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Of course I had to tell my feelings over the tikka masala to the chef, lol. Bheem/Bhim (bear with the spelling) head chef/owner is a great guy, full of passion about cooking and very down to earth person. Looks like he had great experience in hand working for multiple restaurants and finally opened up his own. Since we were the last customer he had enough time to talk to us for sometime and explained about his menu, his approach towards his restaurant, how he wants to stand apart from other indian restaurant etc., and you know what, Tamarind does not apart from other Indian restaurants in the area, to start with they don't server buffet lunch here, for one I feel its way classier, trying to not make quantity but wants to retain quality. They don't serve biriyani (kind of a bummer) but in a way its great coz of the reasons he told us about.
Pretty sure we would want to go again and try those receipes that he personally suggested and are best sellers of his restaurant. Funny thing is to be honest he said he doesn't care much for chicken tikka masala because its a boring dish LOL. :-|
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