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| - Calcutta Cricket Club (CCC) is one of the newest additions to trendy 17th avenue and a sister restaurant to Native Tongues Taqueria. Though, they serve Indian cuisine and according to Instagram, the food and interior look amazing! My gfs and I were looking for a place to eat when Tiff suggested CCC. I've heard of them and when I found out they served Indian food, I was totally sold. We arrived just after 7PM on a Saturday and the place was bumpin'. There was a wait list and we were told that our table would be ready in ~30 minutes so we put my name down and went over to Ship & Anchor for some drinks to hold us over - the hostess took my number so I would receive a text message once our table was ready.
Sure enough, about a half hour later I received a text and we headed over. There seem to be more people waiting around for tables so we were happy to be seated. The space is really colorful, bright green and pink walls with a black and white checkered floor. Pink chairs, green booths, goldish bar stools. They also have a small front patio that overlooks 17th Avenue (~10 seats) as well as a more secluded and bigger patio along the east side of the restaurant. But we were seated inside near the middle in the pink chairs. There Our server was good, she poured us water right away and told us about the menu. We asked what the favorites were and she mentioned Kati rolls for appetizers and then the lamb and pork dish for main. We decided to go with one kati roll each, we ordered two lamb and one paneer. Kati rolls is meats or paneer wrapped in fresh flaky paratha (flat bread), I had the paneeer: fresh cheese with some cilantro, lime, onions, chaat masala, green chilis and some hot and sweet sauce. T & M really seemed to enjoy their lamb kati rolls and I really liked the paneer, it was super flavorful and the cheese was nice and soft, cilantro brought a freshness. As the dishes are meant to be shared, we ordered Parsi Prawn, Pork Butter Masala, and Chicken Tikka with two orders of naan bread and an order of rice.
Food came, we were hungry as per usual so we dug in asap, after I snapped a picture of course ;) In my humble opinion, all the dishes looked small. The curry prawn dish was nice, spices were fragrant - there were maybe 6 prawns in the dish, the cumin and cilantro was noticable and the curry was a good consistency. The pork dish was a tandoor roasted pork dish with tandoori curry sauce, same great consistency as the prawn sauce - thick enough to hang on to the rice and naan. The chicken tikka wasn't a favorite. The thighs were roasted with fenugreek (plant) and tandoori spices, the 'sauce' it was in was super liquidy and unfortunately, tasteless. None of us were a fan of the chicken dish. The naan was great though! Soft yet a slight crisp and it went well with the prawn and pork dish - dipping the naan and scooping the sauce over the rice was delicious.
Overall, the service was really great, the décor was unique but the food was OK - I would recommend the kati rolls, if anything. I was disappointed in the portion sizes and the flavors - I would have much preferred heading to a classic Indian restaurant without all the hype to get the real experience of flavor and bang for my buck. Though, I can understand why people would line up for this place, they have a great patio which makes for a great summer hangout, it's a hot new restaurant and it's on 17th avenue. But for me, it wasn't all that it was made out to be :\ Likely will not return for the food.
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