Taste of India — Restaurant in Las Cruces

The place is very clean and the food taste fresh for the most part but the problem is the insane over pricing for micro portions. I’m a very small person who does not eat a lot. $20 for a single , mostly bone chicken leg, 2 cups heaping of rice and about a table spoon and 1/2 of beans and other sauce that was supposed to be chicken but had a salad bar size cube chunk of chicken floating in mostly just oil sauce. They mostly gave me rice! Tons and tons of rice . The chicken including what was on the bone was literally 2 bites. I felt they just gave me a sample size. Places that charge a bunch but provide mostly rice as a filler to make it look like a full meal, are ripping you off and they know it. I realize inflation is causing food prices everywhere to go up but this was taking it too far and not acceptable. See the picture of the micro sampling cups that they use for all their sides. It’s about the size of a Costco sample. I put my sunglasses next to the cup to show how small the portions are which are mostly sauce anyway. Idk if they just saw me and thought they could get away with not giving me any food because I’m small? Any other adult man or women of average height / weight would have been starving. The cup holds about 2 tablespoons . The portioning is pretty sparse even for a kids meal! Maybe I was ripped off because I ordered take out? The restaurant was empty so maybe this is an...

I was really excited about the opening of this place (Las Cruces does not have enough non-Mexican restaurants.) and ended up rather disappointed. The place closes at 5 pm on all days it is open. So, if you are looking for a dinner place, you are out of luck here. Then you only get to choose between a vegetarian and non-vegetarian food route. Whatever is on the menu that day is what you get - there are no alternatives within either food route and mixing is not an option. By route I mean that the meal consists of several parts (e.g., two entrees, rice, salad, another side, dessert). You get all parts, even the ones you don't want. The end result is a meal consisting of some of what you might want and some of what you don't want (I never want dessert and I don't care for goat, especially not when it is bony and fatty like it was today.). I spent over $20 on the meal and didn't eat half of it, causing food waste that could have been avoided with a more flexible food choice. Finally, the place doesn't appear to have A/C - it was so warm and humid (swamp cooler?) that we had to leave much earlier than planned because my friend got too hot. On the plus side, the service was good, the food arrived quickly, and the chicken dish...

We were finally able to visit this option to very Mexican-centric dining scene in Las Cruces. We were EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED. You have 2 choices meat or vegetarian served on cafeteria tray and our menu was for Monday/Wednesday. Shared on either menu were naan, 2, slabs 12"x6" of flatbread, way too much, kheer, a very tasty rice pudding, basmati rice, and daal makhani, lentils and kidney beans stew. The meat menu had a chicken curry and butter chicken, a drum stick. The vegetarian had chana masala chickpeas stew and shimla mirch aloo, vegetables and potato stew. It appeared that all the vegetarian stews had a mother sauce that caused all the stews to taste the same apart from the main ingredients. So, rather than usual rich spices of Indian cuisine, the stews were pretty ordinary. We had the chai tea and mango lassi which were adequate. While we welcome this restaurants addition to much needed variety to Las Cruces dining scene and hope the venture succedes, we'll probably will not visit this restaurant to try the other 2 menus. Of note is the many country flags of which many were unidentifiable and looped...