Nirvana Indian Bistro Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Waiters are friendly, but they lack attendance at the tables."
• "Prompt service."
• "The staff are pleasant, customer-centric, and attentive."
• "Our server was fantastic and very friendly."
• "Service is usually great."
• "Happy, our server, was friendly and attentive."
• "Service was quick and waitress was super friendly."

Cons:

• "I took two stars off due to the selective service and the food."
• "Our server forgot our rice and naan."
• "We were charged for the paneer, we did not eat."
• "Be careful on high traffic days where the service may be slower - this is a family-run establishment so it may take a while for the server to get to you."
• "Service was slow."
• "Poor service, takeout takes priority over guests, we waited 80 minutes for 4 dinners."
• "They had one server for the whole restaurant, and the other server was taking care of takeout orders."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "This place is delicious! The chicken tika masala is my favorite."
• "The richness of the curries, the freshness of the naan, and the broad selection of dishes is really hard to beat in the area."
• "That's the best Indian food I've tasted in a long time, including home-cooked for Diwali, a few weeks ago."
• "The spices were perfect. Everything had great flavor."
• "The food is amazing."
• "Food is excellent. Would recommend the Gobi Manchurian and anything with lamb."
• "The food is always fresh and tasty and authentic."

Cons:

• "Food somewhat bland for my taste."
• "Garbage food. My significant other is Indian— we hated it."
• "Butter chicken was so thick and no flavor."
• "The naans were thicker than usual and tasted like undercooked dough(no chewy texture)."
• "The food was watery, oily, and very unseasoned."
• "Chicken curry could better if they would have enough cooked Chicken."
• "The food tastes very bad as if it was made with the left over vegetables."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Lovely ambience."
• "Nice atmosphere."
• "Nice atmosphere, friendly service, very tasty food."
• "The dining room is tastefully decorated, inviting, and comfortable."
• "One of my favorites Indian restaurants. Great food, very authentic taste and great service."
• "It's nice and cozy from inside."
• "Really nice and pleasant atmosphere."

Cons:

• "The buffet was not refreshed in a timely manner and some of the food was warm, not hot."
• "The restaurant can be rather loud when it gets full."
• "It is quite noisy and hard to hear each other at the table."
• "One additional critique is that the lighting can seem to be a bit too dim/orange."
• "Ambience is also not good."
• "The interior is a bit faded, would knock off half a star for that."
• "The kitchen is not so clean."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices are very reasonable compared to other restaurants, and I would gladly pay for the quality of the food."
• "Best Indian food in the entire Philadelphia area and the nicest people."
• "Excellent customer service reasonable prices."
• "Price is comparable to other Indian restaurants."
• "For $10 you cant be this lunch buffet! I'll be back!"
• "Great customer service. Food is on point."
• "Consistently great Indian, absolute best in the area."

Cons:

• "I strongly advice not to visit this place."
• "I had dinner takeout from here awhile back and found it to be pricey for the quality and quantity."
• "They no longer allow you to fill up the lunchbox with two or more of the same item."
• "Bar was not refreshed, food was placed there too long."
• "Extremely disappointed today at the Lafayette hill location. I come here at least once a month. Today I was short changed."
• "Everything is stale in buffet."
• "Parking is small."