India's Restaurant

Pretty good deal for a quick lunch in the DTC.  $8.95 gets you an all you can eat buffet at lunchtime and the food seemed pretty hot and fresh.

I spend a lot of time in this particular strip mall (my all time favorite Whole Foods is right there) and have never thought to stop into India's (because my all time favorite Whole Foods is right there).  The lunch club brought me in.

I had heard ravings about the saag here and it did not disappoint.  Bright green spinach, just enough cream, and it didn't taste like it had been sitting out for too long.  Also tasty was the chana masala as well as the pakora like fritter things with peppers in them.  Not good at all was the daal soup.  It tasted like nothing but....mouth coating.  The actual daal lentils (lentils lentils?) were what I was actually looking for and they were pretty standard.

The buffet is just the right size and suitable for everyone.  It has the requisite unnecessary "salad bar" that all Indian buffets seem to have that people only visit for the chutneys (or at least I do).

The servers/water fillers are not the friendliness nor do they fill your water more than once.  However, paying was painless and lunch easily fit into a lunch hour.  When craving Indian buffet in the DTC area, India's is not a bad bet.

Maybe my expectations were too high.
Maybe I wasn't starving.
Maybe the food is boring.
Maybe the food is really boring.
Maybe I don't understand Indian food.
Maybe even $8.95 for the lunch buffet seemed way too much.
Maybe it was almost a one star.
Maybe the place was really clean.
Maybe the water refill service was good.
Maybe I won't go back.

Luckily, I was dining with wonderful friends.

I went here on the personal recommendation of a friend.  It was good, but I must say that India's Castle on Arapahoe is still the #1 leader of Indian Food in my book.

I found India's food to be somewhat bland.  I love my Indian spices, and whether you order the dish mild, medium, or hot, I still want to taste hefty amounts of cardamom, coriander, cumin, clove, turmeric, etc.  

I love my Indian food to "sing" and sadly, my Saag Paneer just tasted like sauteed spinach with cream with very little saag and the Chicken Tikka Masala honestly tasted burnt.  I have had Tikka at many Indian restaurants and I have never had it taste like this before.  Perhaps they actually burnt the sauce or perhaps a weird spice was added to make it taste burnt?

It was also interesting that the rice was a flavored rice (saffron perhaps?).  I prefer the delicate white Basmati with Indian food.

On a good note, the service was very friendly and attentive.  The Sweet Lassi was the best I have had in quite a long time, as was the Kheer (rice dessert), with almond slivers and raisins.