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| - This new Indian restaurant is only about four miles from home. With the increase in people from India living in Las Vegas, a number of new Indian restaurants have opened near my neighborhood so that I don't have to go to the university area to enjoy Indian cuisine. I came here today for the lunch buffet. At $9.99, it's a good deal.
I was seated promptly in a mostly empty restaurant and brought water and the mango lassi I ordered. I then went up to make my first choices. The silverware is at the area where you pick up your plate so I got that, took it back to the table, and then went to look at the food.
A cursory look showed me that most of the dishes were vegetarian and so that's what I chose for my first plate. Outstanding things for the first plate were the chana masala, palak paneer, and dal tadka. The chana masala and palak paneer had a nice spiciness to them, and I am a big fan of dal in almost all forms. I went to the end of the buffet for naan. I was disappointed in it because it was somewhat rubbery from sitting in the warming tray and the first piece had no butter taste to it at all. In addition, the end of this particular piece was thick like a slice of pizza. It made it impossible to rip off a piece to grab some dal. Instead I had to use my fork.
For the second plate, I got some goat biryani, chicken korma, and onion fritters. The goat was so so. Nothing I'd get again. The chicken korma had a good flavor but again trying to get a piece of naan to wrap around one of the chicken pieces was next to impossible. The onion fritters were more like dipped onion rings in thick bread batter rather than what one normally thinks of when you see the word fritter.
For dessert I tried two things--bread pudding and rice flour halvah. They were both interesting and something new. The bread pudding was more moist and soft than what one normally thinks of bread pudding. The better of the two was the halvah which was quite good and different from anything I've had before. I did look for gulab jamun but there were none. I didn't want a cupcake so this ended the lunch on a sweet note.
The deal breaker for me is the naan. I have been to no lunch buffet in the area where the naan is left cut in a heating pan to keep warm. Naan should be fresh and brought out when it's ready. The buffet consisted mainly of vegetarian dishes which is OK. There were 3 meat dishes--chicken korma, goat biryani, and tandoori chicken.
I will try this place for an evening meal but I'll go elsewhere for a lunch buffet.
NOTE: I got a communication from the chef/owner of Paradise India this evening explaining that some staff didn't show up for work today and that is why he put the naan on the buffet. It is never his way of doing things as he was host and cook today. This explains a lot and it gives me faith that my next visit will be more enjoyable!
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