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2015-06-19
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I've had my eye on Indian Village for a while. As of this writing it has 24 smilies and 0 frowny faces, which is to me very impressive. You can't even cheat to get such a rating. If you pay a bunch of people to say it's good, you can't stop the people you didn't pay from saying it's bad. Well, I can say I won't be the first to give it a frowny face.We started with the samosas. For six people, we got two orders of 4 pcs. One of the orders was vegetable samosa, and then we decided to change it up
We started with the samosas. For six people, we got two orders of 4 pcs. One of the orders was vegetable samosa, and then we decided to change it up and get lamb as well. I was not a fan of the lamb samosas. I had imagined that it would be lamb chunks in addition to potatoes and peas, but instead it was just ground lamb, and it was just OK. The pastry it comes in is excellently flaky, but not as crisp as I like. The vegetable samosas were better, but their interior was on the mushy side. I would rate the lamb ones C+ and the veggie ones B+ (great). The mint chutney was standard and slightly disappointing.Here follows three pictures. The dishes are: Lamb Roganjosh; Chicken Kadai; and Fish Masala. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to puzzle out from the pictures which is which! Descriptions and ratings after the photos...
The general thing I'll say about this restaurant is that they have all the northern classics on the menu, and they're all good-to-great. Not fantastic, but solid. Better than Chungking Mansions, better than Gaylord and Jashan in my opinion, but not quite as good as Bombay Dreams/ Tandoorie Nights-- though I haven't been to those restaurants in ages, so maybe things have changed.The Lamb Roganjosh was good. The curry sauce was flavorful and the lamb was tender. Not mystifyingly tender, where you wonder how meat can't melt, but y'know, tender. B or B+.
The Kadai Chicken, a favorite of mine, was also good. It was a little bit spicy. It's tough for me to really say what I thought about it. I fell in love with this dish at this Punjabi restaurant I used to frequent and so I order it a lot. It's wok-style stir fried onions and peppers in a tomato-y gravy. But I'm rarely wowed by it. I think it's the spice and the fat. The stuff at my Punjabi place was greasy as all get out and firey hot. I can't really blame a restaurant for not taking that direction, ah, but I do miss it. B or B+.
The Fish Masala: originally someone wanted the Goan Fish Curry-- and I do like Goan food, though we were already getting Vindaloo-- but somehow the picture on the menu of the Fish Masala just convinced me to convince everyone else to get it. And I wasn't disappointed. There's this psychological phenomenon where you like the things you choose better than those same things if you didn't choose them, but I think there was something beyond that effect here. Again, I ate a lot of things with a lot of complex flavors while conversing with 5 other people, so the details are hazy, but I was impressed and do recommend this dish. Excellent, A-
The Dahl Makhni was just as you'd expect. Creamy and delicious in the way you'd never make yourself at home because you don't have the guts to put in all that cream. It takes a lot to stand out, however, so I'm giving this a B+
The Prawn Vindaloo: I don't know, I feel as though somebody sapped all the character out of Vindaloo (probably the British). I cook it relatively regularly from a handful of recipes I've acquired over the years and it's always a bevy of textures and aromas and spices and chili heat with tart undertones. But somehow at every restaurant here it's just some featureless puree, maybe hot, maybe not, but just kind of boring. This was medium-ish spicy. Alright. C
Here is an image of my plate with all the goodies.
Oddly enough, the Aloo Gobi arrived long after we'd finished everything else. This was a saucier version than my favorite dry-fried kind, and it was a little on the mushy side. C as well.After dinner at the bar, one of my friends correctly pointed out that I don't give out many "A's" in my reviews, and this is true. "A" I have reserved for "excellent" and by that I mean that it really hits the spot, it deserves to be in the city guide book, it's like-- if I want that, this is where I'll get it. And it's tought to rise to that level. So B and B+ are "good" and "great" for me. That means, since I'm giving this place a B-to-B+, it is good-to-great to me. You won't go wrong going here. I'll probably even come back. It's not one for the ages. It's not the alpha and the omega. But it is good-to-great.
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