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| - I've been only to the lunch buffet at Sithara, but it sure is a good one. I live in a town that's got its fair share of Indian restaurants, but it doesn't have a very strong variety of them: the vast majority, some of which are good, feature what's become the largely ghee-heavy Northern Indian standards you see in the U.S. (tandoori chicken, lots of butter chicken offerings, naan, samosas, saag paneer, etc.).
What's not nearly as common in most towns in this country is Southern Indian-focused menus. (This one, unlike many Southern Indian restaurants, is not vegetarian.) This one's got a heavy emphasis on biryanis. Plus, you get as bread the thinner, more crepe-like pulka instead of naan. Anyway, I have a regrettable lack of experience with good biryanis--only recently have I come to realize how much explosive flavor a good cook/chef can pack into a single grain of rice--and I suspect they're always better when freshly prepared. But the goat biryani on the lunch buffet was still delicious.
Can't remember all that much else about the buffet selections other than that, compared to the average Northern Indian buffet, you get less earthy and buttery and more floral and fragrant flavors. And that I came away with a very good impression.
P.S. Looks like the dinner menu has a mish-mash of Northern & Southern specialties. (Of course, I should acknowledge that "Northern" & "Southern" are hardly very descriptive when talking about a country as large and diverse as India.)
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