Cumin Restaurant

170 Farmers Ln Suite 8, Santa Rosa - 95405
176 reviews
Indian Himalayan/Nepalese
(707) 771-8336

This place is in a strip mall with not many other businesses open in the evening so plenty of parking. They have ample space for indoor dining plus a patio with 4 tables for outdoor dining. We started with the mango lassi which is one of the best lassis I have ever had - not watered down like at other places. We started with the samosas (potato & peas fried fritters), then continued onto the saag paneer (greens with farmers cheese), aloo jeera (potato with cumin seeds), chicken tikka (chicken marinated in yogurt and spices), butter chicken (marinated chicken cooked in a butter tomato sauce) and naan (flatbreads). Everything was delicious but note that they do not include rice with the curry/saucy dishes. Shout out to Shriya, our server, who was friendly, attentive, and entertaining!

The taste was ok. But the main reason I gave 2 stars is that the prices were different from their menu and on my bill. The food I order was $15.99 and they charged me $17.99. I heard someone was complaining about their online price too. And their answer was the management has changed 2 months ago and that’s why. But still doesn’t make sense to me.

$40 for ONE entrée and side for a carry out order! Crooks with BAD food and extremely poor service.Worst food ever. Pigs won’t even eat it. On top of that they over charge you for everything single thing on their menu on website. We were in a mood to try this Indian restaurant for the first time so decided to get a carry out. We ended up ordering their lamb dish- lamb boti kabab. First of all- this is NOT an Indian restaurant. May be Bangladeshi or something. Secondly, their food is NOT edible. It was stale and gross. We’re sure that the meat wasn’t even lamb. And it was hard and stale. We could not even chew their tandoori roti (Indian bread) is how stale it was. And they charged us $4+ for each flat bread which is a LOT more than their menu online. Additionally, their menu on their CURRENT website clearly mentioned add rice for 1 dollar for entrees. So we added 2 rice and they charged us $4 per rice. So our total that was supposed to be 25 dollar for JUST 1 entree and sides of rice & roti/bread turned out to be $38.00. The girl at the reception is extremely rude and has no idea what she’s talking about. And she’s very dismissing of the customers. As soon as you place the order on the phone- she says your total is 38 dollars- what’s your card number? Nothing about how long would the food take etc was said. She’s like- “you don’t want your receipt, do you?” When we questioned after we paid, they were like- “we just bought this place from old owners few months ago and the website is yet to be updated. We need to up all our prices- we just haven’t gotten to it yet” Absolutely no responsibility was taken for their extra charges from their menu online. Food was horrible. Bad business. They may have made 15 extra dollars today by their fraud tactics but they have lost us as their customers for ever and many others. ????? ? ? ??

I don’t normally write reviews. But this restaurant earned a review from me. Figured I’d try this out as some friends of ours recommended it. And wow! Can’t believe I’d never been here before. I love Indian style food and this is the best Indian/Nepalese food I’ve had in a while. We had chicken tandoori, chicken tikamasala and biryani rice with Garlic Naan. 10 stars!! We will be back and will tell our friends.

Below average food, and place is not clean. Gobi manchuri was soggy, Veg Biryani was made from pre prapared curry paste. On a plus, friendly staff

I lived in Mumbai, India and this is by far and away the best Indian food I have eaten since then. Great Staff and great menu. Highly recommend.

I had been here for takeout a couple times and enjoyed the food and the staff. So much so that I arrainged to have our company party there. I had emailed and phoned with the owner to discuss menu options and she quoted me between $650-$750. I told her that I thought that sounded a bit low and to recheck her numbers. The day of the party we confirmed that there would be 22 of us and she said it may be a little more than she quoted. We showed up and saw they had set up a little buffet for us for entres and began to slowly bring out appitizers. Appitizers took a bit over an hour to bring out, dropping off one or two pakoras to each person, then one samosa each 20 minutes later. They provided paper cups for chai. While the hour plus appitizer service went on, our dinner sat in hot pans with sterno fire beneath. We finally got to the mains that had been sitting. While we were eating the overcooked food the owner tapped me on the shoulder and asked if she could speak to me. I went with her and she proceeded to tell me that the total was more than she had quoted, I asked how much and she said $2500 - that's $113 per person without drinks or dessert. I told her that it seemed a bit high and it was three times what she quoted for the buffet. I then proceeded to give her my credit card and paid the $2511.70.I sent her a follow up email that she didn't even respond to. I highly suggest you reconsider any large partys or catering with them. They just aren't set up for it and the communication isn't good. We could have gone to someplace a lot better for that kind of money.Unfortunatly the experience has left a bad taste in my mouth and I will not be returning.

Restaurant had some of the best Indian style food from the east and west . I wish I could’ve brought my family when I went there because they would’ve been amazed by the combination of taste and great service .

Great food! Love the Garlic Naan and Chicken Tikamasala. Friendly staff. They are always so busy with so many to go orders but always make time to stop by my table and see if I need anything. Best Indian/Nepalese food in Sonoma county!

The curry sauces have food coloring added I can tell. The poor waitress looked so stressed out and told us she hoped no one else would show up. Management needs to do something to help the poor staff. Also something that didn’t help our experience is that the inside of the restaurant is dark and dusty, bad ambiance.