Reviews for Namaste Indian Cuisine - Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR

I like to Google a place and check out the average score so I was surprised to see this place only at 4 stars. I was... apprehensive at first, but I miss the all you can eat Indian buffet experience. As of November 2022 for lunch, it was only $14and this place totally blew me away! I normally skip the rice at Indian buffets, but the chicken Briyani here is out of thisworld! The chicken within the rice was even better than the ones they had in the curries. Which brings me to my one negativeview... The butter chicken here is not very good and it is more of a tomato stew than anything. However, it redeems itself withthe awesome Coconut and Mango flavored ice cream machine. I would come here just for that! This is my new go-to spot in Oregonnow. The parking lot looked kinda scary and there were a lot of people roaming around, but they mean no harm :) Read more

This place I's good. Been eating here since 2001. If your hungry and you can't cook for yourself and you have limited money to... eat. $14 before 3pm and $18 after 3pm come here and fill up. I don't think you'll regret it as the buffet has some thing for alltastes. We have turned up for lunch once a week for the past three weeks; what I've noticed is some days the food was muchbetter and tastier then other days. Our last visit was this past Thursday 17 Nov 2022 and the head chef must have been in thekitchen because the food flavour was over all much better. All the employees here are very nice and their is one or two thathave worked there for many years. The reason for only 4 stars ..... They tend to use the same ingredients always potatoes, peaszucchini don't get me wrong consistency is good. But you hardly ever if ever see any thing other then these same veggies. Theonly other reason I'm giving 4 stars is because the food lacks spice I guess I shouldn't say any thing because this is not asouth Indian restaurant. But we still just so wish and that they would spice the food more . I sincerely hope this placestays open for many years to come. If you look around Portland and Vancouver most of the Indian buffets have all shut down sincethe pandemic and; they have not reopened . Which is sad. I'm thankful Namaste is still up and in business Read more

The food was not one of my favorites but I guess for people from here yes. Too much mixed to taste something. I will try again... Indian food after maybe ????. But this experience was not pleasant. Read more

This is a buffet of Indian style food. The food was hot and the service friendly. I liked most of what I tried but have to rake... another round at it. Read more

We descended on the restaurant to do some destruction to the lunch buffet. We were not disappointed by the selection or quality.... The food is a good value and nice quality and great staff! While we didn?t put a dent in the buffet, we will attempt again soon. Read more

This is a pretty good place for Indian food. I went on a Sunday and had the buffet, I was able to ask a staff member about... vegan options and several of the standard buffet dishes were vegan. The food was flavorful and well prepared. The restaurantspace is also large and spread out around the edges of the building. The atmosphere wasnt great but it wasn't loud or in anyway uncomfortable. My only quibble was that the dishes weren't marked with vegan, vegetarian, gluten free etc. This would'vereally helped me determine what I could and couldn't eat at the buffet. There was a really interesting dessert I wanted to trybut couldn't determine if it was safe as some recipes found online included milk and some did not. Overall good choice for abuffet if you're craving Indian food. Read more

There were so many options that I wanted to try out everything one by one, but I was full. All the dry meat items like chicken... pokaoda, roasted chicken etc., were quite bland, but curry items were tasty. I quite like the mutton curry and the chickentikka. Those were my favorite. This place is a steal if you would like to try many Indian food from different states. 16 $ forthat food is a great price. I would recommend that place Read more

10/10 been coming here for years now and always super good food great staff and always good prices! So much food always get so... full ???? always a great selection of food for lunch & dinner and the ice cream is always a go to dessert ???? Read more