Sooooo good!
My friend had heard about Tandoori Times through his Indian work mate. I must say we were pretty excited to try and had rather high expectations.
I was able to make reservations online which was great although we didn't receive a confirmation email so I wasn't sure if our table really did get reserved. I called to confirm yesterday and they received our reservation - all was good.
Tandoori Times in located in a plaza in Scottsdale off Hayden. It's kind of tucked in the back but there is plenty of parking near by. It was really cute - didn't look like your typical Indian restaurant. In fact, it looked more like a little American cafe with very minimal decor. We were seated immediately and noticed they had a belly dancer - always fun to watch! We took note there were a lot of Indian patrons enjoying dinner here (always a good sign).
We shared the Aloo Tikki (Potato patty served with garbanzo beans, onions, mint & tamrind chutney), Garlic & plain Naan bread, Mango Chutney, Chicken Masala (Base of onions, ginger garlic, and vine ripened tomatoes combined with chicken), Lamb Vindaloo (Lamb cubes cooked in a special vindaloo aromatic sauce with potatoes) & Chicken Vindaloo (Chicken cooked in special vindaloo aromatic sauce with potatoes). The food was very good and the Vindaloo had a serious kick to it so if you aren't into spicy curries you may want to have them tone it down. The thing I normally notice with Indian food is it can be on the salty side...not Tandoori Times though. The combination of fresh flavors and spice really was art like. Oh and the Mango Chutney was perfect - my British friends and I thought we had died and went gone to heaven.
The service was really good and our waiter had a great sense of humor. Gotta love service with a side of humor or sarcasm. :) We brought a birthday cake with us and to my surprise the restaurant didn't charge us that stupid cake cutting fee. I hate it when restaurants charge for that. I can cut my own cake! The belly dancer was really good and as the boys said with a smile "she's really flexible". The only negative was the music was really loud and we weren't able to talk with out having to raise our voices.
Give it a go! It's delici.