Curry Express

I can’t vouch for authenticity, but I think the food is really good. For a reasonable price, you get a heaping mound of delicious food. It’s great. Also, they have a ton of vegetable curries and I haven’t had one I didn’t like. (Eggplant and spinach are my favorite). The veg curries rotate around day by day.
The restaurant is super casual, which isn’t always a bad thing when you want a quick, cheap, easy, yet delicious and filling meal.
It’s not five stars because I’ve had some issues with delivery. Whether it’s guiding the delivery guy on the phone for 15 minutes, or me ordering and getting a confirmation, yet my food order never actually gets delivered, I find it easier to go to the actual restaurant sometimes.

I LOVE Curry Express. It’s always delicious, always cheap, always reliable. Definitely the most affordable and tastiest option in the Curry Hill area.

I’ve been to Curry Express on a couple of occasions now, and I’m a fan! Most recently, I shared the three vegetable platter, an order of the vegetable samosas, and the garlic naan with my friend, and everything hit the spot. One platter serves up more than enough food for two people, so between that and the samosas and the naan, we had more than our fill. For the platter, we chose the lentils, the mushrooms, and the palak paneer. The samosas were a great way to start off the meal; the naan a delicious side. And since a side of naan comes with the platters, the garlic was only a $ 1 extra. I definitely plan to return!

The best indish food i’ve ever had:
delicious, low-​priced and big and the service was excellent

Food was a bit bland, but if you get the special you get a large portion.

The food is sometimes excellent, and sometimes very authentic. Too inconsistent. The naan here is probably the worst in the world. I have no idea how you make such bad naan, so I have stopped ordering it.

Went here for lunch with a co-​worker, and it was everything that I could have wanted! The portions were excellent, the service was pretty quick, and the food was tasty. Only reason I can’t give 5 stars was that it was a bit oily, which slightly turns me off from pretty much all Indian restaurant food. I was actually super pleased with the lunch selection– not a full menu, but both veg/​non-​veg options made well with a delicious naan made fresh on the side.

I got curry chicken! Amazing! On my list of cheap NYC eats that serve huge portions!

After discovering my new love for Indian food, I just had to trek down to Little India to grab a quick bite to eat. 26^th to 30^th streets between Lexington and Park Avenues has some of the best (if not THE best) Indian food that the city has to offer. There are so many restaurants to choose from that I found myself bookmarking 3 more places to eat at as I was walking back to school.
I found myself stumbling upon this place after searching for authentic homemade Indian cuisines here on Unilocal.The venue was somewhat hard to find, but in the end, I found myself sitting down and devouring a Chicken Tikka Massala. The service was great and the woman who served me even perked up a smile. The chicken was tender and savory, while the spinich and eggplant complemented the basmati rice well. Overall, I really enjoyed my experience here and I will be returning in the future. Would I recommended this place to a friend? Sure!
* The lunch combo is 2 choices of vegetables with one choice of meat for about $ 10. I didn’t know they served mango lassi because they didn’t list it on their menu board. I was really looking forward to trying it. Next time!

Authentic Indian food for best price. Top 5 percentile of taste amongst Indian food in Manhattan.

Curry Express is an Indian takeaway restaurant with casual seating. I came with a friend on a Friday night for a quick bite to eat. The food is already prepared in a cafeteria-​like style, and you can pick from a big selection of curries, stews, vegetables, rices, etc. They also have a separate section of Indian desserts and treats.
I ordered their veggie combo that includes three vegetarian dishes, rice and naan. That was way more than enough food. The food is good, but I mean, it is a carry-​out restaurant, so the quality isn’t amazing, but it’s good for the price.
Two things that I like about this place are:
1) They cook their naan to order, so we got freshly baked naan with our meals. Yum!
2) Everyone working here is extremely nice and friendly. I made a comment to my friend that I liked «those fried paneer balls», and the next thing I know, one of the guys working there gave me one on the house! That made my day.

This place is easy, quick, and satisfying. There are combo plates you can order that has one main meat entrée with two veggie side and comes with naan and rice. It’s cafeteria style so you see all the food in front of you when you order. We tried the chicken tikka masala with various veggies like the daal, veggie mix, eggplant, and potatoes.
In addition they have awesome mango lassi. It’s really thick and rich so I add a bit of water to make it lighter, which also increases the volume of the amazing goodness that is mango lassi.
In any case, you really have a good selection here including desserts.
The eating area is simple and minimally decorated. There is a flat screen tv that is playing Bollywood movies.
Only complaint is the level of salt in the food. They can do with about half the amount…

I only stopped in for samosas, and while the lady behind the counter was extremely nice, the samosas were only okay. I’m not sure how fresh they were. The filling was also a little bland. This spot seemed decently popular for lunch, however with all the other Indian options in the area, I wouldn’t make it a point to come back here.

SOLID **** — in a city with generally weak Indian. It’s a cafeteria-​style hole in the wall with food dished out from steam table compartments behind the counter, but it was surprisingly delicious.
I had the $ 10.95 special at dinner time: chicken tikka masala, and the counter man let me choose the 2 veg dishes since the ones on the board weren’t in the broad, colorful, fresh-​looking array. I went with vegetable paneer and stewed lentils, and the meal also included rice and plain or garlic naan.
Everything was spot-​on tasty — warmly spiced, well-​cooked and generously portioned. Special kudos for the hot, puffy naan, which glistened with brushes of butter and wafted fresh garlic.
Service at the counter was smiling and friendly.
Basically this place offers the choice of a buffet, but with better quality, fresher tasting food.
Definitely will return.

I have yet to try some of the other express Indian places in the city and can’t authenticate it but this quick-​serve restaurant is outstanding. Perhaps there are better, and there certainly is worse. However, when compared to the general average of what one can receive in Indian food — in sit-​down restaurants, or wherever — there is little better. I have yet to stray from the vegetarian options, but the flavor of each dish is so distinct that I can imagine their meat dishes to be very good as well.
The price is reasonable for lunch, and the service is so quick and on-​point that you can eat/​pay in about fifteen minutes. Also, I’ve never been sick from their food, which is very important amongst the smaller businesses that might lack the health consideration of corporate dining.
The small complaint is that their naan takes a bit of time to come out because they heat it up when you order it – so there’s a delay, especially if you want to eat it with the meal.
There’s apparently an excellent Indian place in Parkchester that is of similar excellence, so I will see how it compares. ..

THIS PLACE is YUMM!
Theres so many options for a quick Indian-​food bite so be brave and try them all! haha! so far I have two down. yay me. The first place I tried was a miss, not very flavorful and expensive for the amount and taste. I ordered pick-​up, veg korma, spinach paneer. There was only one person at the front so it made service a little slow. As I see it, it comes with the culture so I don’t get easily irritated at all. Actually, I was even given a few little extras to make up for the time. Other Yay!
The food was filling, flavorful and enough.
Happy full me.

Curry Impress would be a better curry because I would be more impressed with it.
Curry Express on the other hand was a fairly average Chicken Curry, especially considering we’re in a hotbed of amazing Indian food (NYC). I haven’t had too much great Indian in Manhattan… mostly it’s all in Queens in my experience. Which is limited. This is one of the few curry places in Midtown that was affordable and I can’t lie, I definitely enjoyed it. If it was up in Buffalo it’d be one of the better places. But considering that it’s down in NYC, I can’t give it more than a 4.
It was roughly $ 10 for the curry, the rice was okay, the chicken was good, the sauce was heavy and plentiful, it was lightly spiced and nicely flavoured, but nothing world-​changing like some curries can be. The service was fine and the price was fantastic for Manhattan.
I’d give it another try but not before I’ve tried a lot of other curries in the area, and I’ve already had at least 10 that were much better in NYC, and will be giving most of those 5 stars and reviewing them soon.
And if it was the Curry Empress then it would be a female ruler of India. And she would probably be hot. Because Indian girls in NYC are usually hot. In my experience. Especially Indian girls in Queens. Yes I mean you. There’s only one I could be referring to.

You know you’ve come to the right place when taxi cab drivers are illegally parked outside just to get take-​out. Curry Express is such a place.
I had just gotten off the shuttle from LaGuardia to Grand Central Station and was looking to pick-​up some food on the way back to the hotel.
Again, Unilocal steered me in the right direction. The restaurant isn’t much to look at from the outside or inside. A majority of their business likely comes from take-​out and delivery. Despite of its dive-​y appearance, the food from Curry Express is on point.
For about $ 11, I got a humongous plate of food which included fish curry over rice, saag paneer, a mushroom dish and garlic naan. All the items were delicious and well-​seasoned without being overly salty.
I know there are a lot of Indian options in the area, but Curry Express is hard to beat in terms of overall quality and value. I’ll be back if i”m ever in the area again.

Five star. There’s no way around it.
When you walk into a restaurant and want to know if the cuisine is authentic, look at the patrons. Do the majority match the cuisine? Well then it’s probably authentic and not americanized as much as the other places.
Sure, the interior of this place is rather bland, almost fast food-​ish if not for the TVs and slightly superior-​in-​comfort booth seating along the wall.
As for the price, we’re talking perfect balance. $ 10 dinner, $ 7 lunch style with big portions. The food itself was perfectly spiced. We had the Chicken Tikka Masala dinner plate ($ 9.95) served with rice, a vegetable side (eggplant and potato I believe) with samosas, water and naan. We were both stuffed to the brim and not once did the level of spice overtake the flavor. I almost wished it were spicy (it really wasn’t at all spicy) but the level of flavor that was attained was unquestionable.
A quick $ 10 meal at this restaurant left me Unilocaling to find a similar one back home (Montréal) because I couldn’t stand the idea of not tasting this again until my next trip to NY (I will certainly be back on my next trip!!!).
Seriously though, so damn good.

Totally worth the trip to come here & bookmark this right away — for lunch and or dinner. Everything is extremely cheap, filling and tasteful.
Possibly the best veggie samosas I’ve had – and check this, 2 for $ 2.50. They’re large and in charge with flavour.
Not too crazy about their rice tho.
All their veggie sides are extremely filling and tend to almost taste sweet to me. Deff had a different flare to what I’m used to.
Get a personal pizza pan looking side of Nan for $ 1.50 and you will not be let down, its charred perfectly and the garlic one hits the spot also.
Free water at every table! hoot hoot! don’t forget to watch the bollywood movies and music videos which will make your meal even more entertaining. where do these people get the energy?!