Brick Lane

The worst Indian food I’ve ever had in NYC bar none.
Always want to try out a new (or revamped) restaurant in the neighborhood but the food was either tasteless or terrible.
The saag paneer tasted burnt and the dal was totally flavorless. Even the sauces were lacking in flavor.
Very bummed that the old restaurant (Mumbia) went down hill with this latest incarnation.

As a Brit temporarily in NYC, I was suspicious about this London themed place, but went in for their $ 9.99 buffet lunch and it was amazing — surely the best value in the city — and terrific quality. A total surprise. However … finding myself there last night, a different story. Food was pretty horrible. My fave Sag Chicken just lumps of mediocre chicken tossed in tinned spinach, no depth of flavour at all. Tandoori roti, OK-​ish. Starter of fried cauliflower, which I’d had in the buffet and was superb, was revolting at dinner. Worst was the price, which was $ 44 with tip for a quick one starter, one dish, roti and a small beer. So a great place for a bargain lunch, but avoid in the evening.

This place does not honor its Groupons. Very annoying.

The food is disappointing to mediocre. The lamb dish is good and fresh, the veggie dish is a let down. They use frozen peas, and way too many peas so you cannot find out the taste. The Mango Lassi is juicy, its supposed to be like yogurt. Not recommended for folks looking for the same quality Brick Lane in Manhattan.

Buyer beware — this is NOT the same Brick Lane Curry House chain found in the East Village! I’m almost surprised they can get away with copying the name, typeface and logo.
I got to this restaurant because of an Amazon voucher. My girlfriend and I were excited thinking that the real Brick Lane Curry House might be opening up a chain in Brooklyn. So we rushed over to the restaurant to find only two other tables were occupied in the entire restaurant on a Sat night. First sign of trouble. We ordered the Samosa and found it to be stale and greasy — sign of a store bought one that was fried and served. Then we ordered the Chicken Tiki Masala and Chicken Balti curry. The Masala was overly creamy and sweet. It started to clump up as it sat there because of the excessive cream. The Balti was flavorless and simple, but not in a good way.
They can plagiarize the name, but that’s the only thing that’s similar to the real Brick Lane Curry House. We won’t be coming back.

I wish I could give this NO stars. My boyfriend and I ordered in since we wanted Indian and knew of no places in the area and were absolutely starving so we blindly ordered from seamless. Let’s just say that the meal was mediocre and was not worth the horrible food poisoning we both got hours later and had to go to Cornell (yes the Upper East side from Cobble Hill at 2:30AM). Oh and we didn’t even order any fish or seafood… I mean really, I think it was the samosas or the naan or maybe the rice or even his curried veggies. Anyway, never again.

OMG!!! Horrible would be too kind of a word to describe this place.
When you first walk in from the street, this place seems pretty nice, they have dim lighting and flowers on the tables. But I soon discovered that this place is Food Hell!!!
I DO NOT recommend this place if you have never had Indian food! If you are on a date! Or if you want to treat yourself to something nice, only come here if you want to tell stories to your friends about the horrible food and service.
So whats soo bad about this place, lets start with the menu, it is ridiculously long with no descriptions of the food, and terms that non-​indian speakers would not understand. 1 example «Assorted Tandoori, Papadum, chicken tikka, boti kebab» this was the description of one dish, there are soo many words in there that I didn’t understand that there was NOOOOOOO way that I would know what I was getting, except for the chicken!
I should have ran after that, but I decided to ask the waiter what things were, but several times he said that he didn’t know, or told me that he couldn’t explain it, so I decided to phoned my friend who is Indian and read a few of the names to him and he broke things down for me which was REALLY helpful.
I ended up getting the Malai.
When my food arrived, it ended up being a small bowl of yellow curry and a VERY large bowl of plain white rice.
As soon as I bit into the chicken curry I immediately regretted every walking into the place. The chicken was soo dry it was like bitting into a large chunk of chalk or left over thanksgiving turkey. It was sooo dry that it kept getting stuck in my throat when I tried to swallow, it was also flavorless, which to some could be considered gross in curry dish!
When I told the waiter he ignored me and went on his way. I finally decided to ask my waiter for my bill which ended up being a little less than $ 20 ($ 20 bucks wasted!) I decided not to waste anymore money and paid with my debit card WITHOUT a tip :-(
And here is the kicker! when the waiter saw that I didn’t leave a tip he stopped me on the way to the door and questioned me angrily «Where is my tip!!!»
and I told him «The chicken was awful how do you expect me to leave a tip when the food is bad!»
He then went into the back and began cursing out the cook, while customers looked on. I was humiliated!
This was literally THE WORST restaurant that I have ever eaten at! Normally its either the food that is horrible or the service that is horrible, at this place IT IS BOTH!!!
Beware!!!

I had this unnatural craving for tasty Indian food. Perhaps in part from the heat and New Delhi-​like climate settling over South Brooklyn. Upon returning home I found a menu from Brick Lane in the gate. It said Grand Opening on it. Certainly this must have been some sort of eastern karma thing. There were higher powers at work.
I ordered with low expectations I must confess. I’d been burned in the past…
The food was damn good. The tandoori was perfectly marinated and moist. The breads were appropriately buttery and flaky. The spice was heavy handed but on the money. Everything was freshly prepared and authentically seasoned. Damn! It was kinda cheap too. The menu seemed too big to be really good, but everything I ordered was spot on. They have a pretty big vegetarian selection too… if you are into that… Cant wait to try them again. Fast and friendly delivery guy and the fella on the phone was extremely polite.
Heck yes.

I’ve been to this place a few times when it was called Raga and it was adequate.
Since they changed names, I assumed they changed owners so we tried it out. The food is still adequate, nothing special, decent prices. I probably would have gone back on occasion but for an error with the order that I find unacceptable and unforgivable.
I ordered the assorted Indian hors d’oeuvres and noticed on the menu, there wasn’t a vegetarian option and as listed on the menu it included a chicken item. I requested vegetarian when I placed the order. After I paid and was getting ready to step outside while the prepared the food, I turned around and said «Please make sure there is no meat in the appetizer» (much like if you order decaf coffee and you’re not certain they were paying attention, you might stress the point.” The man said «No Problem»
Got the dinner home and there was chicken in the appetizer. I immediately called and they were apologetic but kept insisting that the chicken comes with the appetizer. He didn’t give a damn that I had ordered it without and had confirmed that there would be no meat. Finding meat after that was disturbing and I won’t be back.
So, if you’re a meat eater, you will find this place has completely acceptable neighborhood Indian fare. If you’re not, you might want to avoid it.
This neighborhood doesn’t have really good Indian Food. I guess I’ll keep truckin’ to Jackson Heights to fix my jones.

This is excellent mid priced Indian food. I’ve been going here for years when it was still Raga, not sure why it changed names? Maybe there’s new owners? Anyhow, you can’t go wrong with Brick Lane, classic Indian food at a good price, the guys that work there are very nice and they deliver. Enjoy.

This Restaurat reently replaced Raga. I thik the food is somewhat better, though you really have to emphasize SPIOY HOT if you want that. We had a coconut curry and Lamb Sag. Both were delicious, but we had ordred the sag hot, and it was quite mild.