Tamashaa

I've been meaning to try this place for awhile and when I saw someone on Insta post their brunch I took it as a sign to head there. Their brunch menu looks divine but we decided on their restaurant menu today. We tried the tostadas and the chili chicken. Both were amazing starts to the meal. Next up we had the squash kofta and the pepper chicken. Both were absolutely delightful. My fave was definitely the kofta. The sweet and savory combo cannot be beat and was the perfect meal for a cold day.Ended with an apple dessert that was sweet and crunchy. All this food was 35 dollars per person which is an amazing deal for the amount and quality of food. I loved this place. I'm already trying to come back here for this brunch menu.

Really good food, like really really good.I need to go back and I just want to note, that this review is based on my last experience at this restaurant which was in the summer of last year. There was no A/C.I do plan to go back soon and I hope to update my rating.

Tamasha did not disappoint, we went there for my husbands birthday, they accommodated us being a bit late too. Food was amazing, special mention to kerala fried chicken, butter chicken, eggplant appetizer and shakargandi chaat. Naan and laccha parantha were decent. Servers are quite friendly and nice. Nice fancy drinks, although they could work on their mocktails they were quite unimpressive and basic. A good birthday celebration and would highly recommend them as it's good worth for money.

Vibrant, colorful and inventive are the vibes that the restaurant was giving me. I had the opportunity to try a little bit of everything on their brunch menu and a few of the signature cocktails. Standouts for me were the: - Margarita w/ Mango Caviar - Green Moong Lentil Chili Pancake - Meat ( Lamb) Martaban w/ Garlic Naan- Gulab Jamun Rabri If you're interested in checking out the three course brunch, it will run you $37 per person and $17 per person to add the bottomless drink option.

I just gotta start off by saying the lamb was SO GOOOODDDD. It was cooked perfectly and the gravy it's served in was so tasty. We finished up our rice just to consume all that gravy! This was by far the star of our meal!Ok, back to the regular pace of a review. I came here on a Tuesday with one other person. There was a good crowd even though it was cold, and that was nice.We got right to ordering food and we're ready to eat!! The waiter strongly suggested the fried cauliflower, which wasn't anything unique or special, but enjoyable for a dish nonetheless. The preserved lemon relish was nice to enjoy with our dishes, not quite as enjoyable with the crisps that accompanied them. The soft shall crab came in a mild coconut curry and was perfectly lovely. As you saw at the start the lamb was SOoooOooo good!We didn't plan on getting cocktails, but their very well printed and drawn cocktail menu caught our attention. The drinks themselves, while pretty, didn't taste as unique as the cocktail descriptions. Would definitely suggest better attention to the mixing and balance of ingredients for drinks here.Service was friendly and pleasant. For the price point and what they seem to want to achieve, I think they could elevate their service to match their intentions. Would come back to discover what other menu items are home runs!

I think this is a relatively new restaurant and the employees were all generally nice, so I feel bad for giving them a less than stellar review, but my experience there was less than stellar, particularly given the price point.First, drinks. They have a pretty cocktail menu that looked interesting, but I read another review on Yelp that said the drinks were just meh, and I was very tired of overly sweet cocktails (I still wasn't over the overpriced sugared drinks from Jose Andres's Bazaar the week before). So I asked if they have a wine and beer list. The server then rattles off the types of wine they have (i.e. pinot noir, etc.) and the beers they have (which were like three). No further description and I didn't want to be annoying and ask for further detail (i.e. what kind of pinot noir or you know, the price). It's one thing to have very generic descriptions at the neighborhood bar where you know the wine is going to be cheap (in both senses of the word), but how do I know they aren't selling Yellowtail for $13 a glass? I'm not saying they are, but like, how would I know? So I didn't get anything.For food, there were four of us (including one vegetarian) and we got two apps and four entrees. The apps were good (crispy okra sweet potato chat and the kale chat), with the kale chat being very similar to the famous Rasika palak chat. For entrees, we got the butter chicken, vegetable biryani, daal, and paneer tikka. The butter chicken was pretty good, the biryani and daal were good, and the paneer was very forgettable. We were stuffed with this amount of food.But honestly, the entrees seemed overpriced for what they were. We ordered mostly vegetarian, and maybe the meat and fish dishes were more special, but I didn't taste anything that justified charging $5 more per dish than some of the other upscale Indian restaurants in DC. And the service was worse, with common utensils not being offered, difficulty getting the waiters attention, etc.

The vibe may be festive here, with Tauba Tauba played multiple times over the course of the night and the full crowd dressed for the occasion, but there was no tamaasha in the kitchen - everything was meticulously assembled across one of the best modern Indian meals I've had in some time.While the cocktail menu is exhaustive and offers such curiosities as a pineapple-infused paan rum beverage, I opted for a simple old monk on the rocks to focus on the food. My favorite dishes of the evening were the ghost pepper chutney, which paired very well with some of the inventive kulchas, and the paneer tikka, which seemed to have some sweetness in the marinade and was superb.I loved the concept of the ghevar chaat. Ghevar is typically a Rajasthani fried sweet served in chashni (which I last had on the streets of Patna), but here they transformed it into a crunchy savory chaat with chole - very creative and true to their goal of serving regional cooking from around India.

The food really lived up to the expectations!! The chicken kulcha was perfect and the spiced apples on the side actually tasted exactly like apple pie filling. Chicken tikka and chicken biryani were cooked very well, would rec this food.Ambiance was great here, gorgeous lighting fixtures and set to dim lighting. Tables had good spaces between them too which I loved!Service was okay, not the best, but enough to have a good meal.But they did provide a birthday dessert with a cute candle. it was tiramisu but I'm not a big fan on that flavor so it wasn't the best in my opinion.

I've had the chance to dine at Tamashaa several times, and it's always been a great experience. Everything from the interior to the thoughtfully designed menu adds to the experience. The drinks are delicious but also presented beautifully. As for the food, I've enjoyed everything I've tried, but their signature lamb biryani is my favorite dish so far.And the service is superb! They make everyone feel very welcome.

A large group of us came to Tamashaa for brunch after an early morning hike. As such, we were hungry and a bit disappointed by the portion sizes, but that was 100% our fault. I would come back to Tamashaa with a bigger budget and a smaller appetite, but the food was exquisite. It wasn't traditional Indian food, so don't come expecting that, but the flavor profile was so phenomenal in every single one of the dishes I tried, even if they were a bit unconventional (e.g. Coconut curry softshell crab, which is reminiscent of Thai food more so than Indian) that I would be back to try more. The appetizers are nicely plated but pretty expensive considering the portion size + type of ingredients you're getting. The entrées were much more worth it. It is pretty expensive, though. I am generally not a fan of places that charge extra for rice or charge per naan (which Tamashaa did -- I might be incorrect in remembering but it was somewhere between $2-4 for ONE NAAN, which is absurd).