Mantra Indian Cuisine
Mantra Indian Cuisine
2 crisp patties filled with potatoes and peas.
Mixed vegetable fritters.
Cheese fritters.
Cheese grilled with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes.
Mashed potatoes with herbs and spices deep-fried.
Choice of cauliflower or vegetables balls in a sweet and sour sauce with onions and bell peppers.
Spicy Indian snack with fried onions in a gram flour batter.
2 samosas with chole, cilantro chutney, and sweet tamarind sauce topped with yogurt.
Combination of 1 samosa, 1 aloo tikka, and 2 pieces of vegetarian pakora.
Chicken cooked in a sweet and sour sauce with onions and bell peppers.
Chicken fritter, made with gram flour mildly spiced.
Fish fritter, made with gram flour mildly spiced.
Shrimp fritter, made with gram flour mildly spiced.
Shrimp cooked in garlic sauce.
Chicken cubes marinated in spices and deep-fried.
Fresh spinach cooked curry style with homemade cheese. Seasoned with aromatic spices.
Cauliflower with potatoes.
Fresh peas with cheese in mildly spicy gravy.
Garbanzo beans with ginger in a specialty spiced sauce.
Freshly grated vegetables cooked in gravy, flour batter, and deep-fried. Served in tomato and onion sauce.
Potatoes and green peas cooked with onions and tomatoes mildly spiced.
Homemade cheese cooked with special spices, bell peppers, onions, and served in its own sauce.
Crumbled cheese cooked with special spices in a creamy sauce.
Fresh vegetables cooked in the juice of garlic, ginger, and tomatoes.
Homemade cheese cooked in gravy sauce.
Crushed cheese and nuts in an exotic creamy sauce.
Eggplant roasted in the delightful pulp, seasoned with gentle herbs and spices.
Fresh okra cooked in onion, tomato, ginger, and garlic with mild spices.
Lentils cooked in thick soup with herbs and spices.
Mushroom cooked in garlic sauce and spices.
Combined cheese cooked with green peas fenugreek in a creamy and flavorful sauce.
Vegetable cooked with cashews mildly spiced topped with a yogurt sauce.
Tofu cooked with special spices, bell peppers, onions, and served in its own sauce.
Chickpeas, spinach, onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and warm spices.
Traditional Indian curry prepared with special spices.
Boneless white chicken meat in tomato and butter gravy.
Boneless chicken cooked in coconut sauce.
Chicken cooked in a spicy sauce with potatoes and tomatoes.
Mildly spiced chicken with gravy sauce with bell peppers and onions.
Mildly spiced chicken. Cooked in a creamy sauce.
Chicken in traditional spinach sauce.
Tandoori chicken cooked in special tomato gravy butter chicken.
Chicken cooked in Indian pickled spices and curried.
Boneless white meat cooked in mango sauce.
Chicken in the bone cooked with rich cream gravy and Mantras's special spices.
Tender lamb meat marinated and cooked with herbs and spices.
Boneless lamb meat cooked with chopped onions and tomato in a mildly spiced gravy.
Lamb meat is mildly spiced spinach gravy.
Lamb meat cooked in hot spices and seasoned.
Boneless lamb meat marinated and cooked with yogurt and nuts in a mildly spiced creamy sauce.
Lamb meat marinated and cooked in coconut sauce in creamy gravy.
Traditional Indian goat curry.
Boneless lamb meat in tomato and butter gravy.
Fish cooked on special curry sauce.
Mildly spiced fish cooked in a creamy sauce.
Boneless fish cooked in tomato and butter gravy.
Shrimp cooked delicately in a special curry sauce.
Shrimp cooked in tomato and butter gravy.
Shrimp cooked with freshly chopped spinach and special sauce.
Shrimp cooked in a spicy sauce with potatoes and tomatoes.
Fish cooked in coconut milk, garlic, sauces, and spices.
Combination of vegetable, korma, palak paneer, daal, rice, naan bread, raita, and gulab jamun.
Combination of 1 piece tandoori chicken, chicken curry, palak paneer, daal, rice, naan, raita, and gulab jamun.
Combination of 1 seekh kabab, chicken tikka, tandoori chicken, lamb tikka, veg korma, rice, naan, and gulab jamun. Veg curries are available as per the chef's choice.
Fine aromatic basmati rice cooked with onions, tomatoes, green peas, and nuts.
Aromatic basmati rice with a dash of cumin seeds.
Aromatic basmati rice with garden fresh vegetables cooked with nuts, herbs, spices, and seasonings.
Aromatic basmati rice with chicken pieces cooked with nuts, herbs, and spices.
Aromatic basmati rice with lamb meat cooked in mild spices, saffron, nuts, and seasonings.
Aromatic basmati rice with tender shrimp cooked with nuts, herbs, and spices.
Aromatic basmati rice with goat meat cooked in mild spices, saffron, nuts, and seasonings.
Chicken marinated in yogurt and mild spices cooked in its own juices over red hot charcoal, roasted in a tandoor to a crisp, tender copper brown.
Minced meat marinated in spices and skewered over red hot charcoal.
Marinated lamb meat in morse size pieces skewered over hot charcoals.
Boneless fish marinated and cooked in a tandoori.
5 pieces. Rack of lamb marinated in spices and cooked in clay oven.
Boneless white chicken meat, marinated and roasted in clay oven.
Boneless white chicken meat, marinated in garlic, mint, cilantro, and spices, roasted in clay oven.
Combination of tandoori chicken, chicken tikka, sheekh kabab, lamb boti kabab, and tandoori fish.
Shrimp roasted to perfection.
Marinated paneer roasted to perfection.
Green salad with mixed vegetables. Served with the choice of house or ranch dressings.
Seasoned yogurt condiment.
Spiced savory condiment.
Traditioned bread made with whole wheat flour.
The multi-layered whole what bread.
Paratha stuffed with spiced mashed potatoes.
Leavened bread stuffed with onion.
Popular leavened bread.
Naan bread topped with a touch of garlic, stuffed with chili.
Naan with a touch of garlic.
Naan bread filled with American cheese.
Naan stuffed with minced meat.
Naan stuffed with nuts, cashews, and raisins.
Naan stuffed with homemade cheese, mildly spiced.
1 plain, 1 garlic, naan, and 1 garlic chili naan.
2 juicy balls made from cream of milk.
Delicious rice pudding garnished with nuts.
Indian style cheese dumpling laced with pistachio in a creamy sauce.
Carrot based pudding with milk, sugar, and nuts.
Plain or mango flavored.
Vegetable Assorted Snacks
Tofu Masala
Butter chicken with garlic naan
The Tandoori Dinner and Goat Biryani
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Left to right, fish curry-butter chicken-non vegetarian plate.
Shahi Paneer
Butter chicken
Chicken Saag SO juicy and good!
Non Vegetarian Dinner
Chicken Biryani and assorted naan
Chicken Tikka
Mango Milk Shake
Samosas
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Tandoori Dinner
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Salt Lassi
Lamb Rogan Josh
fish curry(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
Jamie B.
Oct 14, 2024
We dined here a few weeks ago for dinner service. The place was packed and it appeared there were quite a few regulars as I noticed some of the waiters/watresses conversing with the customers as if they were old friends knowing exactly what they food items they preferred. I thought that made this place a little more family like and appealing to me. We tried a little of everything since we were a group of 6. Being that I do not generally dine at Indian restaurants, I was open to trying as much as I could to see what I liked. I did enjoy the Chicken Korma - it reminded me of American version of tomato soup with chunks of chicken. I just loved the flavors and still think about that dish today. I enjoyed the Chicken Saag as I like spinach and the chicken was very juicy and good. And I liked the Cheese Naan, almost like a quesadilla, nice cheesy texture and warm. I really disliked the complimentary naan, it tasted like burnt sesame seeds and the sauce was just ok. I also did not like the combination plate of the Tandoori Dinner, I didn't care for the lamb, but I am generally a non lamb person. I also did not love the shrimp, it just tasted odd. And I don't know which chicken I liked more than the other since there are two chicken styles in there. Overall, I will most likely be back in the cooler months for that Chicken Korma. Yum!
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Yarn Y.
Jun 11, 2024
Ordered dinner to my hotel , here's what i had :1) paneer pakora - very good . Generous portion as well . 4/52) assorted fried vegetables - felt very fresh, the veggies were not soggy at all. 4/53) malekhu fried fish - a very good fried fish with all sorts of veggies . A rad bit too salty but still very good 4/5This one is closer to 5 stars than to 4. They have a giant menu and I will try other things as well for sure
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Gabriel N.
May 25, 2024
Tucked away on an interstate service road... Mantra = Bona fide traditional Indian fare. It is so delicious. I have loved, and I repeat, loved every item I have ever ordered here. From the veggie apps, to the paneers, to the chicken dishes, to the lamb, the naan!!!!... the sauces are made in house with fresh ingredients. Mantra rivals my greatest Indian restaurant experience outside of India (Jewel of India in Addis Ababa).The room could use some TLC, however with food so incredibly delicious and authentic, why bother?The wait staff is polite, attentive and helpfulCome here when you want real Indian cuisine..
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Akram F.
Jan 10, 2025
Ok place. Not sure what the hype is about. The ambiance is off. Good service though.
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Kayla G.
Jun 16, 2024
Not too much on the atmosphere of the restaurant. It was just a regular restaurant in my opinion.The chicken curry was a 9/10. It was very good but nothing compares to the first time I've had chicken curry in Texas. I got a medium spicy level but I would definitely go a spicy level up if you want a little kick to your food. The goat curry was 8/10. The goat could have been more tender but the flavor was great. The garlic naan was 9/10. I'm extremely bias cause I love all naan. It's an amazing bread dish overall.
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Lindsey B.
Sep 22, 2024
Everything at this place is delicious. EAT IT ALL! service is good and quick and the restaurant was an old diner so not fancy but the delicious food outweighs it all! Naan bread, appetizers, Indian spicy deliciousness! Eat it all.
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Dylan M.
Mar 29, 2024
I can't exactly recall how I heard of this place but I was in the area and wanted to try something different so we gave it a shot for dinner and glad we did. The location is a bit odd, a building that used to be a diner and stuck inside an old motel parking lot. But once inside it's nice enough and the staff was very attentive. We ordered the veg sampler which was excellent an affordable way to sample their starters. Then tried three of their entrees and all were very good. Washed it all down with a Flying Horse which is my favorite of the Indian beers. Next time I'll try ordering it for delivery.
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Adrianna P.
Oct 31, 2024
Nice staff. Food was really good. Tried the goat curry, garlic naan, and butter chicken. Everything was delicious.
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Sonia A.
Sep 8, 2024
For some reason Yelp has located me in SanFco when I live in Metairie!The first time I had Indian food was when I lived in NYC, and believe me, there were many, many places to eat and try their food. My mother and I are Latinas and we liked Indian food so much that we even had spices and an Indian recipe book in Puerto Rico and would feast on them.Fast forward many, many years later I'm living in Metro New Orleans and disappointed with the Indian restaurants....until I tried Mantra. Funny but the co-owner is from Venezuela and we did inmediately connect as two Latinas that love Indian (Punjabi?) food. This is my go to place when I'm craving Indian food and it is very often as it is the only vegetarian food that I will enjoy (nope, not a Vegetarian). I always order to go and they have never missed an order. Prices are reasonable.
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Adriana O.
Jan 10, 2025
I had a wonderful experience at this restaurant! The food was delicious, the service attentive, and the atmosphere warm. It's truly a standout Indian restaurant, and I highly recommend it to anyone seeking exceptional cuisine.
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