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| - Jaipur has long been my favorite Indian restaurant in Charlotte. I took my girlfriend there for the first time on Friday for dinner and it blew us away. I guess on Friday nights they do a buffet which we chose not to get, but it had the one manager/server hopping the entire time we were there. Despite the fact he was taking care of basically the entire restaurant, he paid amazingly close attention to us and was extremely gracious. To wit, he started us with a complimentary appetizer of pakora, which was absolutely delicious.
I had the lamb rogan josh, Indian hot. She had paneer tikka masala. I got some garlic cheese naan, and she got just some regular naan. Both of our dishes were outstanding. I can't help but order lamb every time I eat Indian food so I'd never tried their paneer before, but I stole a bite of hers and it was excellent. My own dish was fantastic as well - a generous portion of lamb cubes in a delicious sauce. Of course, the jasmine rice was terrific and perfectly seasoned, and the naan was excellent as usual.
After we were finished, he then came by and gave us a complimentary dessert of what were listed as "sweet balls" - and boy, were they. Basically donut holes in some sort of syrupy glaze (I'm guessing corn syrup was involved), they were intensely sweet...a bit too much so for me, but my girlfriend loved them.
The food was terrific as usual and the service, while never disappointing in the past in any way, simply blew me away this time. I will absolutely continue to visit Jaipur any time I need to scratch that itch.
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