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| - The Mount Everest is right on highway 2 right before Church street, its really easy to drive by so keep your eyes peeled for the turn to park (if you miss it, turn on Church and you can access the parking at the back). I ate here quite a while back but it was a memorable experience as I'd never had Indian Food before (and had never really been interested to. The person I was with was rather seasoned with different cuisines and had eaten at The Mount Everest many times, so they made a few recommendations and I got to try a few things I normally wouldn't have otherwise.
We came in on a weeknight and it was rather busy - luckily my companion had made a reservation! This restaurant is terribly small so if you're planning on popping in, you may want to call ahead and make a reso just to make sure you can get seated right away.
I'm the kind of person that likes to know what I want BEFORE I go somewhere, so I'd spent some time looking over the daunting menu and trying to figure out what I was game for. In the end, we ended up getting an appetizer platter, naan, Mattar Paneer, and some kind of Biriyani.
One of the standouts was the Assorted Indian Snacks platter that we had to share. Having never had indian food, it was a great way to start the meal, with samosas, pakora, chicken tikka, papadum, sheekh kebab and some sauces. Given, I couldn't tell you which thing was which (besides the samosas) for sure but it was all incredible! What I THINK was the Pakora was amazing, great flavor, lots of heat - I kept taking them off the plate before the other person could get at them. This platter was surprisingly large and I was almost full after having my half.
The naan was incredible, just amazing - but you really have to eat it right away as it gets hard rather quickly. Fresh out of the oven naan was incredible, hot, buttery, soft and almost melt in your mouth. I would go back JUST for the naan because it was so damned good.
My Mattar Paneer was a bit of a letdown - I had been looking forward to trying Paneer for sooooo long. I love cheese and its been a staple in my house since I was a kid, and I've seen it made and it looked incredible, especially paired with peas (who DOESN'T like peas?!) but it really wasn't the dish for me. Flavor was a bit lacking and sadly, the paneer was disappointing, but I think that would have been true with any paneer dish - I had it quite built up in my head. The biriyani wasn't anything terribly memorable, but I only had a taste or two and its not something I would typically order myself anyways.
All in, this was a great local place to try out Indian food and I would go back again (but with someone who's adventurous into trying new foods). The menu is absolutely massive and it would take forever to try everything but I guarantee there's some serious gems hidden in the three pages of food. I'll be back (hopefully soon) to try it out again!
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