Indian cuisine - I ate from the buffet, which had a wide variety of tasty curry dishes. Great experience.
Very courteous, knowledgeable and helpful staff. The atmosphere is okay and clean. The food is great and the portions are plentiful. If you're a vegan like myself, the staff will help direct you to vegan options.
The food is amazing and the attached grocery has a terrific selection. Staff is friendly and helpful.
The restaurant could definitely use a remodel. There isn't anything necessarily wrong with the interior but a refresh would certainly help the ambiance.
Great Indian grocery to buy. The food in restaurant is average. Price is on lower side.
They have a good and reasonably priced buffet. There is a grocery store attaches where you can get all of the staples you need to cook Indian food. The staff is friendly.
Wonderful restaurant and people. We ordered food for a college event of 100 people in Ames. Their rates, variety and promptness were commendable. Food came right on time, fresh and hot.
Though Ames is 2 hours from cedar rapids but still they charged nominally for transportation. Their food made our event a big hit.
In the radius of 2-3 hours of Ames, this is the best Indian cuisine restaurant for delivery and buffet.
Very thankful and best wishes.
We just had a vegetarian buffet in Taj for dinner. wasted our money.
pretty bad experience - tasted like stale food..
not very good quality
I went in the evening for buffet dinner and they served same food left over from the morning buffet . We usually go to taste of India and wanted to go to Taj for change. It was really disappointing.
When I said to the owner he did not respond well.
Also not sure why the evening buffet costs more then afternoon one.
Worst Indian food, want to punish yourself eat here. Phthetic ambience ,worst food. Regret is the word.
Excellent food off of the menu; courteous service; most needed grocery items available at reasonable prices.
Not only is the Taj Mahal a restaurant, but the left side of the building is also an Indian grocery, which had everything I needed for Indian dishes that I had a tough time finding elsewhere around the city.
Pros:
Fairly large selection for the amount of store space there is actually there. Decent amount of fresh vegetables (including things like curry leaves etc).
Cons:
There was only one person working the register for both the grocery and the restaurant which made checkout slow.
I've only had the takeout, but the dishes were delicious and large proportions. The Lamb Curry and Chicken Tika Masala dishes are amazing, as well as the Samosas and Garlic Naan bread for appetizers. You can also specify how spicy you want each dish.
Buffet is the best and their desserts are delicious. Highly recommend if you love Indian food. Only thing I would like to see would be to upgrade the interior but great food none the less. Better than Taste of India!
One of our favorite spots! Nice selection of both vegetarian and meat dishes to please all the waters in our family. Friendly staff, great prices, with the bonus of an international grocery store attached!
Get the buffet! it is excellent! the store has some great food items and the staff are happy to help you out in what goes with what. This is my favorite restaurant in Cedar Rapids. The floors need to be redone and they could use some updating. But then again, it feels more like old India that way. But the food and service is always spectacular.
The good taste great and the buffet is always clean and quality food. The buffet cost $10 (that's with tax) and is well worth it. They keep some staple dishes on the buffet all the time and rotate others, a great system in my opinion to keep me coming back. It's not the most aesthically pleasing place and it often is either very hot or very cold inside. Staff is polite and prompt. Obviously many vegetarian dishes as well as some carnivore options. They also have a small grocery store attached to the side.