Different names for Indian Restaurants
Every Indian living in the US knows this. The names of the Indian restaurants are uber-predicatable and downright vapid - Taj Mahal (Granted that the Taj is the most famous Indian building, but it has nothing to do with Indian food), Maharaja, India Palace, Madras Mahal, New Bombay etc.... . Infact there are only a few words and the restaurateurs combine them in finitely predictable manner. There is one close to Milwaukee called Taste of India although Distaste of India would be a more apt name. I avoid all these places except when we are desperate to eat some non-home-cooked Indian meal.
However, oflate I have started coming across restaurants with refreshing and in some cases even interesting.
Chinese Mirch, Cardamom spice, Utsav, Shaan, Curry in a hurry, Vatan and others in NYC have not only interesting names but served equally delectable food. My own MKE boasts of places like Dancing Ganesha, Saffron and Mezbaan offer delicious food in their differently named restaurants.
However, oflate I have started coming across restaurants with refreshing and in some cases even interesting.
Chinese Mirch, Cardamom spice, Utsav, Shaan, Curry in a hurry, Vatan and others in NYC have not only interesting names but served equally delectable food. My own MKE boasts of places like Dancing Ganesha, Saffron and Mezbaan offer delicious food in their differently named restaurants.
posted by brihaspati | 7/05/2005 08:44:00 pm
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I understand what you mean - there is a Taj and Taste of India (yuck!) here in OK too. Alternatively we have one called Gopuram, and the food there is good (need to check out the spelling of sambhar though :-))
As for Saffron - I have had a rather bitter taste of it in OK - it's an Indian grocery store catering to us poor grads with no car - the stuff availabe there is prehistoric.
(Had to remove previous comment due to a spelling error).
Back in grad school days, we had a restaurant called Balaji. The dame there was downright rude and consequently went belly up within an year of opening.
i remember dancing ganesha from days of consulting in waukesha. that was pretty good. here in new have, ct we have to make do with (what else) India Palace...sigh, i miss good old saravan bhavan in sunnyvale ... double sigh
Hi Prashanth
I agree. Food is one of the main things about India that I miss in the US.
But oflate MKE's food scene has improved considerably.
You were in Waukesha? Interesting.. Who did you work for?
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