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Green Street (Orange)
- Good for Groups:
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
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- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
112 reviews for Bukhara Restaurant
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EVAN'S INDIAN BRUNCH BUFFET STRATEGY:
skip nan, (or at least mostly) yes you can
1st plate-modest helping and avoid too much rice
2nd plate-salad (helps calm the stomach and readies for next plates)
3rd plate-modest helping
4th plate-dessert
*eat slowly-good conversation-plenty of cardamom tea with sugar after
I have been eating at Bukhara for over 13 years and I finally discovered the weekend brunch $10.99 buffet. (It was actually my first ever taste of Indian food when I was a teen!) Mm num num, garlic Nan. My #1 Indian restaurant though is J&P at the Super 88 in Allston, family made and run, and fresh, fresh, fresh.
Bukhara Brunch Buffet includes your classics; chicken tiki masala, (oh the creamy tomato sauce is to die for and you will find yourself dipping every last thing in it) sag (gy) paneer, samosas. The watered down OJ was a nice touch because straight up OJ would have been too acidic with the meal.
I found the masala dosa-crepe stuffed with potatoes to be nice filling but the thick fried crust-overkill.
Refreshing and necessary salad bar (lots of radish), and dessert- Kheer (rice cooked with sweetened milk, raisins and almonds). Gulab Jamun (deep fried wheat and milk balls soaked in syprup=wierd and chalky to me). Never thought I'd meet a fried dessert I didn't care for.
I just tried goat for the First Time! Go-Goat. Very good!!
I also highly recommend the Gosht Vindaloo, a specialty of Goa, lamb pieces marinated in vinegar and spices, cooked w/ potatoes in a spicy tomato & onion sauce. Get it Spicy.
Bukahara is bomb, literally, beware. You have to take the rich food eating challenge which includes taking your time, thinking about portions, and drinking lots of tea after-or Bukhara will get you in the Pukhara.
Gotta love the hot warm towel after the meal-so classy.
* Go Spicy, GO SPICEY; challenge your palate. Try a new animal.
This was (by far) the worst experience I have ever had at an Indian restaurant. When my friend and I arrived, there were people at only five of the other tables (out of at least 20), yet they seemed hesitant to seat us in one of the booths when we requested it. Even with so few people, it was hard to attract the attention of a waiter. When we did, we ordered apps, and continued looking at the menu.
The Meat Samosas were very good, but the Paneer Pakoras were broken up and overcooked. I guess that should have been our first warning that the meal would be difficult at best.
Our entrees came..a Saag dish with chicken and potato that was kind of bland and Chicken Makhni that was definitely on the bland, watery side. Unfortunately for me, I did not know that there were still bones in the chicken of the Makhni dish..I ended up stabbing my upper jaw, scraping the roof of my mouth. I called over a waiter, and explained that I had found a bone..Obviously misreading the situation and my tone, he laughingly told me that all chicken has bones. I was still pretty hungry and the food was not offensively bland, so placed the offending piece aside, and continued eating. Three bites later, I encountered a mass of cartilage which was enough to make me stop trying the chicken. Still hungry, I wanted to at least fill up on something, so tried sopping up the marinade with some bread, but even that did not turn out well as the Nan was undercooked and doughy.
The manager was very apologetic, but the waiter came back to our table to explain again that all chicken has bones, and I should not have been so surprised. Has anyone else EVER encountered bones in their Chicken Makhni?
I was willing to forgive the mediocre food and lackluster service, but between the chicken bone (and then cartilage) in my Makhni and the reaction I got when reporting it to the waiter, I will be advising all my friends to avoid this place while they're in town. It'd be worth the cab fare to eat at India Castle in Cambridge instead.
Bukhara has a nice ambience and it feels upscale when you walk in. Unfortunately, their service fell well short of expectations:
--The waiter was in such a hurry that I could barely get time to describe what I wanted to order
--Three different waiters came by to ask me the same question: [how about assigning one waiter to one table OR coordinating roles?]
--I ordered a side dish when my order arrived, but the side dish didn't appear till well after my meal was over and I had asked for the check. Again, total lack of coordination on the part of the servers.
The food was actually quite decent and I might consider this place for takeout.
I don't pretend to be an Indian food expert. I can't attest to authenticity etc but I can say that I was pretty disappointed in my overall experience here. I agree with previous reviews that mention the ambiance is deceptive because when you walk in it looks like a very nice restaurant and the menu's pricing reflects this. My fiance and I came in around 8 PM on a Sunday night and there was not a single person in the restaurant except a bartender and 3 waiters all just standing around. Oddly enough the didn't great us with any enthusiasm and pretty much ignored us. They made a big production of selecting a table which was pretty comical considering it didn't really matter. Were they expecting a sudden rush?? We are given menus and decide pretty quickly what we want but we are left sitting alone for 15 minutes while the waiters huddle together and chat. Eventually someone wanders over and acts like they are doing us a favor to take our order. Hey thanks. So we wait. 15 minutes later another guy comes over to tell me they don't have in house what I ordered. What the hell was the cook doing for 15 minutes???? So I say "you couldn't have told me that when I ordered?" (yes I was nice)He just blinks. (Not one of them has ever smiled in all the time they are at the table.) He says "what else do you want?" I select something quickly because we are STARVING and then our apps finally come out. While we are still eating the apps our entrees come out. The presentation is really cute with each entree placed over little warmers. Too bad none of it was special except the naan. It was flippin awesome. The naan is the reason for the 2 stars.
I can not stand being treated like crap by servers in restaurants. I am not a jerk. I am polite, I say please and thank you. I don't make ridiculous requests. Why do so many restaurants tolerate bad service???
probably one of the best indian places i have been too... we got the dinner for 2 for about 43$.... which included soup, naan, mixed grill, 2 entrees, and desert. everything was really good... the entrees we got were chicken tikka, and chicken vindaloo... like most indian places, the service was sub par, but the food more than made up for it!!
4 stars for the food alone - Tasty, fresh & worth stopping in for... the service? Not quite what I expect from a restaurant. They are quick to refill your water glass (like several people at least 2x each)...but not quick to refill your alcoholic beverage. In fact, every time I have come here, I only end up getting 1 drink when I order my food & then no offers for refills.
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9/20/2007
I had been wanting to go here for months because every time I was nearby, I could just smell how… Read more »
I've been back to Bukhara three times since my initial visit, and each has been a disappointment. The nightly specials never change. We got the mahi curry again and the flavors were nowhere near as good as the first time. The lunch buffet is dull and had the exact same items the two times we ate there. The servers are rude, ignore you, wear stupid matching shirts, don't fill your water and mow you down as you try to walk through the restaurant. Ghazal a couple doors down is friendlier and tastier.
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2/6/2009
Try the pav bhaji, hiding on the last page of the menu under "regional specialties." My bf claims it… Read more »
I have a love hate relationship with Indian Food. Well more of a like/hate thing I guess. I like Indian food and Indian food hates me. Or at least it literally hates my guts. Curries and clarified butter and strange yogurt concoctions are the stuff of dreams...and gastric anomalies. At least for me.
I had been to Bukkara several years ago and swore it off after a evening long session of 'gastric anomalies' following a pretty tasty face stuffing. Maybe I should have asked for ordering advice instead of just saying 'ummmm yeah, that one and this one' and maybe I could have asked about ingredients while I was at it. Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.
But this time I ordered with somebody who actually understands this (to me) mysterious realm of deep flavors and hard-to-decipher meats n bits. I guess just as important, my partner in curry understands my tastes and also what will slay me and bury me six feet under if I eat it.
So we had some simple fried tid-bits with very sweet, hot and minty sauces. Dig it. Then we had some damn spicy curries something, potatoes and something that I think was a mushroom. And then we calmed down with some nice fresh naan and minced lamb in a very mild and not quite creamy sauce. Dig it all.
I'm still not in love with Indian food but this time, no gastric anomalies. Maybe over time, like an arranged marriage, we will fall in love with each other or at least learn to forcibly co-exist.
This is good Indian Food.
I have had better at other places, but with-in the United States I have not had much better than this. The Nan is great and the Chicken Korma is very tasty. I have gone here a few times and have never had a bad meal.
The service was good and the prices are not bad.
Much better tasting than Diva's.
With http://restaurant.com coupon, my husband and me tackled Bukhara. We ordered A la carte and we are vegetarians.
The aloo tikki chat was very good.Soups are not so good though, very bland.Our Entrees were very good, both chilli panner and malai kofta.Served nice desserts like Gulab jamun and kheer.The food I would say is typical punjabi food served in restaurants around, nothing exotic but tasty.
The most impressive thing was the service though, very attentive waiters, prompt and knowledgeable.
Will definitely visti again.
My vote for the best Indian food in Boston goes to Bukhara.
The papadum is good, but it's incredible frustrating to have just a few crackers and two relatively large bowls of dipping sauce just sitting there after you're done. There's no way not to waste a lot of the sauce unless you dump it on your food, but the food's so good that even though the sauces are great you won't want to do that.
The naan is awesome (try it stuffed with onions or potatoes! gah), and the dishes, from the vegetarian baked eggplant to the murg do-piaza (chicken) are flavorful, fresh, and delicious. Great little seating areas for dates, and other larger tables for families etc. Service is great, and the food comes out piping hot with its own little open-flame baking dish where applicable. So good. A Centre Street Staple.
This place is kind of typical. The reason I say this is because I am Indian and grew up eating like a king. If you're a Gringo and you "just looooove Indian food" then anything will do. You don't know the difference really. Kind of like when I go get a burrito and think it's traditional Mexican cuisine. I'm "ignant" (as they say in the South) but it still tastes good to me, so go fly a kite.
Either way, I'd say this is closer to real good Indian food. The white man (after pillaging our country) decided to love a few things about it. These things are:
1) Slumdog Millionaire or Bollywood movies you saw in Cultural Cinema at college
2) Our women (the ones without mustaches and hairy backs)
3) Chicken Tikka masala, Bhagan, Paneer, tandoori naan (the only kind that exists)
4) Saying/ordering "chai tea" (even though chai means "tea", so they order "tea tea")
5) Our math skills in grade/high school (people try to make us do their math homework, I purposely gave the wrong answers so the white man wouldn't make it to a good college)
The food is alright at Bukhara. You can get toned down Mughlai cuisine that won't give you instant diarrhea. You can even enjoy your "naans", they "flavor" them with onions, or butter, or whatever your heart desires.
HOWEVER, the service is your typical Indian restaurant style. They neglect you (ESPECIALLY if you have a native Indian with you.) They expect you to call them over in a rude way and rudely order. We're a rude people.
Eat with your hands. Stop eating naan and murgh do-piaza with a fork/knife. It's embarrassing.
Also, leave the Indian women to me. You've co-opted enough of my culture. And give back those damned jewels from the Taj Mahal.
I guess I knew what I was getting into, having read the reviews, but good lord. The food was quite good. Some damn delicious paneer pakora, and the chicken tikka masala was some of the richest I've had. And the gulab jamun was really good. So the food was awesome.
Now, the service, on the other hand, was awful. Slow as all get out, and not super helpful. I don't know what I expected, but we were all but ignored, even when trying to pay for our meal. So that turned what ought to have been a 45 minute or hour-long dinner into a 2 hour affair. The place wasn't particularly busy, so that's no excuse.
I hear the buffet is good stuff. I'd go back for that, if only to cut down on how much I need to interact with the wait staff.
Really yummy! Really affordable! Really good service!! If a place meets all these then I'm very happy.
I've only dined in here once but it was memorable-the best Indian food I ever had. For an appetizer the lamb samosas were fantastic! Try out all the dipping sauces too.
For my entree I had:
Murg Do-Piaza:
Fresh boneless chicken, pan roasted w/ onions, tomatoes bell peppers, scallions & spices
It was really good. I kept eating it, like what is that flavor. It was addicting.
My bf had the:
Murg Tikka Masala:
Diced boneless, white meat chicken Tandoori style, and cooked in rich tomato cream sauce. Wow!! So good again.
The rice was perfect, Naan was warm and chewy.
The server was very friendly. He recommended some special beers and was all over the table.
It's perfect for a nice dinner for 2 with drinks for under $50.
The food is decent, but the service is awkward.
I have had a few impressive meals at Bukhara, but would much rather choose Ghazal for its friendly service and perfectly executed dishes.
Bukhara is my go to place for Indian, we've been going for years and have never had any complaints. Although the menu hasn't changed much since we started going, everything I have ever tried has been delicious. The chicken korma was a favorite for sometime, but due to the large amount of cream used in preparation I've gone to the lighter dishes. The murg saagwala has been my latest crave and it's very filling. Another perk is that they serve Becks Premier Light, for those of you counting calories or WW points, it's only 1 point! It's decent refreshing beer and this is one of the few places I've ever seen it.
I find the waitstaff to lack any extraordinary service, but they are all very friendly. They will come over and take your order, serve the food and hand you a check, nothing too special...
Bukhara is a great place for a group dinner or a couples night out and definitely one of my favorite places to eat in JP.
I really like it.
If i have the extra cash I like to order something I haven't had yet. While I usually enjoy what I eat i keep going back to my favourtie dish ever, Shahi Bhindi. I always get it extra spicy with garlic naan. yum!
My favourite meat dish is a tie between Swordfish Masala and Gosht Curry.
Top it all off with a veggie samosa and I'm in heaven.
I was surprised to read all the issues people have had with the service. I have always had a nice time. When i get my food to go I usually relax at the little bar and order a beer. They always treat me to their delicious spicy papadums.
So much has been written about Bukhara, but not one haiku. Here we go.
Vindaloo spice face.
Naan cools. Wine accelerates.
Winter antidote.
AMAZING indian dishes. Merg Chicken Korma and Mushroom Korma were a delight. I recommend the stuffed nan sampler with anything you order.
For $40 a couple- out the door- its a damn good choice for indian in jp. '
HOLLA!
Great authentic Indian food. They're a little slow on delivery (45-60min) but the food is worth the wait. Eating there, very fast service, nice convenient location and easy off-street parking is available behind the building.
The most important thing to remember when coming to visit Bukhara: bring a sweatshirt or something. Every time I have come it has been so damn frigid that I've had to restrain myself from tearing a decorative tapestry off the wall to use as a blanket.
The service is always bad here in one way or another. On my most recent trip, I was surprised that out order was taken and the food was delivered in a semi-reasonable timeframe, but after that, no sign of our waiter again. The only person who came by was some different waiter trying to steal our chutney. My soda glass was empty by the time the food arrived, and it, like we, sat neglected for the remainder of the meal.
The food is hit-or-miss. I've had good food here before. I'm pretty sure, at least; it was before my Yelpin' days, so I don't have notes, but I had a vaguely warm feeling about the place. My chicken tikka masala was weirdly sweet, which was unexpected but kind of worked for me. I love malai kofta at most places, but I didn't care for the creamy/nutty way they made it here. The poori was just greasy, though I thought I had had it nice and crispy before, so I guess that just means I lost the cook's coin toss this time. If you're melanin-deficient (read: white), don't count on being able to get anything spicy.
This place was absolutely terrible the one time I tried it. Whatever you do definitely do not get delivery. I did not get my food until 2 hours after it was ordered when I was told the wait would be 45 minutes to an hour for delivery. The food itself left a lot to be desired. You would be much better off going to Diva in Somerville or Himalayan Bistro in West Roxbury if you are looking for quality indian food.
I just got back from a few months in India, and I think the selection here is quite nice. I had the vegetable korma and it was very tasty, unlike many of the veg kormas I had in Calcutta! I found the service to be fine, the portions generous, and the water did not give me an intestinal virus. What more could you ask for?
The prices are a little steep for your average lowly grad student, but well worth the treat from time to time.
Bukhara Bistro is an Indian Restaurant located in Jamaica Plains. Boston. Like most Indian restaurants, it features a buffet at a reasonable price.
The decor is cozy, but I felt the tables were placed too close to each other and could make initmate conversations difficult. The walls are nicely decorated with Rajastani Paintings on the walls and figurines of Indian deities placed around the restaurant.
The menu is standard Indian fare featured in most Indian restaurants: Palak Paneer, butter Chicken, baingan bartha, channa masala, basmati rice and so on. They also had rolled up dosas with great potato masala inside. All of the dishes were well cooked.
The roti was fresh and made to perfection. The lunch overall was decent, but, there was no single dish that really stood out as outstanding. Maybe I am simply judging them too hard. The waiters and management were nice and friendly from what I gathered, but I did not have the ample opportunity to make a judgement on the service as this was a buffet. Maybe, I will drop in for dinner sometime soon. Go ahead and give this place a try. I do not have a strong opinion on this restaurant at this time.
1. This is not the best Indian food I've ever had, but the food is good. It can always fulfill me when I need an Indian fix. Aloo mutter, yum!
2. The restaurant is lovely. Very tastefully decorated and the space is fantastic.
3. The staff can be a bit mean sometimes. When I suggest going to Bukhara, my partner usually says, "No thanks, I don't feel like being spit on tonight." A little over dramatic yes, but kinda true.
Good food but rude and terrible waitstaff. The place could be totally empty and they still wont let a party of two sit in a booth. The food used to be really good but I think it has slipped a bit. Plus the last two times I have been there, they served me th wrong entree and the server swore up and down it was what I ordered. I think I may try a different spot since there are tons in downtown!
Like most people on here - love the food, deplore the service. However ... they're now delivering! I think that this is a new development, at least. The delivery was faster than going and getting a table - granted that's not saying too much - but waiting on your couch in front of the tv is pretty sweet.
I have not been here in years. We both enjoyed the meal. We both had Mulligatawny soup. Its was excellent. I had a curry beef dish and my partner had a chicken dish.
Service was adequate. Wine list was limited.
Bad service combined with truly lousy food = never coming back here.
We were seated immediately, but service took forever! We were waited on for drinks and though those came in 15 minutes time, we asked twice for condiments which took 10 minutes, and had to ask three waiters before we got to place our order, and it took 25 minutes just to place it!
The food, unlike most reviewers said, was awful. Our garlic naan was burned. The Saag Paneer ($12.95) was nearly inedible -- it was runny and had no flavor whatsoever -- while the chicken tikka was flavorful, it also caused ahem! gastrointestinal problems for hours for both of us. Coincidence?
I was also amazed to find that the vegetarian dishes were as expensive as the meat dishes -- not usual, and definitely disappointing.
While the Mango Lassi was good, and the portions were a good size, the service combined with the icky food means no go for me again.
An excellent Indian restaurant in the heart of J.P. I went here with some friends and we ordered dishes that went all the way from bland to fiery. I told the waiter to make the shrimp curry hot and it was... just perfect.
Service was decent, and the best deal on the menu appears to be the vegetarian dinner... since it comes with bread, sides, dessert... all for around $18, the price of any standard entree.
Good times at moderate prices... thumbs up.
I absolutely love Bukhara, though I will say straight away that the dinner prices are a bit steep. But I'm all about the buffet, so that's not really a problem for me. Yes, the food isn't spicy enough because it has to suit the tastes of the masses, but there is something truly delightful about getting to sample so many different dishes...and sample them until you are ready to fall asleep at your table. Or, come for the dinner, and have them add some heat (though they never seen to add enough). The lame Indian restaurants lining Mass Ave. between Central and Harvard can't touch Bukhara.
The food is excellent, the aforementioned lunch buffet is the bomb, the waiters are pretty insane and wonderfully entertaining, and this one dude who works there always takes a shot of Budweiser as their lunch service is coming to an end. Once, I saw one of the servers find a pair of ostentatious sunglasses that a customer had accidentally left behind, and put them on and do a dance of sorts. I mean, all of this for like $12? That's a pretty good deal to me. The dinner prices are reasonable, for the quality and quantity too; my boyfriend and I split two entrees and an appetizer, and had enough leftovers for one, filling lunch the next day. I'm officially obsessed with their okra. The check was only around $30 (before tip), too.
I've also seen the owner/manager pack up a little plastic container from the buffet and give it to a homeless man on a few occasions. I also witnessed the entire waitstaff push a woman's stalled car to the side of the road, so she wouldn't have to leave it right where the #39 bus pulls in. I think this shows that they do genuinely care about their community.
I've been here a couple times, mostly for the buffet. I enjoy the food, and they're willing to make it pretty damn spicy, but man that service leaves something to be desired.
I end up getting naan for dessert with their pace. They ignore you. When I tried to cash in on the MBTA discount program, where they offer a free mango lassi or two samosa with the purchase of an entree, the manager argued that you needed the "coupon". The discount book just has an entry, not a coupon, and their door says "show and save" not "show and bring a coupon to save". I checked the website and they're totally not supposed to do that. Then he charged us anyway and was pretty mean about it.
That being said, I like Indian food and will probably keep eating it because it's close to my house. What a sad life I live.
Bukhara was phenomenal!
When I went, my companions and I got the Baingan Bhartha, the Shahi Aloo Gobhi, and the Kabuli Chanaa. This was some of the best Indian food I've ever had. Going here has inspired me to learn to make these dishes myself, because I don't know when I'll be in Jamaica Plain/Boston again! YUMMMM!
My friend and I were headed towards Center Street Cafe in JP for a late morning/mid afternoon brunch but were stopped in our tracks at Bukhara. Peering in their window we saw several people enjoying plates of delicious indian food from an indian buffet and the aroma was inticing. Not to mention it was immediate gratification, at Center street we would have waiting 30 minutes just to sit down!
We were seated immediately and served soft and chewy, piping hot nann bread. We were both hooked.
The buffet had an offering of over 15 different dishes including chicken tikka masala, raita, saag, tandoori chicken, goat curry, daal, and for dessert chai tea and glub jaman. I was not only impressed by their variety but by the quality of their food. It was delcious. I'm normally wary of buffets but their dishes were hot and well attended to. I didn't get the impression that the dishes sit around for hours collecting bacteria.
The best part was this was all for 10$/person. I think this could be one of the greatest culinary hidden jems in JP. A most refreshing alternative to brunch!
Bukhara is my favorite Indian place in the city, and is super convenient since I live in JP. But for some reason, I haven't really felt the urge to go lately. I have only been here for the weekday lunch buffet (ok but no samosas) and for the weekend brunch buffet, which i prefer.
Pros: Great samosas, good rice, good chicken tikki masala (to the point where i prefer to almost just eat the curry without any chicken), and the waiters are mostly nice. Also, if I eat this at like 11, I might not be able to eat again that day due to fullness
Con: There is this one waiter who is sometimes really mean. I guess that's it.
I've never been here for dinner, and this place has been good to me when I've been all alone, on a date, or with friends. It's good stuff. I just need to get around to going again.
Note: this review is based solely on the lunch buffet. I've heard negative things about the dinner service, but I had a really positive experience today at lunch.
Anyway, on with the review. My work posse rolled up here today to take advantage of said buffet. We showed up around 2, and we were not disappointed. There wasn't a huge selection of food, but what was there was fresh and delicious. I sampled the rice, the beef korma, the chicken tikka masala, the saag paneer, and the tandoori chicken. Aside from the saag paneer, everything (especially the tandoori chicken) was delicious. So delicious, in fact, that I went up for seconds. Yes, I'm a glutton, but at least I didn't finish them.
The prices are great, too. It's approximately $9 for all-you-can-eat, which means a lot in our American culture, and means even more when one dines out in Boston.
There's free parking in the back, if you drive. Also noteworthy: the tables are nifty. Check 'em out.
I went for dinner on a friday night and the place was doing some good business. In an attempt to be a useful Yelper (!) here is my expert opinion [c'mon - you should know by now that all Brits are curry experts]
The Pluses
:: GREAT naan breads, the doha looked fantastic too
:: best tikka masala I've tasted in Boston (duck too!)
:: lamb dopiaza was lovely if a little different to usual
:: a good dahl (i requested a half-portion and they duly obliged)
:: lovely decor - the place has a great atmosphere
:: best Indian dinner I've had so far in America
The Minuses
:: a bit expensive for what it is, especially with the bad service (read on)
:: no need to be showing the Sox game in a $$ restaurant
:: funky blue glasses mean that the waterboy can't tell that you're out
:: menu has not much in the way of new or adventurous stuff
:: my lassi was very small... a bit of a rip-off
:: bland and small poppadoms with terrible sauce options
The Weird Stuff (ie. also please give me a funny vote)
:: People had to borrow a flashlight to read the menu in the 'moody' lighting (?!)
:: I had to ask for a salty lassi 3 times, they just couldn't believe I would order it and it came very late into the meal after they'd unsuccessfully tried to smuggle a mango lassi under my nose
:: When I ordered a special side dish I was told flat out "you don't want that"..... WTF?! errmm... I do. They never let me order it though. Hmmm.
I go here for mostly for the lunch buffet and usually with a large group of friends, 6+. It's average Indian food. I have been here 3 times for expensive dinners and I still say very average. It's exactly what you would expect, constantly yummy. I have never had anything bad here. However, during the lunch outings me and my friends fined our selfs buried in wait staff. Like 6 or more waiters staring, moving glasses about, taking things that we're still eating, and leering.....it's so ridiculous. It's almost funny and it happens every time we go.
I love Bukhara.
The tandoori is not dry like some other Indian restaurants I have been too. I love the naan and the basics like Tikka Masala and Korma are exceptional.
The dinner for two is the best deal in town and it feeds closer to four. You can even get it to go too.
I have yet to check out the lunch buffet but I hear it's outstanding.
I once murdered a mango creme brulee here in under a half minute. That was kind of embarrassing.
Good Indian food with curries from good average to really nice like the vegetable korma. The take-out was good quality. Great milk pudding. Try the mixed pickles if you like sour.


