The Little India

We have been coming here for a number of years, and it is definitely our favorite Indian food in Chicago. We tend to order vegetarian but the lamb samosa and chicken tikka masala and tandoori are delicious as well. Palak paneer and mutter paneer (sp?) are fantastic. Owners are nice and gracious and did I mention the naan is always yummy. Saw that someone said it is often overcooked. So not true. Lassis and drinks are good so is rice pudding. And it’s BYOB. Cannot say enough!

I order the same dish EVERY single time I’ve ordered from this place for the last few years. Up until tonight I’ve always been very happy with it. I know the dish is spicy. Spicy food is great but tonight the amount of spice in this dish was mouth numbing and crossed the line between flavoring the food to rendering the food inedible. The woman I called was completely unhelpful and rude about it and now I’m stuck with 40 dollars worth of inedible food. Now my favorite dish is ruined and one of my favorite restaurants is now a no go. Never ordering from these guys again.

A few years ago, my partner and I ate here and fell in love with this place and order delivery from here all the time. (how did I not ever write a review??). Anyway, I’m currently working on a show at City Lit and I brought the cast here during a dinner break (11 of us) and every single person loved it and raved about it. It is absolutely some of the best Indian food I’ve ever had. Fantastic samosas, the tandoori chicken is perfectly spiced, just enough heat at the end of the bite, amazing butter chicken, perfectly spicy lamb vindaloo, and the tikki masala is amazing. And they couldn’t be friendlier.

I love this place! I adore the owners. They are always professional and kind! The food is definitely on point when it comes to Indian-​Paki fusion cuisine. I love everything about this place! If you’re a first timer, you should get the palak paneer, chana masala, mushroom vindaloo, naan bread in mushroom or original, basmati rice, and a mango lassi! The palak paneer is the best oh my goodness.

The food is amazing and authentic and the staff is delightful. You can really tell that they are glad to see you. The Chicken Tikki Massala is delicious over a side of rice, and the lamb briani proves excellent every time. We love to come here or order from here whenever we crave awesome Indian food!

Food is great. I can’t recommend this spot highly enough. I’ve never eaten in but have always gotten food to go or delivery and it is fresh, flavorful and well spiced. I’d definitely recommend it to a friend.

Ordered takeout through the Unilocal app for the first time. Everything went smooth and after waiting I was well on my way to picking up! Overall I’d probably do it again, in a pinch.
Now this isn’t my first time here, I’ve been coming to Little India since the day I moved in (more than 3 years now). Upon my arrival, I wasn’t greeted by any staff, no customers in the restaurant, Little India was ghost town central! I stood at the counter for about 5(+) minutes before someone magically stepped out of the kitchen. And I didn’t even get a hello. All my experiences at Little India have always been the same, empty and kind of cold! I have never let that Zero Customers factor get to me, because the food is good, but I can’t help but wonder why???
My issues with Little India are their small Portions and the Pricing. I’m very well aware of the average cost to eating Indian food; it can get a little pricey! With Little India’s portions, this recent visit, I ordered 2 Entrées — Plain Rice — Veggie Samosa (2pcs). I paid roughly $ 30, Pricey! I never get enough rice and I wouldn’t want 2 orders because that’s just way too much! Is it worth it??? Maybe! Have I had better?!! YES!
Overall, little India is just ok given the circumstances. If you decide to see for yourself, I’d recommend ordering take out! Unless you like having a restaurant all to yourself… #GhostTownCentral

Ordered food for carry out and I was off to a bad start. They had given my food to someone else. They tried giving it to me and said it was fine because she had just walked out. I asked the woman and she said she had opened it and that’s how she realized it wasn’t hers. So they «remade it.» Pretty sure they just went to the kitchen and handed me the same order shortly later. To top it off there was a hair in the food. Fantastic!

I LOVED the food from here.
I got delivery, so I can’t say anything about service as far as in-​restaurant goes.
I got the Mughlai Combo ($ 15.99) and a Masala Chai ($ 2.00) for dinner. Everything was simply EXCELLENT and I found the price for the items I ordered were SO worth it. I don’t think I even made it halfway through all of the food. The tea was even still reasonably hot when it got to me.
I loved it! Thank you, Little India!

. After tonight order I’m pretty sure I will not return here anymore… they know there’s a price mistake on their online order but instead of fixing it they just leave it. Therefore forcing me the pay extra than what I expected. $ 16.95 into $ 30 I order the chicken combo and I am not a fan. The tandoori chicken was dryer than the Sahara dessert or chicken jerky. There was no customer when I got in the store so I don’t know how they possibly over cooked my chicken. Only thing i like was the bread. But other than that I’m not impress. Sorry guys.

One delivery, today. Not bad, but I’m unsure whether I’ll try them again.
Pakora were good, crisp enough despite delivery in a bag: I’m sure they’d be very good served at the restaurant. Accompanying dips, though easy to make, were still excellent, which is what counts.
Lamb vindaloo, the sauce pleasantly hot and nice color and texture, but not rich in flavor: only the cinnamon as an aftertaste, but none of the slight sharpness of vinegar that belongs in it, and no flavor of tamarind or any other spice that I could detect.
Ras malai, on the other hand, a sad disappointment. Properly, they should be attractively-​shaped rasgullah simmered a few minutes in milk hand-​reduced with a generous amount of cardamom and usually a few threads of saffron; instead the rasgullah here were clearly just put in diluted evaporated milk — not even condensed milk, the flavor was characteristic of evaporated — with a little crumbling of pistachio for sure, possibly some cardamom although I couldn’t taste it; and no saffron at all. The shortcut is sweet and pleasant enough, but it’s not ras malai.

3.5 stars
Food was good, lunch special price was good at $ 8, virtually everything was gluten free without naan. The mushroom vindaloo was sort of watery but still tasted good. Chicken tikka and rice were good. Good good good. Will be back.

I reviewed this restaurant more than a year ago and gave it a bad review because I felt that the quality of food had slipped significantly. I never ate at the restaurant because service there was always outrageously slow. The wife and I ordered delivery often and the quality gradually declined to the point where we stopped ordering it; hence the bad review. Naan was burnt, etc.
We recently gave this restaurant another try for delivery and it was good. The wife had chana masala and I had chicken vindaloo. Both were good. The vegetable samosas were also good. The first time we ordered from here, it was probably 4 – 5 stars. Now it’s back to three after a decline. I hope it continues to improve.

Meat quality is very poor especially lamb. I’ve never in 20 years had to throw away cuts of fatty inedible lamb at any Indian restaurant that is unacceptable. Food is very greasy indicating too much ghi. Could be much better.

This is a pretty decent place. The food is great but it’s more expensive than a lot of other Indian food that’s just a good. It’s a great option in the area, especially if you want to sit down to a nice meal. The service is always super friendly and quick.

This is a fusion Indian place in Edgewater my fiancé and I stopped by for lunch the other day. It’s a cute place with a fair amount of space for groups and it’s BYOB! I love places that offer BYOB.
We did have a bit of an awkward interaction where we tried to order a lunch special, but the lunch time special had ended a few minutes before we ordered. Honestly, the regular price of the food didn’t seem at all worth it, especially compared to the lunch special. However, the waiter was nice enough to give it to us when he overheard us discussing whether or not we wanted to stay for a meal.
The food was good and the service was fine. I had the Chicken Tikka Masala, which was absolutely excellent. They’ve won an award or two for it, and it is well deserved. By far my favorite dish that we ordered, and it even interested my vegetarian fiancé. My second dish was the Vegetable Jalfrazie, which was fine, but not spectacular. My fiancé had the Dal Makhani and the Palak Paneer. He thought they were good, but nothing special.
I don’t think it was anything above-​and-​beyond, but it was a fairly decent meal. Like I said, I don’t think the food is worth the regular price, but if you’re going for a lunch special (which ends at 3 PM!), then it’s completely worth it

I used to love going to this place. When friends would come to town I would always take them here. I’ve dined in and usually had a good experience and I’ve carried out and it was usually okay. I decided that I would call in an order for delivery, the phone was cutting out a little bit, but I felt like I was being pretty clear. My order was delivered and when I got upstairs I found out it was all wrong. It wasn’t even something I liked enough to just eat and call it good. When I called in to let them know, the man who answered the phone was very rude. I understand that there may have been a miscommunication but at the end he just started cutting me off my saying thank you, instead of trying to fix the problem. So I let them know they lost another customer and called it good. Truly disappointed.

My son and I love Indian food and usually head for Devon. We tried Little India las weekend and liked it so much we came back today. Delicious chicken tikka masala and tandoori chicken. Chicken biryani was pretty good if a little plain. The chicken tikka combo is a good value and comes with all three plus raita.
One strange thing: the chicken tikka masala sauce on the combo is different than the masala sauce on the single order my son got. Hm.

This place is a disgrace to Indian food. Not only is the food horrible, but the service is too. I ordered Chicken Tikka Masala and Chicken Briyani. The chicken tikka masala was the worst Indian dish I have ever had in my life. It was just dices of chicken mixed with yogurt/​milk and a little bit of masala, but the masala wasn’t tikka masala.
Anyway, the chicken in the briyani smelled and tasted really funny. When I called to complain, the lady on the phone was very rude and put me on hold for a long time. After yelling at me, she said that her boss would call me. He never called.
I threw up three times since eating the briyani.
I hate writing bad reviews for small business, but this place def does not deserve to be in business.

This place was an awesome Indian place. Don’t judge a book by its cover, doesn’t look like it will be good from the outside or by lack of customers but the food was amazing, they didn’t skimp on it… I got way more than I could eat in one sitting. Chi tea was good if you like it on the less sweet side. Price is decent for how much you get put of it. I recommend it completely! 5 stars! And conveniently located next to the Amtrak train and the shoreline :)
Obviously if you’re scared to try something new then get something simple that provides chicken. I got the Chicken Masala combo box and it was very tasty!