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| - Passage to India is a fairly new Indian restaurant in the University area. Unfortunately, Udipi (the vegetarian restaurant) has closed down and Passage to India took its place. It features a full menu as well as a weekday lunch buffet and a weekend brunch buffet that serves a couple more items than the regular weekday buffet like specialties from South India and a selection of popular street foods and of course vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian fare.
My family decided to try their weekend buffet, as a way to sample their style of cooking. The interior: simple, clean. Service: polite Price: $9.95 for weekend and $7 something for weekday, menu prices are varied but they have a $3.99, $4.99 and $6.99 bento box type special everyday.
The buffet is served until 3:30 pm, however they refill the buffet trays for the last time at around 2:30 (when we arrived) so we kinda had to try the leftover and dry-ish food. I didnt expect much, but I was pleasantly surprised. The food was Amazing! I tried to sample a bite of everything, but that was very hard because everything was so good, I wanted to cram my mouth with it. Even my mom - who never likes restaurant food, ate everything on her plate and praised it to bout! The amazing Iron Chef-India praised someone else's food! WOW must've been good :)
Ok, so I tried 2 of the 4 types of rice dishes, which were very flavorful but not overpowering. I tried the spinach/paneer dumplings in a creamy sauce, boneless tandoori chicken--they have the bone-in tandoori chicken too but since we were so late coming in, we didnt get any :( chilli chicken which is something everyone should try cause it was really good. The star of the buffet table was the Indo-Chinese style noodles. They were so good, it made me wish I had an extra stomach to I could keep eating it! When I go back, that and the chili chicken is all Im saving my stomach space for. I even tried the dosa, idli (rice cakes) with coconut chutney and sambar. They were all good, in fact really good and I cant wait for our next trip down University City Blvd.
I took some pictures with my iPhone, so I will be posting those as well, please excuse the poor lighting or angles. Overall, great brunch/lunch but my only regret is coming in so late, cause we missed out on a true 5 star rating meal.
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