Namaste

Food was delicious, portions were good, service was on point.
Our group of 5 sat outdoors. We ordered tandoori wings, naan baskets, chicken and shrimp korma, chicken kahai, lamb shish kabab and saagpaneer. My fave were the garlic naan, and the kormas. The garlic naan had a nice crisp, was perfectly salted and topped with diced garlic. The korma was sweeter than I’m used to — was cooked with pear pineapple and another fruit I couldn’t figure out– but was deeelicious.
Would definitely come back.

Amazing! Came here for lunch with my mother and fiancé and had a wonderful time. It felt like visiting someone’s home and felt so welcome. A beautiful outdoor dining space … Will definitely be back!
Also– taj mahal beer is a must try!

Great food. I rarely order Indian food as I’m often disappointed however Namaste delivered a pleasant surprise. Gave a decent sized helping of Chicken Tikka Masala, beautifully seasoned and perfectly spiced. The rice seemed fresh and fluffy and the bonus papadum was delicious and cruncky! Delivery also came quickly which is an added bonus.

Lamb tikka was fantastic as was the chaat samosa app. Beer and wine served (not listed on the website) was an un expected plus. Service was in point with good recommendations. The owner gave us a complimentary rice pudding… which was to die for. Would highly recommend this for Indian foodies!

eh, went there ffor the lunch buffet. It was pretty bad. I wouldn’t try it again. I use lunch buffets to decide if I like the place, and although it’s a great deal – I won’t be back.

Incredible food. Panir with masala sauce, garlic nan — best every had. Definitely coming back

Really love eating here! Great goat vindaloo, tikka chicken masala, saag paneer! They have a great lunch buffet for $ 12 that goes til 4pm. It’s good to check out so that you can try new things.
Service is wonderful, really sweet guys. I stopped going to the Indian spot near my house, this is my new go-​to.

I love this place! Their food is scrumptious, and their prices is surprisingly low for the high quality (get the vegetarian take-​out for 8 $- totally worth it)

This review is for takeout. I think the food was just ok and WAY too expensive — the entrees don’t come with anything except rice. Other places in town give you naan and some sauces and charge a few dollars less.

We are so thrilled to finally have an Indian place close to us in our neighborhood. Although on the small side, Namaste has great food and excellent service.
It’s really nice inside, great décor and ambience. We love the lunch buffet they offer. It’s an awesome deal for about 13 bucks. The chicken tikka masala is very good, creamy, not too tangy and the chicken as very tender. I always get the Lamb Rogan Josh. It’s very tasty, the lamb is ridiculously tender. It has just a hint of spice. Perfection! I also think the Vindaloo is good, it’s not too spicy that you cannot eat it. The Saag Paneer is delicious and not too salty. Their Naan is delicious and they do it very well here. Buttered nicely, soft and very fresh.
We are totally a fan and the service is always great and they are super nice and accommodating. I’d recommend this especially if you live in the neighborhood. Reasonably priced and great quality Indian food.

food is excellent!!!
truly the best indian food i’ve ever had in my life.
not only is the food absolutely outstanding, but the service is great & the employees are extremely warm and welcoming. great service! great authentic indian food! cant go wrong!
namaste

Excellent food. Very authentic. And the first all you can eat Indian buffet in the neighborhood. The staff was extremely friendly. I would definitely eat there again. From what they told us. The buffet me u changes daily. So it’s a great way to try different Indian dishes that I have never ordered before.
I would’ve given 5 stars. But didn’t get to try a bunch of items during my first visit. I still recommend.

Thought the menu had a lot of nice options. I thought each dish we ordered was tasty and well cooked. I must say it seemed the spice was a bit on the lighter side but all still delicious. Would not be surprised if it was intentional to cater to all palates and not scare off people who are not huge spice fans. Recommend for those seeking a bite of Indian food in the neighborhood.

This is the best Indian food I’ve found in Brooklyn. The menu and lunch buffet are both great, a wonderful variety and full of flavor.

Good chicken tikka masala and saag paneer. Fast delivery. Friendly and polite person taking delivery orders. Glad to have some Indian food in park slope.

Went there after reading good reviews on a weeknight for dinner. The restaurant was empty and we were the only ones dining in. Needless to say, I was less than impressed. The food tasted okay, but I could definitely tell that it was leftovers that were reheated. Even the basmati rice didn’t taste or look fresh. The roti and naan also didn’t seem fresh. The malai kofta was okay, a little bland. I did like the indo Chinese chilli chicken. I think the whole experience could be better. I’m disappointed that there is no 5 star indian restaurant in all of brooklyn.

I am writing this review for my father, who requested it as a Christmas gift. We’ve discussed it at length, and are in agreement that no one else should suffer this food. The papadum was soggier than the tropical storm he drove through to visit me. The mulligatawny was more watery than the sheets of rain his window wipers could not combat. Worst of all was the fried calamari, which my father believes were, in fact, frozen assholes tossed in a deep-​frier. I cannot go on. Don’t go here. They offered us free dessert, since we really couldn’t eat much of anything they served us, but we declined in synchronicity out of both fear and exasperation.
Merry Christmas Dad. I’m sorry.

Just ordered wings, beet salad and hot tea. Delivery was quicker than expected and delivery guy was nice. However, I found absolutely no utensils and the tea was lukewarm. I redialed the delivery number, got voice mail, left a message (for whatever that was worth) and was then forced to eating the soggy, canned beets on a bed of wilted greens with my fingers. 75%of the meal was tossed in the trash. I just had enough to take the edge off my hunger. Scratch this place off my «come back again» list.

Ok, take it from a British Desi — this place is legit. Amazing north Indian food, the butter chicken is great as is their saag. The naans are soft, and even their mango lassi ranks up there. It only opened recently and I’ve already ordered from them 4 times. Finally Indian food in Park Slope, easily the best I’ve had (locally) in the last 10 – 15 years (except of course for my wife’s cooking). Try it, you won’t be disappointed

I discovered «Namaste» a few weeks ago and I’ve been back a couple of times since. If you’re looking for great Indian food at an affordable price, this is the place to go! The food is awesome!
I should mention that I’ve only had the lunch buffet, but I am confident that their other offerings are every bit as good.
The buffet is served daily and is priced at a very reasonable $ 12. You can start with a salad — lettuce, tomatoes, various chutneys and raita, and then proceed to the hot dishes, which vary from day to day. On this particular day, I sampled the vegetable pakora, chili chicken, matter paneer, achari baigan, yellow dal w/​corn, chana saag, goat kadri and chicken tikka masala. For dessert, you could try the suji halwa (semolina pudding). I found all of the dishes to be well prepared and extremely satisfying.
I highly recommend Namaste and look forward to returning on a regular basis.

Pretty darn good for delivery in Park Slope. I still dream that our favorite UES Indian place will open a satellite branch in Brooklyn, but barring that, Namaste will definitely be our go-​to takeout Indian restaurant. Nice variety of dishes all well prepared. Nothing stands out as a destination restaurant experience, and thus the 4 stars, but their delivery is always prompt and the food always inviting. Very nice addition to the neighborhood, and I hope they’ll stick around for years to come.

Got there around 11:45am on a Monday and despite the sign outside saying lunch buffet started at 11am nothing was ready yet. I entered and was told they’d be ready in 15 minutes, so I came back in 20 and it was good to go. The food was obviously fresh and just out of the kitchen, so I got the benefit of not having buffet food that sits in those heated metal things for god knows how long. I was the only one in there at the time, which is a major win for a fat-​kid at heart because you can unashamedly go up for additional servings 10 times.
The service was quick and kind, (fresh hot naan brought right away and ice-​water was constantly refilled), and the atmosphere is clean and comfortable. There was nothing food-​wise that dropped my jaw, except maybe the spinach dish, but I’m a sucker for any kind of creamed spinach, Indian or otherwise.
The tandoori chicken was solid, if slightly under-​spiced, the chicken masala was very good, with a nice little kick, and all your other standard-​fair Indian buffet options were tasty. The rice, which of course is an important element of any indian meal was fluffy, warm and flavorful.
Moral of the story is I ate a ton and I was satisfied, which just like when I go to sushi all-​you-​can eat is my main objective for Indian buffets. I’m not expecting greatness, just goodness, without gastric consequences. I wasn’t running to the bathroom every 5 minutes over the next 24 hours, and that counts for something. All in all a huge success for Indian buffet. Welcome to the neighborhood!

Decided to give a new Park Slope Indian place a try for delivery tonight and was utterly disappointed, to say the least.
What we ordered: veggie samosas, daal saag, chicken Rajasthani hara maas, aloo paratha, Peshwari naan.
First and foremost, everything (save for the Peshwari naan) was severely undersalted and not in the sense that the restaurant was cutting back on salt in the interest of my health, but rather in the sense that most of the food had absolutely no flavor. The daal saag, for example, smelled deceivingly of garlic and spices, but it was so unbelievably watery and tasted as if it had been diluted. The brown tamarind sauce that accompanied the samosas was also watery and flavorless, again as if it had been diluted.
The biggest shocker of the order, though, was the chicken Rajasthani hara maas, which is described on the restaurant’s menu as being «Chicken simmered in a fresh ginger, red chili and cilantro sauce. Served with rice. Spicy.» I’d never heard of this dish before but I’m always interested in finding new alternatives to vindaloo to satisfy my spice craving, so I took a chance. Besides, it sounded like something I’d like and I even googled it before ordering to double check that it would be! What was delivered instead was chicken that was tinged a violently, artificially bright green sitting in what appeared to be a watered-​down version of the green mint-​cilantro chutney typically served alongside samosas, plus a couple dried red chilis floating on top. This dish went virtually uneaten.
Felt too bad giving just one star, so the second is for a speedy delivery (30 mins to South Slope!) and the free papadums they included with the order. It’s safe to say that those were the best part of the meal.

It’s always disappointing when you go to a restaurant and they don’t get your order right. It’s even more disappointing when you order delivery, they don’t get your order right, and then you have to wait sadly for the tandoori chicken to arrive with cold vegetable samosas.
The chicken tikka masala was average, but we won’t be ordering delivery again. For $ 40, it would have been nice for all the food to arrive together. Oh, well. Lesson learned.

I went here with my boyfriend for the lunch buffet about a week ago. They had a good selection of food and it was only $ 12 a person.
I mainly had the butter chicken and rice, but I also tried the goat and biryani.
For dessert they had a carrot dish, which wasn’t that great. I have had it other places where it had more flavor.
The mango lassis are good. We will probably be back!

Finally! An Indian lunch buffet in Park Slope! It’s very good too. You just can’t beat a fresh basket of naan brought to the table. The tandoori chicken is awesome.
The service is excellent. The servers are very attentive and extremely hospitable. The owner is a great guy who is clearly very passionate about his business. That’s really nice to see.
The one thing I’d like to see is maybe a little more variety on the buffet. They make a mushroom saag, but I really love a good old saag paneer. I’m pretty sure they leave out the paneer to make it a vegan dish, which I totally get, but I bet their saag paneer would be out of the park.
Keep up the great work, guys! We’ll definitely keep coming back!

My main complaint is with the Eat 22 service through Unilocal for online ordering. While I appreciate that they wanted to confirm that my large order was legit, their process is horrible for doing so. I received notifications I needed to complete an extra step to confirm my order, with no instruction as to how to complete that extra step. Resulting in our food not arriving until 2 hrs after I placed the order and horribly disrupting the meeting for which I ordered food. The restaurant itself once it finally received the order I believe did everything in their power to make up for the lost time, so this is mostly on Eat 22. Be warned.
That said, the various lamb, goat, and chicken entrees we ordered were all solid, but not absolutely delicious.
The samsas and cheese stuffed appetizers we ordered were good.
The spring and beet salads were spoiled. We threw them away.

After a few years of flitting from one mediocre Park Slope-​area Indian restaurant to the next, I am delighted to say that I’m now a loyal customer of Namaste. The food is consistently excellent and much more flavorful than is so often the case in a curry or biryani, which at many other restaurants tend to become undifferentiated piles of a single flavor, but which at Namaste maintain the complexity and interplay of the various ingredients and spices.
I tend to judge an Indian restaurant pretty heavily based on the apparent freshness of its ingredients (particularly vegetables, which at many restaurants get severely limited attention), the quality of its meat, and its ability to produce a good biryani (particularly when the rice itself is delicious, rather than filler). Namaste gets high marks on all of these, and I’ll certainly be back soon.
Also, try the tandoori mushrooms. Not something I’ve had elsewhere, but definitely a dish I’ve continued to order from Namaste.

Really good Indian food in Park Slope — finally.
Their delivery is fast and hot and the food is very fresh. We like the tandori chicken and the curry dishes.
Going in the restaurant is nice. They have a nice buffet and great takeout specials that they let you build right from the buffet.
Check it out — it’s a good place in the Slope.

I live in the neighborhood and had just come back from London trying some of the best Indian food I’ve ever had… so I thought I would give Namaste a chance last night. Extremely disappointed. Our server could not understand anything we said, the appetizer we ordered was fried cauliflower with– I swear the sauce was straight up ketchup. Couldn’t eat it.
Don’t even get me started on my entrée. It was literally a sad compost pile of vegetables on a plate (Even the top of a carrot, and a full not chopped onion) with no sauce. I had to ask for the yogurt mint sauce it was supposed to come with.
Pricier than it should be too.

Today I had a craving for a chicken curry for lunch, so I went over to Namaste and found they had a lunch buffet going. (Which I should not have been surprised by, since that is common practice with a lot of Indian eateries.) Abandoning my chicken curry notion, I instead sampled from the buffet and was delighted with the experience.
The spread included several vegetable and meat options, so I went for the tandoori chicken — dark meat, flavorful and fork-​tender –, the mushroom saag, the chicken tikka masala, some mutter paneer, and the goat curry, the latter being generously ladled over a mound of basmati rice. (An order of naan was included gratis.) It was all delicious and as I enjoyed each sumptuous forkful, I noted to myself that this was the first time in ages when eating a meal actually made me feel happy. I don’t mean that in simply an «I’m enjoying this meal» way, but rather the dining experience added to the overall positive feeling of my day. I seldom get that feeling from any meal, including those that I prepare myself, so it was indeed a very pleasant treat.
If you live in the area, please give Namaste a try. The staff are all friendly and courteous, the food is always prepared with a refreshing swiftness — which is all the more astonishing when considering the obvious care put into the preparation — and, unlike most restaurants in the Park Slope area, you get what you pay for. There’s a lot of bang for your buck at Namaste, and in this economy that’s a kind and smart way to run a restaurant. There’s nothing worse than paying exorbitant prices for sub-​par food, and Namaste has the balls to respect the patron’s discerning tastes and wallet. LONG LIVE NAMASTE!!! (Says the 18-​year local resident who’s tried every other Indian joint and found the majority of them to be mediocre at best.)

This review is for delivery.
Typically we wait a little longer for a new restaurant to hit its stride, but decided to take the gamble on Namaste (which has only been open a month) last night for delivery. Delivery was estimated for 60 minutes but after 90 called to see what was going out (turned out Seamless was having a massive NYC outage, so we will give them slack on that).
Once the food arrived, it was piping hot and fresh, and the delivery person was very nice. Immediately we were struck by the very large portions (much bigger than Baluchis and other local joints). For our trial run of this place, we decided to go with the Indian restaurant standards of Chicken Tikka Masala ($ 13) and Shrimp Curry ($ 16) and of course Naan bread ($ 3).
The Shrimp Curry was really excellent with a ton of shrimp. The Chicken Tikka Masala, also had a ton of nice well trimmed all white chicken (they charge $ 1 extra if you want dark meat) and had a great flavor, although have to say, was a bit over salted (but not too much to ruin it). The naan was good, but of course it is impossible for delivery naan to taste as good as it is in the restaurant.
Typically I would have gone for the dinner combo (app, entrée, naan) that every Indian restaurant has; however, have to say that Namaste’s dinner special is pretty lame, with just 3 app choices (all veg) and limited entrees for $ 18 (which is more than other local places).
In the end I didn’t miss the special given how big the regular portions were and that they still throw in extras like padadum and sauces as well as a tasty rice pudding.
Overall we were impressed and plan to try eating in someday just to give the full test (would also be interesting to compare to Joy which is probably best is area).
On a final note, have to say that we still miss Press 195 that used to be in this space. There is still no place in Brooklyn that makes as good of sandwich as they did, Zito’s was no loss though.