Taste of India

This restaurant is a joke. I ordered Chicken Kabob for pickup from this place. They gave me food in a bag. When I got back back and opened the bag, I found just rice in there and a cup with curry. Just curry. Nothing in the curry. I didn’t even order curry. I ordered Chicken Kabob. The worst part is the curry didn’t even have chicken in it. So am I supposed to eat rice with tomato sauce?
Please don’t give this sham purporting as a business any of your money.

Not really it tastes like indian food
We ordered gobi manchurian and what we got was gobi bhajias (cauliflower fried in flour, no such thing actually exists in indian cuisine) which is disgusting
If you are really looking for indian food should try some other authentic indian restaurant
One morw thing they did not honour the living social voucher for some weird reason

Great restaurant
Authentic and delicious food, good portions. Had a restaurant. com certificate and it was used very easily.

Wish I could give negative rating. Perfect example of tasteless food. Don’t waste your money. This is nowhere close to Indian cuisine.

Really good food! Love their catering services.

I get Taste of India for company meetings that we have and everyone always loves it — no matter what I get.
The owner will make suggestions, which I completely go with and even though I have no idea what we are getting, it is always so good and mixes it up a little bit as opposed to going with the standard Masala.
When you go with the naan bread — go with the onion or garlic — it definitely adds to the flavor!

This restaurant ruined what was supposed to be a lovely, calm evening. The service was callous. As far as the food is concerned, nothing great and not worth a second visit.
The waiters/​waitresses seemed like they had better things to do, rather than serve us, and served us quite unwillingly, prompting us to order mains as soon as they had placed our starters down on the table.

We ordered 2 lunch special takeouts — Chicken Curry (we asked for extra spicy). It comes with the best rice, two chutneys (green and red) and tamarind sauce.
chicken curry: So good! Argh it was delicious. Whyyyyyyy.
rice: Cooked perfectly… I didn’t get how it tasted so good just by itself! Long grain non sticky yummy rice. I ate some of it plain just because the texture was so good, and the awesome aftertaste can only be described as eating a coconut’s ghost. Perfect for the spicy curry.
red chutney: Try eating this with their rice just to understand its awesomeness.
green chutney: It’s oniony and goes so well with everything else.
tamarind sauce: I liked it! Sweet & Sour. We used very little of it because it makes things less spicy (we like eating spicy food!).

The best Indian food in Providence, hands down!
I get ginger chicken or saag chicken. Yummy.

I’ve never been to an Indian restaurant before, and Taste of India did not disappoint. I went with a group of four on a Saturday at 6pm and the place was empty, which was a little surprising to me, but the place filled up during our meal.
I tried their red sangria, which was average. I also had a key lime martini, which was much less sweet than the typical key lime martini, and I enjoyed it. I also found their drink prices to be reasonable.
For dinner we all tried a different type of chicken. My friends had chicken tikka masala and chicken vindaloo, and they both cleaned their plates. My fiancé, who is sometimes nervous to try something new, loved his chicken curry. I got the chicken madras, which was definitely as hot as advertised. I was the only person who had leftovers.
Service was average. There were multiple people stopping by to collect plates, who would send someone else over to take our drink orders, and then someone else would come over to bring us more rice. While a couple of the people were very personable, some were much less so, and the constant change in who was helping our table made the experience a little disjointed.
I would call this place 3.5 stars… I would go again if I was in the area, but would be more likely to try somewhere else. I just can’t put it on par with some of the other 4 star reviews I have on here.

I cannot believe it took me all these years to try this restaurant. Went there for the first time tonight. Food and service was great… Loved the mulligatawny soup. Ordered the Mixed grill. Absolutely delicious, lovely sauce and way too much food. Very authentic Indian. So look forward to returning.

This was the place that introduced me to Indian food back in the 90’s before I moved to CA. I stopped in yesterday for the first time in 15 – 20 years. We arrived at the tail end of the lunch buffet hours. After a quick scan of what was remaining there, we decided to order from the menu.
On the upside, the chicken samosa and nan were pretty tasty. They weren’t over the top excellent or anything, but they did hit the spot. I ordered the chicken masala and asked for it 3 of 4 star spicy. It was okay and certainly had a snap to it, but it was more that it was very spicy hot than flavorful. The rice was a bit dry and sparse considering we ordered two full meals.
I’m probably a bit spoiled after the outstanding Indian food I came across out west and the new outstanding spot in southern RI — but Taste of India wasn’t the fantastic experience I had remembered from back in the day. The waiters were friendly and somewhat helpful but also a little slow and less than attentive for a nearly empty restaurant. It was also pretty expensive considering the amount of food we had. I would consider going again, but would need to re-​think my choice of entrée.

The bathroom was dirtier than a Gas Station bathroom. Doesn’t make me feel the kitchen would be any cleaner. Seriously looked as though they hadn’t mopped in months if that’s possible. Dust and dirt on everything… Disgusting!!!

Moved to RI from Cincinnati – immediately needed to find a new Indian spot. I’ve tried 6 or so locations and this one hits the spot/​is now my go to. All my friends I bring love it too.
I always get saag paneer and this place makes the best IMO. Yummy samosas too!
Service is attentive, but the the servers seem pretty indifferent about life and service haha – that’s ok though. When I go I mean business and if food is brought to me sans smiles I’m ok with it.

I recently ordered mutton (goat) biriyani and requested it to be prepared spicy. Unfortunately their version of spicy was all about sprinkling more red chilli powder into an already disoriented masala dish. Goat was prepared well, but the biryani was essentially a vegetable pulav mixed with goat gravy and in our case sprinkled with more red chillis.
I would recommend ordering what the chef has to offer, requesting any variations would potentially result in an ordinary dish. Range of taste here is only as wide as wickenden street during winters.

I had recently graduated college and one of my oldest and closest friends suggested we try something new. As educated men of the world, we were open to fresh ideas, wanted to court women who were not 100% Italian (as was the case growing up in our home town) and had desires for forbidden treasures of the palette that only an exotic array of curries could unlock. Taste of India would be my first and boyyo, was she ever gentle.
Eager to dig in and experience all of the subcontinent’s glory, we both ordered the NON-​vegetarian thali — an assortment of tandoored (my spell check has informed me that is not a verb) meats, some spiced veg, fluffy, aromatic basmati and gloriously soft and chewy naan. This meal was the most gratifying and stimulating occurrence that I had experienced in my still-​burgeoning adult life.
The next day I felt a bit ashamed, almost as if I had been used. I soon realized that my favorite part of the meal did not include the meat. That day while at work, I officially broke things off with my former lover (and her sins of flesh) and bought an enormous bag of rice «from the foothills of the Himalyas». I decided right then to entirely give up the consumption of animals and wished never to look back. When I broke the news to my oldish-​school family, they nearly wept. «Can you still eat duhmayduhz?» — that was twelve and a half years ago.
In the year 2014 there is not a month that goes by that I do not find myself longing for the soft caresses of ToI. I often find myself on Wickenden, where I am satiated by her luncheon buffet — many times eagerly arriving before the steam tables have even been filled with the day’s delectables. I find excuses to hold «business meetings» over papri chat and pakoras (that I drench in the out-​of-​this-​world tamarind chutney which causes them to jubilantly burst in my mouth with only the slightest amount of dental pressure).
Truly, the most intoxicating part of our affair can arrive hours after we have gone our separate ways. Her essence, it stays with me and reminds me of our dance. It reassures passersby that I have an inextinguishable longing that only her vindaloo can satisfy.
My subsequent journeys have brought me all over North America on a quest. I’ve slayed my fair share (of buffets) from New Orleans to Montréal, but have never forgotten my first.

This place has both vegetarian and non vegetarian foods and seems to fail at making both.
Even the samosas are not good.

Meh.
I always loves me some Indian cuisine, so I stop here when I’m in the area, but otherwise I don’t go out of my way. I find the food to be under-​seasoned and a bit bland. And the sauces all seem kind of thin. Also, the bathroom is gross, which isn’t reassuring. But the service is always good!

Go to Kabob and Curry on Thayer. This place needs to improve on both their interior and service. Food is alright.
The fake lamps gotta go. Dust the place a little bit… or a lot. Get rid of the Greek water cups.
But really though RIP FAKE LAMPS.

Taste of India is my friend’s favorite Indian restaurant in Providence. My picks usually go to Kebob & Curry or Rasoi, but on a recent evening I decided to give in and join my friend at her choice spot. I must say, Taste of India lived up to her recommendation.
The papri chat we ordered as an appetizer was perhaps the best I’ve had. It was really delicious and a very generous portion. We also tried the fried momo dumplings, which were tasty and something different (not Indian, but Nepalese instead).
My standby choice for entrée is usually chicken tikka masala, and the one at Taste of India was definitely satisfying, as was the naan.
In the future, I would happily revisit Taste of India. I’m not sure it will take over as my favorite India spot in town, but it high up on the list and has won its way into my heart and stomach!