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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bombay Club, Faneuil Hall Market Pl, Boston MA

Indian fast food in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Chicken tikka (boti) kabab (chunky kabab as opposed to the seekh kind) - 5/10. Not much flavor, dry and fibrous (versus juicy and smooth). Not spicy.
Naan - fresh and better than average. 6/10

Friday, August 03, 2007

Mantra

Mantra
52 Temple Pl, Boston, MA
(617) 542-8111

Update 1/1/10
Custom ordered a few items from the menu (vs the lunch buffet)
Goat curry - 7/10, made well if you tell them exactly what you want and how you want it
Lamb boti kabab - be very specific on how you want it, they made it well, twice 7/10, and messed it up bad, once 4/10
Lamb seekh kabab - 7/10
Naan - specifically asked for the freshest ones from the tandoor and they obliged. 6/10. They could have been a bit fluffier.

The ambience of this place is worth mentioning. Mentioned. Decorated differently than the usual rows of chairs and tables.
They are a Indian buffet place by day and a fusion food place by night (which I heard is better than the day food).
The weekday buffet had:
Tandoori chicken (with a mint - aka "pudina" - marinate) - 6.5/10. This one was marinated well, with the flavor well below the surface of the chicken, unlike most other restaurants. But the food was not even moderately hot (otherwise this would have been a 7/10)
Chicken tikka masala - 6/10. This was nice too. Tasty, but not hot.
Chicken biryani - 4/10. The biryani was not worth it. No taste, utterly bland. Not even spicy.
Naan - 6/10. They made fresh naans, thinner than the usual Indian naans (kind of like the thin crust pizza at Dominos).
Paneer tikka masala - 5/10. Average.
Rice kheer - 6/10. Nice.
Heard that their vegetable "pakodas" (deep fried dumplings) were slightly on the raw side. They did make fresh "aaloo tikkis" onsite. They were ok.
Definitely better than the nearby Tantric Bar & Grill restaurant.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Tantric Bar & Grill
123 Stuart St, Boston, MA
(617) 367-8742

Buffet - 5/10. No great shakes. Very little variety. 2 non-veg, rajma, daal and potato-okra (which was undercooked)

Buffet had these:
Chicken tikka masala - 5/10. Its takes effort to screw up CTM. So the average dish is tasty. This one did not have well marinated chicken tikka. The gravy was tasty, but with the amount of cream the gravy has, thats a given.
Tandoori chicken - 4/10 - the usual mediocre TC that all restaurants serve, where the chicken is colored red, and as soon as the top 1/2 mm of the masala is removed, the rest is tasteless unmarinated white meat. Utterly useless.
Aaloo-bhindi - 4/10. Undercooked.
Rajma - 4/10 I cook better than that.
Kheer - this was nice. But kheer follows the "cant screw up" principles of chicken tikka masala. Cream and sugar. How can you go wrong with that?

The decor is nice. But I dont go to eat the decor. Buffet is $9.95.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Kashmir, Boston, MA
279 Newbury St, Boston, MA (617) 536-1695

The food has nothing to do with Kashmir, India.
Nothing very memorable, the food was generally ok. - 5/10.