Taj Mahal Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Covington

We were looking for a veg/pescetarian friendly place to have a late lunch in Cincinnati, and the menu looked very intriguing. It's down on Madison Avenue in Covington, in a section of storefronts that include Art Deco tiled business blocks and newer post-war storefronts. The restaurant is clean, and spacious and tables set neatly. We received prompt service for our early afternoon lunch. The menu is EXTENSIVE and includes a wide variety of vegetarian dishes, along with dishes featuring seafood, chicken. lamb and even goat. We shared a green salad composed of chopped romaine, cucumber, tomato with slightly warm spices and a yogurt-dill dressing. That set us up for main dishes of clay tandoor baked shrimp/onion/green pepper that arrived at the table fajita-style, hot and sizzling and slightly warming and slightly sweet and completely amazing in the mouth. My companion had vegetable balls in a sauce composed of tomatoes, raisins, nuts and cream, along with warming spices we spent some time trying to ID. Even thought we're merely Indian-food-curious, they made us immediate fans, as the meals are a wonderland of flavors and textures, from the intricacies of the sauces to the crispness of the Nan bread and even the unexpected sweet/bitter of sizzling partially-blackened onions. There is a bar, with some interesting ideas in the drink department that we had to pass up, unfortunately. Prices are reasonable, especially given that the dishes turned into leftovers for our evening meal. If you are the least bit interested in trying Indian food, this is the place to start, and your server will help you. If we only lived in Covington, we'd be regulars. Go to...

I have a mixed feelings about this place. The owners are so nice and polite but my experience was quite irritating. I ordered lamb Kebab and some how I received a chicken kebab. The old nice Indian guy came saying cheese kebabs?! And we said no we ordered lamb kebabs… he quickly corrected himself and said yes yes this is lamb kebabs. We started eating and immediately discovered that this is not lamb but chicken. I called the waiter and he said he will check then disappeared. We now got stuck and ended up eating the food we didn’t like. Then a second waiter came to check on us and I told him this was not what we ordered and we don’t truly like the taste. Instead of correcting the mistake he said again he will go check then came apologizing politely and said he took $5 off the plate price… the plate we never liked or asked for! They then brought us and Indian sweet that we are truly not keen of which we ended up leaving behind. I have two problems with this experience. First they lied instead of acknowledging the mistake and correcting it. And when they attempted to correct they were not owning to their mistake and made us pay for a plate that we didn’t ask for or like. I don’t think the price of that plate was worth our bad experience, and unfortunately i needed to provide them the feedback so here we are.

On a different note, The Bhatura bread was not the best, the chicken Kebab was truly bad. But thr saag Paneer was perfect anf the tandori chicken was OK.

This is certainly not a restaurant that I will visit again. If anyone is interested for a good authentic experience try Brij Mohan in Ohio, or...

I wanted to do something fun for my husband so as I’m working I decide to make a short break for it and take him out to eat at. I chose this location as I’m obsessed with the food and purchase it literally DAILEY through DoorDash.

I end up giving them a call, they said they’re open till 12! Woah that’s amazing right? We hit the car and made our way to the restaurant,.. apon walking in we weren’t greeted, we weren’t acknowledge, that wasn’t really a problem for me thoe because I work in food and I don’t always great everyone…. Anyway

So here we are in the restaurant asking for a table for two they told us no, they don’t do that after 10? Uhhhhh so now I’m just upset 😂 I wouldn’t have even done this if I had known this….. anyway so my husband orders and starts waiting, I tell myself “Ok you’ve been working since 2 it’s now 10? Maybe go home and just go into work early, order Togo everyone’s happy right?

So I walk up I ask to order a tiki masala, I end up giving my card however it’s not working, I keep asking him if he can just do a manual entry but he’s ignoring me…. He then looks at me and sais sorry? I literally just turned around and walked out, they start asking for me to come back asking if I had another card? Girl it’s Christmas no one has plans on eating I didn’t bring a bank with me just type the numbers in like…

Anyway, needless to say I’ve wasted a good idk 2 hours of my time and I won’t be getting any sleep for...