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| - Situl Indian Restaurant, located in the shadiest of shades, offered both an experience and Nepalese menu I can't find anywhere else. Reading the menu is like being dropped into the middle of the Apple Store: a lot is going on, you don't understand half of it, and it all sounds pretty good. I was in the state of "I'm-hungry-enough-so-it-doesn't-matter," stage, which often means decisions are even harder to make.
I got aloo gobi, a cauliflower/potato/pepper curry dressed in a dark brown sauce with some garlic. It was a thick concoction that chapati, a pancake-like flatbread went well with. The sweet brown sauce it came with was thin, syrupy, and reminded me of apple butter. The chapati was a good complement because of how much the sweet was able to neutralize the salty spice. I thought the food here had a little too much salt.
One patron reviewer on Yelp described the atmosphere as nil, and my friend commented the decor is a little-left-of-horrid on the way in. With a "packed" crowd you'd expect on Thursday night, there was less people watching and more looking up and down at the various bits of textile and fake flowers. Even though it wasn't a busy night (minimal bicycle rings notifying that food was ready), the service was a bit slow, making the setting not humble, but pretty bleak.
Friendly staff, but I might try a place with a busier atmosphere and tighter grip on the salt. For what it cost and for the dish size, I'd rather go elsewhere for the flavors.
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