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| - I think I got this restaurant confused with another one initially because I was expecting a buffet. When I walked in and saw there was only a chutney bar I didn't mind too much since there were lunch specials and the menu looked intriguing. Since a lot of Indian restaurants here serve North Indian style cuisine it was a nice change of pace to try South Indian style dishes.
There are currently 3 different lunch specials. Quite honestly at the time I didn't know half of the dishes that were listed on it but I got #5 special thali lunch simply because it had the largest number of items. :) The #5 ($7.50) includes rice, chapati, sambar, rasam, porial, kootu, papadum, and dessert. I asked for it to go and it was made in just a few minutes. I also looked up the what each dish was so I could identify them later. :)
Each dish had a distinct flavor and was good with either the rice or the chapati flat bread. I enjoyed the spicy bold kick of the sambar soup, the delicate taste of the kootu lentils, and the mixed vegetable porial was probably my favorite of all the dishes. The rasam soup was a little too sour for my tastes, but that's just me.
Dessert was a delicious sweet mango(?) pudding with very thin, dark noodles. Very unique and the first time I've had this particular dessert!
I also ordered a mango lassi which was a sizeable portion, with rich, tart mango and yogurt flavor.
Sadly I did not receive any papadum (thin crispy lentil wafers) with my order but I was pretty stuffed eating only half of my order anyways so it didn't matter too much.
Overall I loved the food here and they aren't afraid to kick up the spice level. I'll definitely be back!
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