Sundara

Everything was great we had vindaloo and saag paneer and naan. Delivery was fast and courteous, we were quoted an hour but ordered early as the suggest on the website and got the delivery much sooner although given the warning on the website I think it could have gone either way, I do appreciate the information up front. This will certainly be our go to Indian food place.

One of my favorites. I would eat here every night if money was no option. I always leave feeling full and like I just ate the best meal ever. I didn’t think I liked Indian food before Sundara! So glad they’re only half a block away

The place is small, there were only four tables in the front of the restaurant (we didn’t look to see what they had for outside seating as it was an unusually cold day in San Diego.) When we arrived we were the only people in the place, but there were quite a few people who came in and picked up take out orders so we weren’t too concerned. Shortly after we placed our order all of the tables were full.
We ordered samosas for a starter and they were very good. For entrees, we ordered Chicken Vindaloo and Chicken Tikka Masala along with an order of garlic naan. It was all served family style, but we pretty much stuck with our entrée of choice. Mine was the Tikka Masala and it was very good. The Vindaloo received rave reviews as well. A little warning that the vindaloo has a little heat to it. If you are not use to spicy food you are likely to end up in a dripping sweat. The naan was the perfect compliment. Not too garlicky or detracting at all from the flavors of the other food.
If I lived in San Diego this would likely become a regular stop. As it is, we were just visiting, but will keep this place in mind for return trips.

Seriously the absolute best Indian food I have ever had!
Highly recommend everything on the menu was delicious

Love this spot in OB. Quick in and out for a fun date night from a long week of work.

Best Indian food in San Diego! We come her at least once each time we visit. Tiki Masala is amazing, the best I’ve ever had!

This is one of the best Indian restaurants I have been to.
They have a good collection of favorable authentic Indian food.
The food was absolutely delicious. The service was outstanding and staff were all very friendly and attentive.
Highly recommend! Do give this restaurant a try and you wont be disappointed!

This is my favorite Indian restaurant of all time. So cozy and charming. Everyone is wonderful, especially Jaime! Whether your dine in or take out, the food is absolutely phenomenal. Go there.

Love the food and the peeps! Always yummy warm and full of flavor. Hands down one of the best Indian food places in town.

Seems like ordering online for take-​out is the norm here and I recommend doing so if you are planning to order take-​out. It will save you time. They had numerous take-​out orders ready at the window when I arrived. I didn’t order online, but my order was taken right away when I arrived. I ordered the garlic & cilantro naan, samosas, and dessert pudding. It took about 15 minutes for the order to be ready.
They package everything neatly and carefully. The naan was delicious! It comes with 4 slices. If eating as a group, I recommend ordering other items plus the bread, so everyone can get a slice. The bread was soft and fluffy with just the right amount of garlic & cilantro. The samosas were good and filled with potato, corn, among other things. They were very salty though. I got thirsty really fast after eating one samosa. Overall, I recommend this place and would like to come back for more Indian food here. It’s super close to Sunset Cliffs, so pick up some food and watch the sunset after!

We found this place seeing Unilocal reviews. I would hav given 5 stars but the taste wasnt authentic enough for me. The taste is good, just not how i like it.
We ordered the following:
Raita– excellent
Hot chai– excellent
Mango lassi– only OK
garlic cilantro naan– very soft and tasty
Vegetable tikka masala– was good but gravy didnt taste very authentic
Paneer vindaloo– have never eaten a vindaloo before so i felt this was a red chiily crushed gravy and didnt like it that much.
The ambience was great :)

Indian Pizza!!!
Place to go after a tired day of work. Ambience was just great with hospitable folks around
Ordered paneer tikka pizza to start with and then dal makkhini side dish with Naan and rice
Spice level was perfect and flavor was amazing!
The presentation topped it all, clean crisp and luxurious. The food was not costly for the area and quality offered. Just can’t beat this restaurant
Will keep coming again and again
PS: if you could add DOSA + Sambar to the menu it would be great. Your minimalistic menu is intriguing

I’ll never eat Indian food anywhere else again. If I was traveling through India, I would have GrubHub fly Sundara’s Tandoori Chicken across the ocean to India.
That being said: get the Tikka Masala, Spicy Baby Back Ribs and Tandoori Chicken. And they have a solid draft list. This is a great date spot for sure when you’re in the doghouse… Because they’ll get you back on track.

A very cozy/​quaint Indian restaurant. Serves beers and wines, even rum mango lassi! I didn’t have any of the drinks, but the prices are reasonable. Wednesday evenings feature $ 10 off the wines by the bottle!
What a gem!
Overall, the following fed 4 guys and a gal. We were all pretty full with this amount of food. The curries may look small in portion, but the flavors are really intense, and you will eat plenty of rice and/​or naan with it before you get to the bottom.
Our orders, with unlimited rice (!):
Apps —
samosa (comes with Tamarind Chutney and the Mint Chutney)
Spicy Baby Back Ribs
Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza
Tandoori Chicken
The samosas may be a bit pricier than you expect, but it is really well executed crust and filling. It is both crispy and soft. The chutneys are also really good. Others who tried the mint chutney said it was really good, as I am not a fan of mint.
The pizza was just amazing. I’ve had Indian style pizza elsewhere in Miramar, but that was underwhelming and unremarkable. This pizza though, exudes Indian in and out. The pieces of chicken hide inside the sauce under the cheese. Based on the size of the chicken I think it was ground chicken.
The ribs were good, but it didn’t scream indian to me. Anywho, very tender and full of flavors.
Tandoori chicken: juicy! flavorful!
Naans:
Garlic/​Cilantro naan
Sesame nann
All are fresh and fluffy. Can’t resist fresh baked breads of any kind!
Curries:
Dal Makhani
Channa Masala
Chicken Vindaloo
All the curries were delicious! Of the 3, Dal was the least intense in terms of spice and spiciness. It is a really good dish to order if you’re just going to eat it by yourself. Channa was also delicious but the spicy is significantly stronger. The garbanzo beans are very very tender. The Chicken Vindaloo is the spiciest of all. The chicken was very tender, but it does not absorb all that heat from the sauce.
Dessert:
Authentic Rice Pudding: topped with almonds and pistachios
I had a few bites of this. The spice is just perfect, and I must say, this will not shine without the crunch from the nuts. Not too sweet at all. I loved it.

This was one of those unexplored places. One of my friend had recommended this restaurant some time back and one fine afternoon we decided to just drive there and see what it has to offer. Well, to start with the welcome at the entrance till the time we left the restaurant, it was a very pleasant experience.
Even though this place offers Indian Food, none of the people working are Indian but wait till you read the rest. They not only offer great service but the food was really delicious as well. We asked for some onions and the guy (who was serving us) obliged us with a plate of sliced onions, chilies and some lime. I am sure they understand the Indian culture and the way of serving Indian food and that’s the reason they are so popular.
Well, I would definitely like to come back to this place. Good Luck, guys!

We ordered:
Chicken Tika Marsala
Paneer Marsala
Samosas
The food came at a great pace although services was just a tad slow.
I had no choice but to give it 5 stars for how great the food was. Best Indian food restaurant in San Diego.
Don’t forget to order the rice pudding. It’s to die for!

It’s like a secret within a secret…
OB (Ocean Beach) feels like a best-​kept-​secret neighborhood in San Diego, and this little restaurant is even more off the beaten path while throngs of people run amok at the restaurants and bars along Niagara and Newport Avenues.
The sell here is that it’s Indian cuisine meets craft beer. The dining room is quiet and intimate, and the menu offers homestyle curries that feel wholesome and comforting. The owner isn’t Indian but he’s somehow created authentic fare, from the chutneys, to the naan and the saucy, flavor-​filled curries. The menu isn’t too big, but they seem to know what they do well.
My friends who are regulars brought me here last weekend and we ordered the Vindaloo (just a little spicy) and the Tikka Masala, and added cheese naan and all three of the chutneys. We also ordered the Indian-​fusion spicy pork ribs appetizer which I highly recommend. My friend told me that the paneer (cheese) when ordered instead of meat is presented in one big slice versus chunks or small pieces.
I’ll definitely be back, especially since my friends are already hooked!

Finally gave Sundara another shot. This time we got take out. Ordering on their website was super easy. Everything was hot and ready when I arrived.
We had the channa masala and dal makhani. Both were great, I’d get the same order again. We also got regular naan and garlic cilantro naan (which I didn’t eat due to my aversion to cilantro — vile weed!). The naan was great. Side of raita was also great.
I really appreciated the packaging for the to go order. I usually avoid getting takeout because I hate all the styrofoam waste, the food is usually spilling out of the packaging, and sometimes the portion size is smaller for takeout, so it will fit in the box. We didn’t have any of those problems with the takeout at Sundara.
I would absolutely get take out again, but I still don’t think I’d try eating at the restaurant after our first experience.

Sundara is a good Indian restaurant with some very tasty dishes! They’ve also done something really smart, which is offering delivery in Ocean Beach and Point Loma. Since OB is perpetually 420, I’m sure they are making a killing with their delivery service (you can order through Unilocal or on their website)! Just be patient as delivery usually takes 45 mins-1.5 hours.
I have ordered several items for delivery, and most of them are really good while a couple are «meh.» My favorite item has to be their Spicy Baby Back Ribs appetizer. It comes with two large, very tender, baby back ribs in a dish with a really delicious dark sauce. True to it’s name, the sauce is a bit spicy, but just the right amount! I like the sauce so much that I also order a plain Naan because it’s perfect for dipping in the sauce.
Also good is the order of Samosas. Two very crispy samosas are in each order, and they’re packed with a mix of vegetables including potatoes and peas. I love that they come with both a tamarind sauce and a mint chutney because they impart two very distinct and different flavors to the samosas.
I’ve also had the rice pudding, which is OK but it’s too runny. The Chicken Tiki Masala was mediocre because I think the sauce could use a kick of some additional spices. Judging by the Unilocal reviews, some people love the Tiki Masala, but it tasted kind of «blah» to me. I’ll still order delivery, and some day I may actually trek to the restaurant itself.

A friend recommended this place and I’m happy they did. It’s quite out of the way for me, but given all the positive reviews, I was eager to try.
It’s right on a main road going into Ocean Beach and very easy to find. Parking is another thing. There is street parking but it’s quite limited. I came on a Sunday evening and it was quite full. Always a good sign. Even though they were quite full, they still had a couple of open tables and we had no reservations. We were seated immediately on the back patio. The main dining area inside is quite small and most of the tables seem made for two, but they can easily accommodate a table of four (or more I suppose).
The menu is quite limited but full of the traditional meals one would expect in an Indian restaurant. We had the garlic/​cilantro naan bread to start with. It was somewhat greasier than I expected and under cooked. We both had the Tikka Masala with chicken. The basmati rice was average at best and the chicken was quite dry. The Tikka Masala sauce did taste as expected. The portion was quite adequate and despite first serving of bread, we ordered more and it just came out the same; kind of soggy and for something with garlic and cilantro, while I could certainly see it on the bread, I couldn’t taste it.
I had black iced tea to drink and this was quite disappointing as it tasted like something instant. I would absolutely be shocked if they say it’s brewed. But what is really shocking is that most fast food restaurants serve fresh brewed iced tea so it’s sad that I have to have instant tea at a place like this.
The restaurant is quite nice and definitely very quaint. They also serve quite a few local microbrews. But the menu is limited and the food was average at best. Kind of a fun place to try but honestly there are many other truly great Indian restaurants in San Diego.