Natraj Indian Cuisine - Culpeper

It was a buffet day, and I must admit it was a bit disappointing. This is the second time I've eaten there, and it was common. Nothing amazing.

We were frequently on town and had passed by the restaurant a number of times. We saw they had a lunch buffet listed and wanted to give it a try one weekend.One Saturday we made the drive for lunch. We went in, sat down, and waited a few moments before the server came over. We said we wanted to go with the lunch buffet. At that point the server said they didn 't do the lunch buffet except on Sundays. It wasn 't 100% clear why, but the menus on the outside windows as well as in the table menu both said lunch buffet, Tuesday Sunday .We decided we 'd give it a try and order off the menu. I had the lamb rogan josh and my wife had the tandoori chicken with a side of the cheese naan. The naan was quite nice. Fluffy and flavorful. The lamb rogan josh was ok. I went medium spicy, which was a good choice. The sauce was quite thin and the lamb was in very small pieces. Definitely a lot more sauce than meat.The tandoori chicken smelled lovely on the hot plate. A decent amount of chicken, though the seasoning also seems to be lacking a little.We probably wouldn 't go out of our way, though I 'm curious to see how the buffet is.

CAUTION : this restaurant used to be AMAZING but now they are stretching their once velvety, delicious Butter Chicken/Tikka Masala sauce with water to make it go further and also using small shreds of chicken/skin/gristle instead of chunks of tandoori smoked chicken like they used to. To describe it best would be a thin curry scented soup slop with chicken shreds and bone/gristle mixed in it, absolutely disappointing. I understand that during shortages it was rough for restaurants but now that things have returned to lower cost baselines, they are still charging the same for horrible quality Indian food and pocketing the extra profit. I thought it may have been a one off occupancy so we tried takeout once and once in restaurant and nope, consistently bad. I’d steer clear until there’s a change in either practices or ownership, I know for sure they won’t get another dime of my money.

Nice little place with very good food. Pretty reasonable prices as well.

I've had Indian food from TONS of places in multiple states and this is by far consistently the best!!!