Monks Indian Bistro & Banquet Hall - Cypress — Restaurant in Cypress

Multiple problems not just with this Restaurent but with any Indian/pakistan Restaurent. They cook biryani’s and pack them already for delivery. Once you place an order they put them in the oven heat them up for 3 to 5 minutes and put them in the bags for you. This is very unhealthy as the plastic gets infused into food. Don’t kill yourself or your children. Food color - they add lot of food colors and that’s again completely unhealthy. Again, don’t eat if you want live healthy life. Oil and ingredients - they use cheap oil for cooking. I know, this is common in many restaurants but if you really want to know their quality, let the biryani or any dish leave it to cool down for some time. Once it’s cold, check the food after an hour. You will know what I’m talking about. Also, you will never find fried onion in biryanis, so how can it be a biryani without fried onion. Also, the spices used in cooking are definitely cheap quality. Vijayawada chicken biryani - They don’t know how to cook a biryani at all. If you like what you eat, that means you never had a biryani in your whole life or you are just following others and you don’t have your own taste buds and guts to talk about the truth. They put the fried chicken and the biryani rice and calling it as a Vijayawada chicken biryani. Common, you use the same chicken for chicken 65, chicken fry and other foods as well and you are not spending time to learn and cook the biryani the way it should be. Hyderabad chicken dhum biryani - you guessed it by now I guess what I’m going to say about this. This is not at all a dhum biryani. They cook chicken separately and the same biryani rice which they use it for all the other biryanis and then mix them together and call it as chicken dhum biryani. Also, the taste isn’t good. Look at my first comment and never eat here unless you want to compromise your health.

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It was pretty busy and only 1 server. We had to ask for water and wave him over when we had a question and to place an order. We found out that alot of the pictures posted on here are from the previous restaurant in this location. So a lot of the items in the photos they do not serve. I had really wanted the lamb Samosas I saw in the reviews. Their menu is far more complicated then is needs to be making it hard to order. More photos of their dishes would really help those of us that eat with our eyes first. We finally decided on 4 dishes and each of us got 1 peice of garlic Naan. They were outta rotti and of course I had seen and wanted that too when choosing this restaurant. The Rogan Josh (goat) was their special $18 and you get about 5oz of goat. It was cooked nicely and had good flavor, a few grissles and just not the portions we thought it would be for the price. The paneer saag was good $15 for 2 cups. The Chana Marsala was not fully cooked the chickpeas were very hard still. Buttered chicken contained mostly gravy and just a few small diced peices of chicken. You could easily spoon it onto your plate and not even get a peice of chicken. The 2 peices of garlic Naan were $8 and one peice was over cooked and crisp on one side. The flavors were really good for everything though, but the portions were disappointing for the price. Our meal was $75 for two. I heard they have a lunch buffet that sounds like it would be a better value and you wouldn't have to wait for service. But this restaurant doesn't off the lunch buffet it was the previous place. 🤦‍♀️The...

My husband and I had heard that your food was good and worth trying. So we came in today (Sunday) for lunch. We were seated by a server and two plastic cups were placed on our table and he walked away without asking what we'd like to drink. I noticed a pitcher of water on the table but no ice. I had to ask the server for ice and a straw for my water. Both should have been provided without our requesting them. We ordered an appetizer and our entrees. Twenty minutes later no food was served, so I asked them to check on our order. One minute later they brought out our appetizer and then immediately our entrees. So, basically we got everything at the same time. Which means you need to work on the "pace of the meal" concept. You shouldn't call it appetizers if you bring it out with the meal. Our meals were hot and tasted good. We were happily surprised that we ordered our meals "spicy" and actually got "spicy". Not all restaurants give you exactly what you order when it comes to spice. The naan bread was a wonderful accompaniment for this flavorful meal. My entrée was disappointingly mostly sauce with a little chicken. My husband's entrée was an equal amount of both sauce and chicken. My biggest complaint was that we had to wait 20 minutes for anything to be brought out, and also that I had to ask before...