Clay Oven Indian Cuisine — Restaurant in Irvine

As I started reading the reviews I noticed that the owner responds to the bad reviews with bad attitude. Instead of acknowledging the fault he just throws in some random comments who gives a bad review, in my case he just made me a person who was on phone all the time. which was wrong because my dad will never allow us to talk at dinner table. I think with this attitude he is sure to loose many customers. Also look at some reviews those reviews were about in and out burger not about Indian cuisine. And I also think inside people are writing good reviews as a makeup story for the bad reviews.

This is just my experience with this restaurant. I wish they will allow me to rate it zero star. This is not real Indian food.I wish I did not go to this place. We ordered naan, some anardana & paneer filled vegetable curry and two Vegetable Biryanis . I think the tomato sauce was same for both curry and biryani. The curry was ok but was very hot. but I think they just mixed bastamti rice with some mixed vegetable curry and that tomato base sauce and brought it to us as Biryani. When I go to a Indian restaurant I expect Biryani to be fluffy and dry and tasty. But this was all orange in color and soggy and all we could taste is lots and lots of coriander powder. We eat lot of spicy food. But this was beyond spicy they just threw in uncooked thai chillis and lots of red pepper flakes so when we bite in we just had bursts of heat in our mouth. There is a difference between Spicy and Hot I think the chefs who cook don't know basic definitions of Hot and Spicy. Oh did I forget to mention their amazingly tasty Sour yogurt cream (Raita) a side for Biryani. It was pretty badly rotten & bad smell was coming from it. And the Dishes are way over priced just for their ambiance. I wish the effort they put in ambiance they could have kept in making good food. Till now I never rated any thing this bad. it is really Bad.

Response to the owner: I am sorry Mr. OWNER I think you have mistaken us by someone else in there. By the time we came into the restaurant they was only 1 table which is filled by 2 ladies and we were 2nd table. I was not on phone at all. Don't lie and keep making stories. So let me add more to this review, by this I hope you understand how bad the food tasted. The chef came in at the end and was asking other ladies how it was and then He came to our table and asked how the food was, we did not know what to say & by the look of our faces he understood that it was way hot and he asked "shall I bring you more raita?". And then we said yes it is very hot we need more water. which we kept asking before also but waiter did not come not even once to fill the glasses. I asked the chef to taste the raita. Because we tasted one raita bowl and we did not touch the other one since it was very very sour. So he tasted it and said " Oh... I am sorry It is sour." And he started his story of telling that they make a new batch every day and since it was summer it has gone bad and so on and so forth and went back into kitchen. He did not try to fix anything but to offer another sour tasting badly rotten raita. So by your own chefs mouth those words came out that the raita was sour. We were 3 people My dad, mom and I . When we were in the restaurant we hardly spoke we looked at each other in aw and after coming out we thought how can a Indian restaurant managed to cook such bad food. I was not on phone at all other than for checking for time. You have mistaken us by someone else. In general if I dont like the food I wont give any review to it, but initially I gave bad review because after eating dinner at your place my dad was sick and had diarrhea for next two days. That's the reason I gave a review. So now you know the whole story I kindly urge you to please make good food by knowing difference between spicy and hot. If you do that then your shame will not be known to the...

Giving one star cause there is no zero. Very unhygienic, dim lights to hide all flaws, the greasy plates and bugs in kitchen. India Cook house and Nataraj are the best here in Irvine.

This clay oven is for non Indians who can eat anything with India stamp on it and say woooow!! This non sense rubbish isnt indian food. The manager and the rude old guy do not love Indians. We asked for bill copy, he asked us to take a picture in a rude sarcastic tone. Our 18month old sick son spat 2 spoons of rice and the old guy gives us a lecture on teaching kids to behave for untidiying his place,. He says he too raised kids and we should ask our child not to throw food. Well all he did was assume, our child didn't even touch the food. My kids are always rewarded for best behaviour. Just because we are Indians both acted as if we were uninvited. But yeah they forget we pay for the food too just like Americans do. What happened to his "sophistication act" that these duo play. Pretty cheap to charge for this doll house play size food. Chicken tikka masala beh,, cheaters. Cheating all the American folks. I asked the old guy to put up a board saying Indians and toddlers are not allowed. Such is the crazy show off business. And no toilet paper in the bathroom. Also, the young guy pulled off the neatly placed table cloth and served us on plain table, how cheap class, for all that they charge. An American friend recommended this place as it is near to our new home. But hey I'm going to tell her. Word of mouth is fast. Everything here is pretty much boiled early morning and served late night. The ugly channa. Our toddler sometimes eats plain rice, he refused to eat everything. Our 7 YO eats bland food, she too hated the food and the behaviour of the old guy. She was like my brother is a baby. How rude of the old guy to say so. My kids are classy and won't put a morsel of garbage food in their mouth. Uncut leaves calling as salad. Bahaha. Have some ethics guys. Mr Manager you can never be an angrez with that false accent of yours, truth will always win. As an Indian, I believe serving food is the humblest act, you have made it a pricey business, for the food that even a dog wouldn't sniff, your attitude will surely give you bad karma. Esp, when you can't stand an innocent child who didn't even eat your pathetic food. Sick frustrated mentality human. Im ashamed of...

Attention Tarun

Today was Dassera, after talking to you from MN on phone about menu l.was comfortable having my daughter order food on door dash delivery to my son in Irvine,who is very hesitant about food from Indian restaurants as he likes my cooking better

I wanted to thankyou on the phone but wanted to put in writing that at 1st after reading the reviews I was not sure, but after speaking to you about your mother the owner and your professionalism l am glad l ordered the Turmeric chicken ,my son and his wife loved it,the rice ,the naan the avacados Chole (though he likes my chole better) The best surprise was the Gulabjam on house For dassera, which even though l meant to order l forgot Can't thank you and your mother for being so thoughtful and making my day, Dassera for my kids God bless All your family and may you serve Good food to Happy customers and hopefully my son will order out at your restaurant, now , THX again for your thoughtfulness and regards to Your MOTHER, (4 stars for service,l didn't eat food...