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| - This place is fine--it's close to home and will probably end up being our Indian standby.
We tried this place because we got a $25 gift certificate at a greatly discounted rate (try 80% off) on Restaurant.com. On the weeknight we went in, we were the only people there.
Indian food makes great leftovers, and we had a minimum amount we had to spend, so we ordered up a storm.
We started with mango lassis. Flat-out, the best mango lassis I've had the fortune of trying. They're piquant, fruity, and very thick and creamy. Mmm. Mmm. I'd go back just to suck down a few of those.
The naan was good, too--I appreciated that they didn't bury it in cilantro. I'm not a cilantro fan and I always--ALWAYS--forget to ask Indian places not to garnish with it. The cilantro was there, but not overpowering. Cool. We got a paneer (cheese) naan and a garlic naan. Yummy.
The curries were where we were a little less impressed. The eggplant curry (baygan bartha) was pretty heavy on the cinnamon and for a Western palate, was a little much. I like my Indian food spiced up the wazoo, but cinnamon is one I appreciate them being light-handed with because it's so often used in sweets here.
The chicken coconut had great flavor, and I don't think you could ask for more tender chicken, but the chicken chunks were huge and seemed to have been just hacked apart--I got a huge chunk of very hard cartilage in my curry that I'd've rather not bitten down on. Their chicken coconut is not your usual chicken coconut korma/kurma, so be warned. In fact, the Indian waitress stared at me and asked me to clarify when I ordered "chicken coconut kurma." They have a basic chicken kurma on the menu and she wanted to know which one I wanted... I just said "chicken coconut" and let it be.
As an other reviewer said, the makhani's sauce is rather redder than I've seen it made before, and it needs to be more than just sauce and chicken pieces. Other makhanis I've had have had cashews, golden raisins, and sliced peppers, and I did miss that in this preparation.
The chicken tikka masala, too, was missing something, but for that one, we couldn't put our fingers on it. It was just a little different than your usual tikka masala. Tasty, but it's lacking something. Who knows.
We didn't try dessert because we were going to explode, but based on the lassis, I'm sure they're pretty good.
Service was more than fabulous--our waitress and the back waiter both took great care of us. Plenty of water, always cleared the table when it needed it.
In short, we'll be back, but we'll be on the lookout for a knockout Indian place, too.
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