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| - I must admit, I was a bit worried by the sign on the door that said "Under New Management" - one thing I loved about the place was the service. Mostly the sign just wanted to warn people that they no longer accept City Deal certificates, which I've never heard of, so we were good there.
On my last visit I had taken my friend Jan for her birthday, and this time she was treating me for mine! Looks like it's a new tradition for us.
I was glad to see the new management was still Indian; I believe that a good chef can create any type of dish, but unless I'm going to a spendy celebrity-status chef place, I do like to see ethnic food prepared by the people who were raised with it (although the Hispanic restauranteur community seems to have the cheap Chinese food formula DOWN PAT here in Phoenix!)
I needn't have worried. Everything was the same. The people complaining about a limited buffet choice have probably been spoiled by those huge mega-buffet places. This has one row of dishes. You get rice, four to six main & side dishes, some tandoori chicken (which is tough and dry, sort of like all the Peking Duck I've ever had), a salad bar, and a couple of dessert.
They don't serve all the dishes they make in the buffet all the time. The choices revolve, so what you get depends on what day you go. I like being able to sample dishes I've never had, and go back for more if I like it. I must, in the future, not mistake the rice pudding for ranch dressing, though!
Although the new manager wasn't concerned that we didn't have enough to eat like the last one, he did keep telling us "Stay! Relax!" when we were done. Not because we were buying drinks or anything - I had the tea which comes with free refills, and Jan just had water. So, he wasn't making more money with us being there, but the place isn't really busy during the day, and he didn't need the table. At one point while he was refilling our drinks he said "Relax - it's a beautiful day today!" Which it was ... we were inside, though. I think that was two different subjects merged into one sentence, lol.
So, I'm still happy with India Palace, new management and all. And the bathrooms are GORGEOUS!
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