The food here was outstanding & fresh & I'd definitely go again! The only complaint is how small…read morethe portions are. I got maybe 5 pieces of chicken in my entree but it was 5 super tasty pieces of chicken! The service is prompt and perfect.

Indian is by far my favorite food. Saffron's food is pretty good, I would say it's the best in the…read moreWaco area. The service is good and very friendly.

Great chicken biryani and chicken tikka masala, the garlic naan breqd was warn and toasty, charcoal…read morefired. Restaurant was clean and high end, service was impeccable. One of the best indian restaurants I have eaten in awhile. It's good, It"s really good!

This place is INCREDIBLE!! We stopped in about 40 minutes after 5pm opening on a Monday, and the…read morewhole place was empty. We could tell the food was going to be amazing just from how good it smelled when we walked in. The pani puri was amazing. I've had it in other local Indian restaurants, and it has never been anything like what we had today. It was absolutely delicious. The samosas were just as great. Our friend said "this is the kind of food that so good I don't want to stop eating because I'm afraid I'll die" while eating these samosas... that should sum up how good they were. Butter chicken, chicken tikka masala, vegetable vindaloo, non-veg thali. The garlickiest garlic naan ever. Onion kulcha. EVERYTHING was incredible. We won't be visiting any other Indian restaurant again. This is the place to go!!

Went on a Saturday night and they're a new business so I'm more lenient, but the food did take 45…read moreminutes to come except for one dish that they brought 30 minutes earlier. They did apologize for the wait time, and they were very nice. However, the food was kind of disappointing. The palak paneer tasted very off, the lamb tikka masala was fine at best, and the murgh tikka was the only thing I'd call good (after we told them to reheat it). The only redeemable thing about this place was that the entrees come with rice. I would try this place again, but I wouldn't say my first impression was a good one. ** i'm not sure if they are, but it would be really nice if they were halal

Let me just start with the positives. They still have a fair-priced lunch buffet every day, the…read moreservice is not bad, and some of the items in the buffet (veg Manchurian, naan, kheer, butter chicken (just the gravy, not the chicken itself) tasted good. Now, coming to the bad, the quality and flavor of the food have drastically gone down the hill (rather, a cliff). My first visit to this establishment was in February 2025, and in just 10 months, it feels like a totally different restaurant. The biryani was atrocious, to say the least. The rice was undercooked, the flavor was non-existent, and I needed to go through the entire tray of biryani just to find one piece of meat. Of the 3 chicken dishes, the chicken tasted not-so-fresh in one dish (tandoori chicken), bland in another dish (chicken vindaloo), and hard as a hockey puck in another dish (butter chicken). The tandoori chicken did not taste exactly like tandoori chicken, but seemed like a different recipe. However, it did not taste bad (except the questionable freshness of the chicken). The butter chicken was delicious, except the hockey-puck chicken. The vegetarian items were superior to the non-vegetarian ones. Overall, this buffet experience was as bad as, if not worse than Taz's buffet. I definitely will not be returning. Only Monk's and Aroma remain as good South Asian restaurants in the BCS area.

Staff was very friendly. Very clean restaurant. Food was very flavorful and delicious highly…read morerecommend this place if you want some great Indian food

I finally went for dinner yesterday, the gentleman at the counter was friendly, attentive and…read moregracious. Love that he's showing love and appreciation for us healthcare workers this month 15% off, highly recommend you take advantage. I ordered the massive masala onion dosa for the first time ever and the dips it comes with were amazing, it was extremely filling and had plenty of leftovers for the next day!! My friend got chicken tikka masala with rice and the garlic naan made fresh. Per the newspaper on the wall, this establishment has been around and has heart and soul! The food is made with love, attention and detail and to order . The ambiance is simple and open space. The place is kept tidy and plenty of people came for take out and to dine in on a Tuesday evening. I would say please give this place some love. The prices are not bad for the portion.

The first Indian place we tried when first moving here and was so happy to find it. I was worried…read morethere wouldn't be flavorful places compared to where I'm from, but they didn't disappoint here! I'm surprised they aren't more busy than they were. Service could have been slightly better with more attentiveness to the tables both after receiving the food and with bringing the check over. Other than that, I'm sure we'll come back again.

It was good but different. My taste buds couldn't decide.................................read more

we got takeout. We got the chicken biryani. They are actually open at 11 AM on weekends. The person…read moretaking our order was very nice. We wanted garlic naan, but they did not have any made. The food itself was just OK. I wanted a little bit more from the biryani, and the rice was a little bit mushy. On the upside, the chicken was seasoned very nicely and cooked very nicely. The space is very large and welcoming. It is a lot of food, we got one biryani for two people and still have left over for another meal. Medium spice is relatively good/accurate.

My wife and I had dinner in Santo at Sanjha Indian Cuisine restaurant Hwy 281 & IH20). The only…read morething I can say is that it gets better every time we eat there. Not to mention it is operated by the most wonderful Indian family. Tonight we feasted on Butter Chicken (spicy), Vegetable Biryani (med spicy), and Chicken Palak (medium spicy). The Butter Chicken is chicken cooked in a clay oven and cooked in butter, Indian yogurt, spices, and tomato sauce. Great over basmati or jasmine rice. I ate mine with the Vegetable Biryani. I typically eat chicken or goat biryani but am so glad I went this route. Huge flavor profile with the veggies. My wife's favorite is always Chicken Palak or Saag Paneer. Basically a creamed spinach with chicken or cheese. But that's a wholly inadequate description of a beautiful dish. Vegetable Biryani is Basmati rice cooked with vegetables and spices. These are typically good dishes to try if you're not used to Indian cuisine. We step up our spices a bit. This seems like an expensive meal until you realize we make at least two more meals out of this deliciousness!! We ended our meal with Gulab Jamun (2 pcs) and Kheer. Gulab Jamun is roughly akin to a donut hole sprinkled with a coarse sugar and topped with a simple syrup. Kheer is cooked rice in milk with sugar. Again, another wholly inadequate description. Folks. You are not doing yourself right if you don't give this beautiful, well kept restaurant a chance. It's only one building north of IH20.

HALLELUJAH! SAVED AT…read moreLAST! THE VIRTUOUS FINALLY GET REWARDED !!! * * * College Station has long had a large and sophisticated Indian population - one generally linked in some manner to Texas A and M University. It also has a large population of wannabe international eaters - Wannabe because generally the international eating options are not there. For a long time, BCS was serviced by one and only one Indian restaurant. Having a monopoly they got a huge business. The food was worse than the food you would get in East Texas at the various one-and-only-one Indian restaurants that many East Texas cities actually have. Suddenly, in 2025, free markets actually worked the way economists say they do, and enterprising Indian restauranteurs showed up to service this enormous market. Flowers and banners came down from heaven and the music of flutes and lyres filled the air. * * * The Monk is the most recent addition to this healthy market correction. I can not speak about the earlier rescue arrivals. However, The Monk has long had a reputation in Houston as being an absolutely first rate chain. When I was visiting Cy-Fair, a knowledgeable local informant told me that the Monk was the best food I would get in Cy-Fair in ANY format. While I can't speak for the entire range of the competition (the Houston burbs having some formidable Mediterranean and Vietnamese), The Monk was everything advertised. I was completely impressed. * * * The Monk in College Station is just as impressive as are the Monks in their Houston city of origin. The actual details of what I ate don't really matter. I have never had a bad dish in any Monk. (Okay - except for the salty Lassi. Skip that one.) The decades of Indian food deprivation (at least in BCS) are over. Eat here in confidence.

Food 2/5 Service 2/5…read moreAmbiance 5/5 I came to Monk's at around 8 pm with a party of 5 on a Friday, and it was pretty packed. The place is well decorated. We all ordered at the same time, but the food came out extremely slowly. 45 minutes passed before my friend's food came out, so we couldn't even enjoy the food together. The food itself was decent, but my stomach hurt after I ate, which could be because I ordered the chicken fry biryani at a medium spice level. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with the experience and do not plan on returning.