Chef of India
“I'm looking forward to coming again 🙂 welcome to the HEIGHTS”
“We also tried the Madras vegetable curry and garlic naan which was done perfectly by the Chef .”
“The host/owner was warm and welcoming.”
Chef of India
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
4 reviews
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What a gem! I am such a fan of Indian food and I'm so excited this place opened up down the block from me and my fiancé.
Service: To start we walked in and placed an order for delivery. The gentleman that took our order was so great, very friendly and made us feel comfortable. To be honest, me and my fiancé tend to feel the eyes stare at us when we go into an Indian restaurant. It was a nice welcoming feeling and was very appreciated.
Food: I had the dal makhani a vegetarian dish made of beans mostly red kidney beans and black lentils, Order came with white rice. This is usually one of my favorite dishes. The spice was perfect. The texture was so nice and creamy and the beans so tender. I don't tend to eat white rice but we had an order of garlic, which I'm guilty of dipping. Perfect compliment to my fish. Also they gave us a yogurt sauce which I personally loved and added to my dish. It is a little grainy and turned off my fiancé, but hey more for me.
My fiancé had the goat biryani, which was together with a buttery rice and a hard boiled egg. He enjoyed the dish, said there was nothing really special about it, but was enjoyable. Portions were big so We think you get a good bang for your buck. They also included two donuts in a light syrup. Nice and light not too sweet.
Suggestion: Although, this is a place I will surely revisit, just wanted to make a suggestion that can be of some help. Jersey city heights is a predominantly Spanish area. There are an abundance of Spanish restaurants. So having a new restaurant come along that some people would be afraid to try, I would just like to suggest to have the food descriptions under the names of the dish. For many ppl going into a restaurant they do not know anything about the food or culture can be intimidating. When I first started eating Indian food the places we would go to always had a description and made it easier for us to start trying dishes. Makes new customers more comfortable knowing what to order and may gain more business since ppl won't ask. This is a great place I would love to see stick around!
I almost do not want to write a review because this place is so dern good..
It is very unassuming… I went in (for a carry out) on a Friday night… EVERYONE was in the weeds, but were trying their darndest to keep everyone happy.
This was my first time here and was starving, but since I have been a server I get it.
It is not sexy inside, but the food makes up for it.
I ordered the Punjabi Spring roll, garlic Naan, Punhabi Paneer Tikka Masala and the guy had Chicken Chettinad.
It did not take under 30 minutes as promised… Still everyone was so nice.
45 minutes later I had a FULL BAG of food for 30 bucks.
I RAN home with my goodie bag and BOOM! Happiness.
First up – this is the first Indian restaurant where they give you rice! TONS of yummy rice!
The apps were crunchy and DELISH! The chutni was fresh tasting. My Tikka was not very paprika heavy.. it had a lighter and lemon flavor.. VERY yummy
The Chicken Chettinad was a new dish for the guy. At first, he was not happy with the oily look to it. When he tasted it, it was full of flavor. Full of hot peppers and curry leaves. Very spicy!! he was sweating out the goodness and could not stop. He said it tastes muuch better than it looks.
And we enjoyed the Naan.. it was thinner than most which was enjoyable because we did not overstuff when we dipped it in our sauces.
Four thumbs up
It's so good to have an Indian restaurant in the Heights! Very nice people work in this restaurant. It's a storefront and they're building their business so it's a little too casual and low budget.
I've ordered the tandoori chicken a couple of times now and oh my goodness it is delicious! They serve large portions and pieces of chicken. It's a little over Lee's spiced for my taste but I'm impressed with the portion size and the cost.
I've also had the Collie flower and potato entrée and each time I've had it it was overspiced, too much chili pepper and too hot on my palate despite me saying I really want my old spices. So that's a little annoying.
We've ordered a number of vegetable dishes as well and the same thing holds true with the level of spice again we ask for little to no spice and it usually is too much for us to handle. In fact one time we just threw the entrée away and then we said we wouldn't order again. But we have hoping they'll get it right the next time.
We want so much to support a local business in our neighborhood and we hope they do fine but they have to listen to their customers and make the orders as we request them.
I like that they are connected to seamless and eat 24 and that they are on yelp. They seem to be young people who really want to make a good goal of this and we wish them all good luck.
So I just got done eating the second worst "paneer tikka masal in NJ and I have to let everyone know how aweful it tasted. First of all, I kept chewing the paneer like it was rubber and it was stale because it tasted sour. The curry was mediocre and typical (not authentic by any means).
The naan looked like it was made yesterday, again chewy and low quality. My two stars goes out to the free tiny halwa(dessert) that came in the bag and the gobi 65. I am never wasting my money, time and calories on this good again.
Mr. Chef of India, its a competitive market out there. You gotta give good food if you want to survive.