I had no idea Lazaza reopened! I thought it went out of business last summer but I am glad to see it is back.What has improved: the interior looks much better with new coat of paint and lighting. The old look was definitely a tad sketchy. The food is still great and the chai is as good as it used to be.What has not improved: the price of lunch buffet has gone from 12.99 to 16.99. That is a pretty steep increase. The best thing about lazaza was that it had good lunch buffet at a great price. I know inflation hit everyone hard, but 30% increase is rough. I don't think I will be going here as often as I used to, since the price has gone up so much.Suggestions: Lazaza doesn't have a lot of online presence. It has a fb page that doesn't get updated. So when it closed over the summer, I thought you guys went out of business. So I didn't even think to look until my friends updated me on it. I would have visited earlier if I had known. If you are not as busy as you used to be, it might be because people don't know you are back. Or it might be that Lazaza doesn't offer as good of a deal as it use to.
From the outside you wouldn’t think good quality Indian food inside but, sooo good will be back. By the pound buffet comes with naan salad and chai!Vegetarian options: Clearly marked vegetarian options
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 4
Jono R.
Got takeout from this place. The chicken tikka was very good. Great portion sizes too. Saved some for the next day's lunch which is rare for me.
Carrie Massey
The buffet is delicious and the garlic naan is the best we've ever had!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Goat Saag, Gyro, Butter Chicken, Naan, Wonderful Buffet Think It's the Only One Left, Chicken Tikka
SUSAN S
Ordered lamb biryani and butter naan. Huge portion and amazing flavor! So good!
Food: 5
Brittany Wells
Food and service is always great! I dream about the dal yellow, Chana masala, and samosas. Des Moines is lucky to have such a wonderful spot, nothing in the city really compares.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wanda Van Wyk
This is a all around great place!! Got everything ready and these folks hit the ground running!!! Good natured family. I haven't tried the food yet, but I have looked at the menu and oh my goodness talk about some great food on the menu. I mean when you walk up to the place you can already smell the food cooking. When you get in this establishment it is like the smell and will leave your mouth watering. You'll wanna go sit down and order the food when you just went in for a pack of smokes and a soda!!! Just saying...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Garlic Naan, Butter Naan, Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Tandoori Chicken Marsala Chicken & Rice, Buffet Plate of Tandoori Chicken Masala Chicken, Chicken Biryani, Chicken Marsala & Veggie Samosa, Naan, Wonderful Buffet Think It's the Only One Left, Chicken Tikka
allison bash
I had Lzaza delivered via Grubhub so I can’t rate service or atmosphere but the food??? Yum!! I ordered my favorite, Lamb Biryani, butter naan and tried something new, chicken korma with paneer. Oh my wow! Everything tastes so incredibly delicious and the spices are fantastic while not being too spicy hot. Portions were really big as well so prices fair in my opinion. I've ordered Indian food other places and they were great too but this really makes me want to go in and pay a visit for sure! I’ll definitely indulge again!!
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Butter Naan
Sport 8
Great food at this only pakistani restaurant in Des Moines. May be you should move restaurant part to front and groceries to back to improve customer experience. Best chai. Thank you.
If you're eating the in the front section food, you'll see a label for samosas that are really eggrolls with samosa filling. But if you order samosas directly from the menu, you'll get really good traditional samosas. Word to the wise.
Des Moines has had its share of Indian restaurants with great food and terrible atmosphere in the past, but none have taken it to quite the extreme Lzaza does. Food is very good, service is fine, but the atmosphere is almost comically bad now.The front 3/4 of the building is currently empty, with nothing but barren shelves and a lunch buffet stand. Diners are walked to the back of the room, around a small partition, into a sparsely decorated room with 7-8 tables. There are no place settings, there is no music, and the only thing helping to break the silence is a small TV playing a loop of drone videos of Cancun, Dubai, and Singapore.Food is very good, though no less expensive ($14-$19 for entrees) than its warmer, more decorated competitors (Kathmandu, India Star, etc). Lzaza has no liquor or beer or the menu but do allow BYOB, which is nice to hear.Unless you have a taste for eating in Spartan quarters with zero atmosphere, I’d recommend using Lzaza for carry-out only.
I LOVED the buffet. It was the best in town. I probably won’t return if there’s no buffet. Do you guys have plans to bring it back? I’m sure the food is still great, which is why I’m still happy to give 5 stars, but I’m a big eater so pay by the pound is no good for this fella.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
mya thway
THE BEST Indian food I’ve ever had! The food is just right, the food taste amazing, the spices are not overwhelming, not burning hot. OMG did I mention The CHAI TEA is the bomb? You will addicted to it. The owners and sons are really nice, they constantly re-failing the freshly cooked food. The num is also freshly cooked and very delicious!!!!! I can’t wait for them to reopen ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fables 456
Great food and good people.However, they close the restaurant for long periods of time with little or no notice. As a customer, this is quite frustrating not having this kind of dependability and reliability. It has happened often enough that we will no longer coming be coming back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dr. Mukta Sharma
I spent money to reach here from Uber from Des Moines airport. I found it closed after 14th of May. Please don't go there whoever is new here. They are closed. It's showing open on the Google maps but they are not. Please don't waste your money. They are misguiding you.
I had no idea Lazaza reopened! I thought it went out of business last summer but I am glad to see it is back.What has improved: the interior looks much better with new coat of paint and lighting. The old look was definitely a tad sketchy. The food is still great and the chai is as good as it used to be.What has not improved: the price of lunch buffet has gone from 12.99 to 16.99. That is a pretty steep increase. The best thing about lazaza was that it had good lunch buffet at a great price. I know inflation hit everyone hard, but 30% increase is rough. I don't think I will be going here as often as I used to, since the price has gone up so much.Suggestions: Lazaza doesn't have a lot of online presence. It has a fb page that doesn't get updated. So when it closed over the summer, I thought you guys went out of business. So I didn't even think to look until my friends updated me on it. I would have visited earlier if I had known. If you are not as busy as you used to be, it might be because people don't know you are back. Or it might be that Lazaza doesn't offer as good of a deal as it use to.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Tikka Masala, Naan, Garlic Naan, Chicken Biryani
From the outside you wouldn’t think good quality Indian food inside but, sooo good will be back. By the pound buffet comes with naan salad and chai!Vegetarian options: Clearly marked vegetarian options
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 4
Got takeout from this place. The chicken tikka was very good. Great portion sizes too. Saved some for the next day's lunch which is rare for me.
The buffet is delicious and the garlic naan is the best we've ever had!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Goat Saag, Gyro, Butter Chicken, Naan, Wonderful Buffet Think It's the Only One Left, Chicken Tikka
Ordered lamb biryani and butter naan. Huge portion and amazing flavor! So good!
Food: 5
Food and service is always great! I dream about the dal yellow, Chana masala, and samosas. Des Moines is lucky to have such a wonderful spot, nothing in the city really compares.
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is a all around great place!! Got everything ready and these folks hit the ground running!!! Good natured family. I haven't tried the food yet, but I have looked at the menu and oh my goodness talk about some great food on the menu. I mean when you walk up to the place you can already smell the food cooking. When you get in this establishment it is like the smell and will leave your mouth watering. You'll wanna go sit down and order the food when you just went in for a pack of smokes and a soda!!! Just saying...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Garlic Naan, Butter Naan, Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Tandoori Chicken Marsala Chicken & Rice, Buffet Plate of Tandoori Chicken Masala Chicken, Chicken Biryani, Chicken Marsala & Veggie Samosa, Naan, Wonderful Buffet Think It's the Only One Left, Chicken Tikka
I had Lzaza delivered via Grubhub so I can’t rate service or atmosphere but the food??? Yum!! I ordered my favorite, Lamb Biryani, butter naan and tried something new, chicken korma with paneer. Oh my wow! Everything tastes so incredibly delicious and the spices are fantastic while not being too spicy hot. Portions were really big as well so prices fair in my opinion. I've ordered Indian food other places and they were great too but this really makes me want to go in and pay a visit for sure! I’ll definitely indulge again!!
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Butter Naan
Great food at this only pakistani restaurant in Des Moines. May be you should move restaurant part to front and groceries to back to improve customer experience. Best chai. Thank you.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Tikka Masala, Chicken Biryani, Naan, Chicken Tikka
If you're eating the in the front section food, you'll see a label for samosas that are really eggrolls with samosa filling. But if you order samosas directly from the menu, you'll get really good traditional samosas. Word to the wise.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
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Des Moines has had its share of Indian restaurants with great food and terrible atmosphere in the past, but none have taken it to quite the extreme Lzaza does. Food is very good, service is fine, but the atmosphere is almost comically bad now.The front 3/4 of the building is currently empty, with nothing but barren shelves and a lunch buffet stand. Diners are walked to the back of the room, around a small partition, into a sparsely decorated room with 7-8 tables. There are no place settings, there is no music, and the only thing helping to break the silence is a small TV playing a loop of drone videos of Cancun, Dubai, and Singapore.Food is very good, though no less expensive ($14-$19 for entrees) than its warmer, more decorated competitors (Kathmandu, India Star, etc). Lzaza has no liquor or beer or the menu but do allow BYOB, which is nice to hear.Unless you have a taste for eating in Spartan quarters with zero atmosphere, I’d recommend using Lzaza for carry-out only.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Veggie Pakora, Chicken Biryani, Naan, Chicken Tikka
I LOVED the buffet. It was the best in town. I probably won’t return if there’s no buffet. Do you guys have plans to bring it back? I’m sure the food is still great, which is why I’m still happy to give 5 stars, but I’m a big eater so pay by the pound is no good for this fella.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
THE BEST Indian food I’ve ever had! The food is just right, the food taste amazing, the spices are not overwhelming, not burning hot. OMG did I mention The CHAI TEA is the bomb? You will addicted to it. The owners and sons are really nice, they constantly re-failing the freshly cooked food. The num is also freshly cooked and very delicious!!!!! I can’t wait for them to reopen ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food and good people.However, they close the restaurant for long periods of time with little or no notice. As a customer, this is quite frustrating not having this kind of dependability and reliability. It has happened often enough that we will no longer coming be coming back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
I spent money to reach here from Uber from Des Moines airport. I found it closed after 14th of May. Please don't go there whoever is new here. They are closed. It's showing open on the Google maps but they are not. Please don't waste your money. They are misguiding you.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1