Star of India

RESEARCH-BASED REVIEW, NOT A FIRST-HAND VISIT. Everything below comes from the public sources listed at the end, accessed on 2026-10-11. No one from this site has eaten here for this review. Food-quality scores rely on public signals and are provisional.

Scorecard

Score change (2026-10-11): new review → 7.7. Why: first scored review of this business (no previous score).

Quick facts

• Address: 256 Commerce Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 [1][4]
• Phone: 770-632-7862 [4]
• Hours (as published): lunch buffet 7 days 11:00 AM–2:30 PM; dinner à la carte Mon–Sat 5–9 PM, Sun 5–8 PM [4]
• Other: full bar; says it serves halal meat; site says “14 Years” [4]

The short version

• Indian lunch buffet and dinner menu [4].
• Restaurantji 4.6/415; Tripadvisor 4.3/136 (#10 of 134); Google-derived 4.4/946 (Exa) and 4.4/965 (Restaurant Guru) [2][3][5][6].
• Health trend: 80 (Nov 2024) → 88 → 89 → 99/A (2026-08-11) [1].
• Good for: buffet lunches, vegetarian options. Maybe not for: anyone put off by a past run of B scores (now improved).

What the restaurant offers

A lunch buffet every day and an à la carte dinner menu; catering; full bar [4]. Restaurantji’s summary (not scored) names vegetable biryani, gulab jamun and masala chai as favorites [2].

What customers say

Ratings are high and consistent across four sources [2][3][5][6]. Restaurantji: 87% 5★ and 6% 1★ [2].

Credentials & red-flag check

• No conflicts found. Health scores were in the B range for three consecutive inspections (Nov 2024–Dec 2025) before the 99 in Aug 2026.

Georgia DPH food-service inspections, last 24 months (official portal ga.healthinspections.us, facility “Star of India”, permit FSP-056-000234 [1]). Georgia grades: A = 90–100, B = 80–89, C = 70–79, U = 69 or below (unsatisfactory).

Health & safety rubric score: 9/10. Rule used for every restaurant: base on the latest routine score (95+ → 9, 90–94 → 8, 85–89 → 7, 80–84 → 6, 70–79 → 5, under 70 → 3); −1 for another C-range result or −2 for another unsatisfactory result in the window; +1 if a follow-up after a sub-90 routine scored 95+; −1 if the latest routine has 2+ repeat violations. Provisional-permit (pre-opening) inspections are listed but not scored. Applied here: latest routine 99/100 (A) on 2026-08-11.

Pricing

Buffet prices are published: Mon–Thu $16.99, Fri–Sun $18.99; kids (3–8) $9.99 / $11.99 [4]. Dinner à la carte prices were not found on the site.

Other review platforms (checked 2026-10-11)

Blocked or unavailable: Yelp (bot check), Restaurant Guru (served a “verify you are human” page after three fetches; we stopped and used only the three pages read before that), and official sites behind Cloudflare. We did not get around any bot check. Ratings marked “Google-derived” come from Exa Places or Restaurant Guru pages that republish Google Maps data; they were read directly but are third-party copies.

What recent reviewers say (keyword analysis)

• Window: 2024-10-11 to 2026-10-11 (last 24 months). Sample: 5 reviews, dated 2025-11-15 to 2026-07-13. Sources: Exa Places list (Google-derived), Restaurant Guru (Google review mirror).
• Top compliments: food good (4), service good / attentive (2), atmosphere (2), clean (2), fresh (2), generous portions (1).
• Top complaints: cold food (1).
• Recent-experience score (RCE): 6.9/10 (13 positive vs 1 negative theme mentions; samples under 10 reviews are pulled toward a neutral 5; n=0 gives exactly 5). Only reviews visible on the pages read are counted; this is not a random sample, and aggregator snapshots show only a few reviews each. Search snippets were not counted.

Score breakdown (restaurant rubric §5.1)

The rubric weights below make up 90% of the score; recent customer experience (keyword analysis) is the other 10%. Overall is capped at 9.0. Unknown criteria score 5. See /how-we-score/. | Criterion | Weight | Score | Evidence | |—|—|—|—| | Food quality (provisional) | 30% | 8 | 4.4–4.6 across four sources [2][3][5][6] | | Service | 20% | 8 | Service sub-score 4.7 [2] | | Value & price transparency | 15% | 7 | Buffet prices published; dinner prices not [4] | | Reputation consistency | 15% | 8 | Consistent, high volume | | Health & safety (GA DPH) | 10% | 9 | Rule-based from the DPH history below; latest routine 99/100 (A) on 2026-08-11 | | Atmosphere, access & convenience | 10% | 6 | Published hours; strip-center location [4] | | Recent customer experience (keyword analysis, last 24 months) | 10% | 6.9 | n=5; 13 positive vs 1 negative theme mentions | | Overall | | 7.7 | 0.9 × 7.75 (weighted average of the rubric rows) + 0.1 × 6.9 = 7.665 → 7.7 |

Bottom line

One of PTC’s most-reviewed independent restaurants, with a clear buffet price and a much-improved latest inspection. The 2024–2025 B scores are worth knowing.

Sources (accessed 2026-10-11)

1. Georgia DPH food-service inspection portal, facility “Star of India” (permit FSP-056-000234), inspection history via the portal’s public data endpoint. https://ga.healthinspections.us/stateofgeorgia/ (record: https://ga.healthinspections.us/stateofgeorgia/API/index.cfm/inspectionsData/MzEyNzEzNw==)
2. Restaurantji page for Star of India. https://www.restaurantji.com/ga/peachtree-city/star-of-india-/
3. Tripadvisor page for Star of India. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g35179-d5779051-Reviews-Star_of_india-Peachtree_City_Georgia.html
4. Official website. https://starofindiaptc.com/
5. Exa Places list (Google-derived), PTC restaurants. https://exa.ai/library/places?q=1ccaa7fda7884d07
6. Restaurant Guru, Star of India (Google rating mirror; read before its bot check). https://restaurantguru.com/Star-Of-India-Peachtree-City

Research-based, not a first-hand visit. Data labeled “unconfirmed” (search snippets, machine summaries) is shown for context only and never moves a score.

Disclosure: no compensation, free meals, discounts, or affiliate relationship. Nothing here was published or sent to the business. Found an error? See /corrections. How we score: /how-we-score/.