Bombay Cuisine - Grand Rapods

Great indian food. Good quality and quantity. Rogan Josh is a must try. Variety of vegetarian dishes available.

I've always had mixed feelings about Bombay Cuisine. Bombay has some great reviews, and their food is good, but as someone who has traveled around and eaten a lot of spicy food, it does feel like Bombay caters to individuals with a midwest palette. If you are a spice champion and ask for spice, expect the food to be mild, at most. If you dislike spice, and are looking to venture into Indian food, this is a great place to start. I'm curious as to what region in India the owners are from because the dishes are different than what one would expect. I taste a lot of ginger and sweetness and not too much spice or tanginess in their dishes. Although there are Indian restaurants in Grand Rapids that I would say might be better, Bombay Cuisine holds a space in my heart. Growing up in Grand Rapids, there was never any accessible south Asian food the food at Bombay was one of my first experiences with Indian food, which is now my favorite cuisine. As someone who has gotten older, traveled quite a bit and eaten quite a lot of Indian food, Bombay still holds a space in my heart because it feels like home in a way. I also think it's super cool that they have merged with East West brewing you don't have many chances to grab a craft beer and eat Indian food in the same sitting, so I love it!

Used to go here a lot when I lived in GR. It was my wife’s birthday and I ordered online for pickup at the restaurant. I wanted to heat it up the next day for her birthday dinner. I was missing an entree and the chutney. I called and they couldn’t refund me as they said I needed to contact door dash. I filled out the “problem with your order” link at the bottom of my confirmation email and never heard anything.My wife ate one of the entrees and I ate the other and she ended up with a very bad case of food poisoning. Basically the opposite of what I was intending for her birthday dinner. I had to throw out all of the leftovers. The following week I stopped into Bombay Cuisine to tell them about the food poisoning and to see if I could get a refund for my missing items. They said that it wasn’t possible that she got food poisoning from their food and that I couldn’t get a refund for my missing items. Not even offering to just take cash out of the register to make it right. They essentially told me that they didn’t have my money and door dash did. Unfortunately they’ve lost me as a customer.

Our party of three were disappointed in every way, except for our server, who was pleasant and attentive. Several tables were dirty and not cleaned the whole time we were there. The appetizer sampler consisted of 3 onion bhajia, 3 vegetable pakora and one large samosa. The bhajia and pakora were doughy. Someone else described them as hush puppies, which is apt. The samosa had a bland vegetable filling and a fried crust more like a pastry crust. The tamarind and coriander chutneys were watery and not at all spicy. My saag paneer was very thick with few cubes of paneer. The Korma Kasmiri and Murg Nariyali were both flavorless. After the meal, we were informed we could have asked for more spice, which was definitely needed. The garlic naan was pretty good. Overall, we wished we had gone anywhere else and can't understand the good reviews.

Wow. I went here about 2 months ago and have been obsessed since. The appetizers are so good, and the bread is amazing. Best Indian food I ever had. The staff is very nice too. Please go here.