Bombay Palace
Bombay Palace is Broomfield’s newest Indian restaurant. A few weeks ago, it took over the empty location where Buddha Indian Cuisine once stood, next door toLa Casita de Durango and across Nickel Street from Target.
I’ve eaten at Bombay Palace three times now, twice for lunch and once for supper. Their lunch buffet is above average, I’d say. In addition to the usual Indian lunch buffet favorites (tandoori chicken, etc.) they have some more interesting dishes I don’t see very often, like noodles and mango custard and eggplant.
Last week, Beth and I went to Bombay Palace for supper for the first time, and we both enjoyed it. We had rice and papadums and naan, of course. The naan was sub-par, for some reason. It just wasn’t fluffy or crispy enough. For our entrees, we ordered Bombay Special Chicken and Bindi Masala. We asked for both to be prepared medium spicy, but I thought they were both very mild. So I’m not sure if their spicy scale is just miscalibrated, or if the cook misread “medium” to be “mild” or something.
Notice I said “cook.” I’m pretty sure there was only one person working in the kitchen, with the waitress occasionally going back there to help out. It took quite a while for our food to come out - long enough for Beth to start getting very impatient. But once the food arrived, it was good. The Bombay Special Chicken, though mild, was very good. It was marinated chicken cooked in the tandoori oven, and then served with an orange colored cream sauce on the side. The sauce was super yummy, and the flavors mixed really well. Bindi Masala is okra, sauteed with onion, ginger, tomato, and spices. We couldn’t finish it all, so I brought the rest home. I liked it, but wished it had been prepared spicier.
So, my overall impressions of the place: better food than the other Broomfield Indian restaurant, needs more spice, supper took too long to cook. I’ll definitely go back for lunch sometime, and maybe for supper again. Our server also said they’re going to start having a dinner buffet on the weekend starting in a few weeks. I’d like to try that and see how it is.
300 Nickel Street Broomfield, CO 80020 720-887-0400
Oh, and they have a website: http://www.thebombaypalace.com
Since they charge a few dollars more for the dinner buffet, I was hoping to find that they’d offer items that the lunch buffet doesn’t have. But that wasn’t the case. Next time we’ll just order from the menu.
The worst came when we were at the table and a baby cockroach came crawling down the wall, we decided to overlook it. 5 minutes later the BIG MOMMA cockroach came crawling down the wall, we dropped the forks, jumped up, paid and left.
I will be filing a complaint with the Board of Health this morning.
AVOID THIS PLACE!!!!