TOT's Bukharaa Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Georgia

A few years ago, my wife and I adopted a no-added-oil, vegan diet. (Yes, it's a mouthful. haha)

While we were pleased to discover that Indian restaurants can usually accommodate our vegan needs, we were displeased to learn that many of them serve food that's, well, swimming in oil.

Back then, we'd only tried a few Indian restaurants, so we kept looking, hoping that we'd find one that had less oily offerings.

Enter Bukharaa.

We got saag chana (it's not on the menu, but it's basically the ubiquitous spinach and cheese dish (saag paneer) minus the cheese, add chickpeas) and baingan bartha (a tomato eggplant dish) and LOVED IT. We get those dishes every time and they're nowhere near the dripping-with-oil stuff we've found at other Indian places.

(Bear in mind that I'm only reporting on their vegan offerings; we've never had any of their meat dishes, but friends who have say that they enjoyed them.)

We kept trying to find other places nearer to home (we drive about a half-hour each way to go to Bukharaa), to no avail. At this point, I'd say that we've probably tried 40 or 50 Indian places in GA, FL, NC, SC, WA, and MA and found only a couple (Bukharaa included, of course) to be non-oily enough for our tastes.

The service is always impeccable -- I don't think our water glasses have ever gotten empty (and if our "mild+" order ventures into "medium" territory, that can be critical. :)

In my initial review (I'm updating this a year or so later), the only thing that I didn't like then was the loud TV. Well, someone must've read my review because the last half-dozen or so times we've been there, the volume has been way down. Yes! :)

We've since come to enjoy the occasional side of patra (steamed taro root leaf + spicy chickpea paste) and almost always get cuchumber, a delicious onion, tomato, cucumber, cilantro, lime, salt, pepper salad. When it's tomato season, the cuchumber is amazing.

I could go on, but I don't want you reading when you should be driving to...

I am disappointed with my food that I just order today from UBER eats . Littteraly the restaurant sents me 7-9 pieces of chicken which one is nothing but fat that it’s not edible. On top of that they sent my coke in a cup ? You got to be kidding me. The container pretty much contained gravy. I will never order from the restaurant who can’t properly see what they are sending and can’t afford to send a coke can at least. The food came safe but the coke spilled in the bag, of course it will spill because the tape that was placed on top is not enough to protect the drink. I gave business of 21.00 to get this ridiculous quantity of food. All the pics that I have loaded it’s actually what I got from this place and I have only eaten 2 small pieces from the plate. I have to put almost half the gravy because I order thinking this will be enough for my lunch tomorrow. I have eaten in 3 restaurants at the John’s creek area and I never seen anything like this for that much amount of money that I spent. Another thing it’s not even breast meat but dark meat used on this dish , the most inexpensive type of meat it exist , at least they should have consider that into account without cheapo on the food. Never again!

Upon my review made above a while back and today being September 10th 2024. The management/owner haven’t had the courtesy...

I usually like/love any and all Indian/Pakistani restaurants. I just love the food so much that I can’t see myself rating lower than 4. This place is an exception. First off, the place is not aesthetically pleasing. It has old style furnitures, the lights are all yellow and has one Indian channel which airs the same 4-5 commercials every 5 minutes. It also seemed like the owners did everything from cooking to serving to cleaning to checking out. We ordered a variety of food from them. First was samosa chaat which lacked any sauce and kinda got dried out. Then we had chicken tikka masala, dal tadka, goat biryani, garlic naans, sweet and a mango lassi to finish it off. Do me a favor and don’t order the biryani - it was more like goat pulao (rice) then a proper biryani. It lacked all the right masalas to make it the proper entree. Even the goat was so hard to chew down. I literally had to hold a meat piece in my hand to take a bite out of the meat as the fork didn’t do the trick. Chicken tikka masala was the best of the lot. If I ever go there again, which I doubt, I’ll only stick with tikka masala and...