Apna Bazaar

Looking for good food at a good price? Stop at Apna Bazaar! These are restaurants inside of a convenience store. I grabbed some snacks while waiting for my food that looked yummy! They definitely were! The food was amazing. The Samosas tasted different than what I'm used to but they were still delicious! I got lamb tikka masala(came with rice), garlic naan, rice pudding and 2 samosas, came out to $24! The gentleman who checked me out and handed me my food was super kind and helpful! Will be back! Added to the top favorites list for sure!

Apna Bazaar is a modest looking establishment with some good food. The last time we ordered via DoorDash so my review is going to be focused on the food and not the ambience or service. Firstly, their portions are quite generous and their prices excellent -- seriously how do they stay in business . We ordered the following: - Goat biryani: this was pretty good, although I probably prefer the flavor of Bawarchi a bit more. But it wasn't as greasy as Bawarchi, so that's a definite plus. Good amount of goat and less bones than other places. - Chicken tikka masala: in my opinion, this Wed definitely the best I've had in town. Very flavorful and plenty of chicken. - Nalli Nihari: Nalli Nihari is a slow-cooked stew with beef shank. The marrow leaves the bones and is mixed with the gravy, giving the stew a rich flavour. So, I was expecting a whole lot from this dish and it was a bit bland. However, we had plenty of leftovers and what it really needed was salt -- which greatly enhanced the flavor.- Family (grilled) platter: I would say that this was one of the more disappointing dishes. Most of the kebabs except for the lamb kebab were mediocre. Instead of ordering this dish, or the reshmi kebab (another dish I didn't like) I'd just order the tandoori chicken or the lamb kebabs directly. Nonetheless, overall a solid place for takeout.

Love Apna Bazaar for getting meat and groceries! Excellent service and friendly staff.

Delicious food! Goat was so tender and my kids ate the samosas up. Next time I just need to order more.

Don't let appearances deceive you! Apna bazaar has some excellent Pakistani/Indian dishes! Just walk in and the delicious smells coming from the tandoor and kitchen will immediately pull you towards the back of the store to see what smells so freakin' great! It appears to be a supermarket next to Tandoori Grill, but at the back there is a counter where you can order all kinds of dishes to eat there or to go. Don't expect anything special in terms of service, ambiance, etc--it's a supermarket and butcher shop primarily. The food though pretty much speaks for itself. The steady stream of customers both at the deli and counter to order food attests to this fact. Of the multiple dishes they offer, I have tried the vegetable biriyani, goat kadhai/karahi, jeera rice, chicken tikka, and beef kebabs, although they offer many other things. It's one of the few places to serve deliciously hot 'rumali roti' as well!! They also serve lassi, although it's not listed on the board. What I can say about their food is this: normally, chicken tikka has never interested me. I'm not a huge fan of chicken to begin with, and I usually throw some side shade at most of the overly creamy, sweet chicken tikka masala dishes served in the US. This, my friends, is a different species, and has had me craving it ever since I first tried it. It is full of complex flavors, not creamy at all, and the chicken is cooked very well. I was first introduced to A.B. by a good friend from Delhi who always raves about how this food is 'the real deal' and 'just like back home'. Too bad there is not great seating sometimes, but the food is so good I'd eat it pretty much anywhere. The prices aren't bad too, especially considering the quality and time they take to make the dishes. 3 somosas, 3 meat dishes, rice, 2 lassis, and 4 rumali roti came to about $45, which wasn't bad split between two people, and there were ample leftovers to take home.

This store has a great selection of all your Desi grocery needs. It is very clean and well-maintained. These guys clearly know what they're doing, and the prices are competitive.

I normally avoid this restaurant because I had bad experiences with its food in past. However, my craving for a Paki food made me forget about my bad experiences and I thought I could give them one last try. Being from Pakistan I know what an authentic Pakistani food taste like. This time I ordered chicken Karahi $8.99 and two Naans for $4 which is not a bargain price. I don't mind paying these prices if the food was worth it. The curry was greasy with three pieces of bony chicken thigh which has hardly any meat on them. They used the cheapest part of the chicken meat. The naans were better tasting than chicken but they have pieces of dirt in them and when you chew your naan, you chew pieces of dirt in them as well which sometime hurt your teeth. I don't know how they cook their naan in clay oven that collects dirt. I could hardly finish my half a naan and thew the rest of the food. I don't know how this place stays in business. I will not be coming back!

Since my exuberant, pleased review of this place almost a year ago, it seems Apna Bazaar has regressed. I visited last night with a couple friends hoping to show them what real meat biryani should taste like. Seeing that the kitchen moved from the back to taking up an L-shaped space from the left side to the back, I presumed that its customer base had increased, and that could only mean the food had gotten better. Wrong. I like to give purveyors of ethnic fare great latitude, taking care not to conflate taste with quality, ever certain that they know more about their region's cooking than I might. But on this day, I was expecting a little more than "thank-you-Apna-Bazaar-for-being-here" dishmaking. Columbus is no Devon Avenue in Chicago, with its adjacent storefronts of top-notch Indian cooking - but that doesn't mean you don't try - at ten bucks for the special and 2 naans, especially when there are 4 other places within five miles. My friend and I got the beef kofta curry, and another friend a chicken dish. Sure, the meals were savory and richly spiced, the brown hue dense with flavor. But the brown hue also glistened, and the dense spice had to be spooned from a thick veneer of oil. Interspersed from each other, like the humps of two Loch Ness monsters on a break-up avoiding one another, sat the koftas, and one spoon in, we discovered the ground beef was devoid of any taste, a very covert yet conspicuous denouncing of its very identity as a kofta (kofta is a spiced ground beef).Apna Bazaar prices its food from 7-9 dollars per dish, sans rice or bread, which you have to pay extra for. If that's the case, expectations run higher. The last two times I was here, even its meat biryani lacked the minimum amount of meat, the joint pieces instead accompanied by a chewy cartilage. I'm still holding out for the biryani's sake. I'm a big believer in that you shouldn't have to go to Chi-town to eat good meat biryani. Apna Bazaar's biryani has the hard parts down - the color, the flavor, the spice, the sheer skill of presentation. Now, if only it could take care of what's easy.

Nice place but expect them to ask you for cash for transactiond below usd 10. I mean why

Halal food that tastes home made. The chicken kabob and chicken samosas are delicious. I will be eating here again.