Butter Chicken Garlic Nan Vegetables Biryanis but always too spicy. Samosas are good but packing should improve.
Akash Choudhary
pretty good place good food.
Jonny Sanchez
Just stopped in as a business owner staying at the Clancy hotel up the street and found this place open. They were amazingly open towards helping me with my food choices since I haven’t been always open to it. I wanted simple, not too spicy and they nailed it. I got a great simple chicken appetizer followed by an easy lamb dish with potatoes. Holy moly! She came back with a small dessert on the house.Don’t expect a freebie when you come but I always love it when I’m appreciated. Give these guys a chance. They are special. They now have cocktails too. I happened to stumble in on the week they got their license.
A C
Expensive and not worth it
khushi passi
It's closed permanently
Deb Behan (US)
ordered to go today from this restaurant as i was craving Indian food. i got plain rice, chicken tiki masala, and one garlic naan for $21. it was pretty high-priced, but it's downtown. i got back to the office and found the naan to be very butter/greasy, but okay. the rice was plentiful for $3.25...but the chicken tiki masala was dry and the sauce had no spice. i noticed on their website they ask you to pick mild, medium spice, or extra spicy. they didn't ask me that question upon ordering, as i love spice. it was nothing to write home about and i don't think i'll be returning for that price.
Kersh T.
Delivery service is extremely slow. Do not order instant delivery from this restaurant. Order is more than 30 min late and still hasn't arrived
PaulinaC
Terrible, I made a reservation through Open Table, it was confirmed and then when I got there they said they were not taking customers that night as they had a tour group in. I asked if we could do takeout and they said come back in 20 minutes, I gave them my number to call when ready, they never called, went back an hour later, was still not ready for another 10 minutes. Got it home and it was terrible and not even the right order. Very disappointing evening and it could have all been avoided if Open Table had not accepted my reservation for that night.
JeanineC
We arrived, party of 12. Carpets were dirty. It was dinner time and the lunch buffet was half broken down and the area was dirty. We asked for ice water and were told they were out of ice. Bathrooms were dirty. We left. I wouldn't eat there. Bad service even worse ambience.
One of the most disappointing visits to a restaurant I can remember. They took our order, we waited nearly an hour to be fed, they forgot half our dishes and claimed that the orderer had left without telling them the full range (this was 8pm), the chicken was like leather, they then didn't replace the things we had originally ordered and then came out asking to write down our credit number because their machine had broken. Just an awful comedically bad evening at a restaurant and I would strongly, strongly recommend that you don't go to it.
I chose this restaurant at random because it was close to my hotel and I wanted Indian food. Since I didn't know the area this made sense. The walk to the restaurant was easy, but I passed many others which may have been a better choice. Tandoori Mahal was quite when I got there. Only one other table had diners. Given that there was no one else there service could have been better. The food was acceptable, but nothing to write home about. I will not return.
YumYum
I'm a frequent diner at the Indian Clay Oven restaurant on Clement St., SF, the original restaurant from the chain which Tandoori Mahal belongs to. Unfortunately the quality of food in these two places is totally different - while India Clay Oven is a food quality benchmark on my scale of Indian restaurants in SF, Tandoori Mahal is just an eatery, the food quality is average at best. Besides the food quality improvements the place needs remodeling or at least general cleanup.
absjr
Open on Christmas! That's why we went. Curries were excellent--rich, complex. Especially liked the salmon with spinach dish. Naan warm, buttery and satisfying. Portions were not especially generous; 1 dish=1 person. Service was so off it was comical. Maybe there was some key person missing due to the holiday. We had to order our drinks 3 times and they still got it wrong. On the other hand, when we ordered an extra naan, it came fairly quickly. I'd go back for korma and tikka masala though.
RJA1
I ordered wine from the menu they didnt have it they suggested another white wine they brought it warm. I ordered food they brought the wrong meal. Service was slow even though no one was in the restaurant. This place has problems
My brother passed away recently and we gathered for a memorial service in San Francisco. We lived in India as children and Indian food was one of his favorite cuisines so I looked for for an Indian restaurant that could accomodate a crowd. (We were a group of about 40.) Not only could they handle the crowd, they helped me with the planning, advising me on the menu. The food and service were both excellent. My husband commented that he never thought he liked tandoori chicken until he ate the chicken at Tandoori Mahal. Other very good dishes included dal makhani, mattar paneer and rogan josh. The pakoras were heavenly. We were served family style and the staff paced the serving of the food just perfectly. An excellent meal all around!
Butter Chicken Garlic Nan Vegetables Biryanis but always too spicy. Samosas are good but packing should improve.
pretty good place good food.
Just stopped in as a business owner staying at the Clancy hotel up the street and found this place open. They were amazingly open towards helping me with my food choices since I haven’t been always open to it. I wanted simple, not too spicy and they nailed it. I got a great simple chicken appetizer followed by an easy lamb dish with potatoes. Holy moly! She came back with a small dessert on the house.Don’t expect a freebie when you come but I always love it when I’m appreciated. Give these guys a chance. They are special. They now have cocktails too. I happened to stumble in on the week they got their license.
Expensive and not worth it
It's closed permanently
ordered to go today from this restaurant as i was craving Indian food. i got plain rice, chicken tiki masala, and one garlic naan for $21. it was pretty high-priced, but it's downtown. i got back to the office and found the naan to be very butter/greasy, but okay. the rice was plentiful for $3.25...but the chicken tiki masala was dry and the sauce had no spice. i noticed on their website they ask you to pick mild, medium spice, or extra spicy. they didn't ask me that question upon ordering, as i love spice. it was nothing to write home about and i don't think i'll be returning for that price.
Delivery service is extremely slow. Do not order instant delivery from this restaurant. Order is more than 30 min late and still hasn't arrived
Terrible, I made a reservation through Open Table, it was confirmed and then when I got there they said they were not taking customers that night as they had a tour group in. I asked if we could do takeout and they said come back in 20 minutes, I gave them my number to call when ready, they never called, went back an hour later, was still not ready for another 10 minutes. Got it home and it was terrible and not even the right order. Very disappointing evening and it could have all been avoided if Open Table had not accepted my reservation for that night.
We arrived, party of 12. Carpets were dirty. It was dinner time and the lunch buffet was half broken down and the area was dirty. We asked for ice water and were told they were out of ice. Bathrooms were dirty. We left. I wouldn't eat there. Bad service even worse ambience.
One of the most disappointing visits to a restaurant I can remember. They took our order, we waited nearly an hour to be fed, they forgot half our dishes and claimed that the orderer had left without telling them the full range (this was 8pm), the chicken was like leather, they then didn't replace the things we had originally ordered and then came out asking to write down our credit number because their machine had broken. Just an awful comedically bad evening at a restaurant and I would strongly, strongly recommend that you don't go to it.
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I chose this restaurant at random because it was close to my hotel and I wanted Indian food. Since I didn't know the area this made sense. The walk to the restaurant was easy, but I passed many others which may have been a better choice. Tandoori Mahal was quite when I got there. Only one other table had diners. Given that there was no one else there service could have been better. The food was acceptable, but nothing to write home about. I will not return.
I'm a frequent diner at the Indian Clay Oven restaurant on Clement St., SF, the original restaurant from the chain which Tandoori Mahal belongs to. Unfortunately the quality of food in these two places is totally different - while India Clay Oven is a food quality benchmark on my scale of Indian restaurants in SF, Tandoori Mahal is just an eatery, the food quality is average at best. Besides the food quality improvements the place needs remodeling or at least general cleanup.
Open on Christmas! That's why we went. Curries were excellent--rich, complex. Especially liked the salmon with spinach dish. Naan warm, buttery and satisfying. Portions were not especially generous; 1 dish=1 person. Service was so off it was comical. Maybe there was some key person missing due to the holiday. We had to order our drinks 3 times and they still got it wrong. On the other hand, when we ordered an extra naan, it came fairly quickly. I'd go back for korma and tikka masala though.
I ordered wine from the menu they didnt have it they suggested another white wine they brought it warm. I ordered food they brought the wrong meal. Service was slow even though no one was in the restaurant. This place has problems
My brother passed away recently and we gathered for a memorial service in San Francisco. We lived in India as children and Indian food was one of his favorite cuisines so I looked for for an Indian restaurant that could accomodate a crowd. (We were a group of about 40.) Not only could they handle the crowd, they helped me with the planning, advising me on the menu. The food and service were both excellent. My husband commented that he never thought he liked tandoori chicken until he ate the chicken at Tandoori Mahal. Other very good dishes included dal makhani, mattar paneer and rogan josh. The pakoras were heavenly. We were served family style and the staff paced the serving of the food just perfectly. An excellent meal all around!