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| - Nothing would make me happier than finding good Indian food in the Phoenix area. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened yet.
We started off our meal with two kinds of naan - one stuffed with lamb and one stuffed with chicken. The lamb naan was very mediocre - the meat inside was completely dry and not very flavorful. The chicken naan didn't seem to have any chicken in it, so I'm not sure what happened there.
We ordered our entrees and were asked if we wanted rice with them. We said yes, but when our check came out we discovered that they charged us $2 per person for rice. Seriously, two bucks each for a little thing of rice with our entrees. $2 could've bought each of us a 5-pound bag of rice at the grocery store. Also, it would have been nice if they had mentioned to us that we would be charged for the rice. But I can't stop wondering why they charged at all for rice - every Indian place I've ever been to just brings rice out with the entree. So this pissed me off, and I would've given Royal Taj 3 stars if they hadn't charged us for rice.
The entrees themselves were alright, I'd say very average as far as Indian food goes. They were flavorful and the spice level was about where I expected it to be, but I've definitely had better Indian food before (not anywhere in the Phoenix area though).
When we were done with our entrees, we ordered some Indian coffee. About 10-15 minutes passed with no sign of our coffee. Then, they brought us our check which had the Indian coffee on it. We waited for our server to walk by so we could mention we never got the coffee, and after another 5-10 minutes, our server finally came by and brought us the coffee. This was kind of upsetting.
Also, not that this has any effect on my rating of Royal Taj, but we had a lot of difficulty communicating with our server and the rest of the restaurant staff. It didn't seem like anyone spoke English very well - when we asked for something, we received a confused look and then the person walked away. This made our experience more difficult.
Overall, I'd say Royal Taj is overpriced and the food is just very average (at best). Time to continue the never-ending search for good Indian food.
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