Baps Shayona

Let’s just start by saying that this was my first visit here and it was beyond my expectations. The quality of the food — if you know Indian food (particularly Gujarati food) here is incredible. For what you’ll pay, the quality is top-notch…I dare you to go looking anywhere in the area for the quality of this kind of food at this price… it just won’t happen.
The must-​have dish is the «Papdi no lot»…comparable to my mom’s, without a doubt.

One of the best places to go in Lilburn. Great veg. friendly dishes and everything is fresh.

This is a temple cafeteria, which offers very simple and limited vegetarian fare. I equate this to a café that you would go to at a museum versus a destination restaurant. The food is tasty and simple. They usually have a veggie option, daal, bean dish, rice, roti, sambar, and maybe a salad or one sweet. The food is in a buffet and costs appx $ 9. The options are limited but the location next to BAPS makes it convenient.

This is fun, just don’t come here expecting a huge Indian buffet with a lavish spread of items and a sublime atmosphere. This place is half food shop and half cafeteria. It’s a small set up, but the foods are pleasantly seasoned and tasty. Go back as many times as you like. Eat first, pay later. After I ate, I bought some Indian snacks – a box of Ghughra and a box of Magas. Try it with an open mind and you’ll probably like it. I think the price per person was around $ 12, and the dishes were so good I didn’t even miss the meat. I felt like it agreed with me.

The sweets selection here is really good if you’re in the mood for some milky delights. There aren’t any explanations of what the items are though, so you kind of have to know what you’re after. The packages are also quite large, so unless you have a big family fond of Indian sweets, it’s way too much for one person. The rest of the shop has sauces, bagged snacks, and a few health/​beauty items.
On the cafeteria-​style eat-​in side, there’s a limited menu of vegetarian Indian food. We had some kachori and samosas which were both very good. This isn’t a spot I’d go for great Indian food, but it’s a handy place to snip into after visiting the Mandir as it’s right on the temple complex grounds before leaving the gate.

Somehow I envisioned an austere, stripped-​down calm place, being attached to a temple and all. Wrong. More like a busy fast-​food joint.
The buffet looked sad, so we ordered thali and noodles. The paneer was fresh and spicy, noodles were fine, but daal had a strange aftertaste and some unidentifiable gelatinous blobs in it. Gummy undercooked naan reminded me of biscuit dough.
I found it a bit strange that the majority of patrons were eating pizza.
Styrofoam plastic world. Not a place I would return.
Cheers~

I visited the place for the first time this past weekend after having heard friends rave about the food there. I thought they served just snacks but found out they actually have entire meals. We went there in the evening and really wanted some nice hot masala chai which was delish. We also tried the puff and the samosa chat and by Indian restaurant standards, they were both served fresh and piping hot. Although the two are basically fried and have a hard outer cover then filled with some form of potato stuffing inside, they are very different. The puff was amazingly soft and succulent and the samosa chat was mixed to perfection. They had a buffet/​thali which some friends opted for and said it was equally worth it. I know I will be going back for more trials of their offerings. They also have a whole host of Indian desserts that you would typically find in a sweet shop in India. They also had some savory snacks which were great. I only gave them one star less for 2 reasons — the first being that you can only buy their packaged sweets in the manner they present it to you. So if you wanted to mix and match a few things that would not be possible. But some packages are pretty large and you might not be able to enjoy its contents fully before it goes bad. Typically all the desserts are made with milk and will keep fresh only for a few days at most. The second reason being what Paul P has mentioned in his review — if you are not Indian, you will be utterly lost here. There are no explanations or descriptors of what you see and that makes it difficult for many people to really venture into the different aisles and explore new delicacies. In fact, we are Indian and we had no clue what some things were! Other than that though, this is a great resturant to check out. I must warn you it is vegetarian so dont go there expecting chicken tikka masala! They have clean premises, rest rooms and service and ample parking as well. It is a pretty noisy eatery and great for family style dining or with kids and big groups but not for quick service and quiet conversation.

It was right next door to the gorgeous temple, so I had to check it out. It is a small place but as long as there are home made pistachio, that my daugher loves! and samosas, I was good to go. The samosas was one of the best I’ve ever had with tamarind chutney :)

We went here for a mini-​dinner after visiting the temple. I had the vegetable biryani, which was good, but it was pretty heavy on rice and light on vegetables. Since we were novices to this, and considering that this restaurant caters to tourists visiting the temple, we were disappointed that little explanation was offered regarding the menu items, the buffet, and the dessert case. The restaurant seemed like the Indian version of what you’d find at tourist attractions like Disneyland.
I must say the dessert case looked outstanding, but we didn’t know what anything was, and didn’t venture to try any.
So while the food was okay, this place seemed lacking in a couple of areas – especially explanations and authenticity.