Pakoras

Oasis is one the most authentic Northern Indian restaurants in the area.  You may also want to try Aroma in D.C. and Tandoor in Old Town. (Not the one in Georgetown. The Tandoor in Georgetown is the worst Indian restaurant). Being an Indian, I prefer not to eat Pakoras out in the restaurants.  The restaurant quality is no where close to what we eat at home.  You will be surprised how easy and quick it is to make them at home.

I have been to Haandi a couple of times.  I have made a point of not going there at all since their treatment to Indians clearly indicate that they prefer not have Indians (their own !!!) as their clients.  I can understand being descriminated by anyother group, but by people of your own origin??  Oh well, there are other places you can find much superior indian food.

Kalpesh Patel

WRoege wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The Oasis in Chantilly has pakoras that are much like tempura.  Not a
> think breading at all.
>
> We go there all the time.  Their corn-pepper soup is great.  They have a
> good selection of dishes, and all that I have had has been excellent.
> Guess that's why we keep going back...
>
> Bill Roege

dennis brake wrote:
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> kpatel wrote:
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> > Oasis is one the most authentic Northern Indian restaurants in the
> > area.  You may also want to try Aroma in D.C. and Tandoor in Old Town.
> > (Not the one in Georgetown. The Tandoor in Georgetown is the worst
> > Indian restaurant). Being an Indian, I prefer not to eat Pakoras out in
> > the restaurants.  The restaurant quality is no where close to what we
> > eat at home.  You will be surprised how easy and quick it is to make
> > them at home.
> >
> > I have been to Haandi a couple of times.  I have made a point of not
> > going there at all since their treatment to Indians clearly indicate
> > that they prefer not have Indians (their own !!!) as their clients.  I
> > can understand being descriminated by anyother group, but by people of
> > your own origin??  Oh well, there are other places you can find much
> > superior indian food.
> >
> >
>
> Where  are the places that you can  get  Indian food superior to Haandi?I
> love their Murg Makhini. I've tried Harvest of India and Aarathi and they
> don't come close? Please give me the names of some good Indian
> restaurants.
>
> Thanks
> Dennis
Bombay Bistro is one. From I66 West take 123South. It's on the right after a block. Aditi on M St in Georgetown, Kohinoor on Duke St. in Landmark Plaza, Udupi Palace {South Indian} on the crossing of New Hampshire & University Blvd in Langley Park, MD are all very good restaurants. I've also heard of Bombay Club where Clinton usually dines. Amitabh

Ted F. wrote:
:too dry, and disappointing.  The vegetable korma there is close to the :makhini, and is a few dollars cheaper to boot.  The presentation, though, :leaves a bit to be desired, and people at the table had to resist making :the obvious comparison of what it looked like.

Can't take me anywhere, &c.

:What's *in* the Haandi makhini?  Why is it so much better than at the :other Indian restaurants?

My uneducated guess is that it's just the right amount of tamarind, but. Good quality cream, perhaps? DC has absolutely disgusting dairy products, and I sort of factor that in when judging restaurants.

:In the last couple of weeks, I've tried Aroma and Bombay Club for the :first time.  Both are good (Aroma does a very nice stuffed pepper, which :I don't see at other Indian restaurants, and has a more extensive :vegetarian menu), though I thought Bombay Club's food wasn't anything :special.  Nice service and atmosphere, but otherwise not worth the fuss.

Some dissent: while the Bombay Club wasn't spectacular, I didn't find anything to complain about. (Save for Ted Frank's unfortunate choice of veg-yoghurt beverage.) Aroma's okay, and reasonably priced, but things were sort of hit'n'miss: the sauce on the peppers was great, the filling was dry, the peppers were perfectly cooked, the tamarind sauce seemed more ketchup than anything else, and so on.

:Aditi has a nice chana masala dish; so does Taj Mahal.

Taj Mahal is doing a very nice job with both spices and pakoras. The service is a little standoffish at times, though.

:At one Indian restaurant I went to in New York, they served a saag paneer :where the cheese was melted into the spinach, rather than with the thick :white cubes that I've generally seen served here.  Does anyone else in :town serve saag paneer this way?

Is there _any_ sort of consensus on where the best Indian in DC is? Apart from Haandi's sauce and Taj Mahal's pakoras, it's consistently _okay_, but never great.