We finally have a great Indian restaurant on our side of town. Took my parents and brother from out of town there for a belated Father's Day dinner. My parents' previous experience with Indian food was sparse and bad. My father said he thought Indian food was gross and my mom said she got the runs the only time she ate it. But, my reputation for picking good places to eat is deservedly awesome so they went with it.
I ordered lamb saag and chicken tikki masala with garlic and butter naan on the side. Samosas for appetizer. Pretty standard but I wanted to go with popular dishes and maximize the likelihood they'd enjoy it. I shouldn't have worried...the food was really excellent. Flavorful and beautiful. The samosas were nice and crispy on the outside and no toughness to the pastry at all. It just shattered in your mouth like it should. Fillings and sauces were delicious.
The saag and tikki masala were excellent. Excellent with rice, excellent with the naans, and excellent eaten all by themselves. I ordered them mild because of the parents but I think a little heat would have made them even better. I'll do that next time.
Our dessert was absolutely fantastic as well. We normally don't get dessert since Chinese usually just eat fruit or weird sweet soups but I ordered us the milk cake with vanilla ice cream to share. Fantastic buttery note on the cakes finish and the ice cream was fantastic. Nice contrast of hot cake and cold ice cream. It really was the best dessert I've had in a long time and at $5 it was a steal. If you ordered that on the strip it's $12 easily.
Hope everyone checks this place out. The chef told me they've been busy but when I went it was near empty. We NEED this place to thrive. It's exactly the kind of neighborhood restaurant that deserves to be a huge success. Decor was beautiful and the service was excellent. Waitress and bartender were beautiful and that never hurts either. ;) Highly recommended.