Minerva Indian Cuisine

It's not easy to get a five-star from me. I'm jaded. The food here is authentic. Every bite was delicious. We had vegetarian dishes, malai kofta and mutter paneer, and they were genuinely surprisingly fabulous. They were cooked freshly, not from a pre-made pot. There are ways you can tell if it's really fresh.There are a lot of selections, and they're about 10%+ higher than the small university town we live in, and worth every darn dime. I'm seldom completely delighted, and the food here was great. The restaurant wasn't crowded on Wednesday-- and they should be. The cook is priceless. Give him/her/they a raise!I wish this wasn't my first time, or I'd recommend it without hesitation-- it was really, really good, and I'm a harsh critic. This was for dinner, and we have no experience with the buffet.

This place is terrible. Waited over an hour for my food only ordered two things then they were rude so I gave up. Absolutely terrible

I was in the area and was looking for a good Indian restaurant and tried this place on a whim and I was very pleased! They give a daily soup during lunch, today was a vegetable corn soup. It was delicious, with good flavors without being too spicy. In fact the soup was so good that I decided to order their samosa as appetizer. The samosa's were also excellent, so many good flavors. It was served with a chutney sauce and another type of sauce.As the main entree I wanted to try something different than the typical Indian dishes that are the most common in the USA I ordered a vegetarian dish called Navratan Koorma. It's a mix of different vegetables in a creamy cashew sauce with rice and Naan bread. It was good and flavorful. The naan was bread was amazing, I've been to a few other restaurants in the area that have really unflavorful bread so this was nice.I was pretty full at the moment but felt like trying one dessert to have tried something from all parts of their menu and ordered Gulab Jamoon. An old classic, it was very good as well. It was slightly warm and freshly made and was a perfect end to the meal.The service was excellent throughout, the server gave me updates when one of the dishes were close to being ready. I thought the presentation was also very nice. I will definitely keep this restaurance in place next time I'm in the area.

March 2022I'm a big fan of lunch buffet, WHY you ask? There's an assortment of dishes that you can try, from salads to appetizers and all the way to main course, be it vegetarian or meat, and end this epic journey with some desserts (plural, of course!), so I constantly look out for places that have this option. That's when I found out this restaurant. We were a party of 4 and were seated as soon as we went in. There's parking space available right outside the restaurant and more in the lot. The buffet had a few decent options and I'd highlight the good and the bad soon. They have a proper balance between vegetarian and meat lowers; we started off with some fried vegetable pakoras, onion samosa and chicken tandoor (these were all YUM and we just couldn't stop eating these). For entrees; mixed vegetable curry and paneer curry (the paneer curry was a little sweet but tasty and the mixed vegetable curry was fantastic), gawti chicken curry and butter chicken (both of these chicken curries were MEH). They also had biryani (chicken and vegetable which we couldn't try since they were out of chicken biryani by the time we went to try some) and for deserts, they had gulab jamun (which was cold and a little hard to my liking) and halwa which I didn't try. Overall, for the price of $18.99/person, the buffet is a little expensive and I'd give this place a solid B; We thoroughly enjoyed the appetizers and had a decent run with the entrees and the garlic naan, but I'm surely gonna cut some points for the lackluster taste of the chicken entrees and the the cold and hard gulab jamun.

Delicious Indian food in kind of unexpected part of town.We were shopping down the street from here and didn't want to drive too far during rush hours so decided to give this place a try. Super glad we did. Both the outside and inside are not much to look at. When we first got here, there was only 1 other table besides us. This made me a little nervous wondering if the food was good or not. My concern was quickly dismissed once the food started coming out.Indian food is known for using lots of different spices, but not so much being very spicy. Not this place. We requested all our dishes (at least the ones that spicy level is adjustable lol) to be spicy, and boy were they spicy! This was the first for both of us when it comes to Indian food lol. Definitely did not expect that.We have only been here for dinner so not sure how their lunch service is, but beware that they're kinda short staff. The restaurant started to almost fill up completely right before we left, and the whole time, there was only 1 person taking order, being cashier, answering phone. He didn't have to serve food and had some help cleaning up tables, but they really needed more servers.We didn't think we could find a good Indian restaurant in Southlake, but this one is now on our list of places to come back to.

This is no longer Minerva. It is another restaurant in the same place. I can forgive alot, but our take out experience was ridiculous. We order 5 items and when we went to pick up we only received 3. I called once we got home to let them know I was coming back and once I got there, they told me they were out of chicken and could not provide a refund immediately. Instead, they asked me to come back when the owner was in the restaurant. It's not worth the hassle.

The woman hung up on me. She answered referring to the restaurant as "Foodistaan" I asked her if they used to be called Minerva. She said yes. I asked, " Or are you a completely different business because your address is the same." She said they're now Foodistaan. I told her there was a Yelp review for Minerva w/ three pictures of baby roaches, one that was in the Saag Paneer and asked if they have a roach problem. She said, "We don't have roaches." I asked, "But did you used to? Do you know when your last health inspection was and what you scored?" Then she hung up. I was hoping she would say something like they are a completely different and new restaurant, not associated with/ Minerva, under new management, and scored highly on their last health inspection or say something, anything to prove they have safe health conditions like they ensure their food is kept at safe temperatures, they have regular pest control services or inspections, etc. but hanging up the phone is so rude and unprofessional. Would not recommend.

We have ordered many times and have been very pleased. Tonight we both ordered lamb entrees and received nothing but bones. Tried to resolve the issue to no avail. Disappointing.

The food here is excellent, and truly rivals some of the best Indian food I have had around the country. This place is a secret for now, but won't stay that way for long.If you like authenticity in Indian, this is your spot!

Arrived and menus had a new name. Everything is now double or triple the price. Asked for mild, got spicy. Tikka had no cream and was gritty. Naan was burned. Lassi had no cardamom. Disappointing :((Pictures are old and from when the food was good. Tikka is now brown and not that beautiful orange)