Godavari - East Hartford

I tend to be very critical of Indian food, as I grew up eating South Asian cuisine. Naturally i think my mother's cooking is the best, and everyone else thinks theirs is too (in fact, we are all correct). This place comes close though. Their street food menu is authentic and extremely tasty. Ive only had their chicken biryani but it was so moist and tender (which is a large feat, as biryani is an exhaustive dish to get right). It was so good that i got it twice in one week! Chili chicken was also great, and he manchurian noodles were tasty as well My only complaint is that the dosa we got was not as crispy; however, that could largely have been because we did take out and the dosa sat in a styrofoam bin. Seems like an excuse to go back and try it in person!

Cockroach infected place! Went to this restaurant on 07/09/2022 with my family for their buffet. It was all good untill I found a dead coackroach in their yogurt rice. When I called up the incharge to show the roach, I was told sorry and was given bill to pay. Lol I would never go to this place again and would a suggest anyone not to as well!!

The service and taste was great. However portions are small considering you are paying for an entree not off the lunch menu. Compared to other Indian restaurants I was very disappointed to see 4 tiny kofta entree.

I ordered for delivery and the food was ready in time. I tried malai kofta: medium spicy was great the taste was flavorful but I wish this was creamier garlic naan: this was delicious but also needed more garlic but overall naan was well cooked.

Where do I start. The first time we went for a sit down dinner, the waiter brought over plastic cutlery in a package (like they do for take out) . I asked why we were given plastic when there was regular cutlery on the other tables (which were all empty of patrons) and he said the spoons weren't washed, yet. I asked him to please bring us real cutlery. After that, the food was good and service was good, but there was only us and another party in the restaurant. We went again Sat night and it was fairly busy, real cutlery, but we had to wait an hour for our food to come out. Nobody came at any time to refill water, or apologize for the wait. Food finally came out and it was poor quality. Chicken Tikka Masala had more big hunks of red and green pepper in it than chicken. Garlic naan was burnt in some spots making it bitter tasting. Had to ask for condiments 3 times, One our our party did not get his dinner until the rest of the table had eaten half of our dinners. They should have apologized for the wait and brought out some naan, or something to make us feel like they gave a **** that we were sitting there so long. We will never go back.