Category: Indian restaurant Jersey City, New Jersey
Address: 324 Central Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07307, USA
Phone: +12018395055
Rating: 3.7
based on 255 reviews.
Food Quality
Pros:
"Delicious food! Good variety of both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes."
"The pieces in Goat Biryani were very tender and the spices were well balanced."
"The biryani was so delicious it was almost similar to the taste I've experienced in Hyderabad loved it."
"This place serves the best chicken dum biryani by far, the flavors were beautiful and species were all right."
"The food was really delicious and completely worth the price rather I found prices cheaper."
"The food is really really good. We ordered chicken biryani and it was very delicious."
"Food is good. If you are looking for authentic Indian taste this is the place."
Cons:
"Worst food. Have ordered chicken chilly & paneer tikka masala, the gravy was watery it felt like they just added butter in the tomato puree without any flavor."
"The samosas were burnt on the outside and the filling was over cooked and bland."
"Horrible food quality. I found plastic pieces in soup and hair in biriyani."
"The most horrible biryani I have ever eaten."
"The worst and dirtiest place I've ever seen."
"Malai kofta was entirely spoilt."
"The most horrible food I have ever tasted in my life !!! Ordered malai kofta and bread, couldn’t even take a bite !!"
Customer Service
Pros:
"would highly recommend to restaurant jst for customer attention and the freshness"
"People who work there are really nice and humble and they always try to make sure you are happy with the food."
"Our server was awesome, Brindra."
"Great food and friendly staff made our day. Food was hot and freshly cooked."
"Very friendly people who love to serve great food."
"Service was so nice with good manners and friendly."
"Friendly customer service. Quick delivery."
Cons:
"Chef of India restaurant worst experience ever - ruined my son’s birthday party."
"The person who spoke to me was very rude and the customer service is very bad!"
"Went for a dine in and realised the place was awful and filled with fruit flies. The ambiance is utterly bad."
"This place should be shut down."
"The receptionist is also arrogant."
"The waiter a bit rude and thinking whether to allow to sit there or not."
"The staff (female) was very rude and walked away while I was still talking."
Delivery & Packaging
Pros:
"I almost always get my delivery on time and if it’s late the delivery guy would call and apologise and let me know."
"They delivered on time and the food was piping hot with perfect combination of freshness & flavor."
"And the delivery guy was well before time and was so kind to walk up four floors to deliver my food."
"Food was always delicious and delivery was very quick."
"They are, without a doubt, the fastest delivery place I have ever ordered from."
"Even after 20 mins of getting it delivered the food was extremely warm. Well made and fresh !!"
"A definite recommendation to everyone."
Cons:
"They don't even care for packing the correct items when placed through postmates."
"The delivery guy from the restaurant (not third party service provider) denied to leave it at the door and told to come pick it up from his car."
"Worst delivery experience ever."
"Cooking chefs don’t tie hair and it falls in your food. Scammers!"
"They got my order wrong twice."
"Cancelled an uber order less than a minute after placing... Called restaurant and they said they can't issue refund."
"Called them for 6 times to order food. Been on hold for 20 mins. After an hour they said they have issues with the delivery guy and couldn’t deliver the food."
Hygiene & Cleanliness
Pros:
"The food was fabulous! So impressed, very tasty, fresh and plenty."
"Food is fresh, even if delivered its hot and fresh, use of spices is immaculate and to the point."
"Food was very very delicious and fresh."
"The food was fantastic and the service was great! My family came here for a birthday and were very happy with our experience."
"The food was amazing! Cheap and huge portions."
"Really good food and they are super friendly."
"Please please do not order anything from here! The food is extremely hygienic."
Cons:
"Huge chunks of broken plastic forks and spoons in the food."
"Hair in the food."
"We found pieces of hair in our food and rats 🐀 running in and out of the kitchen door."
"I found a piece of wire from a dish washing sponge in my rice."
"I am found a fingernail in my Briyanni."
"A plastic bag properly cooked and melted into the biryani."
"There was a cockroach in my Mushroom biryani it was a to go order."
Value for Money
Pros:
"And on top of all these perks you satisfy your craving for indian food in budget..."
"Pakka home style food. I love food from this restaurant it's delicious, quality with reasonable prices."
"Chef of India has always offered delicious and diverse Indian cuisine at affordable prices."
"Very good quanty of food for the price."
"Good quality foods at reasonable prices."
"Food is very authentic and very reasonable pricing."
"Mostly come here for Biriyani and after 10 pm as they offer buy one get one free option at $12 which is worthy."
Cons:
"Not only is it expensive (about $70 total), not only are the portions small, BUT they continually food poison people!"
"The meal cost was overpriced and I would not recommend."
"But we didn't like the mandatory 18% tip added to the bill."
"Tried their unlimited chicken lunch and frankly speaking not enjoyed at all."
"The food was actually very good! I ordered the dum chicken biryani and potatoes dosa and both were totally on point."
"Unfortunately, the ten dollar delivery charge and a 30$ mean for chicken biryani that had two pieces of meat was not worth it."