Someone wrote: Michael K. wrote: : > And in fact it's not THAT bad; if you want bad Indian : > food you go to Pasand. : What?! Until now, I've heard nothing about Pasand but : glowing praise. I'm no connoisseur of Indian cuisine at : this point -- I like the stuff way too much to be very : critical -- but their food and service were excellent on Guess that makes me a critic, eh? ;^} : the four or five occasions that I've been there. What : with all the Indians who patronize the place, I figure : that they have to be doing _something_ right. Pasand is just about the only choice for South Indian food in the area; I married in to a South Indian family. I can cook many dishes and have had extraordinary examples of the cuisine from my wife's family. Therefore, I feel somewhat qualified to opine that Pasand is pretty lousy. My wife agrees. Even ignoring the fact that it's a different cuisine from the vast majority of other Indian restaurants and taking it by itself it still is lousy. : In fact, I've found just about all Indian food that I've : tried to be quite good. The only exception was a place The opinion of someone who is so uncritical doesn't impress me as being very useful or interesting. : on North Santa Cruz Avenue in Los Gatos, a few doors : down from Ednaray (which was closed at the time due to : fire), that was an incredible rip-off. I ordered some : sort of thali dinner, and the only meat it had was a : single pice of chicken and in another dish, two : boullion-sized cubes of lamb hiding in the gravy. For : thirteen bucks. And on top of that, the waiter had the : gall to argue with me when I complained. I don't : remember the name of the place, unfortunately. Sounds like you're being critical of the quantity, not the quality, of the food and quality of the service. I never expect very good service at Indian restaurants! : There's a great Indian place on Lawrence Expressway in : Sunnyvale, more or less across from Fry's Electronics, : that's one of the best I've tried. (I don't remember : the name of that one, either, but I'm sure someone will : volunteer that information.) But my favorite is Swagat, Probably Sneha. They have a very good buffet with a few South Indian dishes thrown in. Mike
San Francisco Bay Area, CA