The Turmeric Kitchen

We recently went to this Bengali restaurant and had an amazing experience! Definitely recommend if you want to try authentic Bengali food. We ordered fish fry, kochi pathar jhol and we really liked them. And the rest of them (momos, chicken chap) tasted well too. Extremely satisfied with food and service. Give this restaurant a try if you haven't already :)

We took out from this place a few times, and the food was decent. Recently, we went there for a dine in, the experience was bad. The wait time to be seated was ~15 min. After getting our table, we had to wait for 45 min to get the food. The biriyani was OK (not authentic as it used to be), mutton was delicious. The rumali roti was cold and hard. The service was below par. There were just 1-2 servers in total, making the situation worse. Only a big table (10+ guests) was served, as if rest of the guests were doing them a favor by dining in. We found a strand of hair in our food (see photo), and complained to the server Pooja F. She came and simply shrugged it off, and didn’t even say sorry once. This restaurant employees have shown signs of unprofessionalism in the past, but this time they crossed the limits. One should think twice before dining in. You don’t get nearly what you paid and tipped for. Not recommended based on three instances (two takeaways, one dine in).

This is probably the only Kolkata Bengali style food serving restaurent in the Portland/Seattle area. I ordered Kolkata style Mutton Biryani, Mochar Chop, Echor torkari, Macher Paturi and Gurer roshogolla. I loved every single food of theirs as it does taste like Kolkata style cooking. Food is more in the expensive side but then again there isn’t much Kolkata style food options in the area. Gurer roshogolla could have been more softer but other than that all the food I ordered tasted great. I will be back again when in the Kirkland area.