Tadka Indian Restaurant

This is worst food. Also too much costly. I ordered Mattar Paneer and it was not at all cooked. No one can eat it. They charged total of $ 48 for just 2. And in addition $ 9 Tip automatically added. I asked why do you add Tip for just 2 persons? He told that 90% of people don’t give them tip, and so they add it in the bill themselves and make us pay!!!
Tip is only given if the customer is satisfied. But in this restaurant, they charge this in bill itself and ask us to pay! How stupid it is!!! And after giving my card, the receipt came in for me to sign. There also they leave a line item for TIP.
THEY ARE CHEATING… Do not go.

Great Indian food! I had the Paneer Tikka and it was excellent. Probably the best paneer I’ve ever had. The garlic Na’an was excellent also.
The restaurant is nicely decorated and up to date. It’s on the fancier side.

Ate here once a few years ago for a friend’s retirement and thought the food was pretty good. I stumbled across it again tonight on Grub Hub and thought «why not?». Worst. Pad Thai. Ever. That’s why. It was dry, had hardly any chicken in it, and barely even tasted like Pad Thai. The only reason I’m giving it two stars instead of one is because I also ordered the crispy honey chicken, which was decent but a little too spicy. Won’t be eating here again.

So delicious. I had a generous serving of Murgh Tikka Masala with garlic naan. I’m happy I have leftovers because I will enjoy it again tomorrow. Highly recommend! Has a lovely atmosphere too!

Have been to this place a few times & am never disappointed! Our waiter always is courteous & all recommendations are so good! Love the garlic naan :)

Went with a group of friends. Liked the décor and the place was nice and clean. Food was delicious as well, but on the spicy side for me. Had lunch buffet but really didn’t have that much capacity… will most likely return to try more!

Tadka has been around in this location for a few years now and when it first opened we tried their biryanj and I was quite disappointed. So I didn’t return for a while. A pity because the food is really among the best Indian food in the Columbus area.
I’ve been here for the afternoon buffer,
which is quite good, but their regular dinner menu is much better.
For appetizers, try their meat samosas. The goat rogan josh is excellent. Their bagen Bharta and palak paneer is very good as well.
But what really stood out for is the service. The server was very kind and patient and helped answer all our questions. This is an excellent place for Indian food in Columbus.

Extremely unprofessional customer service!!!
Too busy on weekends. Don’t bother going. Not worth it!

I threw a small get together here for new years last year and it was wonderful! The dj had great music and seating arrangement was spacious, even with a dance floor. Not to mention the food was delicious! I hope to get back here soon for next year’s holidays. :)

This is one of my family’s favorite restaurants! The weekend buffet is more pricey than others, but is well worth every cent! The food is authentic and delicious. Even my young children gobble it up. The service has been wonderful every time we have been there — and we have been there often!

This place appears to have gone from bad to worse with their lunch buffet. The buffet while large absolutely sucks with no shred of authenticity. Calling it a disaster is putting it mildly…
Note: have had better luck with ordering take out from their menu…

We used to love this place but it has gone vastly downhill. We are very familiar with Indian and Indo Chinese cuisine having traveled extensively in Asia. The food is not nearly as good as in the past with both quality of fresh ingredients and flavor — and they don’t seem to care. Samosas were over cooked with scant fillings. Dinner was very bland when starred as spicy and asking for extra spicy. The masala sauce was good but the chicken in it not so. The woman’s room was filthy with dirt, broken tiles piled on the floor and rusted trash cans. Ick! We were regulars — we are done!

They claim to be a buffet and every dish out there is empty and nothing is refilled. Even after repeated follow ups they don’t refill the dishes! The waiters are rude to the core and they hardly care!!! don’t even to dare to try this place.

The best Indian food I’ve found in Columbus, and some of the best I’ve ever had (and I’ve tried some of the best restaurants in Portland, Montréal, and San Francisco). It’s a little bit on the pricey side, but you really do get what you pay for. The food is spicy, but in that wonderful way that enhances flavor and brings it out rather than drowning it. Lastly, the service is very consistently good and very friendly. Overall, one of my favorite places to eat.

The best chaat I had in the U.S.
They have the most amazing lunch buffet ever! They have everything ranging from dosa, idly, Wada to indo-​Chinese main courses. I would consider moving to Columbus just for their food

Best Indian food in Columbus, hands-​down.
We order from Tadka all the time via Grub Hub. I have yet to encounter a dish I haven’t absolutely loved. Their portions are great (lots of leftovers), and their food is absolutely delicious. Check out the Murgh Tikka, it’s definitely my favorite. Also the Masala Pappadam is to die for.

Tadka has a pretty nice dining area and huge menu variety, which includes a wide array of Indian and Chinese dishes. I opted to go with Indian and ordered the Murgh Makhani (aka butter chicken). The sauce was great, but the chicken tasted old and not good/​fresh. I was expecting better, considering how nice the place seemed. I’ve definitely had tastier Indian cuisine in Columbus. I tried my friends’ Chinese dishes and they were pretty good. The service was prompt and friendly.

Now that I’ve been for the buffet and ordered off the dinner menu, I feel I should give Tadka a review. It seems they’ve got kind of a bad rap in previous reviews. While I won’t discount anyone’s personal experience, I will say I’m glad we looked past the low ratings and gave Tadka a fair chance, and I think you should, too.
The buffet (we came on a Sunday for lunch) is HUGE! Never have I seen a buffet with so many options. Tons of meat and veggie options, and they were constantly bringing out fresh, hot food. I didn’t check out what it was that they were making to order behind the buffet line, but I’m sure it was great too, as there was always a line for it.
The dinner menu is seriously overwhelming. I love having options, but sometimes, less is more. I looked the menu over for quite a while before deciding on the chicken tikka masala, which is nothing new to me. I think if they were abit more selective about what they put on the menu, I may have been a bit more adventurous. But too many choices leaves me feeling lost and overwhelmed.
The food was all spectacular. We started with veggie samosas– loved them. As I said, I had the chicken tikka masala, and it was everything I would expect. Tender chicken, beautifully flavored sauce (and plenty of it to soak up with the naan). My guy ordered the goat rogan josh, and he loved it. With every bite, there was a little sound of delight.
I’m sure we will dine at Tadka again when we are nearby.

This place is near where I live and I’ve driven by a hundred times, so tonight I decided to venture in and check it out, with an eye toward Unilocaling about it. It wasn’t a wasted trip in that I can now advise you to seek Indian food satisfaction elsewhere.
First, the hostess seemed the opposite of happy to see me. She seated me in the adequate dining room, nothing special about it. The menu did not inspire confidence. First, it was so worn out that it was almost falling apart. Second, it included an awkwardly sized menu insert (long and narrow like a sushi menu) with a whole list of Chinese and other Asian dishes. Huh. It’s a danger sign when a restaurant feels the need to branch out from its supposed specialty into other kinds of cuisine — usually it’s a desperate move to lure customers or cash in on local trends. But a restaurant that tries to do too many things will end up doing none of them well. I was certainly not going to order Chinese food in what was supposedly an Indian restaurant.
For most cuisines, there are certain menu items that serve as canaries in coalmines. They’re benchmarks for basic competence in whatever food the restaurant is serving. A Japanese restaurant that doesn’t make good miso soup or a steakhouse without a killer filet must be looked at askance. I may grade restaurants like this one harshly because I adore Indian food, and we have a number of really good Indian restaurants in Columbus so we are not dying on the vine for want of vindaloo. So when the papadum arrived and it was almost inedibly salty, my heart sank. If an Indian restaurant can’t even manage decent papadum, you’re in for it.
I ordered chicken korma and garlic naan. Pretty standard stuff. I had a glass of the house pinot noir, which was… well, it was a $ 5 glass of wine. When my food arrived, one look at the rice was telling. One of my favorite things about Indian food is the rice. That fragrant, separated, tender basmati rice. This rice was undercooked even to visual inspection, and it was sticking together a bit. The korma was weirdly pale in color and had sliced almonds on it… okay. The naan was doughy, too floury and oddly tasteless for being garlic naan. Again, if an Indian restaurant can’t even make good naan, it’s a «look at your life, look at your choices» moment. I couldn’t help but remember the episode of West Wing when post-​heart-​attack Leo McGarry is finally coaxed into eating by his Indian nurse’s homemade naan. This naan could barely have enticed a ravenous linebacker.
The korma itself wasn’t horrible, but it was oddly sweet with no tang or kick. It’ll reheat tolerably for a lunch.
Then, I decided to let them have a crack at making me some rasmalai. Now, you must understand, that rasmalai is one of my favorite things in the whole entire universe. When it came, I ate it. But it didn’t make me happy. Good rasmalai should be tender but firm, sweet but light, and the milk should be light and flavorful. This rasmalai was mealy and dense, and the milk was gooey.
It wasn’t expensive, anyway. For a glass of wine, naan, korma and rasmalai I paid $ 26. But I can’t recommend the food, nor the service. When I first sat down the waiters couldn’t get it together on whether I’d gotten drinks and they tried to ask for my food order before I’d opened the menu. After getting my food, my waiter did not reappear for ages, and when he finally did, he admitted he’d forgotten about me.
If you want good Indian food, head up the road to Amul India, where the naan is to die for, or better yet, head across town to Café Udipi, where the service and ambiance isn’t so great but the food is divinity itself. Their rasmalai haunts my dreams.

This isn’t just an Indian restaurant, they also have an indo-​Chinese menu, which I heard is very good (I haven’t had the chance to try yet). The décor is very nice. Upon entering, I felt like I was walking into an upscale restaurant.
We had the Tadka Murgh Tikka and the Murgh Tikka Masala. Both were cooked perfectly. We aren’t any Indian cuisine experts, but they tasted just right.
The service isn’t great though, that’s why I’m not giving it 5 stars. They brought the Tadka Murgh Tikka first, it was sizzling and looked delicious but they did not give us any rice. After we asked for the rice it took the waiter more than 5 minutes to bring out the rice. The Tikka was too salty to eat without the rice. By the time the rice came out the tikka was no longer sizzling. Other than this, our dining experience was a very positive one!