Great fast food that's full of flavour. Tadka Boom is more of a place where you grab a quick lunch, but the quality is good. They offer fusion dishes and twists on Indian classics. I had a really nice meal here and the service was excellent. The dhal was loaded with garlic and flavoured with sesame oil. This made is taste almost like hummus, it was unique. I also really liked their lassi, but the curries here are the star. I'll definitely return for lunch in the not too distant future.
Loved the curries here, the beef and lamb are to die for. You don't get a lot of that lingering spice smell after having them too. The price for them is great considering most other restaurants with good curries are a bit expensive. The ambiance is great as well with friendly and polite staff. The deals are great if you are keen to fill your self up.
Love this place! One of the best Indian restaurants in Melbourne since the new menu and new stuff came in earlier in the year I love going there even more!
My favourite is the butter chicken wrap, rice bowl and the naan sense tacos. The mango lassi drink is a must! The staff are always friendly and it’s a perfect lunch time meal.
Stumbled upon this Indian restaurant on Bourke st. love their modern decoration and interesting menu. Food is generous and none oily, value for money and tasty curries to choose from. Both curries and Mango Lassi is rich, creamy and delicious. Love their Tadka Taster Plate (choose 4 curries w rice and papadam)!
Delicious and healthy food at a reasonable price. Came in at the end of lunch time, manager and staff were friendly and accommodating. Good experience, will be back.
Yummy contemporary Indian with a modern twist. Don't go if you expect the usual Indian fare. This is new and different and authentically Indian. Spicy as you want. Well recommended.
I love the concept of a quick, hearty and relatively healthy Indian fare in the corporate side of Melbourne CBD. The menu is also very appealing, with authentic spiced curries and drier meats such as the lamb shoulder. It was unfortunate that the woman who served me during my first visit wasn't very generous of the portions, as I could definitely see the discrepancy in her serving compared to her colleagues. It came down that it wasn't too value for money as I expected. The oil from the roast lamb dripped into the brown rice, which was a let down. With that being said, I enjoyed the flavour profile of the meat dish as well as the chickpea curry. I loved the touch of pickled vegetables and yoghurt sauces on top of the bowl too. I'm looking forward to next time, perhaps I'll try the chicken curry.
Tadka Boom is a fantastic place for a satisfying, delicious feed. There are great veg/non veg choices and you can add or change things as you go. These options help keep their menu fresh and interesting and I love the way I can alter my sides depending on my mood on the day. Lovely, bright place for lunch.
An Indian lunch was on the Swine's menu today and what a satisfying feed it was. The Swine is new to Tadka Boom as an eatery and was happy that staff here were only to obliging to assist with explaining how the menu works. The Swine went with the safe option of standard curried meats, and rice for his first time, but was well impressed when watching the wraps being constructed. Looked awesome. Wraps did look Swine Sized (huge!) and delicious. Food here was curry in a hurry flavoursome, spicy good and very much filling. Price was reasonably good as well. The place was busy (which is always a great endorsement) with an inside and outside eating area. Tadka Boom is well recommeded and Swine approved. The Swine will be back!!
Amazing, lip smacking lunch!!! Had to wait in line for 10 minutes but well worth it. Very courteous staff.
The food was not just tasty but very healthy. Decided on a veg portion and not disappointed. Perfect for office goers in the CBD area.
Cheap and delicious. Been here in my lunch breaks about 3 times now. The food is consistently good and full of flavour. I'm told it is a healthy option but I just come back cause it tastes great, try the veg curry. Would be surprised if this place doesn't blow up into a chain that finds it way into most food courts in Aus.
I came here with a friend for lunch not knowing what to expect. But as soon as I saw the menu I knew that this was going to be a good day. I had the couscous salad with 15hr lamb. It was great but there must've been something in the spice mix because my tongue was tingly for the rest of the day... Which was odd. But the food was nice. Will come again.
Great place, this is what goldsborough lane needed! Service is great, the owner is lovely, very welcoming. Loving the lamb roti wrap for lunch and the iced tea!
A quicky but a real goody! Not really a restaurant, but a takeaway place for a quick lunch, although you can eat in. Also, I need to apologise for the lack of posts over the last three weeks. As some of you dedicated foodies may know, the great site that was Urbanspoon has been sold to another company and renamed Zomato. There are many, many things wrong with the new site which I won’t bore you with, but basically I have not received any traffic from Zomato since the changeover. This has of course messed with my motivation, as Urbanspoon accounted for about 90%. Anyway, about the food...
Always a cheery group of staff, solid food for a good price. Great lunch option when hunting through the multiple choices in Goldsborough lane. Roti wraps are delicious and I want that quinoa salad to come back! Today's chicken curry seemed to miss the chicken...hoping that was just a scoop faux pas.
Eat And Be Merry Crew
+3.5
The dhal which accompanied all the rice bowls was good enough to eat on its own (and is offered as a vegetarian rice bowl option) and the Takda slaw provided a nice balance for the other ingredients. Other than the lamb the other dish I was interested in was the chicken curry (Bombay bird), described as a six-spice fiery chicken curry served with the same dhal and salad. As with the lamb the chicken was very good, tender and tasty although I think fiery was a bit of an overstatement. Spicy is too often used an a synonym for chill hot, and while there was a touch of heat it was well within the occasionally chilli-phobic Snoozes tolerance level, for me just enough to get the tastebuds staring to tingle. Ms No Meat and Snooze both offered samples of their choices, the cous cous salad and the grilled chicken tikka, which I can confirm were tasty and enjoyed by both of them. Couscous salad If you want you can also ‘Make it a meal’ by ordering the masala chips (sweet potato chips) or the Bombay bites (lentil and herb nuggets with a coriander aioli) along with an accompanying drink. Ms No Meat went for the Bombay bites which she liked, although for me they were a little dry even with the accompanying aioli. The thin cu
Great value. Such quick, cheap, convenient take away. I'm so glad this place is near my work - I am counting down to 1:00pm so I can rush over and grab a spicy chicken curry rice bowl (only 58 mins to go)
Went here for lunch and had the rice bowl with dahl and spicy chicken option. Food was tasty, not overly spiced, which one might understand from the fact that this is an alternative (and healthier) take on Indian food. They use brown basmati rice which taste excellent and takes nothing away from the texture you want. The extra salad on top was a good addition, and would probably want some yoghurt rather than the dahl.
Its not exploding with flavour, but it certainly isn't bland.
The meals are very affordable as a lunch option, although the ethnic drink options could probably be better.
Overall, enjoyed the food and definitely going back here.
Clean, fresh and tasty!. This is nothing like the Indian food you get at 99% of the places around town. The slow cooked lamb is unbelievable and the sliders are addictive!
Boom!. I love this place, and it's new take on Indian food. Great city lunch options, and very reasonably priced. The customer service is excellent, and I've been a few times since they opened!
Tasty wraps. Interesting blend of rice, spices and lamb in a wrap. The pokoras were nice as well.
Love this place!. Stopped here for lunch during work this week and the food is delish! Fast, friendly and good to have something different than the same old CBD lunch time cuisine. Ingredients are fresh and great value for money. Definitely recommend!
Indian the way it should be!
For those of you who think Indian food should be hot enough to melt the soles off your shoes, stay away!
Tadka Boom! is the most delicately flavored food you can find. Yes it's a fast food restaurant, but the ingredients are fresh, made by a family team and just downright delicious.
I've had the breakfast, porridge, wraps and sliders - pretty much the entire menu. The blending of ingredients and aromatic spices have won me over and I will continue to come back.
I don't normally write review's however, I dropped in this morning for a different take on breaky and loved it!! Indian style coffee was smooth and breaky was quick, easy and delicious. Great start to the day!!
TADKABOOM! Absolutely loved it. Fresh, light and very tasty. Such a different take on Indian food and was so quick and easy.
BOOM! Outta this world in flavor!!!. OMFG! this place totally rocked my world! I am actually a fussy eater and usually want meat in every dish I eat when I go out - But this place totally changed my mind on that!
I have had the Brekkie Wrap twice now and it's my go to thang on the menu.
It never fails me! I could JUST eat the wrap on it's own and I would be happy! It's like Roti bread but better!
For lunch have the Lamb - Its outta control and bursting with yummy-ness!
Just go here guys! Like just go and experience it - You won't regret it :D
This place is awesome!! Very flavoursome meals packed with an infused Indian taste that you can control your own desired quantity. Along with the Great service, I would recommend this place to anyone!! We'll be back for lunch
Original and flavoursome. A great addition to Goldborough lane, definitely adding this to my lunching repertoire. Love the originality of the concept and new fusion of flavours. Highly recommend the lamb wrap!!
My first time during lunch at work, had take away. Cute little sliders and lentil fritters. Nicely spiced and fresh produce. Staff were lovely, friendly, helpful and very welcoming! The only thing I found that although my fritters & burger were spiced they lacked in salt. However this will not stop me from going back as I would love to try more items from the menu : ) well done xx
A great take on Indian food. Indian flavours, subtly blended. Try this place, the flavours are authentic and it's Indian food that won't give you heartburn! The wraps, made with real rotis are generous and yummy. I really enjoyed the slow cooked lamb wrap and the roti tasted like what I'd make at home without the awful taste of preservatives that you get in most wraps. I went back for their dessert - the ice creams are to die for!! Well done, whoever dreamt up the flavours!
Brilliant. Awesome food and wonderful friendly staff... Make this a local as its definitely worth it.
Matthew Carlo Donazzan
+4.5
An awesome healthy breakfast or lunch option. I have eaten Tadka Boom! twice now (only opened last week!). Had the Idli Over Easy breakfast (two eggs, spinach and indian rice dumplings)and the Tik-Tikka Boom! (grilled chicken wrap with chickpea and coriander).
Both were fresh clean meals full of flavour. Good to see more healthy and interesting options coming to the city.
A Chronicle Of Gastronomy
+3.5
Light, fresh and healthy might not be adjectives people typically string together in the same sentence as Indian cuisine. Mother and son team, Lalitha and Ashwin Rajan, aim to bring contemporary Indian food to the Melbourne food scene. The bright white, yellow and turquoise colour scheme helps reinforce this theme and makes it a comfortable place to spend breakfast or lunch.
Nice little Indian place tucked away in an "off the main road" lane. Prices are great and the food nice.
I tried the chilli chicken souvlaki and liked the fusion. Perfect place for a quick lunch break
No metal re-usable cutlery available if you dine-in. Indian food is very nice but seriously small businesses must have dishwashers that make the cleaning process very quick and efficient… and even if they don’t, how long does is really take to clean a big batch of utensils? I try to avoid businesses if their management greedy and don't care about environment.
The make the best desert in Melbourne. The Berry malai is one the best desert they serve with sweet rasmalai topped with raspberry on top is such a lovely combination. Lovely ambience to chill out with a beer and some burgers .
Great place for lunch if you love indian food. Good service from the staff. Quick service. There is also indoor seating.
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