The India Café (Best Nepalese Restaurant in Costa Mesa, CA)

"Super tasty coconut chicken and Naan Highly recommend the coconut chicken and get medium spice. Just spicy enough. Trying the lamb next time! Seen this spot for so many years. Finally tried it and it’s really good. Dimly lit inside but good quality is good."

"Can't even describe how much i love this place. Smell and taste that takes back to Nepal and India and still without comprised on freshness and quality. I'm. Just amazed of the fact the restaurant is not packed at lunch time with such awsum food that is reasonably priced. Still, their delivery works pretty strong.. love their metal tray with rice lentils, chicken with potatoe and sauce. Their vegi damusah, their deserts. Mango lassi and banana lassi. I'm there almost every time I'm near the triangle around lunch time, with a wish on my heart that the door still open and the smiling guy will embrace me with comfort delicious food."

"Food was absolutely chef kiss, service was decent and the atmosphere was ok."

"I have dinner here at least once a week. Their food is consistently delicious. There’s a little bit of a wait when they are inundated but otherwise their service is impeccable."

"The India Cafe has the potential to be great but they are just not there yet. The quality, flavor profile, and portions would need t improve for this to happen. We have tried them twice (different items to try) and have ordered the following for delivery: Chicken Tikka Masala ($15.95) - 3 stars - There was about enough chicken in there for 1 skewer so a little pricey for what you are getting. The meat itself could have been more tender as well. I am pretty sure for this dish and the butter chicken, they are actually using skewers for meat that was either not good enough to be sold on its own or had some fault and then got mixed with these sauces. I can even see the holes in the chicken where the skewer goes through as well as the burnt/blackened sides of the chicken. If the chicken was cooked with the sauce as well, it would be more juicy and tender. The sauce itself is flavorful though and not spicy at all - that would probably need to be requested. Butter chicken ($15.49) 3 stars - Same issue. Decent sauce - nothing spectacular though and average chicken that is a little too hard from being in the skewer first. Also, small portion for both dishes. Veggie Samosas ($4.95 for 2) - 2 stars - These tasted double fried and weren’t the freshest samosas we’ve had. You can tell by the shell and the filling. Whereas the shell was still edible, the filling itself wasn’t good at all. It tasted mushy and flavorless, the exact opposite of how you want your samosas to be. Lentil soup ($4.95) 3.5 stars - It is a small portion as others have mentioned and it’s pretty spicy, but it does taste comforting… Keema naan ($4.99) 2 stars - Our naan was burnt way too much along the edges, flavorless (I don’t even think they added any salt) and hardly had any ground beef. Not enough to taste it at all. It tasted like a plain naan really for double the price and half the flavor. Mango Lassi ($3.99) 1 star - This was 1 star bc it was just some powder mix. You can tell by the color that it is artificial and no real mangos were used so that is disappointing. If they are cutting corners with their mango lassi, then I wonder what else was just powder vs real ingredients. Our search continues for an Indian Restaurant we want to go back to in OC."