Mother India Cuisine

I'll warn you ahead of time, this place is kind of an odd experience. You aren't greeted like you are walking into a Jamba Juice or Starbucks. I kind of waited around until someone came up to take my order. There isn't really an ambiance, and there isn't any dine in. There was some hints of maybe construction was going on, and maybe upgrades are in the future.All that to say, the food was awesome and the prices were reasonable. And that gets a 5 from me. Recommended.

This is an update to my prior review of Mother India in Ceres, CA. First, let me state that every time I have been there it is a delight. The sights, smells of the food being prepared, the desserts that cause me to gain pounds just looking at them, the friendliness of the people. Definitely our "go to" take out Indian place to get the food we have come to love. CAVEAT - do NOT use GrubHub! Our last two attempts to order through them has caused us to be told that our order was in, then about an hour later, we are told that it was cancelled due to a problem at GrubHub's end. GH is nice about it, and always send a $5 off for next order but, let's face it, they are simply not ready for prime time. Both of the last two times this has happened, has resulted in an inconvenience for us as we had our afternoon and evening scheduled and picking up dinner reasonably close to the desired time was part of the plan. Now, that said, the wonderful folks at Mother India were able to roll with it both times and we found that we can either call them direct (209-566-8020) or drive there and order, getting our takeout with in 15-20 mins, giving this local business 100% of the payment rather than making them split it with GrubHub. Mother India YES, GrubHub NO. Win-win!

This is an amendment to my previous review. Today I called to place an order, and since GrubHub was offering a 35% discount, I decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, I completely forgot how fast GrubHub can screw up an order. After placing the order online, I realized that I didn't need it as fast as the default setting was going to have it delivered, so I called Mother India only to get a person on the line who seemed not to have any idea what I was talking about, (asking my name three times). He then handed the phone to someone whose only response was "Call GrubHub" and he hung up.Before I could do that, I got the following text: Dave hey friend, since no one local was willing to accept the delivery for your order, during this rush/peak hour for a long-distance delivery, I ended up accepting it. I drove from Ripon to Ceres to come pick up your order. They just handed me order. Omw to you to Modesto. To which I asked "Who is this?" not realizing it was the driver. His next message was "Almost there, five more minutes of driving" Then I got the following message, "Hi, Grubhub here. We're sorry but something went wrong & we had to cancel your Mother India Cuisine order. We've refunded your order & sent an email with additional details."It seems that an nearby street was closed but three others led right to my house. I know we older folks like to say "this generation as a rule are not problem solvers," mostly because it is true. He couldn't figure out how to go one street over and complete the delivery. My response to GrubHub was: "What went wrong was that your driver couldn't figure out how to navigate a closed street. When your rep called, I let her listen to all the cars and trucks passing by my house. Your driver just blew a $20 tip." I even offered to send pictures of them as they drove by. I texted back to the driver, "I am out front." Then, "GrubHub said you told them that you couldn't get here, funny, I let them listen to all the cars and trucks going right by my house when they called. I was holding a $20 tip for you when you arrived. You are quite a businessman."By the way, the "35% discount" was $10 on $73.36, which is NOT 35%.I will call and replace the order directly and pick it up. Why miss out on good Indian Food because GrubHub can't deliver? GrubHub in the future? You can keep your $5 nuisance credit.

Love this place. Yes I go too many times per month but that's because it's close to my job, the food is nice n quick. Tasty and affordable. Their garlic Naan is awesome and I love their samosas with garbanzo beans on top! I tend to order the potato and cauliflower dish with vegetable biyrani. I'm a vegetarian so I cannot help out with the meat dishes but I've tried most of the non-meat items. Oh and their portions are bug enough to have leftovers for a day or two depending on your order. It's a great little spot off Mitchell. Since I've been going it's a pickup your order kind of place meaning there isn't a restaurant area to sit n eat. And that's ok because I just take my lunch back to work and eat at my desk. Usually I order for pick up through Doordash. Only once did I have to wait.

We went back today to try the Tandoori Chicken. Had the yellow lentils and wife loved that, plus vegetable Samosas, rice and Naan.Changing my past review to five stars..... that sauce and onions on the Tandoori chicken was amazing. I now have a favorite dish and next time will just get the tandoori, rice and Naan. Wife lived the lentils and agreed on the chicken, what a great find, I can't wait to come back to this place. They where super busy with people waiting for their to go food and the service was better than last time. Forgot to take the pic I was so looking forward to it and did not last long once we got home as it smelled so good.

My son had a craving for garlic naan and had been here before, a while ago, so we ordered to go since their dinning room is closed. It is located in a strip mall by several other restaurants, but is strictly a take out location at this point. We ordered the spinach paneer, butter chicken, chicken curry, chicken tikka masala and a chicken and rice dish that the name escapes me at the moment. Anyway between the two of us our bill was over $80. The portions were extremely small, maybe 8oz. with very little chicken. They were mostly sauce. The chicken curry had five small pieces and that was it. The food was delicious but we are all waking up with extremely bad stomach aches. We have never had this experience from other Indian restaurants and if it was just me, I wouldn't be writing this but my whole family has an issue except my one son that didn't eat any of it.

6/19/24My day started with me rushing out the door and forgetting my leftovers/lunch.It was 12:30pm my usual pangs for lunch started getting louder and louder. Great. Just great. I look through my desk and all I find is a dried out cookie, crumbs and oatmeal. I decided to order delivery. I wanted indian food.I ordered from a place close by since Mother India Cuisine is in Ceres and I did not want to trouble the driver with such a distance!.. I ordered from a nearby indian restaurant. 20 min after I ordered I received a cancellation notice of my order. Put a damper on my day...That was disappointing. But then realize that their may be hope and brightness at the end of the tunnel!So I go back to Yelp and decided to try my favorite Mother India Cuisine...even if its far away... I would make it worth it for the driver. I order my go to food and say a prayer to make sure its deliverable to my address. It is!My order goes through. 30 minutes later I receive it. Hot, accurate...delicious!!! I take my first bite and my eyes roll back.Mother India Cuisine thank you!You always come through!And a side note to those that order from their favorite restaurant and its far--- tip well...at least 20%.One of these days I will eat at the restaurant. I have never been inside the restaurant...but if its anything like the quality I recive from take out I am sure the eat in will be phenomenal!what is my typical delivery order:Tandoori Chicken - I save this for dinner.Garlic Naan - gotta have this! its a requirement!Tadka Dal - its a yellow lentils, perfectly paired with riceAloo Gobi - delicious curry of potatoes and cauliflower, nice and spicyRice - I believe there is little bits of cumin in this...I love it!Samosa - I believe the samosa comes with two little containers of a dipping sauce..the green stuff is my favorite. I would order extra but I am not sure what its called.If I were to offer one suggestion to the restaurant is to make a better description of their entrees. I have built by ordering items from trial and error. These are my favorite. If a description and pic was available I would order more often and try new things.

Hands down the best Indian food Ive ever tried. I highly recommend the butter chicken, white rice and tandori chicken spicy with some garlic nan. Service is good, the place is very small, I recommend phone order and taking out.

Always order from here DoorDash it's usually amazing. However tonight the chicken pakora was raw.

It's kinda funny looking but the food is great tbhSpicy buttery chicken is great The service is great also.