Clay Oven Indian Restaurant
Clay Oven Indian Restaurant
Clay oven roasted crispy spiced lentil wafers. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Homemade crisp patties, stuffed with fresh potatoes and peas. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Delicately spiced deep fried onion fritters. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Spinach coated in garbanzo batter, then deep fried. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Vegetable fritters delicately spiced. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Eggplant dipped in Garbanzo batter. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Homemade cheese pieces dipped in a batter and deep fried. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Fresh fish marinated with clay oven spices. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Breast cubes marinated with Clay Oven spices then dipped in Garbonzo batter. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Cooked in clay oven. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
Lightly-spiced calamari dipped in chickpea batter. Served with homemade mint chutney and hot and sour tamarind chutney.
1 Order of Veggie Samosa, 1 Order of Chicken Tikka Masala, 1 Order of Saag Paneer, 1 Order of Rice Pilav, 1 Order of Plain Naan, 1 Order of Garlic Naan, 1 Order of Kheer (Rice Pudding)
Delicately spiced lentil soup granished with vegetables.
A delicately spiced chicken and lentil soup.
Homemade yogurt with cucumber and carrots mixed with spices.
Fresh cut assorted vegetables cooked in stir fried onions, ginger, garlic, and herbs.
Fresh cauliflower and potatoes cooked with herbs and spices.
Fresh eggplant baked and cooked with onions, tomatoes, and spices.
Fresh mushrooms and green peas cooked with chopped onions, tomatoes and spices.
Homemade farmer cheese and fresh green peas cooked with herbs.
Fresh cut vegetable cooked with creamy sauce almonds, nuts and raisins.
Grinded vegetables and paneer then cooked with creamy sauce.
Fresh spinach cooked with herbs and spices with homemade cheese cubes.
Fresh spinach cooked with herbs, spices and potatoes.
Spicy garbanzo beans.
Lentils delicately spiced and sauteed with ginger and garlic.
Fresh cut okra cooked with chopped onions, tomatoes and spices.
Fresh green peas and potatoes cooked with chopped onions, tomatoes and spices.
Homemade paneer in creamy tomato sauce.
Fresh cut vegetable and cheese cooked with herbs and spices.
Fresh cut mixed vegetables cook in coconut milk.
Fresh mixed vegetables cooked with spices, apricots and potato straws.
Fresh spinach cooked with lentil.
Chicken cooked in mango.
Chicken cooked in hot spicy sauce with fresh potatoes.
Chicken cooked in coconut sauce and spices with lentils.
Clay oven roasted chicken in creamy sauce.
Strips of tandoori chicken cooked in a mild creamy sauce.
Chicken in a moderately mild creamy sauce with nuts.
Tender chicken cooked with spices and mushrooms.
Chicken cooked with deliciously spiced creamed spinach.
Tender chicken cooked with a potpourri of chopped assorted vegetables.
A North Indian preparation of hot chicken curry.
Chicken cooked with hydrabadi masala, apricots and potato straws.
An old favorite, diced chicken cooked with armoatic spices.
Clay oven roasted chicken cooked in butter source with spinach.
Classic lamb curry with garlic, ginger and onion gravy sauce.
Cubes of lamb cooked Hydrabadi masala with apricot and potato straws.
Lamb simmered in coconut milk.
A Noth India preparation of hot lamb curry
Lamb cooked with delicious spiced creamed spinach.
Lamb cooked with fresh potatoes and spicy hot source.
Lamb cooked in mildly spiced cream sauce with nuts.
Clay oven roasted lamb cubes in a creamy sauce.
Tender lamb pieces pan fried with a potpourri of chopped assorted vegetable.
Clay oven roasted boti with creamy spinach.
Chicken marinated in yogurt, ginger, and garlic, and barbecued in a clay oven.
Boneless cubed breast of chicken, marinated and roasted in our clay oven.
Succulent cubed leg of lamb, marinated and roasted in the clay oven.
Jumbo prawns marinated in yogurt and spices then roasted in the clay oven.
Fresh fish marinated in special spices and cooked in clay oven.
Minced lamb mixed with herbs and spices, then cooked in clay oven.
Assorted clay oven specialties.
Free range, natural rack of lamb marinated in Clay Oven's signature recipe of yogurt Indian spices.
Prawns cooked with stir fried onions and ginger.
Prawns cooked with fresh potatoes, and hot spicy sauce.
Prawns cooked in deliciously spiced creamed spinach.
Clay oven roasted prawns in a mild cream sauce.
Prawns cooked with spices and mushrooms.
Prawns cooked with a potpourri of assorted vegetables.
Prawns cooked in a moderately spiced cream sauce.
King prawns cooked with coconut milk and spices.
Fresh fish cooked with stir fired onion, tomato and fresh potatoes.
Clay oven roasted fresh fish cooked in an exotic blend of spices.
A Northern Indian preparation of hot fish curry.
Clay oven roasted fresh fish in cream spinach.
Clay Oven roasted fresh fish and prawns with sauce.
Calamari cooked with onions, garlic, ginger and clay oven spices.
Leavened bread baked in clay oven.
Nan stuffed with onion.
Leavened bread stuffed with fresh garlic.
Nan stuffed with nuts, raisins, coconut and cherries.
Nan stuffed with fresh mushrooms, homemade cheese and fresh chilies.
Leavened bread stuffed with minced lamb.
Famous whole wheat bread.
Buttered and multi-layered whole wheat bread.
Whole wheat bread stuffed with spiced potatoes and peas.
Nan stuffed with fresh chili.
Nan stuffed with fresh spinach.
Garlic nan, onion kulcha and plain nan.
Nan stuffed with goat cheese.
Saffron flavored basmati rice garnished with peas.
Saffron flavored basmati rice with vegetables and nuts.
Saffron flavored basmati rice with spiced chicken and nuts.
Saffron flavored basmati rice with spiced lamb and nuts.
Saffron flavored basmati rice with prawns and nuts.
Basmati rice fried with potatoes, eggs, and green peas.
Saffron flavored basmati rice with calamari and nuts.
Papadum, vegetable samosa, riata, tandoori chicken, boti kabab, Chicken tikka masala, saag paneer, nan, rice, and kheer.
Dessert made from basmati rice cooked with sugar, milk and served cold with almonds and pistachio nuts.
Authentic saffron flavored Indian ice cream, enriched with nuts.
Milk dumplings in rose flavored sugar syrup.
Fresh homemade kulfi with mango syrup.
Fresh homemade ice cream with delicious coconut.
Lager 22 ml. Must be 21 to purchase.
Lager 22 ml. Must be 21 to purchase.
Bottle Merlot. Must be 21 to purchase.
Bottle. Must be 21 to purchase.
White wine chardonnay. Must be 21 to purchase.
Special tea from East Himalayan valleys.
A refreshing drink with homemade yogurt and Indian Alfanso mango juice.
A refreshing drink with homemade yogurt.
Gulab Jamum
Fish
At noon time 10/14/24
6/26/24
Restaraunt to ourselves- private party for us
$16.95 Clay Oven Lunch Buffet {1/9/2025}
$16.95 Clay Oven Lunch Buffet {1/9/2025}
a glass of water on a table
$16.95 Clay Oven Lunch Menu {1/9/2025}
Fish Pakora, Bengan Bhartha, Chicken Coconut Curry, Prawns Goa Curry, Hydrabadi Lamb, and Chili Naan
Keema Nan
Eggplant curry, mushrooms in tikka masala sauce, okra, rice, yogurt sauce and plain naan
Tika Masada
Clay Oven Lunch Buffet {12/9/2025}
Yummy dessert
Menu as of 6/26/24
Second round buffet 8/31/24
Delicious dessert, galub jamun!
Nan with buffet lunch 8/13/24
Kheer dessert at the buffet 8/31/24
two people sitting at a table
Deborah S.
Feb 8, 2025
The lunch buffet at Clay Oven on West Portal is a must! Delicious food with a wide tasty variety at a great price! The pakoras and tikka masala are my favs!Friendly, attentive service!Great ambiance with a lively playlist!
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Erin C.
Jan 23, 2025
For 17 bucks, this buffet is a fantastic deal. That's like the price of a plate of food anywhere in SF these days. They had a fantastic range of food from butter chicken to goat curry and dal. Each dish was so good omg. And the KHEER! It might just be the best one I've had. Defs will be coming back. Thank you Clay Oven for your kind and friendly service too !
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Christy V.
Jan 10, 2025
My first time here and we loved it. $16.95 for ACYE Indian food buffet is a deal. No time limit. I think they end at 2:00-2:30pm. They also had a really good rice pudding dessert. FYI: The drinks are not free but it's good. I had mango lassi and chai tea. Service is great and they constantly make sure to refill the buffet table constantly. They also take the plate from your table when done with the first plate. I had only two round as my friend had 3 round. I got filled up with the chai tea and mango lassi lol. Overall very enjoyable meal and I would definitely recommend. Also keep in mind it isn't the best Indian food in SF but it is the best Indian buffet food for the price. My favorite was the chicken masala, goat, palak/sage paneer, naan bread and to finish it off the rice pudding. I will definitely be back- bang for your buck which is hard nowadays after covid and prices for everything has gone up.
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Rebecca C.
Nov 24, 2024
I've been here a couple times for their lunch buffet. For $16.99 they offer plenty of dishes to choose from including fish pakora, rice, saag paneer, chicken tiki masala, goat curry, a lentil curry, tandoori chicken, and the rice pudding for dessert. The naan is brought to the table and you can order as many refills as you'd like. The dishes have great flavor. I noticed everything is made in small batches so the food is fresh. The staff is very friendly and the ambiance is nice. The parking can be a challenge since it's only street parking. This location (Portola) only offers the lunch buffet not the Clement location.
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Elaine Y.
Aug 31, 2024
Here I am again, on a Saturday around 12:45 pm for the Buffet!!! I was really happy to see the buffet back at Clay Oven for only $16.99. And I'm not the only one. During my lunch, customers were trickling in and it was nice to see this place busy again. The buffet corner had the following:Garden salad with 3 types of dressingsVegetable kormaChana masala DalPaneer *Goat curry * Chicken Makhini *Tandori ChickenFish PakoraSomosasand kheer (rice pudding) *plus Garlic naan and water will be delivered to your table.The buffet is pretty good, with a good variety of curries and vegetables.My favorites are the ones with * The staff are ready to fill up the pots when needed. Overall, a great lunch to be had at our favorite local Indian restaurant.
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Rita T.
Feb 6, 2025
Always pass by this spot but never stepped in until I saw they have a lunch buffet. My dad loves Indian buffet for lunch, but I don't look forward to it because it's usually heavy and buffet restaurants have been on the dirtier side. On the contrary, Clay Oven had both clean food and a pleasant dining experience. I had the fish pakora, saag paneer, and daal to keep it light for lunch, and all dishes were flavorful and clean (not heavy or greasy). Loved the thinner naan and sweet rice dessert. I was also pleasantly surprised with easy parking on a weekday and to see the restaurant, buffet, and restroom were all very clean. We will definitely be back!
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Nicole W.
Nov 23, 2024
Ordered takeout on a rainy day of mulligatawny soup and chicken saag. Both were so tasty and delicious! I went in to pickup my order and it wasn't ready yet so they offered me a cup of chai while I waited. Everyone who works here is so incredibly kind.
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Monet Y.
Oct 9, 2024
I called one of their locations on Clement Street in Richmond district about lunch buffet. I was told the one in West Portal has it. The food was delicious. Tandoori chicken is my favorite. Naan was fresh and soft. Parking was easy.Before I left, there were two pieces of tandoori chicken that I couldn't finish. The waiter was very nice to let me box them and bring home. I know I'm not supposed to take food to go since it's buffet. But I didn't want to waste it.
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Mark F.
Jan 30, 2025
Great lunchtime buffet with wide variety of protein and veggie dishes.. Haven't been there for dinner but I'm sure it's even better.
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Eric R.
Feb 27, 2025
Great amazing food and service. Highly recommend for date night with your spouse! My wife and I love coming here. They never fail!! If you like lamb, you will love their Lamb Tikka Masala with garlic naan bread. Hands down the best in town in my opinion!
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