Noon on a Tuesday gives you about forty minutes, and the weekday lunch menu at Tabla is built for exactly that window. It runs Monday through Friday from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM, and $14 buys a complete tray rather than a single dish.
Soup, appetizer, entree, sides, dessert, and a drink all sit inside that one number. This guide walks through what the new Tabla weekday lunch menu actually puts on the table, which four locations serve it, and how to decide between a paneer platter, a plate of hakka noodles, and a bhatura the size of your forearm.
Quick Summary
Tabla's new weekday lunch menu is served Monday to Friday, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM, and $14 covers a complete tray with soup, appetizer, entree, sides, dessert, and a fountain drink included. The menu offers vegetarian and non-vegetarian platters, vegetable and chicken pulao, chole kulcha, chole bhatura, and an Asian platter. Four Tabla locations serve it: Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, and Oviedo.
Some Days You Want a Full Indian Plate, Not a Sandwich
There is a specific kind of hunger that a wrap eaten over a keyboard does not fix. The platter on the Tabla weekday lunch menu is the answer to it, and $14 is the price of the whole tray rather than the price of any one dish on it.
Every $14 platter arrives with all of this:
- Lemon coriander soup to start
- A vegetable samosa
- One entree, chosen by you from the lists below
- Butter naan and jeera rice
- Dessert
- A fountain drink
The entree is a choice inside that $14, not an addition to it. A paneer makhani platter and a chicken vindaloo platter cost the same as each other and the same as everything else on the lunch menu.
Pick one vegetarian entree:
- Paneer Makhani
- Vegetable Korma
- Hariyali Kofta
- Dal Makhani
- Vegetable Madras
- Dal Tadka
Or pick one non-vegetarian entree:
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- Chicken Korma
- Chicken Vindaloo
- Homestyle Chicken Curry
- Chicken Madras
Seven vegetarian entrees is unusual for a lunch special that normally offers two and calls it a choice. Vindaloo and madras sit on the same list as korma and butter chicken, so the heat range is yours to set. Order the vindaloo if you want the afternoon to know about it.
For the Days a Wok Sounds Better Than a Curry
Some lunch hours do not want gravy and naan. They want soy, garlic, and something that arrived fast and hot. The Asian platter on the Tabla weekday lunch menu is built the same way as the Indian one: $14 covers the full tray, and you pick the main inside that price.
Every $14 Asian platter arrives with:
- Soup
- An appetizer
- Dessert
- A fountain drink
- One main, chosen from the three below
Pick one main:
- Fried Rice, with veg, egg, or chicken
- Hakka Noodles, with veg, egg, or chicken
- Thai Red Curry, served with jasmine rice, with veg, tofu, or chicken
Shrimp is the only upgrade on the menu that changes the price. It adds $3 to any of the three mains, and it is the only number on the entire weekday lunch menu that is not $14.
The Thai red curry is the outlier here. It comes with jasmine rice rather than jeera rice, and it is the one main on Tabla's lunch list that reads more like dinner than like a working lunch.
When You Want Rice to Do the Heavy Lifting
Pulao is the order for the day you want one bowl instead of five components. Tabla puts two on the weekday lunch menu, and the $14 again covers everything on the tray rather than the rice alone.
Every $14 pulao arrives with:
- Soup
- An appetizer
- Dessert
- A fountain drink
- Your pulao, served with raita
Pick one: Vegetable Pulao or Chicken Pulao.
The raita is doing real work here, so do not push it to the side of the tray.
North Indian Street Food, Without the Street
Chole is the dish that decides whether an Indian kitchen is paying attention, and the Tabla weekday lunch menu gives it both of its $14 deals. Each one is a full tray for $14, not a bowl of chole with the rest charged separately.
| $14 deal | Everything that comes on the tray | |
| Chole Kulcha | Chole, baked kulcha (1 pc), raita, pickle, onion, lemon, dessert, fountain drink | |
| Chole Bhatura | Chole, bhatura (1 pc), raita, pickle, onion, lemon, dessert, fountain drink |
The difference is one piece of bread. Kulcha is baked and comes out flat and soft. Bhatura is fried and arrives inflated, and it deflates within about a minute of you tearing it, so tear it late.
Pickle, onion, and lemon on the side are not garnish. They are the acid that keeps a bowl of chole from going heavy halfway through.
What the $14 Actually Buys at Tabla
Lunch specials usually price the entree and let the rest climb. The Tabla weekday lunch menu goes the other direction. There are four ways to spend $14 here, and in every one of them the $14 is the price of the complete tray.
| Your $14 gets you | Everything included in that $14 | |
| Veg or non-veg platter | Lemon coriander soup, vegetable samosa, one entree of your choice, butter naan, jeera rice, dessert, fountain drink | |
| Pulao | Soup, appetizer, vegetable or chicken pulao with raita, dessert, fountain drink | |
| Chole kulcha or chole bhatura | Chole, one piece of bread, raita, pickle, onion, lemon, dessert, fountain drink | |
| Asian platter | Soup, appetizer, one main of fried rice, hakka noodles, or Thai red curry, dessert, fountain drink |
Served: Monday through Friday, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM.
The only exception to the $14: shrimp on an Asian platter main, which adds $3.
Six courses and a drink for one flat number is worth putting in a calendar reminder for Thursday.
Four Tabla Locations Serving the Weekday Lunch Menu
The weekday lunch menu is served at four Tabla locations, all within the greater Orlando area. Same menu, same $14, same 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM window.
- Tabla Orlando: The closest of the four to the International Drive side of the city, which makes a $14 full-tray lunch an unusual thing to find in that stretch.
- Tabla Winter Park: Lunch here comes with a walk before or after it rather than a dash back to a parking lot.
- Tabla Lake Nona: Same 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM window, same fixed $14, on the southeast side of Orlando.
- Tabla Oviedo: Far enough out from the centre of the metro that a proper sit-down lunch is a decision rather than a default.
Ordering Lunch From Tabla Without Losing the Hour
The lunch window is three and a half hours long and the useful part of it is about ninety minutes, so ordering ahead is the difference between eating and waiting.
- Order online through each location's ordering page and pick a time inside the 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM window.
- Pickup is the fastest route during the middle of the rush.
- Dine in if you have the full hour, since the soup and samosa arrive before the entree and that sequence is half the point.
Ordering ahead also solves the harder problem, which is that thirteen platter entrees and three Asian plates is a lot of deciding to do while standing at a counter with people behind you.
FAQ
1. What time is the weekday lunch menu served at Tabla?
The weekday lunch menu is served Monday through Friday, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM. It is not available on Saturdays or Sundays.
2. How much does the Tabla weekday lunch platter cost?
A complete platter is $14. That one price covers the soup, appetizer, your chosen entree, butter naan, jeera rice, dessert, and a fountain drink, so the entree is a choice inside the $14 rather than an item priced on its own.
3. What comes with a lunch platter at Tabla?
Each platter comes with lemon coriander soup, a vegetable samosa, your chosen entree, butter naan, jeera rice, dessert, and a fountain drink. Nothing on that list is an add-on.
4. How many vegetarian options are on the lunch menu?
There are seven vegetarian platter entrees: paneer tikka masala, paneer makhani, vegetable korma, hariyali kofta, dal makhani, vegetable madras, and dal tadka. Vegetable pulao and the vegetarian Asian platters are separate from that count.
5. Which locations serve the new lunch menu?
Four Tabla locations serve it: Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, and Oviedo. The menu and the $14 price are the same at all four.
6. Is there a non-Indian option on the lunch menu?
Yes, the Asian platter is $14 and includes soup, an appetizer, dessert, and a fountain drink alongside one main of fried rice, hakka noodles, or Thai red curry with jasmine rice. Shrimp adds $3 to any of the three mains.
7. What is the difference between chole kulcha and chole bhatura?
The bread is the difference. Kulcha is baked and soft, bhatura is fried and puffed, and both trays come with chole, raita, pickle, onion, lemon, dessert, and a fountain drink for $14.
8. Can I order the lunch menu for pickup?
Yes, the weekday lunch menu is available for pickup through each location's online ordering page. Choose a pickup time inside the 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM window.
9. Is the fountain drink included or extra?
The fountain drink is included in the $14 price on the platters, the pulao, the chole deals, and the Asian platter. There is no separate drink charge on the lunch menu.
10. Does the lunch price change on weekends?
The weekday lunch menu is not served on Saturday or Sunday. It runs Monday through Friday only, from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM.
Before Your Next Tuesday
A bhatura that arrives inflated, deflates in a minute, and gets torn into a bowl of chole with pickle and onion on the side is not a thing that happens at a desk. Neither is a soup, a samosa, an entree, naan, rice, and something sweet arriving in sequence for $14 on a Wednesday afternoon. The weekday lunch menu at Tabla is open Monday through Friday from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at the Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, and Oviedo locations, and the ordering page is faster than the drive.
Order Tabla's weekday lunch online and pick your time before the 12:30 crowd does.
