What Orlando Loves to Order: 10 Tabla Favorites Customers Recommend

Grand National Drive off the I-Drive sprawl, where the parking lot belongs to a hotel and the restaurant sits on the ground floor behind it. Plenty of people looking for Indian food Orlando side of the tourist corridor drive past Tabla twice before working out that the entrance is through the lobby.

This guide runs the ten things that come out of that kitchen most often, with prices and what is actually in each. Two are desserts and two are drinks, which tells you something about how people order here.

Quick Summary

Tabla Indian restaurant Orlando is at 5847 Grand National Dr, Orlando, FL 32819, open 11:30 AM to 3 PM and 5 PM to 11 PM on weekdays, and straight through 11:30 AM to 11 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. Appetizer 65 runs $15 and Chicken Tikka $23. Every weekday lunch platter is $14. Delivery and pickup both run through Tabla's own ordering page.

The Ten Things Orlando Keeps Ordering

Ten items, running cheapest to most expensive, with what each one actually is

• Appetizer 65, $15 Crispy cauliflower, paneer, or chicken tossed in a South Indian sauce and finished with curry leaves. Ordered as cauliflower, it is the cheapest way onto the vegetarian side of the menu without touching a curry. 

• Manchurian, $21 Same format, different sauce. The signature Manchurian sauce runs sweeter and darker than the chili garlic, and it has the same $15 appetizer version. 

• Kurkure Momo, $14 House special paneer momo, fried crisp, served with tandoori mayo. Kurkure means crunchy, which is the entire premise: a dumpling that stops being soft. 

• Chicken Tikka, $23 Marinated and grilled, the most expensive item on this list and the one that anchors a table ordering for four. Off the tandoor rather than out of a wok, which is the distinction worth knowing if the last two entries sounded similar.  

• Chilli Garlic, $21 Your choice of protein tossed in Tabla's chili garlic sauce. It also exists as a $15 appetizer with cauliflower, baby corn, paneer, or chicken, so the same flavour comes at two sizes and two prices. 

• Thai Red Curry, $20 (Entree) Homemade Thai red curry simmered with fresh vegetables and coconut milk. It sits on an Indian menu without apology, which is why the table with one reluctant eater still works here. 

• Rasmalai Tres Leches, $7 Two desserts doing one job. Tres leches soaked the way rasmalai is soaked, which is a closer match than it sounds, because both are built on sweetened milk sitting in sponge. 

• Dubai Chocolate Samosa, $9 A crispy samosa in the Dubai chocolate style, served with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. It is the newest thing on this list and the one most likely to arrive at a table that did not order it, because somebody nearby did. 

• Lychee Basil Masala, $7 Fresh basil and lychee juice. The basil is the part that stops it reading as a soft drink, and it sits on the same $7 tier as the Disco Melon, Spicy Guava, and Mango Boba. 

• Mango Lassi, $6 The default order for anyone who has just discovered their dish is hotter than they planned. A yogurt drink rather than a juice, which is why it works on chili heat when water does not. 

Six of the ten cost under $16, which is not what most people expect from a room that looks like this one does from the doorway. 

Lunch, and the $14 Line 

The weekday lunch menu at this Indian restaurant Orlando runs on a single number. Nine options, all $14, across four separate sub-menus.

The Thai Red Curry at lunch is the same dish that costs $20 at dinner, which makes it the clearest saving on the menu. 

Weekday lunch at Tabla runs 11:30 AM to 3 PM. The kitchen then closes until 5 PM Monday through Friday, so a four o'clock arrival finds the doors shut. 

Starting Cheap, at the Chaat End 

Not every Indian food Orlando order starts at fifteen dollars. The chaat and snack end of the Tabla appetizer list opens well below that. 

• Bhalla Papdi Chaat, $9 

• Vegetable Samosa, Samosa or Aloo Tikki Chaat, Mixed Pakora, all $10 

• Pani Poori, Tabla's Mango Bhel, Veg Dumplings, Palak Chaat, all $12 

• Chaat Platter, $19, for a table that wants several at once 

When One Person Does Not Want Curry 

Every group has one. The Asian Entrees section at this Indian restaurant Orlando is the answer, and it runs deeper than most Indian menus bother with. 

Twelve dishes sit at $20, including Pad Thai, Thai Green, Yellow, and Massaman Curry, General Tso, Orange Sauce, Sweet and Sour, Hakka Noodles, Indo Chinese Fried Rice, Thai Basil Fried Rice, and Tabla's Triple Flavor. Schezwan, Manchurian, and Chilli Garlic are $21. 

That range is most of why popular Indian dishes Orlando diners recommend here skew toward the wok and the Thai end rather than the tandoor. 

The Tandoor, and What It Costs 

Chicken Tikka at $23 is the entry point rather than the ceiling. The Tabla Orlando tandoor list climbs a long way past it. 

The Mix Grill at $41 is the most expensive single item on the menu, and the Kabob Platter at $32 is the more common table order. 

The Curries and Biryani Underneath 

Ten signature curries at Tabla Orlando, all $23, all with the protein you pick: Makhani, Tikka Masala, Korma, Kadai, Jalfrezi, Roganjosh, Madras, Vindaloo, Palak, and Tabla's Homestyle. 

Biryani sits below that at $20 for vegetable or paneer, $22 for chicken, and $24 for goat, lamb, or shrimp. 

Bread Is Where the Bill Moves 

The bread list at Tabla Orlando runs twenty-three deep, which is more than most kitchens attempt. 

Rosemary naan at $6 is the one nobody expects on an Indian menu, and the one worth ordering next to the Thai Red Curry. 

The Rest of the Dessert Case

Two desserts made the list of ten. Seven more sit behind them on the Tabla Orlando menu, and the pricing is flatter than the main list.

Gajar Halwa and the Gulab Jamun, Rasmalai, or Rasgulla plate are both $6. Mango Tiramisu, Gulab Jamun Creme Brulee, Kulfi, Falooda, and Cassatta Ice Cream all run $7.

At six or seven dollars against a $23 curry, dessert is the cheapest decision on the table.

Ordering From Tabla Orlando

Anyone searching Indian food near me around Grand National Drive lands on the Tabla ordering page, which runs through the restaurant rather than a third-party app. It is the same page whether you are two minutes away or typing Indian food near me from a hotel on I-Drive.

Indian food online ordering here covers the full menu rather than a reduced delivery list, and ordering direct keeps prices at menu rate instead of aggregator markup. Indian food online ordering through an aggregator adds a markup on every line before the fees arrive.

The weekday afternoon gap is the detail that catches people out. Saturdays and Sundays run without a break, which is the difference between a two o'clock plan to work and not.