Indian Palace — Restaurant in Missouri City

I am giving one star for a few reasons. This was my first and last visit to this restaurant. I was referred by customers who visited Kerala Thanima, which is operated by the same owner.

1. The customer service was great; however, there was only server available at the time of my visit (1/15/2017 around 11:30 am). This is the first dine-in restaurant I've ever visited where I had to serve drinks myself. The one good thing I noticed was the paper napkins available at the buffet and at the table.

2. The ambience inside the restaurant was not very pleasing. It looked more like a fast food restaurant than a sit down Indian Restaurant. The plates were dirty and my table was wobbly. The bowls and glasses were all different styles and colors. The drinking glasses were plastic and looked old. Considering this is a new restaurant, I would have expected new furniture, dishes and everything to be coordinated. The bathrooms were cleaner than other Indian restaurants I have visited.

3. The food items were not labeled correctly (the beans thorin was mislabeled as plantain thorin). Some dishes had too much salt, while others had no salt/taste. There was an excessive use of fennel seeds in most of the chicken dishes. Most of the dishes looked questionable, they did not have an authentic taste. A) The chicken curries did not taste fresh, instead they tasted like they were precooked and frozen. B) The fish curry looked like a meat dish and was overcooked, which was apparent because the pieces...

Garlic naan was very tasty but unfortunately the daal was extremely thin and watery. The daal is worth 2 stars and the garlic naan is probably 4 stars so I left an average 3 star rating. There is of course, a range of preference as to the preferred thickness of the daal And I suppose some customers may like it thin like that. I however, had ordered it with garlic naan, and I had another couple of small roti that I had made in the morning at home. So I planned to eat it with naan and roti. I felt that It was much too thin to go with naan. This would have been better over rice. But I didn’t know it was going to be that thin. So once I got home, I had to reduce it on the stove top to get it to thicken up enough that I could enjoy it. I just felt it was too much trouble to have to do that. I know how to make daal On my own and I felt like for the trouble I went through to dirty my pan and have to Do cleanup at home that I could’ve saved a lot of money just making it myself. Typical restaurant daal is usually not extremely watery nor extremely thick. It’s usually of a moderate thickness. it did not live up to my expectations and I don’t think I will go there again to try...

This place has a great tasting chicken biriyani for 10 dollars. You can get it either bone-in or boneless. They cook the chicken between 2 layers of rice so it comes out moist. Some places cook the biriyani on the top and it comes out dry and some restaurants cook the chicken on the bottom and it comes out burnt. The single order can feed 2 people easily. It comes with a cup of raita and lime pickle and 2 pieces of poppadom. You can substitute the lime pickle for mango pickle if you want. Make sure you give them enough time to place an order. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes for a fresh order of chicken biriyani. I also get a cup of fresh mango pickle from this restaurant. It's better than the store bought Grandma's pickle which has alot of preservatives and sodium in it. Can't beat the price of 7 dollars for a cup. This restaurant caters to south indian style cooking which is a little bit different from north...