Rekha Karna

From the very first bite of the fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth dhokla and mirchi bhajji , I knew I was in for something special. The service from Venkat and Rohan was nothing short of gold standard — warm, attentive, and so genuinely kind that it felt like dining in a family home. True to the spirit of atithi devo bhava, they made us feel cherished guests. The kadhi leaned a little sweet for my personal taste, but still beautifully balanced — and honestly, when everything else is this good, you just smile and keep going back for “one more bite.” 😋 Vatan runs on a single unlimited set menu, but with such variety and freshness, you don’t need choices — you just need an appetite! A true homely experience in the heart of New York. 🥘💛

+1

santosh gupta

Vatan offers an amazing all-you-can-eat vegetarian thali in a beautifully decorated, traditional setting. Every dish is packed with authentic flavors, and the variety is impressive. The service is warm and attentive, and the overall experience feels like a cultural escape. Highly recommend for anyone who loves Indian food. One thing to mention that it’s a fixed menu and all as you can eat, so make sure you are really hungry and have enough time to enjoy everything..

+2

Aman Bansal

I'm truly speechless and out of words for this restaurant. Everything from ambience, service, food quality and taste is top notch and most authentic Indian food you can get anywhere. Every single dish/appetizer/main course has been nailed down to perfection, just how you find it in India. I was homesick and this restaurant definitely is going to be my go-to comfort place for a wholesome desi meal.

+2

Juanita Acevedo van Arcken

I loved the place! I came here with high expectations, and I'm leaving thrilled. Everything was very fresh and yummy. I was amazed by not only the flavors but also the ingredients and all the different textures. Mina was 10/10. Thank you so much for an unforgettable experience. I'm definitely recommending this place. It is also very clean and welcoming. The place inside is amazing, too.

+3

Ambiance and service is great. Love the food too and it's a set menu. The Mirch bajji is really spicy Definitely an experience worth trying.

Vatan is a unique place. It's 100% vegetarian Gujrati food delivered to you a nice homely atmosphere. The service is kind and prompt. Absolutely love this place.

Vatan is a unique place. It's 100% vegetarian Gujrati food delivered to you a nice homely atmosphere. The service is kind and prompt. Absolutely love this place.

Vatan is a unique place. It's 100% vegetarian Gujrati food delivered to you a nice homely atmosphere. The service is kind and prompt. Absolutely love this place.

Vatan is a unique place. It's 100% vegetarian Gujrati food delivered to you a nice homely atmosphere. The service is kind and prompt. Absolutely love this place.

First time and will be back for more! What a wonderful experience, the people here are amazing and wonderful. The food was excellent, we could not get enough.

First time and will be back for more! What a wonderful experience, the people here are amazing and wonderful. The food was excellent, we could not get enough.

If you've ever wanted to try good vegetarian indian food, this is the place! And what's even better, is that it's unlimited. \n3 courses of unlimited heartwarming authentic food. \nTakes you ba…

I loved their interior with the bright red fanatic to begin with. The thaali was tasty with lots of options to choose from. This is a very satisfying meal. The service was great.

Delicious Indian food. All you can eat buffet but order it with the waiter. We enjoyed everything we ate. ambiance is beautiful and all Indian themed.

Delicious Indian food. All you can eat buffet but order it with the waiter. We enjoyed everything we ate. Ambiance is beautiful and all Indian themed.

Great food, great ambiance and great service :) \n\nWe loved everything! The appetizer and desserts are soooo yummy! Rotis and puris were great too. Wish we had bigger appetites to eat more haha \n…

Great food, great ambiance and great service :) \n\nWe loved everything! The appetizer and desserts are soooo yummy! Rotis and puris were great too. Wish we had bigger appetites to eat more haha \n…

A great evening. It's all you can eat for I think $45 - they bring you an appetizer platter with 9 items if I'm remembering correctly, and then a mains platter, and then a dessert platter. You can …

Restaurant with Excellent ambiance and excellent Indian food . First they serve Indian Snacks including papdi chaat and others. Main xourse includes 4-5 vegetables and poori, chapati, papad. Then sw…

Restaurant with Excellent ambiance and excellent Indian food . First they serve Indian Snacks including papdi chaat and others. Main xourse includes 4-5 vegetables and poori, chapati, papad. Then …

Restaurant with Excellent ambiance and excellent indian food . First they serve Indian Snacks including papdi chaat and others. Main xourse includes 4-5 vegetables and poori, chapati, papad. T…

Vatan Indian Restaurant, located at 409 3rd Ave in Manhattan, offers an exceptional dining experience for those seeking authentic Gujarati cuisine. The restaurant’s ambiance is designed to resemble…

Vatan indian restaurant, located at 409 3rd Ave in Manhattan, offers an exceptional dining experience for those seeking authentic Gujarati cuisine. The restaurant’s ambiance is designed to resemble…

A very good authentic vegetarian restaurant with excellent service. Dishes are well prepared and served with attention and style. Must try.

Mira Sheth Bedi

The Service and ambience of this restaurant are impeccable! I thoroughly enjoyed my entire experience. The food was very tasty and took me back to motherland! I wish a little less oily in the vegetables and I wish the kadi was not sweet besides that simply awesome!

+2

Fraz Akhtar

I really enjoyed the all you can eat Thali meal here. The staff was also very accommodating considering we didn't have a reservation and they got us in relatively quickly, though the food still took a long time since they were full. The nice thing is that you get a little bit of everything here. So many vegetarian appetizers and so many vegetarian main dishes and even 4 or 5 dessert options. And you can ask for seconds for anything. I'm usually not a fan of deal, but here the deal was so delicious when mixed with a little khitchri that I had to get seconds. Absolutely delicious.

Hemant Kumar (Harsh)

Vatan is a wonderful vegetarian place! The chapatis taste just like home, and the servers were really kind and attentive. They serve buffet-style rather than individual items, but I actually loved it so many dishes to try and everything was flavorful. Definitely a great spot if you enjoy authentic vegetarian food.

Eric Lam

We came here to celebrate a birthday. We picked this place because we heard a lot of good things about it. Let's start with the ambiance. It is excellent. Good for groups. Relaxed spacious atmosphere. The service, while not rude, was not particularly warm as others have mentioned here. The service was quick though. In fact, everything felt a wee bit rushed. They asked to clear the trays while some of us were still eating for both courses. They asked maybe once during the meal if there was anything else we wanted. For dessert, the impression was that you can have only one or the other. In reality, nothing about the meal felt like it was all you can eat. The check was dropped off swiftly, while still eating, of course. However, id say the food was good. There's a good variety on each thali so there's bound to be something you'd like. We didn't come on a busy night, nor was it near closing time. So I don't know why they were in such a hurry. Maybe all the reviews gave me too high of expectations?? I'm not sure if this is going to be a repeat for me.

+2

Great appetizer selections, good main course varieties, could be more dessert options.

Great appetizer selections, good main course varieties, could be more dessert options.

Good ethnic ambience & Service. \n\nA passable experience and mediocre food for a $115 dinner for 2. Bland to sappy flavors for vegetarian food. We were quite disappointed because we had great expe…

great food and great ambience!! \nWe loved the dhokla / dahi puri and highly recommend the malai ice cream + gulab jamun for dessert! make sure to go with an empty stomach because there is a LOT of…

The thali is overpriced and not worth it . The food taste is less than average . Only the ambience is good . Won't recommend this restaurant to anyone.

The thali is overpriced and not worth it . The food taste is less than average . Only the ambience is good . Won't recommend this restaurant to anyone.

The thali is overpriced and not worth it . The food taste is less than average . Only the ambience is good . Won't recommend this restaurant to anyone.

The thali is overpriced and not worth it . The food taste is less than average . Only the ambience is good . Won't recommend this restaurant to anyone.

Extremely expensive for what is offered. Selection is limited and most appetizers cost more. 80$ for all you can eat vegetarian only open at night is steep especially for Murray hill where there ar…

overrated. Used to be awesome years ago. Now the items are bland and don't taste elevated in any way, and the service is just ok, nothing special. You can get better food at a number of places, and…

Not a great food as it is priced. They have a good ambience but I am a person who loves the food taste more when I am paying high at the restaurant.

it's vegetarian, "quasi all you can eat"\n\n$45 per person plus tax and tip which is pre-determined $13, totaling $58 per person. Your drinks are extra cost.\n\nFood is about C to a B-\nAmbiance A-…

I was curious to try this place but had written it off when I found out it was a $45 price fix no exceptions. Yet my friend really wanted to give it a try so we did. the total cost of the meal is $57…

I was curious to try this place but had written it off when I found out it was a $45 price fix no exceptions. Yet my friend really wanted to give it a try so we did. the total cost of the meal is $…

Food no doubt is good and tasty. Gives you small portion of everything and you can ask more that way it's less wastage. Now service quality isn't that good and that's why 3 star. It felt like they…

The price is 45 and not 32 any more like mentioned in TripAdvisor. Food taste is not that authentic or that tasty either. Muthia was really bad. I like ragda pattis. And mirchi bhajji. It's all yo…

Grishma Shah

If you are looking for authentic Indian food, or even just good Indian food, this is not it. The dishes are bland and forgettable. The batatavada and the mirchi bhajiya were good in the appetizer thali. None of the dishes in the entree thali were good, it tasted like pre-made, frozen meals. We were all highly disappointed. The malai ice cream was good in the dessert thali. Ambience is nice and service was meh. For the price they charge, no justification for this quality of food or service. I recommend anyone that enjoys Indian cuisine to skip it entirely. NYC has countless better Indian food to offer.

Poor behaviour and terrible service. The food was meh. They tried a very hard upsell on liquor and were disappointed that we didn't take them up on it

Tacky ambience. Sub-optimal food filled with baking soda to fill you up, and chapatis layered with oil instead of ghee and Gulaab jaamun made with oil/vanaspati. A good Gujarati restaurant back hom…

We liked the ambience and food but the service was poor and bowls in which food is served were too tiny. Portion size of food served is small. It would hold just 3 teaspoons of vegetables. I unders…

Had heard a lot about this place and called them on a recent trip to NYC. The place opens for dinner at 5 PM so we called them at that time while driving to make a reservation for 5:20 PM. Called t…

krishna mehta

I wish I can give 0 rating. I went to Vatan expecting an authentic Gujarati thali experience, but the overall value and pricing structure made the experience disappointing. The base price of the thali itself is already very high at $45 per person, which is significantly above what a traditional Gujarati thali typically costs, even in major cities. What makes it more frustrating is that this is not the final price. On top of that, the restaurant adds an 18% “operational/service charge per plate”, and then tax is applied afterward. By the time everything is added, the total comes out to an amount that feels completely disproportionate to what is being offered. Gujarati thali is traditionally known as a simple, wholesome, and abundant meal, rooted in home-style cooking and value. While Vatan does present the food in a traditional format and the concept itself is interesting, the pricing completely breaks the spirit of what a thali represents. At this price point, one expects either exceptional luxury, premium ingredients, or a truly standout culinary experience — and this does not feel like that. The additional operational charge also feels poorly justified. If service and operational costs are part of running the restaurant, they should be transparently reflected in the menu price rather than added later in a way that feels unexpected and excessive. Seeing a mandatory 18% charge before tax makes the bill feel inflated and leaves a sour impression, regardless of the food quality. Overall, while the idea of showcasing regional Indian cuisine is appreciated, the cost-to-value ratio is extremely weak. For the same total amount, you can enjoy multiple high-quality Indian meals elsewhere, including Gujarati food, without hidden or layered charges. This restaurant may appeal to tourists or first-time visitors curious about the concept, but for anyone familiar with Gujarati cuisine or looking for fair value, the pricing structure makes it hard to recommend.