Saag paneer was great. It is nice to have good Indian food on the west side Of Cincinnati.read more

My husband took me to Aap for what I'm pretty sure was my first time & I wish he had taken me…read moresooner. The exterior is very unassuming - a good example of don't judge a book by its cover - with convenient parking available. We were greeted by a pleasant host who sat us promptly & took our order. A server quickly filled our glasses with water & brought us a couple Cokes. We both ordered the chicken tikka masala ($16.99) & shared an order of the paneer naan ($4.99). I chose a spice level 4 out of 6, while my husband sprung for the 5. Both of us were very happy with our choices, as we were provided just enough heat to get our noses running, but not an overwhelming heat that took over the flavors. The sauce was so smooth & rich & seasoned with the perfect amount of cilantro. The rice looked deceptively plain, but was prepared & seasoned well & was the perfect accompaniment to the velvety sauce & chicken. The naan was stuffed with a house-made cheese & plenty of fragrant herbs, making this delicious bread a welcome side to this decadent meal. This has easily become a top favorite for both of us as far as Indian restaurants in Cincy. Go check it out - you'll be glad you did.

We first found Guru India when we lived here, their lunch buffet was the BEST! We have since lived…read morein Torrance, CA, Dallas, TX, Fremont, CA, and now Oakland, CA and haven't been able to find Indian food as good as Guru! We are so glad they are still there even though they no longer have the buffet. We come back every time we're in town. If you haven't been, definitely give them a try. I personally recommend the lamb korma, chicken tikka masala, and garlic naan, but everything is delicious! The staff are so pleasant and the service quick!

I continue to love love love this place. Definitely one of my favorite Indian restaurants! I don't…read moreget here as much as I used to but besides them downsizing over the years, everything is the same. I usually always end up with the thal plate so I can take home leftovers. It comes with some appetizers as well that is good to use with the tamarind and the mint chutney. Service is always friendly for the most part. I think a family pretty much does most of the service here. I think the owner who was there at lunch and was doing a lot of bookkeeping is one of the friendliest people! Really glad that she shows just all the good service. Ambiance is comfortable as well. Looking forward to more!

So whenever I go to an Indian restaurant, my go-to to check the baseline is to get a chana masala,…read morespice level hot. I was in Cincinnatti for work and wanted to find some Indian that evening, and Flavors n Spices was right down the road from my hotel. Went in, and the the service was friendly and pleasant, the atmosphere was just nice enough that you got a sense that you are Eating Out, and the restrooms are really clean. So it was already doing well even before I ordered. I opted for the chana masala, and when the server said that the spice levels were mild, medium, and hot, I opted for hot. She did due dilligence and asked if I was sure I wanted hot, and then took my order and delivered some incredibly tasty chana masala that had the combo of flavor, spice, and burn that I love. Deep, rich flavor to the masala, and the garlic naan that I ordered alongside it was also excellent. Server checked on me frequently while I was eating, and kept my water full. All told, great experience if you're interested in getting Indian. Highly recommend.

I'm really disappointed and I definitely won't order from here again…read more I paid $22 for a lamb biryani, and there were only a few pieces of meat on the plate. It honestly felt like I ordered a plate of rice with just a sample of lamb. Very disappointing and a waste of money.

Solely based off of what we orders I give this a 4/5! We ordered the Chili Chicken Momos at a spice…read morelevel of 5. Momo, a steamed and filled dumpling popular in Tibetan, Nepalese, and North Indian cuisine, gets a fiery twist here. Ajeet is dishing out flavor-packed Momos (with halal chicken). We ordered a spice level of 5 on their scale and our noses were running, but in the best way possible. If your spice tolerance is on the lower end, trust me, scale it down a bit. This might just be your new favorite comfort food, because it's definitely mine.

I had their food for the first time, I had always my indian food at the indian a…read morelittle further (or before) across the street, it is good food but a bit pricey. Ajeet India & Nepali Cuisine has just the same good food, quality and fabulousness ad the one across the street but almost half the price. This is MY NEW favorite Indian food restaurant.

We have been going to this restaurant for more than 35 years. Ergo, we have seen many different…read moreservers and managers, even different owners, run the place. Our favorite foods are Chicken Saag, a spinach sauce with chicken in it, and Chicken Tika, a tandori chicken with peppers and onions. (Chicken tikka is dry, smoky, tandori grilled chicken pieces fried with peppers and onions in a red oil, while chicken tikka masala is grilled chicken simmered in a rich, creamy, spiced tomato sauce.) Both of our favorites are still good. Recently, however, we ordered a large carry out dinner and were unable to get the Chicken Tika. We wound up with Tandori Chicken, which my husband liked, but I felt was dry.) I suspect there is either a new manager or a new owner again. They have increased their wine and beer offerings. The menu is newly printed (but still huge.) They have added some fusion dishes. A few days ago, they played Indian music on what seemed to be a repeating loop. The music loop should be longer as the same singers popped up with the same songs several times while we were in the restaurant. Some other guest asked why the tissues on the tables? We order our food medium hot (3 on a 6 point scale) and often need to blow our noses as a result. Nice to have the tissues instead of using your napkin! We often order Naan with our meals. We favor garlic naan but all of their breads are very good. We're less enthusiastic about their appetizers, but there is also so much food served with their main menu items that if we order appetizers, we eat much less of the main. We seldom get dessert in any restaurant. We are less likely to order them in an Indian Restaurant as we find Indian desserts too sweet for our tastes.

We continue to love this place after many years. Service is usually provided by family members but…read morethey are always friendly and go out of their way to make sure that we are taking care of. Ambiance is comfortable and friendly. Food has always been amazing! We always sample different things and enjoy it every time. This is a super easy place to come to. Parking is plentiful out front and there is plenty of street parking in case if their private lot is full. There is plenty on the menu and we thoroughly enjoy everything! I typically get one of their sampler platters. It just has everything on it from naan to good pallet cleansers and then overall good proteins with curry. It has always been superb and well worth it! I think this place might be owned by The same family or they are related to the family that owns one of the other Indian restaurants that we enjoy going to. Everything is pretty on par with them so we know we are always getting good food every time we come. Nothing really much else to say except this place is definitely a winner and it has been around for quite a while. Definitely worth a visit for some good Indian food!

Oh my goodness, I wanted to love this place. It's been around forever and I recall coming here in…read moremy very distant past. We planned to meet at 6 pm on a Tuesday. The place was empty and boy were we popular! LOL We still needed to wait for our third. We were visited a few times before she arrived. I really can't complain about attentiveness. The restaurant itself seems clean, but there was nothing extraordinary about the decor. FYI - other people did arrive while we were there. The entire experience was all over the board. The service was over the top, but certainly attentive. The food was good, but not great. We all ordered Dal Soup, and here's where things went slightly awry. Mark and I received our soup first. It was good. Another bowl of soup (?!?) arrived for our friend. It was THICK compared to mine. In fact, mine was fully liquid and hers was overflowing with lentils. THEN... another soup came out. We were so very confused we were still asking about the thick lentil soup (?) at the end of the meal. We were told it is supposed to be eaten with the rice, or whatever you might be eating. I'm still not sure I understand. I ordered my go-to, Saag Paneer. Mark and I split a Garlic Naan. The naan was great. The flavor, the temperature, the consistency.. it was perfect. My Saag Paneer was good, but when it was delivered the server called it something along the lines of 'Chicken Saag', which is not what I ordered. I mentioned I ordered Saag Paneer, which cheese, not chicken. She then told me it was Saag Paneer. Indeed it was, but can we compound the overall confusion for the evening? Yes we can. Mark had Chicken Tikka Malasa or something similarly named. Be ordered it with a spiciness of 5 out of 6. His review of his meal... it was hot (and he likes "hot") and that was about it. Flavor was either overpowered by the spice level or simply didn't exist. Either way, he was unimpressed... and he loves Indian food. It's really his review that brings us to a three-star review. I tasted one small piece of our friend's Tandoori Chicken. This was after she packed leftovers for her daughter. The piece I tried was small, tender and had a strong flavor of some type of sauce. I think generally the Tandoori Chicken was dry (meaning not wet), but there had to be some sauce on the plate. Bottom line... for us, Ambar India Restaurant provided typical Indian cuisine. And though the staff were super attentive, we found ourselves confused. The food is good and if you live in the area it's a good spot for Indian, though there are many options in the area. We hadn't been in decades. Our most recent visit won't bring us back... mostly because there are so many Indian options in the city. Ambar isn't one we'll need to come back to. Sorry, no pics.

My long-running birthday tradition is getting Indian for dinner. Take-out, order in, anything goes…read more I wanted to try a new spot this year, so we dined in here on a Saturday night. It was busier than we expected, but it didn't affect our very attentive service. We started with a different appetizer than usual (for us), the Papadi Chat. A simple cold salad mix of chickpeas, apples, onion, and spices. We didn't really know what to expect, but it was tasty and something I could easily replicate at home. For entrees, we happily devoured 2 saag dishes (Chicken Tikka Saag and Saag Paneer), as well as Dal Makhani. I can't write this review without mentioning the naan. The garlic may have been one of the best garlic naans I've had - flavorful garlic flavor with so many actual garlic pieces adhered. BUT the star of the show was absolutely the Kashmiri naan. Do not pass this up!!! Maybe the best and most unique naan overall I've ever tried. Dramatic statement but true. Overall, this was a delicious birthday dinner and we will absolutely be back for more of that Kashmiri naan :)

Absolutely fantastic experience here. The staff was extremely friendly and welcoming, giving us…read moregreat recommendations throughout. The interior is very cozy, it hardly felt like a blazing hot summer day in there, more like a nice cool fall. The food and drinks were excellent. Many of the cocktails have tea-inspired elements, which was a really excellent start to the meal (the old-fashioned especially). For food, we loved everything. The mushroom samosas were almost more like saag and delicious. The short rib curry and the burger were both delicious. We finished with the sticky toffee pudding and it couldn't have been better. Great experience.

Prior to dinner, we walked around Fountain Square and explored the Cincinnati Moon Festival…read more(sampled some hot teas and mooncakes), and got cocktails at The Davidson and Via Vite (we saw Chef Cristian!) We went on a Friday nite, a 7 pm reservation for two. The scotch egg app and one of the rotating cottage pies (?one w/ lamb?) were already sold out. It was busy, with most tables occupied. Lots of 'dates', it looked like. Marigold is in downtown / the Fountain District and walking distance to Via Vite and The Davidson. At Marigold, we tried the mango lasso (reserve) cocktail ($22) and honey blossom (shaken) ($15) cocktail. Great cocktails, but $$$. We shared the following: Cottage pot pie w/ ground beef Pachadi salad $16.95 Mushroom samosa, came with two, $16.95 Oysters Rockefeller, came with six, $23.95 Bone in short rib, came with two, $54.95 We loved the * pachadi salad - punchy, fresh flavors, * mushroom samosas - came with 2, outside pastry crust was light *Bone in short ribs - came with 2, meat was fall off the bone tender and flavored well w/ the vindaloo juice; a lot of fat, but its a short rib not a filet mignon; the dish came with a few potatoes (dont wast the last few millimeters of space in your tummy on the taters). * Cottage pie - it was good, but nothing special (I did learn cottage pie = ground beef, vs shepherd's pie = ground lamb) * Oysters Rockefeller, came with 6 - these were good, but nothing special. The restaurant is loud. We had a hard time conversing, sitting across from each other. "English-style public house serving British and Indian dishes" A pricey meal, but worth a wknd dinner splurge with my college bestie. All the dishes came out fresh and HOT. Fun facts: Owned and operated by Crown Restaurant Group (CRG), sister restaurants are: Crown Republic Gastropub, Losanti, Rosie's Italian, Crown Cantina, Five on Vine, Young Buck Deli Opened in Feb 2025

Taj Mahal Indian in Covington is a five-star neighborhood gem. The vegetable samosas are on point…read more The chutneys are on point. The butter chicken is out of this world, honestly some of the best I've had. If you're into garlic naan, this might be the best in town. The price is well worth it for what you get. I'm a DC native, and I can say this easily beats any Indian food I've had in DC, New York, or anywhere else on the East Coast. The people are super friendly and quick, food comes out fast, and the atmosphere is great. Bonus: the owner also runs the convenience store right across the street, so it's a handy stop for liquor or tobacco needs too. Highly recommend. This is a real neighborhood spot.

First time at Taj Mahal Bar & Grill. My girlfriend and I met there for lunch at 11 a.m. There was…read morestreet parking right out front and I paid on the Cincy EZPark app. My girlfriend is a big lover of Indian food. They brought out the sauces/chutneys and they were cold, straight from the fridge and she was very disappointed in that. We ordered our drinks and neither one of us cared for the drinks at all. I ordered the chai tea and she ordered a manhattan. My chai tasted like milk and sugar and that is pretty much all, I was missing the spiciness of chai tea. Also a skin had formed on top of the tea as if the milk was scorched. She did not care for the manhattan at all, not really boozy and definitely not in the right glass and had a bunch of ice in it instead of none or just a single cube. On to the food. We both enjoyed our food. She ordered many items as she likes to take it home for the next day. I ordered the lamb kabob which is cooked in a Tandoor oven. I am going to say this is the single best dish I have ever had in an Indian restaurant and I would most assuredly order it again. My girlfriend said her meal was good in the restaurant and as leftovers at home as well. Our waitress did not have much of a personality and also it was clean inside but nothing spectacular.

the service was really horrible. the bar tender served me my food and was in such a rush he threw…read moremy sauced and spilled it on my skirt... the security guard over heard me stating I was making. a review and said "bitch nobody care about your review" very rude establishment...

I went last night, the bartender was rude to everyone, so ppl everyone left. The bartender talked…read moreabout everyone and literally ran a group out when we arrived. I will not be coming back and that bartender should be fired. There were 3 ppl with drinks around that bar when we left. (2019)