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| - To avoid bicycling under the hottest time of day, I went to Steve's Espresso...but didn't really feel like a pastry at lunch time. I pedaled around and decided I would just check out the very busy Indian food place two store fronts down. There were seriously like people pulling up and getting food the whole time I was around.
I can see why Colleen thought they were unfriendly-this is a very harried family business and not everyone is fluent, but I understood it was just a busy time of day and didn't really feel unwelcome. I noticed they had buffet (8.99), and checked it out-it looked good, but most of the vegetarian dishes had cream or cheese in it, so I opted out and looked at the menu and just got the samosa and eggplant pakora (but then decided that was a lot of fried food for one and opted out of the eggplant) to go so I could eat on Steve's patio.
I came back, and they had not communicated the eggplant had been cancelled. They were sweet and charged me for the samosa only and STILL gave me the eggplant! I thought they were just throwing one in for me to try, from one of the men talking to me. I also asked if they had put tamarind sauce in the bag-and he said they were OUT of it (:( ), but he hooked me up with a tasty carrot ginger and a cold spiced lentil kind of sauce to dip my goodies in.
When I unwrapped the oily bags, they had given me ALL of the eggplant-like six or eight pieces! How nice is that? It was tasty, but a little bland (really could've used that tamarind sauce after all). The samosa was good-bready, with great potatos, not bland, not terribly spicey, I could only eat one it was so much.
It's not terribly exciting inside-no frills and I just remember it being very BEIGE-not much ambiance for sexy time-def. take out or quick lunch buffet place.
One very huge bonus: While eating my treats outside, I was treated to Indian techno music, classic Bollywood music, and what sounded like an indian COMEDY album (there was talking then audience laughter...) blasting from cars picking up their curry. Fucking awesome.
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