Website: www.khanakhazanaca.com
Cuisine type: Indian
Atmosphere: casual cafe style seating, limited buffet
Meal: dinner
Overall score: 7.1
Nina
Khana Khazana is one of the many small strip-mall restaurants so prevalent in the South Bay, but it so happened that it was convenient place to stop for a quick weeknight dinner on this particular day, with a nice Groupon Now deal to go along with it. As it often happens when we have these types of deals for small restaurants, we have a hard time meeting the minimum spend between the two of us. Khana Khazana had a modest buffet on display for really quick grab-and-go meals, but also a much more comprehensive menu with a wide variety of ingredients and preparations.
We ordered a meal with three curries (chicken, chickpea and paneer) with roti and chilli chicken (a Chinese Indian fusion dish), carrot pudding for dessert, and also goat curry to go. While the curries were good but not spectacular, the chilli chicken was delicious, with a good balance between sharp spice, rich flavor and moist chunks of meat. The pudding was a little too sweet for me (which is rare), but that’s not really unusual for Indian dessert from my previous experience.
Overall, this place is a reasonable choice for a quick meal in a clean and cozy cafe setting. However, due to the prevalence of small restaurants like this in the area and to the lukewarm enthusiasm I feel about their food, I wouldn’t go too far out of my way to go back.
We ordered a meal with three curries (chicken, chickpea and paneer) with roti and chilli chicken (a Chinese Indian fusion dish), carrot pudding for dessert, and also goat curry to go. While the curries were good but not spectacular, the chilli chicken was delicious, with a good balance between sharp spice, rich flavor and moist chunks of meat. The pudding was a little too sweet for me (which is rare), but that’s not really unusual for Indian dessert from my previous experience.
Overall, this place is a reasonable choice for a quick meal in a clean and cozy cafe setting. However, due to the prevalence of small restaurants like this in the area and to the lukewarm enthusiasm I feel about their food, I wouldn’t go too far out of my way to go back.
Food 7
Drinks n/a
Atmosphere 6
Service 9
Value 8
Drinks n/a
Atmosphere 6
Service 9
Value 8
Ben
An Indian fast food place, with 6 dishes on the bar which can be purchased right away in combinations of 2 or 3. We ordered the combination of three curry dishes (chicken, chickpeas, paneer) with roti, and they were decent. The chili chicken (a fried, Chinese/Indian dish) was flavorful, but the best dish I had was the freshly prepared goat curry. The carrot dessert was also decent. The place is pretty small and narrow, and is really more built to be a take-out stop as they don’t really have any service but a water pitcher and self-serve plates / silverware. The value is decent, and (surprise) the freshly cooked food was a lot better than on the bar. However, for what it is - it is a good quick stop for some decent, low cost and fast indian food.
Food 8
Drinks n/a
Atmosphere 5
Service 5
Value 8
Drinks n/a
Atmosphere 5
Service 5
Value 8
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