Jassi’s World Famous Deli

Still the best. We order from here less frequently just due to me cooking more but WOW they are the best, still — almost two years after my original review!

They’re great… today I saw that they were seized because they haven’t been paying their taxes. Not so great. :(

When we arrive in NYC from the West Coast, we always get in later in the day so we order delivery. The staff at the hotel recommended Jassi to us. The food is excellent… there hasn’t been anything that we did not like. The portions are huge… two people can easily be satisfied with splitting one dish. This time we had the Chicken Tikka Masala and the Curried Chicken. The prices are beyond reasonable and the delivery is swift… they seem to be knocking on my door the minute I hang up. They are comparable to our favorite sit down Indian restaurants in quality. Give ‘em a try!

AVOID AT ALL COSTS! If I could give negative stars, I would.
I wish I’d read the reviews before I’d ordered — but my old stand-​by Samossa Bites wouldn’t pick up the phone. This is the WORST indian food I’ve ever eaten — full stop — and I’m VERY forgiving where Indian food is concerned. They arrived in 55 minutes — which is good, but the food being horrible was a waste of 30 bucks.

The Indian food is REALLY tasty. Perfect basmati rice and naan. Generous portions, especially of the raita, which many other places skimp on.

Hopeless.
We ordered from this place for a saturday lunch. The person on the phone had an extremely thick accent and was not able to give my address correctly to the delivery person. The delivery person had such poor English and avoided to call us when the order disappeared for 1.5 hours. I had to call and track down my lunch while they hung up on me for calling too much.
When the food came, it was lukewarm and we had to microwave it. I’ve never had worse palak paneer in my life. The spinach was tasteless and paneer was rock hard (like someone just carelessly dropped them in after the whole dish is cooked, instead of cooking it with the spinach). My goat vindaloo just tasted like tomato paste with lamb.
Shit, if I knew this earlier I would have gone to the supermarket next door and bought microwavable Indian food. Cheaper, faster, tastes better and probably healthier.

WWOOOWW i waited an hour for my order, and then when i called to check on it the guy was a jerk!, saying that he was the only staff on and did i want him to close down the whole restaurant just to deliver my order??? OF Course not! Just dont let me sit around for what became over an hour to wait around for something that was never coming,… jeeeeesshee was i upset…

THEY ARE CHEATERS! I would have given them NEGATIVE 5.
I have been a regular customer to this place, and order my delivery from them almost twice a week.
I had ordered some food and got something different. When I called back to let them know that they had delivered wrong order, the manager told me to eat what they had sent me. … I was surprised on this. I told him that I need my ordered food, and that the delivery boy and take back the wrong order. He told me that I would get my order in 20 min. After this I had to call them 6 times in the span of 3 THREE. hrs, and to add to my agony the manager would not come to the phone. He had a spanish guy saying that my food is on the way and then later that the delivery boy is busy. The place where I was staying is like 10 min walk from the restaurant. I told him that I have an injury and cannot walk to the place.
I will never be dining again with these CHEATERs.

The service was good, though delivery was a bit slow.
Perfectly edible, but the food is not as good as Five Star which is half a block away. I really wanted it to be (since Five Star service can be so odd), but it just did not reach the same heights. I ordered my old standards: chicken tikka masala, samosa and garlic naan.

I love the food however their estimate on food delivery time is WAY off. I was told 45 minutes. I waited as patiently as I could and called them 30 minutes later (on top of the already waited 45 minutes). They really need to work on delivery skills and communication with their customers.
My Star Ratings:
1 Star — delivery
3.5 Stars — food

Such a convenient spot to stop in back and forth from the Court Sq. subway station and our hotel in LIC.
I’m not sure if the woman that works behind the counter there each time we walked in was Jassi, but if it is her… KUDOS for being open late (even after your closing time) for us to grab a few more snacks to nibble on late at night in our hotel bed. :)
Good selection of Snapple Diet teas here. Apparently the baked goods and desserts are from a bakery in Brooklyn.
This was where I purchased my first bag of Deep River kettle cooked potato chips and they were bomb! Try the Rosemary & Olive Oil or the Mesquite BBQ! Sooooo crunchily yummy!
We didn’t order any real food here since we were pretty much stuffed every other hour from other spots in the city that we had bookmarked on Unilocal.Maybe next time I will try some real homecooked Indian food here.
Oh! We also grabbed a Marble muffin from here and we had it on the plane on our flight back home. Even though it wasn’t super fresh and warm, it was still delicious! Very cinnamony and sweet. :)

Tikka Masala, Modelo, and Parliaments. What else could you want from a cheap-​ass delivery joint?!

Never showed up with our food.

To end our hurricane weekend we ordered our final lunch today from Jassi’s. We had the chicken tandoori, chicken tikka masala, butter naan, rice and the green and red chutneys. Overall it was ok, a lot of food, but certain details need to be paid more attention. First of all, the naan really didn’t have any butter flavor. Secondly the chutneys were a bit on the watery side and I was really wishing that the tamarind one was just a bit more substantial. The chicken tandoori actually impressed me with the fact that it wasn’t dry. Still not a huge fan, but I didn’t hate it. Finally the chicken tikka masala was good, but after a few bites, it really started tasting too heavy for my taste. Maybe it was just too salty or too rich, but that has really never been a problem for me with dishes in the past. Something about this dish just kind of made me want to stop eating it after a few bites. Anyways, I am not sure if I will be trying this place again, but with the lack of options in the neighborhood, we will see if I do give it another try. Might have to stick with curry row or little india for my indian food in the future.

I’d give this a negative star rating if I could, given the way they fucked us around on a delivery order.
We were told there’d be about 40 minutes until delivery. After an hour we called and were told the guy had just left. Half an hour later we were told he couldn’t find us, despite the building being hard to miss. They even asked if we spoke Spanish so we could give directions to the delivery guy.
Half an hour after that the food finally turned up, with most of the dishes needed a reheat and the samosas stone cold and brittle. The chicken dish was overly greasy and the lamb the worst I’ve tasted in
New York.
I wouldn’t order from this place again unless you put a gun to my head.

Delivery took a little while but the Indian food was delicious! The fruit smoothie I got was also very good. This is some of the best Indian food I’ve had out here in Sunnyside and it’s reasonably priced so I’m thrilled.

There is a part of me that is totally unsure about this place. The name would suggest that it’s more of a convenience stop than a restaurant, but it appears to be more of a takeout /​delivery joint, one that happens to focus on a cuisine I love almost more than any other. Some of the best food I’ve had in my life were from truckstops, hole in the walls, deli stores, and street carts. Jassi’s is for the most part, a lackluster reminder of how good I’ve had it.
Their food is somewhere in the middle, an abyss of Indian specialties that are more average than they are spectacular. Having sampled most of the menu, I am sad to report most of the dishes are hardly memorable. With average prices, presentation, and taste, there is not one dish that surpasses the rest. Most items are priced between $ 9 – 14, which feels a bit spendy compared to most other Indian establishments in Queens.
Here is where it gets interesting — because Jassi’s is also a deli, they serve a whole array of sandwiches (burgers, wraps, Philly cheesesteaks, cold cuts etc.) which ironically have fared better than their Indian food. Most of the sandwiches are within the 5.50-$ 8.00 range and seem to be adequate for what it’s worth. The cold turkey and brie is my go-​to sammy here and I would recommend staying away from their burgers.
Delivery here is quick and they close every day at 9PM. I would assume business would be better if they were a late night operation, since they need some type of edge to stay unique when there are infinitely better deli and Indian joints all around.

PAINFULLY slow delivery. Took two hours to arrive, food was cold and order was wrong. Then they REFUSED to bring me my right order because it was TOO LATE nor would they give me a refund. Do NOT order from this place. The food isn’t even good.

Unbelievably flavorful food Indian food.
We always order delivery.

The Indian food is very tasty. They use fresh ingredients and the prices are very good.