We got take out from Roti Indian Cuisine last week and overall we liked the food – it’s pretty solid. However, I didn’t enjoy it as much as that from other nearby Indian restaurants. On the other hand, it was cheaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I got the lamb korma<\/strong> ($17), my usual. It was pretty good, the lamb was tender and not too fatty and he curry was developed, but it lacked the slight sweetness I want to taste in this dish. I probably wouldn’t get it again, but wouldn’t mind eating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike got the butter chicken<\/strong> ($16) and this was probably the biggest disappointment. Once again, the sauce did taste developed, but it just wasn’t as compelling as butter chicken usually is. The chicken itself was fine, but the sauce was ultimately flat. We’d definitely skip this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Much better was the paneer tikka masala<\/strong> ($15). This sauce was everything the butter chicken sauce was not. Bright, intense and just yummy. Though we were doing take out, service was an issue. The restaurant was completely empty when my husband went to pick up the food. There was a server behind the counter looking at her phone and she did not lift up her eyes once to acknowledge my husband – until, of course, he spoke to her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new Indian restaurant takes over Kismat’s space San Leandro has a new Indian restaurant. Sort of. In reality, Kismat, an Indian restaurant that had opened near Bayfair Mall during the pandemic, has rebranded as Roti Indian Cuisine. I’m not sure whether it’s also under new ownership or management, but I can tell that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,28,62,590],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-indian","tag-reviews","tag-san-leandro","tag-takeout","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-21-094854_005-e1740765121792-1024x664.jpeg\")
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The curries come with rice, which was also disappointing. It was a low quality white rice which tasted boiled.
Fortunately, we also got nan which was much better. We shared plain nan <\/strong>($2.50), onion nan<\/strong> ($3), garlic nan<\/strong> ($3) and kabuli nan<\/strong> ($4) and they were all pretty standard – nothing to write home about, but nothing to complain about either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In all, I don’t think we’ll be rushing back here.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nRoti Indian Cuisine<\/a><\/strong>
15099 Hesperian Blvd Suite A
San Leandro, CA
(510) 460-9280<\/pre>\n\n\n\n