Taste of India Melbourne — Restaurant in Melbourne

Absolutely delicious!! If you want to have an awesome dining experience and like traditional Indian food, then this place is for you. I was out with my son that day and he suggested we have Indian food for lunch. And i said "But I don't like Indian food!!" Then he said you WILL like this Indian food. So I said ok, its worth a shot. Well to begin with the place was bigger than I expected. Very spacious. Plenty of parking And easy to find. When you walk inside you'll see they have beautiful Indian themed decor all about. (make sure you look up at the ceiling to see the beautiful colored tiles), with plenty of adequate, comfortable seating available. And in my personal opinion a very pleasant and romantic atmosphere. The wait staff were extremely courteous, patient, efficient and attentive. They have a large variety of choices on the menu and also a buffet if you prefer. Everything on the menu is cooked fresh to order, so I'm guessing the place is packed by dinner time, therefore you may have to wait a little while before your food is served to you. But understand this place is not a fast food restaurant like McDonald's. They don't make the food ahead of time and let it sit on warmer plates letting it dry out. This place prepares only high quality fresh food for you only after you have ordered it. So realize it takes some time to prepare and cook such perfect amazing food. You will experience the best most delicious ingredients possible in your meal. Their prices are a little on the high end, but the serving size is pretty ample. It would be enough food for 2 people, you could take home the leftovers and you'll have yourself a full size meal for the next time you eat. I had ordered a dish and asked for it to be non spicy. However, I didn't realize that the dish I ordered had a natural mild kick to it even when eliminating the the hot spices. But due to medical reasons I can not tolerate any kind of heat from spices. So it was my bad, my mistake, i had ordered wrong. Well the waiter noticed that I wasn't eating my food and came over to ask if anything was wrong. I explained to him my situation and that I had ordered wrong. I said that although the food is very tasty I cannot eat it because it was too spicy for me to ingest. So he immediately took my plate away, and I'm like okay that's fine, but I think I might have either insulted him or hurt his feelings because I couldn't eat the food. That was not my intention. Then he comes back out with another plate that consisted of lamb marsala with rice and yogurt. And OMG let me tell you.... It was without a doubt, hands down, THEE most freaking amazing delicious food I have ever ever tasted in my life!!! I couldn't believe it. My eyeballs actually rolled to the back of my head. I have never experienced anything quite like that before. The flavor was beyond awesomeness. I don't know enough words to even begin to describe how good that food was. Needless to say I liked the place and I loved loved the food, and I will most certainly dine there again!! Oh and also I didn't have to pay for the first meal I mistakenly ordered, even though it was entirely my fault, not theirs. Therefore I most highly, highly recommend you try out this amazing dining experience and see for yourself!! And no, nobody paid me to say these things, and no, I don't personally know anybody that works there. This was just my own experience that I...

Taste of India, 606 N. Wickham Rd., Melbourne, FL 32935

4.5 Stars

I thought two things when the name Taste of India popped up on my random name generator. First, oh joy, I’m going OTB today and the second was, this has to be a chain. Do you know how many towns and cities in this country have a Taste of India restaurant? I assure you, it’s a lot. Alas, I couldn’t find hide nor hair of a corporate entity online. If you do, please let me know.

This location in Melbourne has been here since 2002, so they must be doing something right. Upon entering, I was seated and handed a menu while told my server would be with me shortly. It’s standard so far. John soon approached and introduced himself as our waiter for the meal. John was easily the WORST waitstaff person I have ever encountered in my 57 years. We were the first customers in the joint and this oxygen thief’s only table. This is a perfect example of why I don’t consider service when rating a place. Outstanding quality, execution and flavors are to be found here, but the service from John is so maddening. I finally got up and asked the owner if John was his brother-in-law or some other relation. He got visibly upset with me and asked why I thought that. I replied, “Why else would you hire someone so incompetent?” The funny thing about this exchange is that John was standing right there and had to have heard what I said, but he just stood there with a vacant look. It was all I could do to keep my inner comiconomenclaturist in check when addressing John, as the names were writing themselves in my head.

Why am I harping on poor John, you ask? I put in an order for five dishes along with tea and soda for me and my companion. After 20 minutes, John returned with the food. Well, some of it. I asked him when the other dishes were coming, and he said, “What other dishes?” I’ll let that sink in a second. Ole Lunkhead forgot to write down three of our orders, so we only got two out of the five entrees ordered. At least we got our drinks...

The entrees we did receive (Chicken Saag and Tandoori Chicken) were spectacularly executed and brimming with complex flavor combinations found only in cuisine from the Indian sub-continent. The Chicken Saag had a delicate balance between spice and cream, with fresh spinach holding them in check. The chicken was tender, juicy and perfectly cooked.

The Tandoori Chicken had to be some of the best I have yet had. This dish gained worldwide fame after being popularized by the Moti Bahal restaurant in New Delhi in the late 1940s. The chicken is marinated in yogurt and spices and then cooked in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven. Whoever was operating the tandoor today certainly knew what they were doing as, again, this was some of the best I have ever had. The chicken was superbly tender and flavorful, while the accompanying veggies were steamed to a delightful al dente. I also found the accompanying naan to be warm, delicious and superb on the palate. While John garnered a zero tip as he forgot three dishes we ordered.

The Big Boy says, “If you got the Jones for some Indian grub, go to Taste of India in Melbourne; just avoid...

I could not have been more excited to try this place, especially since they had so many vegan options marked on their menu. They also had a South Indian section and we were really excited for some dosa.

Unfortunately we had a terrible experience. Our order was messed up a ridiculous number of times and the food was not good. We heard that they may be under new ownership, so that might be why there was such a huge difference between the positive reviews from a few years ago and our experience last night.

-ordered garlic naan without cilantro- still came out with cilantro -forgot our order of samosa -we ordered 2 extra spicy gobi manchurian and one regular. They brought out all extra spicy and acknowledged that it was a mistake and that the regular would be out soon. We waited 30 minutes before asking when it would be out. When they finally brought it out it was a mixed vegetable manchurian instead. We talked to who we assume was the owner and we tried explaining that all we were waiting for was a gobi manchurian and he got caught up on explaining what the sauce was to us instead of listening to the fact that we were saying we first received an extra spicy one and then a mixed vegetable one. He asked, “what’s the problem?” before he finally brought out the right order after a lot of arguing. By that time everyone else at our table was done with their meal. -if you order anything with any level of extra spice, it will taste like raw chili powder. It is not cooked at all. Raw chili powder mixed in with the already cooked food does not taste good at all. I’ve never had a restaurant mix in an uncooked spice to change the spice level. It was hard to eat. -the server kept reaching over my sister while she was eating and had his arm right in her face. He also reached over and ended up having his arm rest on her plate. She obviously didn’t eat the rest of her food after that. -while they were taking away the empty plates, they also took an entree that was half eaten and still being eaten. We unfortunately didn’t notice until we went to continue eating it. When we asked about it, they didn’t say anything. -I’m 8 months pregnant and I was very hungry and needed to take food with my medicine, so I didn’t even mention the fact to them that they didn’t bring out what I ordered at all because I couldn’t wait the 45 minutes for them to correct it and didn’t want to argue with them about it. I ordered a dish that was supposed to be tofu, carrots, and potatoes in a coconut sauce. I got a dish with 3 pieces of vegetables in a sauce instead. No tofu, no carrots, no potatoes. It was not at all what I ordered and I was just far too annoyed at this point. -asked for 2 checks and ended up with 4. -if you’re going there for South Indian food, skip it, even though it’s on the menu, they don’t serve it anymore. -the one positive was that the naan was good.

Overall, the service was plain awful and the food was less than mediocre. If you have the ability to try somewhere else,...