Given the great reviews, I was very surprised by the tasteless food I had from Mantra. I had a takeout order of chicken biryani, chicken saag, garlic naan, and kheer. Everything was so bland to me. Though there was a hint of spice, the food didn't have the complex mix of flavors you expect from Indian food. The rice was also awful. It tasted like long grain white rice that would be served in a bad college dorm cafeteria - it wasn't the usual fragrant basmati rice and it was hard too.
There was plenty of tender chicken in the saag and biryani but again, it was somewhat tasteless and the biryani wasn't very flavorful. The kheer was a sickly sweet soup with that same awful hard rice and had the consistency of syrup. The naan was probably the only decent part of the entire order. Two stars since the food didn't make us sick but it didn't taste good at all.