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| - With its name adopted from the largest metropolitan area of Nepal, Kathmandu is an Indian restaurant located in the heart of Toronto's downtown Young Street area. The interior décor, though nothing particularly eye catching is good. The tables are nicely set with base white and overlapping red table cloths, the glasses hand dried spotless and restaurant with an overall clean appearance.
The menu is extensive in Indian cuisine with various starters, salads, fish, chicken, vegetables, curried items and tandoor specialties done in a clay tandoor oven.
I went for their traditional recipe of Goat/Lamb Curry cooked in a base of ginger, garlic, tomato and hot spices. When presented it eye appealing and had a good spicy curry taste about it. The goat was nicely done, had a good texture about it but it was more than obvious that the dish consisted primarily of goat with hardly any lamb, but at the low price of $11.99, pretty much what one might expect. The goat was also not all that nicely trimmed and in fact some hunks of the flesh in fact consisted of pure goat fat or grizzle.
Though I'm not any expert on this, one thing that struck me was that the food offered at Kathmandu didn't exactly have, at least to my mind, the taste or flavors of what I would consider being true or authentic to regional Nepal, but in fact more like that of what I might term as being generic of India. I wouldn't even mention this, but while there I had the opportunity to speak with a native of Nepal who, without any hesitations, confirmed my suspicion on that point.
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