Casual all-you-can-eat restaurant serving halal, vegetarian, and spicy Indian and Chinese cuisine.
★4.8
About Cafe Taj
Cafe Taj is an Indian and Pakistani (Indo-Pak) halal restaurant on West Bellfort in southwest Houston, the heart of the city's South Asian community. It's known for generous food, value deals and a menu that runs from Pakistani karahi to Indo-Chinese soups.
What to order
Goat Shinwari karahi: a Peshawar-style karahi, simple and meaty, cooked with tomatoes, green chilli and black pepper
Beef nihari: a slow-cooked stew traditionally eaten for breakfast
Chicken or goat yakhni pulao: rice cooked in a spiced meat stock
Chicken malai boti and tandoori boti from the grill
Goat chops and tawa bhuna goat
Whole fried fish (yellow pompano)
Good to know
It runs frequent buy-one-get-one-free deals on popular dishes, and there's a weekday lunch special.
An all-you-can-eat option is available, including vegetarian dishes.
Everything is halal.
It also caters.
For more on southwest Houston's Indo-Pak restaurants, see our Houston city guide.