Maharaja Palace

We have ordered delivery from here a few times. (One of these days, I’d like to eat in their restaurant!) Every time, the Navratan Korma (veggies with an almond cream sauce) is wonderful. The rice is also fairly good. The Chicken Tikka Masala is reliable, as are the veggie samosa. Others have commented that the portions are too small, but I don’t feel they are any smaller than your average Indian takeout establishment. Naan is okay; sometimes, it does not travel well for takeout (understandably). Paratha is also okay. The best bread, in my opinion, is the roti. Lastly, the mango lassi and Gulab Jamun are also reliably good.

This place is my go-​to for Indian food. Love the Palak Paneer, Navratan Korma, and garlic naan. Consistently delicious, affordable, speedy delivery.
A+, Maharaja Palace.

Delivery was right on time. I ordered the House Special Chicken Curry (Spicy) unfortunately that is all I tasted. It lacked flavor if you know what I mean, all you could taste was the spice. Naan wasn’t up to par either! Maybe I ordered the wrong thing will give it another shot and update!

If speed and quality were separate, I would give Maharaja Palace all 5 stars. Yes, having to wait over an hour for delivery does impact the ratings.
But let’s talk about that food, though. Delicious! It was my first time eating there and I loved it so much, I am writing my first review on Unilocal!Yeah, that good.
Word to the wise: don’t show off and order the spiciest dish if you can’t really handle spice. I thought I could and I paid for it. Get the medium spice level. That way you get the zing of spice and still able to really taste and enjoy the flavor of what you are eating and not just, well, pepper.
Want a nice portion for under $ 20? Buy from the Maharaja specialties.
In conclusion. If you are starving and you only have 40 minutes to eat unless you die, order from someplace else. If you don’t mind waiting, you can get a really delicious meal for around $ 15. When they say really spicy, they really mean really really really spicy.

I was always neutral on Indian food and often enjoyed it, but after ordering here, I crave it! I have an extreme sense of smell and thus taste and I love this food because there are just so many flavors going on! Everything is seasoned very well! I cannot get over the complexity of spices and seasoning, especially for the mixed pickle (drooling just thinking about it). Everything I’ve ordered here is spectacular! I’m a fan of lamb and the Lamb Xaccutti is superb! The Mulligatawny Soup is delicious too! The only complaint I would have is that they should give you more rice. So far I’ve been ordering delivery and no complaints there either.

My friends and I order delivery from this location, and it’s amazing every time. The Maharaja Specials (you may have to scroll to find it) give you a LOT of food. For $ 15, you get some dish over rice, a bunch of naan, and samosas delivered to your door. AMAZING. What a time to be alive.
All of the chicken dishes come with huge chunks of breast meat — it’s really hard to go wrong. My favorites are the Chicken Saag (has chopped up spinach!) and Tandoori Chicken. Don’t get the Chili Chicken if you want curry: it’s just some stir-​fried chicken and peppers — almost like a Chinese dish.

Maharaja is consistently our go to Indian delivery place. Delivery has always been accurate and really fast, which is a huge plus. We usually stick to the basics– chicken tikka, saag masala, palak paneer, etc. I wish they had a wider array of vegetarian dishes (why no malai kofta??), but in a neighborhood with few reliable delivery options, Maharaja never disappoints. I’m knocking one star off because the prices here are definitely higher than similar places in this hood. Two people ordering will put you up to at least $ 40. Most meals are pretty big, though, so leftovers!

I order from this place often. It is really great Indian food! The naan is soft and delicious. The chicken tikka masala and vegetable samosas are my favorite. Take can sometimes take a really long time, but I have never had a problem with the person taking my order over the phone. The wait for delievery gets really long past 6pm but other than that it is worth it.

Very overpriced for just not being that good. We ordered murg madras and chicken vindaloo and they were very similar. Our pudina paratha was scorched on one side.

I trusted these stellar reviews and ordered delivery from here. If you’re reading this and considering doing the same — don’t, just don’t.
Good garlic naan. Everything else was a greasy, soggy, tasteless, sloppy mess.

One of the most delicious Indian restaurants in NYC!

Maharaja Palace is a totally solid Indian restaurant. I actually far prefer the Harlem location to the one in Morningside Heights. Their vegetable entrees are always good, though the quality does vary a bit from time to time (from «alright» to «WOW»). Paneer Makhani is delicious here, as is the Methi Matar Malai (I was a bit skeptical of this dish for whatever reason before I had it, but I was really impressed — it’s a very well-​composed creamy dish full of peas and methi, which are fenugreek leaves used every so often in Indian cuisine). The next time I go or order from this location, I think I’m going to try the Kadai Paneer; I think my willingness to try new things at this restaurant is a testament to how solid my food has been up to this point. It’s the tiniest bit pricey, but again, I definitely think it’s worth it.

Ok, so, someone needs to set the record straight here.
My girlfriend and I have been going to Maharaja Palace for close to TWO YEARS now. Literally, the move is, go to Harlem Winery on 116^th, bring the wine to Maharaja, order delicious food, drink the wine while eating delicious food, leave stuffed and happy, walk up to the Magic Johnson theater on 125^th, watch a movie, go home… I won’t tell you what happens after that. Literally, the same pattern, every weekend, for the past two years.
We keep going back because the service and food are both amazing. Nowhere else in New York do I receive the love and attention that I receive when I go to Maharaja.
It is true, the quality of the food does occasionally vary. I’m not entirely sure, but I think they switch up the chefs from time to time. I also know Maharaja people move around to new locations like the one on Amsterdam. Sometimes the chicken tikka masala is unreal, sometimes its not as stellar.
Sometimes I get an entire lamb in my lamb biryani, sometimes not as much. But the experience of the meal is always amazing.
And when the food IS on point, its on point, like literally the best food I have ever eaten in my entire life, like, I’ll be full, but I won’t stop eating because the taste is so so so so good.
I’ve only ordered take out and delivery a couple of times, both were fine. Sorry that Cali J didn’t get her food on time on a random Wednesday night. Sorry Mariantha got some extra spices in her veggie biryani. But this is a wonderful establishment.
Maharaja Palace is my favorite place to eat in the entire city.
#Maharaja4Lyfe

First, they were rude on the phone. Delivery took 55 mins on a Weds, a few blocks away (10 mins longer than they said). Next, delivery guy was rude. For $ 18.40, the Chicken Tiki Masala had less the 1 ¹⁄₃ cups of chicken (plus rice and naan). Ridiculous. That’s the cost of an entire chicken. Maybe again if I’m desperate.
The food:
Tikka Masala was bland and sweet.
Naan had a weird texture and was sweet, not good.
The worst part — barely any chicken! Certainly not 13.95 worth! This is Harlem, not lower Manhattan.

This restaurant is amazing! A few years ago, i had gone to india and the food was amazing. So when i went to maharaja palace, i felt like i was in india again! The food was so delicious. My favorite dish was the paneer makhni. The way it just melted in your mouth was just indescribable. They always refilled my drink and asked me if i needed anything regardless if i called them or not. The decorations were beautiful to look at (i think some of them were saris). This is a must 5 star restaurant. Hope this helped.

I can only assume that the people who have written such great responses have never eaten Indian food!!! This is by far the very worst Indian food I have ever eaten in my life!!! I’ve been enjoying Indian food for the past 20 years!!! There is nothing good that I can say about the entire visit!
From the Mango lassi, that was too sweet and syrupy to the bland chicken tikka masla to the extremely overly spiced vegetable birani. The meal was a flop!!! When the establishment was notified nothing was offered or done!!! No apologies or deduction in the fee… I was completely amazed by such poor business acumen!!!
I wholeheartedly recommend that no one should attempt to eat here… there are many wonderful Indian restaurants on spice row in Manhattan, please go there!!! I can’t even give them half a star!!! Just completely sad!!!
Mariantha H.

Delicious! Great place to check out. I got take out in a Tuesday evening. They didn’t deliver to 149 so I went to go pick up my food. Staff explained all my questions I had. It’s was the end of the night so it was kinda quiet. I ordered my food and it came out pretty quick and was on my way home post haste.
I heard many great things about the food and they did not disappoint.
I ordered chicken masala. A classic dish. Garlic naan. And a mango lassi. Yum yum yum. It was everything I hoped for! Defiantly check it out for great Indian food!

Pros:
(+) Delivery is FAST!
(+) Delivery guy was nice
(+) Food was super HOT when delivered
Cons:
(-) Requested forks & spoons with my delivery. Didn’t receive any.
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I made my order via GrubHub and was pleasantly surprised how quick my order came. GrubHub said my order would arrive approx 45 min to an hour, but they arrived less than 30 minutes. Not only was it a speedy delivery, but the food was HOT once received. So that’s a plus already in my book. It’s always a bummer to receive delivered food that’s cold or barely warm.
I ordered the tikka masala which was pretty good and satisfied my cravings. Since I have yet to dine in, I can only give my review based on my delivery experience. But I am looking forward to checking this place out in the future.

Don’t get me wrong — the food is good and I’m thankful to have a quality Indian restaurant in my neighborhood. I have ordered lunch delivery quite a few times, from both the Amsterdam and Frederick Douglass locations. I think that the lunch specials are a great value, and I really do love the food. But the dinner take-​out that I ordered last night seemed, well, wrong. There were literally 8 pieces of chicken in my order of Chicken Tikka Masala, and about 9 pieces of lamb in my Lamb Pasanda. There was, to me, a laughable amount of sauce in each of the take-​out containers, which really disguised the fact that there was so little meat in each of them. My serving spoon and I had to search for meat, and I felt I barely received any more meat than I do when I order lunch specials, but it costs $ 5 more than the lunch special. That’s just not ok to me, and not a great value.
While there isn’t anything wrong with the quality of food, I will no longer be frequenting or ordering from this place for dinner, as I feel I could spend the same amount of money at a comparable restaurant and get way more for my money.

This is a real gem. The food is excellent, very fresh, well seasoned. The chef seems to take his/​her time to delicately prepare each appetizer and entrée.
The chicken pakora was divine — not your typical fried dish with grease –this was fried perfectly, you could taste the chickpeas and other spices in the crispy batter, no grease, and the chicken within was cooked perfectly.
Saag Gosht — lamb in a spinach purée with fresh ginger. Very tasty! Lamb was very tender.
Lamb Xaccutti — lamb in coconut curry sauce. Normally I find that dishes cooked in coconut and curry are too cloying for my palate. Not so with this dish. There was a delicate balance between the coconut and curry leaves. Not heavy, a light and spicy stew. Very delicious.
We ordered the lemon rice to accompany the lamb. It was good, but I couldn’t really taste the lemon, but perhaps it was overwhelmed by the lamb dishes. I should have tasted the rice on it’s own before I tasted the lamb.
The naan with cheese was yummy.
The chairs are very comfortable, I should have asked why type of wood they are made from, the grain was beautiful and interesting.