Essence of India

Brilliant restaurant
Get takeaway every Friday and have done so for last 13 years
So that says it all!
Owner Raj is very friendly and goes around tables checking how food is with customers
Extremely hard working man

Decided to go all out today and order a massive indian meal for my birthday. I wish I could go back and change that decision. I am so very disappointed with the food I could barely down. I would never order from this place every again after this experience. Beef Vindaloo had barely any beef and instead they filled the container with atleast 4 to 5 massive potatoes. Ordered Chicken Balti and Muglai Murgh which were completely identical even though the photos I have seen of them are completely different. Ordered a Beef Bhindi Kolhapuri dish and there was no sign of the Bhindi so I'm not sure why this dish is called that. Ordered a Dhal and received some kidney beans instead, if you look at the photos of this Dhal Dil Khush dish on their menu you can clearly spot a yellow Dhal dish whereas we got some red bean curry, absolutely not appetizing. Now lets finish this with talking about the Garlic Naan, I have never in my life eaten a worse naan, it was completely burnt all black on the top and bottom. My guests barely touched them. I still have them sitting on my counter and will possibly end up in the bin. If they didn't have some of the ingredients to make some of the dishes I ordered the least the restaurant can do is give me a call to let me know but it wasn't to be. Its really really hard to find a decent curry house these days which delivers the quality their reviews promise. I would stay away from this place in the future.

High quality traditional Indian food in Kinross. Never miss Wednesday buffet. One of the best Indian restaurants to visit.

Best "British Style" Curry in the Northern Suburbs
Highly recommended the Korma, Madras and Vindaloo.
Good quality meat and nice thick sauces.

The food here is so so so good, the staff are lovely and the service is always fantastic. 100% recommend

Best Indian restaurant in Australia. Best owner chef. After serving the food he gives a discount. Food is absolutely delicious. Best Indian.

Used to be the best curry restaurant. This is now the second time an item has been forgotten from my order, one placed in person and one online. Quality of food has declined over the years. Disapointing. We will be finding somewhere else to be our new regular I think. Hopefully they right things as the owner is the loveliest man.

Posting as a delivery driver.

I got an UberEats pick up from this restaurant. The owner asked me to deliver 3 of his private orders and I declined. The owner then declined to give me the UberEats order. I had to cancel the pick up. He was wasting my time and the UberEats customer's time. Very unprofessional chef!

Ordered in menulog and for $26 it was pretty good deal but food was less than pleasing, methi Chaman (ordered hot) had no spice and tasted like canned pumpkin soup, papadams were not sealed and the $5 I payed for the papadams I only received 5 pieces (not good), raita was tasteless aswell, not a good start. Highly recommended Anghiti and curries@ Blvd, This place is average

The meal deal is not for 4 people, there is very little meat in the curries. Our deal came without chips. They didn't want to send the driver out again. Supposed to be a sunday night treat. Never again.

Just ordered a takeaway from this restaurant
The rice has more flavour than the meals ordered.
Definitely wouldn’t order again

Great tasting food and excellent service, you will not be disappointed (and that’s praise indeed from a Pom who loves Indian food!)

We had a Take Away last night following a recommendation from friends. This is the first time in my life that I will throw away a curry. Sorry folks but the Chicken Tika Masala and Chicken Saag were awful. The sauces weren't too bad, but the Chicken? I don't know where you get your chicken from or how long its been pre-cooked in the fridge but I have never had such tough, dry tasteless chicken. We wont be buying from here again - ever, there are so many good curry places in the area and this was our worst experience.

Good local Indian, we’ve tried a few different places and always come back to essence of India.

Tasted like a packet sauce - sugary and runny, a with no falvour.chicken was way to largly cut. Garlic naan tasted fresh.

Previously had a cold takeaway 1.45 hours late that the owner refunded. A few good meals since. Yesterday ordered food 5pm for collection at 6.05, waited until 6: 40, appeared not to have put the order through.
Mild chicken garlic dish too hot to eat. Ordered Meat samosas got vegetable ones. Butler chicken, was chicken breast made with a can of condensed TOMATO SOUP and a blob of cream! Horrible
Dry garlic naan, all in the BIN!
Don’t waste your money, won’t be returning
Deserves 0 stars

Buffet is great the owner Raj is one of the most welcoming and friendly chefs you will ever meet highly recommend dining in over takeaway

After a little confusion at the cash register I was great full that they offered a little discount to rectify. Overall the food was amazing and very well priced. We will definitely be back again. Highly recommend the butter chicken it was unbelievably good.

I’ve had some really lovely curries from here and I’ve had some pretty bad ones on a few occasions too.same dishes but totally different and not in a good way.

Prob won’t be back now to be honest as last one not good again. Shame.

I would highly recommend this restaurant. The owner is so kind and friendly, amazing customer service from him and his staff and fabulous tasty food. We have been coming here for years and have brought family and friends and nobody has been disappointed. Highly recommend you come and try it out!