Puran India Restaurant - Bloomington

Excellent food , The people are very polite. Food brings me Indian taste . I strongly suggest this place .

Best Indian food in town! Loved the quantities served and taste of the delicacies!

I really love to see this restaurant succeed with their lunch buffet and hope they can improve their buffet, mainly because they are clean (unlike Aroma Indian Restaurant food that always makes me sick), but their buffet has several issues. First the goods: clean, nice people, they have cucumber and they have goat on weekends buffet, and their Raita is based on good house made yogurt which is sour and good, not like store yogurt that is too smooth and sweet. Now the bads or what is lacking in the buffet: The buffet does not have any creativity, specifically there is no real vegetable in the buffet. And No, just because a dish does not have meat does not mean that dish is vegetarian! for example bread, white rice, or potato or corn or the so called vegetarian biryani that has nothing but rice and potato and corn or tofu are all plant based but they are not real vegetables, they are just pure starchy carbohydrates. Real vegetarian dishes which are absent here would be dishes made from for example eggplant, super healthy bitter gourd, zucchini, cauliflower, Gongura, cabbage, methi, squash, etc. And No, a pakora which is basically a tiny piece of some veggie coated in a thick starchy coating and then deep fried is not exactly a healthy vegetarian option either. The only thing that is vegetarian in their buffer is the Saag paneer which is made of spinach but spinach is really bad for people like me with kidney stone. So not being a fan of chicken or plain starch (rice or potato or bread) or spinach, and not seeing any real vegetarian dishes, I basically end up with only one thing (the goat on weekends) that I can have from their buffet. And sadly their goat also is too salty and not tasting that good. I also think a good Indian buffet should include chai masala and papad (the crunchy thin bread made from lentil flour) for people who try to avoid wheat based bread. Or even better lamb byrani would be a nice option. Bottom line I hope they decide to add some real vegetarian dishes and lamb because I like this restaurant and really want to support them but right now I just can't visit them too often.

Best food and service in this neighbourhood. Don't know why rating is low but the food was best Punjabi food I. Had in USA

I went in today and had a great experience. I had a really nice server and he was quick and very helpful. I had knew it was going to be busy being Christmas even, however even with it busy, I was seated instantly and given ice water a menus. The atmosphere was very cozy, it felt like home. They even had a cute little Christmas tree in the corner. After a bit our server had came back to take our order and I got the malai kofta and my date had gotten an egg curry, and we had also gotten a garlic naan. I really enjoyed listening to the music and everything too, but it only took 10-15 minutes for our food, with it being packed too, so I was really impressed. I really enjoyed the malai kofta, it had lots of flavor and tasted like it did in India (I went in 2018) and my dates egg curry had lots of flavor, I had tasted some and the egg was cooked perfectly. The garlic naan was really buttery and had a perfect amount of garlic. Overall a 10/10 experience, I definitely recommend this place to anyone.