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| - I was on my way to an Ethiopian restaurant and saw this place along the way and thought, why not. Oh how I wish I'd kept on walking.....
First, this is not a Nepalese restaurant, it is definitely indian. I was lured in by the fact that they listed a number of goat curries on the menu and I do love me some goat. I haven't seen many restaurants in College Park with goat on the menu and since they had so many varieties I figured they must know what they are doing. I ordered the cucumber salad (3.99) and the goat thali (13.99). When I arrived the restaurant was somewhat empty, though there was one large table that was being served entrees and another very large group that was filing in.
The server brought water out immediately along with papadam + chutney, which was nice. They were diligent about refilling water in my experience. Also, my food was served pretty quickly. The cucumber salad was huge -- I mean giant, certainly not appropriately sized for a single person.
The food was ok, but not great. The flavor of the goat curry was ok, but the goat was not cooked long enough and was quite tough. You wouldn't be able to eat this curry with naan -- it needed a knife! Much of it was bones, which comes with the territory and would be fine if it were tender such that the bits of meat were capable of being removed from the bone. The goat thali came with daal (lacked flavor, good texture), and aloo gobi (meh) and a gigantic mound of rice. This was the largest thali I had ever seen in my life and I have eaten many a thali. It was honestly preposterous. Needless to say, there was no way I could finish.
And then came the waiting. Things kind of picked up in the place and they are horribly understaffed. I waited no less than 30min before someone finally came to ask if I was done. There was a ton of food left and I assumed they would box it up, but instead, 10 or so minutes later they brought the check. I didn't bother to argue, because honestly, I just wanted to leave at that point.
I think I've been spoiled by living in the California Bay Area for a long time before Toronto and I have found the flavor of the curries etc in Toronto to really lack depth. The exception to this is Mehran on Church St in College Park. It ain't pretty to look at, but they know how to cook. Next time when the desi urge strikes in College Park, I will head for Mehran.
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