I love Indian food. It's delicious and filling and so vegetarian friendly. Unfortunately, good Indian food is kind of hard to come by in small town Mid-Western America. I'd driven by Raj Mahal hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years and never stopped because it looked kinda dingy and rundown. A friend of mine told me that he dined there often and that even though it looked kind of run down the food was amazing and even better than Saffron Patch, a restaurant that I love. Usually my friend has pretty good taste, so I figured I'd give it a shot. When I walked in the first thing I noticed was the smell. It smelled like sour turds sprinkled with curry. I was pretty horrified, but thought maybe it would get better. It didn't. I almost walked out, but my date said he wanted to stick it out. We were seated at a table which was coated in a sticky film. There was a dead gnat stuck in the film. The water tasted kind of off. We ordered the Assorted Vegetable Appetizer. The veggie samosa's we're pretty good and everything else was edible, but not amazing. I ordered the vegetable curry and my date ordered meat masala. My curry was some of the worst that I've ever had. Flavorless and nothing about it tasted fresh. My date found a hair in his masala. We also had the pure delight of having flies and gnats buzz around us the entire meal. We won't be going back.