Dhaba India

The atmosphere service and food was out of this world! This was probably my best overall restaurant experience in Tokyo and the standards in this city are HIGH!!! Please please please go n check it out! OMG! The food is so authentic n flavourful! I loved it!

Had the chicken masala and mutton curry, coconut naan and cheese kulcha.
All were excellent. Highly recommend a visit and the coconut naan and chicken nasal were the highlights.
The restaurant has a lovely atmosphere and lots of space.
When we showed up the line was about 6 people deep outside but it moved very quickly.

Wanted to have indian food in tokyo. It was 10 min walk from metropolitan marunouchi hotel. we had to wait about 10 min. Had chicken tandori, mutton biryani, muung daal fry, harloc naan and chief’s chicken curry. Every item was well made and delicious, we really enjoyed the meal.

I chose the most spicy one, but it’s too spicy for me. What I am disappointed a little is not getting another nun for free.

I believe this is the BEST Indian restaurant in Tokyo.
I recommend you to visit for dinner to enjoy this restaurant.

My favorite biryani place

This place has very high reviews for some reason. Its a decent Indian place but not better than MOTI. The curries were sometimes bland, and quite «watery». The nan however was very tasty and the soups were ok. The best curry on the lunch special (3 curries) was muttom keema which was the most spicy compared to the others.

Highly recommended Indian food in Tokyo!
I came on a one week visit to Tokyo and Osaka with my husband and had a hard time finding good vegetarian food. This place was a God-​send! The lunch thali for vegetarians has a vegetarian curry (dhal), sambhar, poriyal and rasam with Japanese rice and bhattura. The food was very authentic and was made fresh. We loved it. The place was full with local Japanese crowd (which is always a good sign) and a few Indian visitors. They have both North Indian and South Indian chefs who will step out of the kitchen to take orders from Indian customers.
Update: we had their dinner thali which is more expensive than the lunch thali and absolutely loved it. If you want to have Indian food in Tokyo, go here — don’t look further.

The lunch lines here are ridiculously long.

I had the Madura lamb korma, with garlic naan. Stopped in for lunch before catching the train back to Narita. The place opens at noon, and when I walked in at five after, every table was taken, with only a few open seats along the bar. When I walked out at 1230, there was a line out the door. Back to the food… The garlic naan was fantastic — Just the right amount of toasty/​char, but still soft enough to soak up the curry juice. The lamb was a little chewy/​gristly, but had nice flavor. The sauce itself was very mild and delicate. It had whole chilis, that actually I thought was a green bean-​pleasant surprise! If you’re near Tokyo station or Kyobashi and want some indian, I definitely recommend.

I rarely ever write reviews but I’m hoping the owner sees this because my Japanese is awful. I ordered the signature chicken curry and coconut naan. Great naan bread, nice chew. The curry had excellent flavor. I’ve ordered chicken curry at least 50 times, no lie. But this chicken curry had little tiny pieces of bone shards throughout the entire dish. As a trained chef myself this happened for one of two reasons. Dull knife or bad butchering. I spent the entire meal putting my fingers up to my mouth to remove bone on every other bite, not a good experience. This cannot happen as it could cause choking or a cracked tooth like I almost had. I really wanted to like this place because the flavors are really on point but the execution was terrible. Don’t avoid this place but chew carefully, seriously.

Place should be given a negative star. We showed up at the door 1minute after closing. Was ask to sit and then they said sorry kitchen is closed. What sort of a treatment is this? This is Japan not Europe. Rudeness is not an option. Food is good but Japanese waiters are programmed to rude???
Place should go out of business.

My favorite lunch spot when in Kyobashi. Love this place. Great flavors, nice heat, fantastic aromas. The bhatura is a divine bit of chewy goodness. The curries offered with the lunch sets change regularly so I don’t feel bad eating here two days in a row at all! Great find. If you’re in the area and are craving Indian, this is the place to go.

I was in Tokyo for a week and had a random craving for Indian.
I wondered across this place one day and decided to give it a try. To be honest, I didn’t have high expectations but I was blown away!
Coconut naan! Chicken Masala! Tandori Chicken!
All amazing!
While the prices are not as cheap as ramen places closeby, the quality here is top notch.
Until next time!

I’m simply here to cooperate what other posters have said. I have traveled to every major city in the US (and a few very small ones) and several countries. Dhaba India is hands down the best Indian food I have had excluding the home cooked meal I had by a lovely Indian couple during my stay in the middle east. I tried the Chicken Tikka and it is melt in your mouth moist. I would even go so far as to say that it was one of the best chicken dishes I have ever had. I was in Tokyo on business for a week and while I love trying a selection of food when going to a new city I had to fight the urge to go back even though it goes against my rule. The staff was friendly and quite attentive.

Wonderful food, I highly recommend this restaurant. I read Bevi K’s review and she is right, we had the lamb kebab, chicken Tikka kebab, coconut naan, shrimp & baby scallop curry and chicken Masada with the lime soda. We found ourselves giddy from how great everything tasted. We ended up ordering another coconut naan just to mop up the wonderful sauces. I was going to give only 4 stars because the place is small and we ended up eating on a side table but can’t. My total bill was just under $ 70 canadian and for two of us to eat ourselves into near exploding with awesome food in Tokyo, it is very reasonable. Will try and go back again before I leave tokyo.

As someone who was born in India, I’ve had my share of Indian Food. I live in California, one of the biggest Indian hubs, and again, I get to eat at a lot of Indian Restaurants, so it was the biggest surprise that one of the BEST Indian food I’ve ever had was at Dhaba in Japan! I don’t use best very lightly.
Dhaba is a small restaurant close to Tokyo Station and the taste is out of this world. Started with the Chicken Tikka, which was flavorful, moist and bursting with flavor. Also got the fresh lime soda which was on point, right from the streets of India. They have coconut naan here, which is stellar. The prawn curry was great and so was the chicken.
This place was so good that we ended up coming back even though our stay in Japan was short. If I’m ever in Japan, this will be on my list to visit!

No matter where you are from (other than India itself, perhaps), this will be some of the best Indian food you’ve ever had. I’ve had Indian food from coast-​to-​coast in the United States, I’ve had it in Germany, Tobago, and Japan previously, and Dhaba India is near, if not at, the top of the heap.
We came in for lunch on a Sunday, and there was about a 15-​minute wait out the door; usually an indication of something special. Upon entering the smell hit us, the proper «Indian Cuisine» smell that lets you know there’s some Garam Masala ready to knock your socks off. Stomachs rumbling just that much more than before, we were seated at a rustic-​looking table. No corners were cut with the décor here, everything just fit right in with the ambiance.
While navigating the menu with a basic understanding of Katakana is not hard, they do have an English menu to make things easier. We both ordered lunch sets and some masala chai. The tea came out first, and the waiter poured it between cups, vertically spaced a good foot and a half apart to properly froth and mix it. It showed; the tea was both perfectly spiced and nice and aerated to give a light and mellow flavor.
My girlfriend’s came out first; a dish with a banana leaf and several small steel dishes with various curries, vegetables, and the like. I didn’t have long to drool though (ok, I may have stolen a bite), as my chicken tikka came out soon after. Now, I’ve had some bad tikka in my time; bone dry all the way through so you need 2 liters of water to choke it down, or downright soggy so you’re pretty sure they didn’t cook it in a tandoor. This was absolutely none of that; it was perfect. Dry on the outside so you can get the proper texture and spice, but tender and moist throughout. It was complemented with a lovely chutney and a squeeze of lemon which brought the spice out exactly as it should.
As soon as I was finished with this portion, the other part of my lunch set, chef’s special chicken curry, came out. While this didn’t quite rock my world in the same way as the tikka, it was still definitely worth having. The naan, however, is the naan by which I shall now set my naan standards. Not soggy, not burnt, the right level of moist flakiness that naan requires was precisely achieved here.
The waitstaff was helpful, the food was superb, and the atmosphere was both pleasant and fitting. My only regret is that I didn’t save room for some gulab jamun.