Jawad Ali Talpur
I travel for work and most of the time I look for Indian/Pakistani restaurants to eat. This one I came across today. Had buffet during Saturday afternoon. Great place to eat and let me tell you this buffet was best I have came across. Food was delicious authentic Indian, flavor, test , spices were well put together to bring authentic flavor. There tandoori chicken was Devine and flavorful it tested like that it was cooked in tandoor and marinated deliciously. All vegetarian dishes were wonderfully cooked to bring full flavor. Please go visit you won’t regret.
Tim Swast
I had a wonderful Indian meal at this restaurant. It was the best Indian food I've had in years. The garlic naan bread was the perfect texture and flavor. My drink had their infused pepper vodka, which is super spicy, but delicious! 🌶️🌶️ I also got the pepper lamb with a side of pickles. The pickles complemented the meal well with a touch of saltiness.
Ryan Fitzgerald
This place was fantastic! The staff was incredibly friendly and accommodating, the ambience was friendly and warm, and most importantly the food was fantastic! We started with the Wok Chili Paneer and an order of samosas. For my entree I had the Royala Koora shrimp. Everything was great. We wound up with enough leftovers to make another meal tomorrow and I will definitely be coming back next time I'm in Minneapolis!
Manpreet Kaur
Loved this place. Good authentic indian food and nice indian decor inside. Loved the way they serve the masala chai...very authentic.
Michelle R
I work in the Lumber Exchange building so I eat here all the time (at least once a week). I have never been disappointed. I brought my family and friends here and they all LOVED it. The staff is always super friendly and helpful, and the $8 lunch buffet cannot be beat!! The food is always SO good, if a little spicy, but I love spicy so it's fine. If you're not a fan of spicy stuff, be careful! Even for a spicy lover like me it can really pack a punch. Honestly one of the best Indian restaurants I've ever been to, and I've been to quite a few.
If you're looking for great Indian food with great service, this is your go-to place.
Rajendra Popli
Good food, real Indian feel in the US, I requested for little spicy and you know what I got was amazing spicy, keep up the good work guys, you are amazing.
Leena Philip
Best Indian food option in twin cities. We are repeat customers and absolutely love it. Lots of options and really authentic Indian food. everything was prepared with great care and flavorful ingredients. They are somewhat small with lots of regulars which may have caused some of the negative reviews with slow service. Personally I would rather wait for a few minutes for quality food than something bland and flavorless thrown at me fast. My advice would be to Try the buffets to figure out what you like.
mary b
This restaurant is cozy and romantic located in downtown.
Every time I go here,I enjoy the food.
The service staff is very friendly,attentive and helpful.
I guess there menu is inclined to the southern of India.
Here the chef is maintaining the consistency.most of the time this place is packed.
I highly highly recommend this place.
Ben Harste
We love their to-go buffet as it is quick, convenient, and reasonable priced! Their tandoori chicken is very deliciously flavored and moist. The buffet has a good selection and a good rotation of dishes on different days. Definitely recommend!
Jessica Fields
I love this place and we go almost every time we're downtown (only exception is when we're downtown two days in a row, and then we still consider it)! Really good food. Great staff. Prices are as expected. The mojito fives you a lot of bang for your buck.
Jonathan K
I have never written a food review here, but I have to say that this is an outstanding Indian restaurant and warranted accolades. If you have eaten at Indian restaurants on 8th Ave in NYC,Copper Pot is on par with the lot of them.
Note: We did not have the buffet, we ordered from the menu.
As vegetarians, the selections were plentiful with very interesting flavors. Very different from other ones, like Taste of India and Gandhi Mahal. Sometimes one can go to an Indian restaurant and feel like it has been Americanized. Having had authentic dishes cooked by friends and family, I don't feel that way at all. The Copper Pot chef is from Southern India, so he knows a lot of very hot dishes. I would recommend that you ask for "mild" if you don't like a lot of heat. The wait staff and owner are really very nice.
As with any place, if you order a dish and it's not how it was expected or described then send it back, restaurants want to get it right, that's how they keep customers happy.
Saurabh Rahurkar
I was in town for a conference and was looking for places to eat which had vegetarian options. I was glad to have found this place for lunch with the downside that I pigged out and are too much to actually keep my wits in the afternoon session. They have an excellent South Indian buffet that I couldn't have enough of, consequently I came back the next day for dinner with more friends, some of whom were having Indian food for the first time. They all loved the food equally. Great for vegetarian and vegan options. The only downside was that oneof the servers was hesitant to make an entree vegan and insisted that it couldn't be made as such. The chef proved him wrong though.
Alex Bliss
This is probably the best Indian food available in downtown Minneapolis. Great lunch buffet (and a cheaper takeaway option that still lets you pile food up), lots of vegetarian options, and usually at least one dish that's discernibly spicy. I don't love their dinner format as much, but for lunch they can't be beat.
Jason
The food good and the value is great. I usually stop in for a to-go box. The buffet always has good variety and changes daily, so I always get to try different things each visit. This is on my regular lunch rotation, love it.
saurin shah
So being born and raised in Indian subcontinent I am usually quite critical of food being served tagged as Indian in US. I usually do not give 4 or 5 stars to a restaurant unless it really deserves it. This is one of the best Restaurant in Minneapolis area for quality and taste of the food.
Copper Pot really deserves 4 stars and only 4 start(not 5 stars) as according to me experience and service do matter when I go to a restaurant. If it is a take out place, service can be ignored but not at a sit down restaurant.
First let's talk about food. I have tried their biryani and it was really good. I have tried Paradise Biryani as well but this was was way superior. Not the best biryani I had in my life but I had not hoped that I would get such great biryani in twin cities region(may be in NYC or bay area or in Houston but not in twin cities). When it came to curry, it was well prepared and had correct amount flavor. I had asked for Spicy and I have observed many places just add some extra chillies but they did not do they. They balanced amount of all spices well and did not burnt my tongue with red chili power. So definitely 5 stars for the cook.
Service was mediocre at best. It was under staffed according to me and they need may be 2 more servers. Owner was nice and friendly but waiting long for menu card once seated and even longer for water does not leave a great impression on the customer.
Stevie Martinez
Great food, would have been 5 stars but the server only offered us the special menu and didn't respond when I asked for the regular. However it was offered to others by other servers. The food is great! Deserts are awesome and the bread melts in your mouth!
Alyssa Bicking
I went here with some friends before the Mark Maron show on Saturday. I love Indian food, but I had never been to the Copper Pot before, so I was excited to try it! I ordered a dish I order fairly often - Navratan Korma - and when it came out it looked really good. I took the first bite and immediately tasted something that seemed off. I figured that perhaps it was a spice I was just not used to? So I ate nearly the whole thing, even though I couldn't really handle whatever that flavor was (it tasted nothing like the Korma I've ever had before) as it made me feel kind of queesy and also reminded me of the very pungent flavor of Kava Kava, if any of you have ever had that.
Fast-forward to 4AM early Sunday morning. I wake up with stomach cramps and a headache like I've never had before and am unable to eat or do much of anything all day Sunday. I still feel ill today (Monday) but it's dissappated a bit compared to yesterday.
I'm hoping that this experience was just a fluke. It happens, I get it. My friends did not get sick from the dishes they ate, so that's good.
I guess the moral of my story is that if something doesn't taste right, trust your gut. Literally.
Thalaivar Macden
Food is great , delicious dinninig experience. Owner is personal, friendly, I offten frequent there . I highly recommend for mother’s day Dinner. Good luck good Dinneing experience.
Meagan Thomas
Paneer tiki masala perfect. The garlic naan was second to none. Highly recommend, great prices.
Qiuren Huang
Came here for lunch buffet and saw they had a delicious lamb curry!! Also some items are spicy which i like cuz its hard to run into actually "spicy" food in minnesota!!! Also great food, full of flavor!!!
Bruice Bennett
I went to this restaurant today for dinner.i had the best experience.
Exellent food and very attentive service.
I highly recommend this place.i am sure you will not disappoint.
Greg Martinez
Well is going to be hard to eat at another Indian restaurant because this one is so good. The food is so good, the staff is great.
Cathleen Nelson
The atmosphere was clean and tastefully decorated in the traditional Indian decor. Cozy lighting. The Waiter suggested dishes to give us a variety, and selected the bread. The food was spicy/delicious just as we expected. Definitely recommend, and we will return.
Damon Laukala
Best Indian food I've ever had. The samosas were perfectly flaky. I had the lamb Vindaloo. The lamb was super tender and the sauce was the best I've ever had.
Josh Peterson
I went with 3 other people and we had several different things everything literally was awesome
Benjamin Marty
The garlic nan and Chicken Tikka Masala were great. The chicken in the butter chicken left a little to be desired, though (it had just a little bone and some gristle). I'm not sure if this was just an unlucky helping of chicken or if the chicken for the butter chicken is selected differently. I'd give it another chance, though - the sauce and most of the chicken was great.
Desirea St Clair
Authentic Indian cuisine. Very good we went for lunch buffet and it was a impressive spread. Good variety and delicious! Love this gem!
Jolanta Kissoon Young
Delicious and authentic Indian cuisine. Try the young goat. Loved the spices.
Seth Westby
Excellent food and the service was superb. A member of the staff offered to select a new dish for us to try, and we really enjoyed it. We will definitely be going back as often as possible!
Terry Brian
I’m a hard sell, but must say food and service was excellent!
Galie Jaddunath Robinson
Food was amazing! Definitely had a great time with my co worker as the owner was our server. We were doing a tasting for work as it was an enjoyable experience. Thank you!
Rakesh Adelli
Great food ... awesome ambience... vide variety of dishes ... great service �
Kaylah Stangler
Delicious food, comfortable, inviting atmosphere, and very friendly staff!
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