine and very knowledgeable about all of the dishes and their preparation.

"There's a party going on right here A celebration to last…read morethroughout the years" (Kool and the Gang) What is the English translation of the word Utsav? Would you believe "celebration, or joyous occasion"? Well, I can probably declare that celebration is the right word to describe one of the best lunch specials I've found in months. Now brace yourself, and remove all breakables from the room, when I tell you that you can get a seven course Indian feast of a lunch for just $15. Utsav has 22 lunch specials priced in tiers -$15 for vegetable or chicken, $18 for seafood, and $20 for lamb. You'll find Utsav in the Wethersfield shopping center on the Silas Deane Hwy. All of those lunch specials start with a lightly dressed refreshing salad of greens, shredded carrots, seeded half cucumber slices, and sliced red onions. Now let me tell you about the remaining six courses. Your lunch comes out on a serving tray with lots of bowls - one each for your entrée, Basmati rice, eggplant with zucchini, spinach with potato, rice kheer for dessert (a rice pudding with raisins and nuts), and a separate plate with 3 wedges of Naan bread. I wanted to try something different for my entrée, and since I didn't think I ever had Khorma before, I ordered Chicken Khorma prepared very spicy. Korma is an Indian curry cooked in a yogurt sauce with nuts and spices. There was a good amount of tender chicken cubes, and that spicy curry was wonderful. Same with the rice, bread, and the vegetables, although I did prefer the spinach with potato over the eggplant with zucchini. There was so much rice and bread that I took half of those portions home for another day. I loved everything about Utsav, from the décor to the continental professional service to the broad menu, to those incredible Lunch Specials. Five Stars for sure.

We love Utsav! They make incredible food that's impossible to stop eating once you start. It's also…read morea very large restaurant with comfortable seating, and several tables that can accommodate larger parties. We came to with some friends to celebrate my birthday. We ordered a large spread to make our own little buffet and everything was amazing! We had mutter paneer, dal tadka, tandoori chicken, balti baingan, and hakka noodles. Everything was vegetarian except for the chicken, and even if you are a meat eater I recommend you try any and all of those dishes. The way Indian cuisine handles vegetables is always next level! It's hard to pick a favorite dish, but I have to say that the hakka noodles were perfectly smoky with tender-crisp vegetables, and the balti baingan, which is a dish comprised of smoky mashed eggplant, rocked my world. Service has always been great when I've been. It's friendly, quick, and I've never seen my water glass go down more than halfway. They also have a great lunch special that's almost like a mini thali which I recommend!

My mom and I usually come here on the weekends for the lunch buffet. We both really love the food…read morehere. The quality is consistently good and there is a lot of variety. The owners and employees are super friendly. They really care about the food they provide, and the service is quick and efficient as well. The desert is amazing here too! My mom is picky when it comes to Indian food and she wants to come back to this place all the time. It's definitely worth trying this place out!

Easily the best Indian food I ever had. The butter chicken was amazing, the lamb biriyani was…read moreUNREAL, and the Lamb Ramjash was the best Indian dish by far. 10/10 food and the service was great. Owner cam out to meet us and tell his story of cooking for 25 years, you can really taste it in the food. If you're looking for a good Indian dish this is the spot! Also they run buffet every day! I will come back to try that!

One of my go-to-spots! I appreciate the traditional food options and the atmosphere. The service is…read moreexceptional and the owners come talk to you and remember your orders. It's this type of private establishment that needs to be supported.

Himalaya, a Himalayan/Nepalese restaurant in Berlin, has been on my radar for a while because of…read moreits high overall Yelp rating. We recently moved closer and I decided to try it for a work at home lunch day. I did no research before going. It turns out that Himalaya does not presently have a dine in option, which is fine because I live nearby. I walked in to look at the menu and order. I'm not sure if the person who helped me was having an off day, or maybe he's used to regular customers ordering ahead and didn't like having to change his routine, but he was not particularly welcoming. No smile or friendly greeting. I'm fairly sure that he rolled his eyes when I went to pay with cash. I don't know who this person was relative to the restaurant, but it didn't set a good tone. I ordered from the Lunch Specials. I ordered the Chicken Saag special which came with Basmati Rice and Naan. I don't remember the exact cost, but I remember being surprised at how inexpensive it was. Everything on the Lunch Special menu was inexpensive relative to places I frequent. I was told that it would be 10 minutes. I returned around 15 minutes later and my order was ready. All of the food was at least OK to pretty good, but didn't really pop for me. I'm much more familiar with Indian restaurants than I am with Nepalese and Himalayan restaurants, but some of the dishes share names. I'm not sure if there are seasoning and other variations in Indian versus Nepalese cuisine, or if any variations are more based upon the chefs cooking the meals. In any event, Himalaya's version of both the Saag and the chicken in the Saag were different than I'm used to. I prefer the way the Saag is seasoned in my favorite Indian places in CT. I feel like the chicken in most Indian restaurants is kebab style and is cooked in a tandoori oven. Himalaya's chicken had a rougher texture and seemed like it was perhaps roasted. It was pretty good, but probably my least favorite Saag dish I've had in a while. The Basmati rice was fine. The naan was OK. The texture and flavor didn't measure up to my favorite Indian restaurants. I have multiple nearby Indian restaurants that I prefer to Himalaya. In light of that and my less than positive service experience, I'm unlikely to return to Himalaya. However, given Himalaya's strong overall rating, it's clear that others have had good experiences and maybe you'll have better luck than I did. And as I said, the lunch specials are a good value. 3 Stars

Small unassuming location on the Main Street in downtown Torrington, we were excited to try and new…read morespot while in town for the evening. We were welcomed and seated quickly, host was kind and helpful. They were short staffed that evening so food took a long time but everything was made from scratch. Tried the naan pizza which was different and delicious. The chicken pakora was delicious and the samosas were very good with a nice spice level. I would definitely recommend to give this spot a try! Restaurant was clean with nice decor, the tv was a bit loud but it was ok. Thr service was a bit slow because they were short staffed but everything else was

I feel bad doing this but I was so disappointed with the food. As a Londoner, I am used to British…read moreIndian food and, on a whim, got takeout. I ordered a simple Chicken Tikka Masala and Dosa (tough to screw up). The dosa was $17.99 and we got a 1 dry bread, 2 tiny sauces and a portion of flavorless sambas. A LOT of money for a very simple, less-than-average dish. The Chicken Tikka was too creamy, the chicken dry and not a ton of the classic Indian flavors I am used to. I wasn't upset about the long wait since I thought I was getting a freshly made, home cooked meal. Sadly, not at all what I expected from Indian food, and I was disappointed. I guarantee the proprietors don't eat the food they serve.

This most recent visit I decided to dine in for lunch. There is not a lunch menu in the weekends…read morebut there are specials that were unique. We ordered appetizers to get a good range of variety. The service was sooooo slow. And the glasses seemed as if they had been sitting on the table forever. The food was tasty. I had the mustard shrimp and potato paratha. Both were amazing. My one complaint of the shrimp was that some pieces were without tails which gave the appearance that they were left over. It just seemed odd. The temperature of the shrimp were a bit under warmed for my liking but the flavor was amazing. They gave three sauces- that were all bursting with unique flavor. Some were spicy. I did see they were preparing a ton of uber eats deliveries and there appeared to be one person managing all of that. So it makes sense for the slow service. I think I'd prefer to order takeout to dine in. Although the dining room is gorgeous, I wish they had someone to be more attentive to customers and describe menu options with a bit of feeling. Our waiter was a bit distracted so he seemed uninterested in conversation when we had questions.

It's just a beautiful places to create memory, and the food was absolutely delicious! My favorite…read morewas one of the chicken dish and the shrimp fried rice, and how can I forget about the salmon curry! The staff and the owner was pleasantly welcoming!

Enjoyed the weekend buffet with my husband today! The interior is small, but with plenty of booths…read moreand a couple larger tables. We arrived during a quiet lull, but the dining room quickly filled back up, and with it the food continued to come out hot and fresh! We tried a little bit of everything and it was all delicious. Standouts were the goat curry and Chana saag. Service was great! They are extremely hospitable. It feels a bit like you've sat down in someone's dining room which is really nice. Highly recommended!

For the price, quality, and taste, the buffet at Bombay Olive is hands down the best deal in the…read moreGreater Hartford area. Coming from a New York background with high standards for Indian cuisine, it is rare to find a spot that balances value with such authentic flavor profiles, but this place is a class act. The variety is impressive, and unlike many buffet lines that feel like an afterthought, the food here retains the deep seasoning and soul you'd expect from a high-end kitchen. My one professional tip: if you have the time, get there early. The food is too good to miss out on the freshest rotations, and it fills up fast for a reason.