Fantastic food and great service. Very clean and well presented. Had the dinner for two, worth every penny.
We started the meal with Gobi cauliflower, delicious. I had the lamb MASALA, tender lamb and a nice red sauce over rice and my wife had the TANDOORI CHICKEN TIKKA. Her dish has tender chicken, peppers, onions and broccoli served on a sizzling platter. Great food and great service!
This is top notch service and food! Our server was very helpful when picking out our meals and appetizer. We had Korma which was really tasty. The overall vibe is really great.
We went for the Lunch Buffet and my first experience eating Indian food. They made our experience memorable with great service and better food. First the lentil soup was amazing pretty spicy for me but nothing too overwhelming, then the butter chicken was good I liked it better than the tikki masala, but my favorite was the chicken vindaloo with rice again perfect spice and different than anything I tried before. Most everything else was good too the stir fry gets a honorable mention for being great it just had sit for a little while but worth trying anyway. The ambiance of the place was great a little upscale for me but very clean, excellent service, and friendly staff I definitely will be back, if your near the casino check it out.
Tikka masala and saag green curry are absolute winners. The medium spice is quite spicy so make sure you know how much you can handle! Also make sure to get a side of garlic naan to soak up the sauce after! The rice is also really great, doesn't taste like traditional basmati rice.
Very clean, very attentive staff, very delicious food. Buffet Selection is on the small side, but that downside is offset by the quality of the food.
Great lunch buffet! It's really difficult to screw up an Indian lunch buffet and Red Pepper does it well. Food is fresh, tasty and very good. Only critique would be the layout. While I understand it, many may not. Dinner takeout is very good. I had the chicken Vindaloo, Indian level hot. Wife had the Aloo Matar. The vindaloo had a nice flavor. The sauce is a little thinner than I'm used to, but still a nice flavor. I was hoping for really, really hot level of heat, but I understand that they don't want to make it inedible hot, but double the heat and it will be Indian Hot for me. Wife's Aloo was medium and a bit on the lack of sauce for her. She said it was a good flavor, peas were perfect and potato was properly tender but not mushy The amount of chicken is perfect for most people, but it was a a little small for me. That is the biggest criticism I can think of. If you're going to the casino and want to eat out, heat here. If you're passing through and want lunch, eat here. If you live in Bristol, eat here.
Oh my goodness. I can't believe I haven't reviewed them yet. I've been for both lunch buffet and dinner and really enjoy everything I have tried. The food on the buffet tastes lighter and healthier than most Indian buffets i've been to. Plenty of salad options and even a soup of the day. I also like that the buffet has chef's specials which are off-menu items so they truly are specials. They also rotate the special of the day between meat and veggie options rather than always having just chili chicken like I usually see. Because they include non-menu items on the buffetI have been able to expand my Indian palate and taste some of the wonderful offerings that are rarely seen on this side of the world. So fresh and so much variety.
I spend a lot more time eating in Asheville than I do up here, but you can find good Indian food anywhere. This place was nicer and cleaner inside than I would have guessed, and I was greeted with the sight of someone dropping off some Indian currency to be displayed on the wall for some reason, underneath an outline of Tennessee and Virginia and an American flag, among other memorabilia. The specificity of people's attachment to place and the passion of immigrants always amazes me as I travel through the more rural parts of the U.S. So does the food. They started me off with papadum (a lentil-based cracker); used to be every Mexican restaurant offered chips for free but this is becoming less common, whereas I see the papadum more often in Indian places. My aloo tikki chaat was fresh and delicious. The test with these things is that they usually come with two fried potato patties, so if I'm eating them myself, the question is whether I can restrain myself and just eat the one before my entree arrives. No, in this case. My entree was a delightful bhindi masala, a spiced okra with onion and tomatoes that illustrates how global the cuisine of India is. Their version is cooked in butter and is quite heavy, and the spice level I asked for delivered a consistent, moderate burn. The rice had several different whole spices mixed in and a fantastic light fluffiness. I left with little doubt that the rest of their large menu full of options for just about any diet is just as good.
Loved the lunch buffet, which is available every day except Monday (because they are closed in Mondays). The buffet included an appropriate variety of entree styles and flavors, none overly hot, as well as naan, a soup, three salads, two desserts and many sauces including a mint and chutney that I especially enjoyed. Their menu has many intriguing items, and I'm assuming a person could order items with more heat. This is a very welcome addition to the Bristol restaurant offerings, and I hope people come try it - the lunch buffet is a great place to start