Ruchi Indian Restaurant

I ordered chicken fried rice there , and was shocked after seeing the quantity, it was a great quantity compared to other places in Seattle. It served 2 people. Although the taste was not up to mark but if we had asked for a bit spicy(Indian spice level) it would have tasted great.I will be visiting again to taste other dishes a try!Previously some of my friends ordered catering for their event. Non-vegetarian food was great though.

Order from this place at your own risk,Veg 65 Biryani had a cockroach in it. Complete violation of food safety standards. Not gonna order anything again from Ruchi anymore.

Ordered just the paneer 65 Biriyani so this review is only about that. I have been craving for Biriyani for quite sometime and hence I thought I would give it a shot. It's good but not so great. Two things that I can say is that the Paneer is really soggy and the spice level isn't as much as I expected for a 'spicy hot' order.I feel like I should have tried the veg 65 Biriyani it really looks interesting. Probably next time when I visit Seattle.The service is on time and there is not a lot to talk about ambience here. Overall I guess this place isn't something that I would recommend for a veg Biriyani

We keep going back to this place for the last five years. We first discovered their famous Chicken 65 Biriyani and repeated the order. Then, we tried other entrees and they are even better! Chicken Tikka Masala is my husband's favorite and my reco is Lamb Rogan Josh, Saag Chicken, and Veg Kurma. A lot of fresh vegetable and flavorful spices. 98% of clients looks like Indian people and how they never ask on "hotness/spice level" tells me that they must be authentic (reminds me of my visit to Chennai) . We have tried several Indian restaurants in Seattle and Bellevue, but this place tastes the best, because other places are fine but all their menu taste the same as they only have one recipe. Dine-in place is cheap and a bit shabby, but for take out, it does not matter at all.

Superlative sambar and great masala dosa!Sad to see the many negative reviews of this place from years past, because on our visit in May 2024 the masala dosa and sambar combo we got were expertly done, and the copious servings were so tasty that we asked to meet the kitchen chef. He had recently come from India after doing a course in hotel management and obviously knew his craft very well.What a shame that this restaurant has earned such bad reputation. We were the only in-house diners on a Sunday at brunch time when neighboring Indian restaurants were full of customers. Multiple chutneys, potato and pea masala inside the dosa, and especially the stellar sambar will definitely make me a repeat customer here. The variety of dosas is pleasing and they have a range of other tiffin style south Indian entrees.Sometimes going off the beaten track and outwitting the Yelp algorithms are beneficial. We had a nice warm chat with the chef and he gave us samples of other things he had made because we told him his sambar was superlative (it really was). Altogether we had a warm, homely, non-capitalistic dining experience in the sanitized corporatocracy that is Bellevue.This was a priceless experience.

Okay okay, so I waited to write this review until we had eaten here twice without incident - this place is awesome and I feel the overall score truly does not reflect the current taste and value of this food. We first came a few weeks ago and ate in person because my partner had fond memories of their biryani from 10+ years ago. I had the butter chicken and he got the chicken 65, and we shared a couple garlic naans. When I tell you that this food was a revelation - you can imagine our complete shock after we had eaten to look up the Yelp reviews for this place to find a horrible overall score from reviews that are 10+ years old. I'm not sure if there were previous problems but I would venture to guess that most of those problems have been alleviated. Their garlic naan is soft, buttery and most critically, really garlicky and probably my favorite naan in the Seattle area. Definitely the best butter chicken I've had (I even asked for spicy and it was actually spicy!!!). The chicken 65 is incredible - moist and really flavorful and best of all the portions are crazy great value. We vowed to ignore the rating and keep this place in business. Yesterday my partner brought home $50 worth of the same dishes (family size chicken 65, normal size butter chicken and garlic naans) and I've already had three full meals just from my butter chicken portion. Who knows how long the biryani will last! No sickness in sight and a lot of tasty leftovers to keep us happy. I would encourage everyone to look past the old reviews and give this place the chance it deserves.

Ordered dinner here and the food was stale and the quality of food was questionable. We ended up with stomach ailment after eating there. Would not recommend.

Pretty good value compared to other local Indian restaurants. Food is pretty good overall and consistent.

Chicken65 biryani is extornady very tasty Good chefs TQ all of you good sarvice and higinic

I wish there was 0 star for this place. Ordered chicken 65 and chicken fried piece biryani on Friday afternoon 5/26/2023). Chicken 65 being flavorless was also under cooked. I can feel and tartare the raw meat. I am planing to complain with food inspectors. Coming to chicken fried piece biryani....this was was totally misleading what the picture showed on their website and what' was provided. It was basically a kuala rice with chicken gravy. Total deceptive practice by owners. My only goto Indian place and now no more . All of the food went to trash. I hoping Bbb and food inspection compLaint hopefully take care of deceptive practices used by this business.Owner called me and try to justify that some inexperienced kid did the site and he unknowingly put random images and tried to push him under the bus rather than accepting their mistakes.The place is so shity with empty plates laying around and the odor is so shitty. AVOID completely !!!!!!