Haandi Restaurant is a moderately priced restaurant that specializes in North Indian Frontier cuisine and has locations in London, Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaam & Sudan. They also do banquets and catering. It is is named after the narrow-necked cooking pots used in Northern Frontier Indian cuisine. Having been told how great Indian food was in London, we made our first meal Indian. We visited the Knightsbridge location, right near Harrods. Read the rest of this entry »

Amber India Restaurant serves Northern, Moghlai and Tandoori Indian cuisine. Locations in Mountain View, San Jose’s Santana Row, and San Francisco. They have a popular lunch buffet that we went for. Read the rest of this entry »

Dosa is a South Indian Restaurant with 2 locations in San Francisco. We had dinner at the several month old Fillmore street location, which is across the street from the Sundance Theater in Japantown.
They focus on organic and sustainable ingredients and even use Indian spices in their cocktails. Read the rest of this entry »

Vik’s Chaat Corner is a busy Indian restaurant in the more industrial area of Berkeley. Chaat means “to lick”. Traditionally this is known as road side snacks that made people lick every last morsel.  They have have a regular menu, and add different specials on weekdays and weekends. They moved to their larger location in January 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

This mom and pop, family style restaurant serves Middle Eastern Halal, Indian/Pakistani food.
Per Wikipedia: Halal is an Arabic term meaning “permissible”. In the English language, it most frequently refers to food that is permissible according to Islamic law. It is located in a generic part of San Jose not far from the Westfield Valley Fair shopping center. Read the rest of this entry »