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Was searching for some restaurant in NE which would serve dinner buffet on Sunday. Phoned few restaurants to verify if they were serving dinner buffets. Finally ended with this one as I have tried the rest all restaurants before. Being a south Indian, couldn't just leave without trying this place. Outside appearance looked like it would be gloomy and small inside.
But all my assumptions were overtaken by a nice built bar with wood inside the restaurant and also the place was pretty decent.
Washrooms were clean and neat.
As usual, opted for buffet. Buffet menu had fish curry, eggplant curry, Egg masala,chicken curry,cauliflower fry, pakoda, vada( how to say.. i can define it, its like old fashioned doughnut but without sweet in it and more crispy).
And elated to see south Indian recipes... Idly,Dosa,Chapati,Sambar, Rasam,More kolambu(in tamil language)( it is made of curd and some vegetables and onion) and it is one of my faves, Rice and noodles.
Really excited to see the whole menu of buffet and grabbed all the items hoping not miss even a single item without tasting.
Good ones: Eggplant curry,fish curry,vada, idli, dosa, Rasam.
Bad ones : Chutney(which we take along with idli and dosa) ( tasted bad), chapati ( very hard and we asked for the fresh ones but even they tasted the same) , Rice ( was not fresh and became hard too),More kolambu( one of my faves and it was very worse , seems like they had cooked it the day morning and continuing the same which made it taste sour), Pakoda was very hard to eat( wish we had enough energy to bite them ) .
So so : Egg masala, chicken curry,sambar.
Service was not bad. Even there was a pretty decent crowd than i assumed.
The specialty of this place is that the way the curries were made and the items are different from other south indian restaurants like vada, more kolambu, rasam etc. But they failed to score much in my screening test.
Overall : I won't visit this place again as it is very far for me to reach from downtown and also the price was $15.95(excluding tax).( costly). Rather I would prefer raj palace to southern spice.
It is a typical tamil restaurant ( tamilnadu,a province in india).
If you are near to this place, you may try this.
They do have onion utappam, and many other typical tamilnadu food but costly.
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