Saffron Spice

We are so excited to have found this place. I can't believe we missed it for so long. The chef is Goan, and we are looking forward to trying a lot of the goan items on the menu. This time, we got Indian Chinese and enjoyed it.We got Chicken lollipop, Burnt garlic fried rice, Hakka noodles, and Chicken Manchurian. We loved all the items we had. Chicken lollipop comes with a spicy sauce, we loved it together. The fried rice, chicken manchurian, and hakka noodles were great. What surprised us was the quantity, we easily got double the quantity of food as other places for the same price. We will be back soon.

Holy sweet Bejesus! I've had Indian food before... several times, in fact, and not ONCE has it blown me away. Well, Saffron Spice has changed the game. I came here for lunch with a coworker while in Seattle on a business trip, not thinking much of the place (it's not in a very nice neighborhood, nor is it very nice looking). I ordered the beef vindaloo as takeout, and we were on our way back to the customer site. As we were walking into the building, multiple people commented on the smells, asking where we had went. When they heard Saffron Spice, we got a couple "oh, they're so good!", a "that's my favorite place around here!", and a "I've only heard good things". All of them were right (even the favorite place one, because it is not MY favorite place in the area).Don't let the interior of this place, nor it's location fool you. The food is AMAZING. Get yourself some, and stop reading this review! ;)

Yummy butter chicken. And Naan! Garlic Naan is perfect, timing for pickup is great.​​

Highlights:- Can run into a long wait: call ahead!- Not terribly easy to access (parking) and likely you won't be dining in- Come for the biryani rather than the currySaffron spice is really one of those places where you need to order the right thing. Their curries have been... pretty passable, but their biryani (and maybe it's specifically the lamb biryani) continues to deliver time and time again. They're not stingy with the amount of meat that's included and it is well balanced by the flavorful rice that envelops it. Little bits of fried onions/shallots (sorry it's been a while and I can't recall but more likely shallots if my memory serves) makes the biryani really pop!Its location at the intersection of Holgate and Rainier makes it very visible, but it's really not super accessible. I wouldn't really want to dine in here as much as leave my car with blinkers on to quickly pick something up. Speaking of, make sure you order ahead! The few times we've come to pick up, we actually found that you'll want to get there right at their estimate or a little later (contrasted with most other places where they give you the 95-99% estimate, Saffron Spice has struck me as particularly optimistic). This may be due to the large number of DoorDash/UberEats orders they get that make it difficult to accurately estimate.

So my niece really wanted to come here because it was one of the few places in town where she could get the dish in question. When we arrived we almost turned right around and left! In retrospect, I'm glad we didn't!THE ROSES: The food is amazing! These guys know Indian cuisine. The flavors are magnificently on point, and the heat level is just right. I can't say enough good things about this food!!!THE THORNS: The dining room - if you can call it that - is a joke. Cramped and dingy. When we told the proprietors that we wanted to eat there, they seemed truly surprised. I get the impression that 99% (or more) of their business is 'to go'.One look at the neighborhood tells you why; it is a dystopian nightmare that makes Manhattan Island in "Escape From New York" look like Disneyland by comparison. Everywhere you turn are vagrants, gooned-out drug zombies, and people who look a lot like gangbangers giving you the stank eye. If we didn't luck onto a place to park where we could keep an eye on our car, we would've left. I felt very uncomfortable here in daylight, and I sure as hell wouldn't be hanging out here after dark!THE VERDICT: Great food, but only order takeout. Here you're probably better off getting one of the food delivery services (DoorDash, etc.) to actually get your grub for you, unless you have a yen for danger and have a CCP.Recommend for takeout only

The food here is amazing, we had the chicken biryani, veggie biryani, one of the chicken currys, raita, and naan. Absolutely fabulous! Good sized servings, there were three of us, and there was enough food left over for all of us to have lunch the next day. If I was getting just one dish, I would definitely get the chicken biryani. It was so great!!!

Delicious! I had the Dal Makhani and it was just perfect for a cooler fall evening. I tried the chapati and the garlic naan, also, with the chapati being my favorite. Roll a little of the Dal Makhani in the chapati - absolute heaven.

My favorite spot to grab food at the Pike Place Market. Very tasty veggie samosas and vegetarian naan! The people in the kiosk are helpful and friendly. Keep in mind that this is a small food booth in n a busy mall. It's loud and there isn't an easy place to sit down.

Food was tasty. Did the garlic naan and the butter chicken. The helping was a bit small, would return here and ask for a bit more food.

Food here is just out of this world.They get the little details right: The paneer is lightly browned on the outside. The char on the chicken is just the right level to bring out the charcoal flavor, but not overwhelm the seasoning. Just throw a dart on the menu and you'll land on something delicious.