Alexandria & Tysons, Virginia
Modern Indian, cooked to order in our own kitchen
Chaats, biryanis, tandoor, curries and a pastry case that our own bakers fill every day — at whatever spice level you ask for. Eat in, take it out, or send a tray to the office.
Authentic Indian
Fusion and tradition, out of the same pans
Chaats, biryanis, tandoor and curries, cooked to order in our own kitchen. The menu runs from the street food people grew up on to the dishes they order every week.
Cooked to order
Tell us mild, medium or hot when you order and the kitchen cooks to it. Ordering for a table with a range of tastes? Order a couple of dishes at different levels.
Halal
The meat we cook is halal, across the menu.
Plenty without meat
A whole side of the menu is vegetarian — curries and sabzis, chaats, Indo-Chinese, vegetable biryani. Vegan (V) and gluten-free (GF) dishes are marked, and several more can be made either way. Just ask.
Customer favorites
The ones people come back for
Cooked to order in our own kitchen — chaats, biryanis, tandoor and curries, at whatever spice level you ask for.
Chicken with bell peppers & onions in tomato & onion gravy
Two to an order
Aromatic basmati rice
Indian cheese and spinach
Black lentils cooked over a slow fire, seasoned with fresh herbs
Indian cheese in a creamy tomato sauce
Chicken cooked in onion gravy
First time here? Order the Aam Palak Chaat — crispy fried spinach, IndAroma chaat mix, diced mangos, cilantro, sweet yogurt, mint and tamarind sauces. And it is vegan.
Vegetarian curries and sabzis are served with rice. V vegan · GF gluten-free · * vegan or gluten-free option available.
Three ways
However you want to eat it
Dine in
Our café offers authentic, traditional and modern Indian fare, all made fresh in our kitchen to your preferred spice level. A bright, casual room, with the pastry case along the back wall.
Take out
Download our Takeout App and order ahead, or order direct on ChowNow — either way it is ready when you get there. Prefer delivery? DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub all carry us.
On average orders can take 20-25 minutes as the chefs prepare your fresh meal.
Party trays
For your home parties, office parties and other smaller events from 10 – 100 guests or even more, we suggest ordering our party trays. We can deliver those ourselves, based on availability.
Eat with us
Where you’ll find us
Two restaurants, and they do different jobs — worth knowing which one you are heading to.
Sit down · café
IndAroma Restaurant & Café
Little River Turnpike, Alexandria
The full room: tables, the whole café menu, and the pastry counter along the back wall. Dine in, or order ahead and pick it up. Our Indian grocery, Ginger & Spice Market, is a few doors down.
Address, hours & directions →Take out only
IndAroma ToGo
Corporate Ridge, Tysons · McLean
A take-out counter, not a dining room — order ahead, collect, go. It carries a shorter menu than the Alexandria café, and delivery runs from here too.
Address, hours & directions →
Pastries & cakes
Don’t leave without looking at the pastry case
Almost a dozen flavours of fresh-cream cake by the slice — Black Forest, pistachio, pineapple, and the one people come back for, mango.
Our pastry chefs make fresh cakes and desserts daily for the pastry counter. Variety includes 8″ Cakes, cakes by the slice, eclairs, cheesecakes and many others — all of it made on site, next to the Indian kitchen.
Ordering a whole cake? Call 703.354.1812Good to know
Questions we get asked at the counter
Do you deliver?
Yes — delivery is available through DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. Ordering direct for pickup, on ChowNow or in the IndAroma app, goes straight to our kitchen — every link is on the order page. We also deliver party trays directly, based on availability — call 703.354.1812 to order trays for your next event.
Where are you, and when are you open?
Two restaurants: the Restaurant & Café in Alexandria and IndAroma ToGo in Tysons. Addresses, opening hours, maps and directions for both — plus Ginger & Spice Market — live on our locations page, which is the one place we keep them.
Does IndAroma serve halal meat?
Yes. The meat we cook is halal.
How spicy is it?
However you want it. Say mild, medium or hot when you order and the kitchen cooks to that. If you are ordering for a table with a range of tastes, order a couple of dishes at different levels.
Do you have vegetarian and vegan food?
A great deal of it — vegetarian curries and sabzis, chaats, Indo-Chinese dishes and vegetable biryani. Vegan and gluten-free items are marked on the café menu, and several more can be made vegan or gluten-free on request.
Are all your pastries made on site?
Yes, IndAroma has a talented team of pastry chefs in addition to Indian Cuisine Chefs.
Can you feed a party?
Party trays cover home parties, office lunches and smaller events from ten guests to a hundred or more — see the party tray menu. Anything larger is full-service catering.
Do you do caterings for house parties and weddings?
Yes — the same kitchen caters weddings, corporate events and parties across DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Call us to find out more, or read about wedding catering and corporate catering.
Beyond the dining room
And when it is bigger than dinner
The same kitchen caters weddings, corporate events, galas and parties across DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia — from an intimate dinner upwards. For something smaller, party trays are the answer, and you order those from us directly.
Or call 703.354.1812.