Friday, September 26, 2008
Events India Festival Sept. 27
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:00 AM
This week's review of Bombay Palace, the casually elegant Indian hole in the wall on West End Avenue, includes a preview of this weekend's India Festival at Sri Ganesha Temple. A celebration in honor of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, the event will spotlight Indian crafts and culture, from music to henna painting—but food will be a central component.
Here's your chance to explore the wide world of Indian cuisine beyond chicken tikka masala. While CTM and other saucy North Indian staples are increasingly popular among local lunch buffets, they represent a small sliver of the palette of foods in the world's second most populous country. This weekend, five bucks buys a plate of specialties from one of the eight regions represented at the event.
A few highlights from the South include bisibelebath (a dish of rice, lentils and vegetables, from the state of Karnataka); masala dosa (paper-thin rice pancakes stuffed with spiced potatoes, from the state of Tamil Nadu); and tamarind rice from the state of Andhra Pradesh. Northern Indian specialties will include chole bhatura (spicy chickpeas and deep-fried bread made of flour).
The event is 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $1. If you get there this weekend, report back on Bites.
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We visited Bombay Palace today after reading your review. Our experience was quite the opposite of yours. Every dish on the buffet was bland, perhaps the spices were toned down for the masses. It lacked of any flavor what so ever. The wait staff seemed quite overwhelmed with a full room. We waited for about 15 minutes for them to clear a table...hopefully they'll work out the kinks...we may try again during dinner service.
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we went Saturday, and it was definitely busy, possibly busier than they expected. Their layout lends itself to cluster-beeps, with the ultimate buffet no-no, a steam table cul-de-sac, compounded by the main buffet being only available on one side. somehow that works better at Cuisine of India, but they're perpendicular there as opposed to parallel here.
I guess geometry really is more Greek than Indian after all...
The food was very good, not as incredibly different as I hoped from the review, but apparently spicier than Pete's version. at least no complaints for blandness here. And hey, they're now in the Aadvantage dining program so I got 3 miles per buck without even knowing it was going to happen!
