Nagina Palace

Great food! Try the butter chicken, chicken tiki masala or the chicken curry, if you have never had Indian food before. These dishes are favorites of mine.Pair with any of the naan. Select a few sweets to enjoy as well for desert.

Double check your pick up orders, they constantly "forget" to put items we ordered in our bag and when you go back they said "the cooks forgot it". Especially with DoorDash and Uber orders.

We ordered eggplant, chicken, okra, naan, and keena (naan with lamb inside). Food was really tasty and they include a lot more pieces of chicken and veggies than what I'm used to at some of the other Indian restaurants. Definitely a plus. The only dish that was a bit disappointing was the keena (naan with minced lamb ).They can definitely benefit from hiring someone who speaks better English and knows what eggplant is (since it's on the menu). It was really difficult ordering over the phone. Just feels like staff was not the most efficient, and improvement to that could dramatically improve customer experience.

Ordered food for dinner. Everything was tasting awesome until we found a bug in our Butter Chicken. Lost our appetite.

This is an update to my prior review seen above. Yesterday, (12-30-2023) I called Nagina Palace as two members of our family wanted to try an Indian food NYE. As NP is on our way from Modesto to the other member's home, it seemed an easy fix. I called the place and had some difficulty with the person who picked up the phone. She didn't seem to understand that I wanted to give (and pay for) our order the day before. After going back and forth a few times, it became apparent that this was going nowhere, so I told her I would call back today (the 31st). Unfortunately for NP, that gave me time and motivation to look around, and after consulting Yelp, we decided on another place, Mother India in Ceres. I successfully ordered and will see how things work when we pick it up later today. Fingers crossed.

This restaurant came highly recommended, but I was extremely disappointed. Apparently it's under new ownership. The restaurant was extremely hot and the service was very poor and the food was just ok. Not going back.

The food has always been good here and service under new management is subpar.I put my to go order online to avoid waiting but when I got to the restaurant, my husband was told that it would be 30 minutes. An hour later the food was finally brought out. We repeatedly asked for the food and kept being told it would be "soon".We took the food home only to find out that it was all cold. I don't understand how it wasn't piping hot if we waited an hour for it to get made. It should have been fresh!The garlic naan was hard and not soft. Samosas were cold and soggy.

I asked one worker what she really likes in the non-vegetarian section (not necessarily what most customers order) and she recommended the Butter Chicken.It was super rich(!) and buttery, as expected. Almost too rich, but still real good. Chicken was juicy unlike other places.. nice I think they used dark meat too instead of only white meat. She convinced me to get medium spicy since the hotter level would be too much, but if you're a spice lover then you could do it. Medium had a tingle but wasn't overboard.Mixed vegetables had cauliflower, snow peas, zucchini, carrots, peas, onions in a light curry seasoning. Though most of the veg seemed from a frozen bag, but still good if you're looking for a "lighter" non-meat side. Note it supposedly comes with cheese too, even though the menu description fails to mention that, but I opted out and it wasnt missed.Not sure if it's a 4.5 or 5, but it sure was tasty

This is my second time eating at Nagina Palace and it was delicious! The restaurant is very spacious with plenty of seating and the service is friendly. We ordered Paneer Puri, garlic + regular Naan, Basmati rice, chicken Tikka Masala, mango Lassi and Gulab Jamun. Everything came out fresh and had great flavor. I usually travel to the Bay Area for good, authentic Indian food, but am happy I will not be needing to travel far any longer.

Delicious with a capital D! The food was amazing and the staff was courteous and helpful. Preet at the front went through each item on the outstanding buffet explaining what each one was. JMO; don't miss the goat curry, it was the best tasting entree on the buffet! Best thing; the to-go desserts at the door! This little gem is worth the drive