Rangoli: Vibrant Flavors Of India — Restaurant in Philadelphia

This place is getting a 5 star bump from me. As of writing this review it's the best Indian I've had in the Northeast and maybe the best in all of Philly. The food was delicious, I really loved the lamb vindaloo, samosa and garlic naan. This place was empty when we ate here and that's why I'm giving them 5 stars. Is it the best Indian food I've ever had? No but this is really good for the area and I'd honestly like to see more people eat in. It's a nice looking space that feels appropriately decorated, and very clean (a rarity in the NE). My only complaint is that the chicken in the Tikka had no char so it made me doubt that it was cooked in an actual tandoori oven, I love the flavor a little bit of char brings to Indian chicken dishes. That said the lamb was cooked perfectly. My other complaints are knit-picky but I think the menu is too large in the sense there are a lot of redundancy. I think large menus are intimidating to new customers and that instead of listing chicken, lamb, goat, shrimp vindaloo you should just list vindaloo and have the meats under it. This could be done for a number of dishes and cut the menu size down which in turn is less intimidating. If also cut out all non-indian dishes. I know it's a trend for Asian restaurants to serve various food from other Asian cultures but it bothers me. I hate sitting down at a Japanese restaurant and seeing general tso and I hate seeing sushi on a Chinese places menu. When I saw spring rolls on the menu here I almost left, glad I didn't but it makes me feel like a restaurant isn't committed to the authenticity of their cuisine.

All in all the food was great and I will be back. I hope the quality stays high and if any changes need to occurr it's minimizing the menu (but don't drop the lamb!) and dropping...

I ordered my food,went to pick it up. I first walked in the place is completely empty besides workers. Has a bad smell, that is not just the smell of indian spices. As i was waiting for my order at the counter, the man became distracted with the linen guy. I looked inside the kitchen best i could through the door and right away i notice a pan of cooked food sitting on the floor in front of some very dirty looking stainless steel fridges. The floor looked unkept along with anything else that i can see through the doorway. I wished i could have seen the entire kitchen and inside the fridges at this point. I left and did not buy my food. Somebody calles me telling me my food was ready But i explained to him how unsanitary i think the kitchen is especially because the food was sitting on the floor. He tried to assure me that food was for the trash. But seeing its position and how it looked. It was cooked recently and being cooled down there on the floor. I am a Chef at a country club. I have my ServSafe certification. I know first hand that is unacceptable at any time to have food on the floor. Ps. I wish the owner had responded to my review here. Been...

I ordered food from Rangoli through Grubhub a few days ago. I ordered the navratna korma and I asked for very mild, as my stomach is not good with very spicy food. They did not listen to the instructions, or maybe their “very mild” is more of a medium/spicy, either way it wrecked my stomach, along with the coating of grease that was on top. I asked for no peppers and received peppers. I also requested cashews and raisins to be added since it typically is in this dish anyway (at least from the previous Indian restaurants I’ve ordered this particular entree from), which I would have been happy to pay extra for and did not receive that. The description states that it comes with cheese chunks and I received only two small pieces. I also ordered vegetable samosa and vegetable pakora which were decent, but the pakora was pretty spicy also. I really wanted to like this place based on the reviews but after the entree I received I will not be...