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Namaste Express

4.6 (11 reviews)
Open • 11:00 am - 2:30 pm, 5:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Updated 2 months ago

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Thanks for the great food and even more amazing staff. Will visit again to try more items on the menu. Recommend highly .

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Full disclosure: I've only eaten here during the weekend buffet that they do (I think that this is…read moreactually Friday-Sunday, either out of a misunderstanding of the concept of a weekend or as part of a conscious effort to defy it) because home is the southerly parts of Pinellas and, given the existence of thirty-some miles of miscellaneous urban nonsense between where I am and where they are (I need to take three interstates to get here, each more stultifying than the last), it might as well be in one of the Dakotas, or else some forbidding slope in Kamchatka, where the wolves howl and the night does not end. Thus, I've never been here for a normal meal and ordered a normal item off the menu like a normal person. But I've been to the buffet many times, since the place is right across the street (or *almost* just across the street) from Lettuce Lake Park, a lovely place to wander and gawp at the alligators and weird birds for the princely sum of $2. Utterly full disclosure: If I have any tiny trace of blood from the Indian subcontinent, it's been so diluted and diffused by generation upon generation of angry people who make angry-looking buildings that it probably now couldn't fill a grasshopper's coffee mug, and I'm pretty sure that I've never been within three thousand miles of Delhi. So I have no claim to judge what constitutes authentic Indian food of any stripe, and anyone who does should feel free to snort contemptuously and consign this review to whatever part of their brain they use to store voicemails about extending their car warranty or the phone books that regularly land in their yards and absorb rain and reclaimed water until they're a soupy mess. But, even given the above caveats, this very well might be the best Indian restaurant I've ever visited. I've had a long and checkered career of visiting Indian restaurants, from the dismal downtown buffet where you eat too much chicken tikka for no discernible reason (it does not spark joy or create satisfaction, but still you keep eating it) and enter a state of such profound drowsiness that you immediately understand that you will never get anything important done for the rest of the day, to the smalltown restaurant putting on airs with white tablecloths and silver where the most complex item on the menu is saag paneer, to the grotesque and misbegotten Midwestern late-Fifties steadily-collapsing concrete-and-sheet-metal monstrosity where beef vindaloo (???) is on the menu and the servers mispronounce the names of dishes with the insouciant confidence of the utterly damned. So, whatever mitigating factors might be in place, I stand by my pronouncement. The buffet, and the menu in general (which, again, I haven't sampled at length, but have browsed) seem to make reluctant concessions to American taste, offering some of the usual suspects (butter chicken, tikka masala, whatever vindaloo), but seem to be mostly interested in going beyond that. The weekend buffet reliably has goat curry, which is wonderful (and spicy!) and not something that is regularly included in the genre, and the chili chicken (which is usually interpreted as some soupy, sticky variant on Chinese food, as per its origins) is a sort of dry, fried, spice-encrusted dish, gloriously addictive. And many dishes whose names are unfamiliar to me--a sort of rice pudding, but not the kheer that is easily found at every five-and-dime buffet across the nation, instead a complex, spicy concoction with caraway and green chile, or a set of fritters (labeled "baby corn," though I'm not at all sure that's what they were) that become transcendent when dipped in one of the array of lovely sauces that they provide. And it's actually spicy, or, rather, many dishes are (the butter chicken is still, predictably, bland and inoffensive), which is damn near impossible to find in an Indian restaurant around these parts--even some of the buffet items have a decent bite. And the little (free!) cups of chai that they provide--strong, but not too sweet, not like the milky sugared-up lattes that you get at Starbucks. And this, and that, and more. Yes, it's slightly spendy (currently around $15 for the buffet), but you don't eat here every day and, perhaps, like me, you've driven for a while to be here, in a weird abandoned parking lot adjacent to a Holiday Inn Express adjacent to a huge tech park... so it's probably worth it. But if you've just skipped to the end, here, in hopes of discovering whether this restaurant is good and whether you should eat here, the answer is, definitely, yes and yes. If you are even remotely intrigued by Indian food, and if you do not shrink from the notion of capsaicin-laced food as if it were the machinations of the devil himself, you owe it to yourself to visit this place. Yes, it's in the parking lot of a hotel, and it's tiny, and you don't know where you are or what's what (welcome to Florida). Just go in and eat the goat curry, you weirdo.

Great food the naan bread was perfect the butter chicken was very flavorful…read more Downfall would be the family members hang out there and play with the remote halfway through dinner the nice mood music I was listening turned into an Indian comedy show because the owners father had the remote.

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Amazing! Just plain amazing! We opted to dine in after painting next door and so glad we made the…read morechoice because we were not disappointed! Greeted and seated upon walking in. We were brought out waters and plates and utensils. Then greeted by our server who recommended the chicken curry and bread. The food was fresh and delicious! The spice level was present but tolerable. I'm not good with spice anymore so the server brought me some lime and some yogurt to drink and help. Amazing that squeezing the lime on the curry basically eliminated the spice and the yogurt took away the burn from my mouth immediately. Establishment is very clean and the smell is wonderful when you walk in. Highly recommend and we will definitely be back.

Zero sense of customer service. We called and asked when is the last order for the night. They said…read more10 30. We reached at 10 15ish and no one attended us till 10 35. Then while eating food, one of the servers came to the table and asked to us to pay as it was closing time. We asked to wait till we atleast finish eating. Provided that feedback while paying the bill, but clearly they don't understand the concept of customer service and kept providing plenty of reasons. On top of that, the food wasn't that great. The dosa was served really cold. Not returning here just for the poorest customer service sense at display. Plenty of good options around.

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3.4(48 reviews)
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I read the reviews of others and understand immediately why few people called the food "Spicy" in…read morethe cafe area. Please understand that the target audience for the cafe are the "Indian Sub-Continent" resident who are craving authentic South Indian food OR who have immigrated to Tampa quite recently. The food HAS to be spicy. We don't like it any other way. I started coming to Taaza Mart because of Indian Grocery items. Which they have in great variety. The produce are fresh and the butcher (Mustafa) is great and very friendly. We were pleasantly surprised by the cafe and the roti area. Every week we get couple of roti packets and couple of curries from the cafe. If my wife plans to cook, she picks up meat or produce. They also have a robust return policy. If you want to experience authentic South Indian food, give them a whirl. But please be warned, the food will be spicy.

Rude Business, Rude Patrons, and an Unpleasant Stench…read more From the moment I walked in, I should've trusted my nose--there was a strong stench that set the tone for everything that followed. The male customers were shockingly rude, walking straight into my space as if I were invisible, expecting me to move out of their way. When I approached an open register, I politely asked the cashier if she was available. Instead of a simple answer, she huffed, rolled her eyes, and made it clear my presence was an inconvenience. That was it for me. I put everything back and walked out. I had planned to return with family and friends, but that changed quickly. Cultural differences or not, rude is rude, and bad customer service is still bad customer service. I won't be back.

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