Mazza, Berkley, MI

http://www.mazzaindiancuisine.com/id1.html
3354 W. 12 Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072
(248) 543-6299

Lamb karahi - 6/10 - sizzling and spicy but the lamb was a bit tough and the flavor was superficial. The thick gravy was nice.

Tikka biryani - 5/10 - the biryani ex chicken was ok, but the 'chicken tikka' chunks in it seemed like left over chopped tandoori chicken pieces that had dried.

Rangoli, Auburn Hills, MI

www.detroitrangoli.com
Walton Village Plaza Shopping Center, 3055 E Walton Blvd, Auburn Hills, MI 48326
(248) 377-3800

Weekday lunch buffet - 5/10 average overall, although the shrikhand (yogurt based dessert) was nice.

Zaike lamb chops - 8/10. well made, marinated and juicy. Some pieces were a bit stretchy (chewy) though, but overall tasted good

Hyderabadi chicken biryani - 6/10. Not much Hyderabad to it. Wasnt spicy, but that is subjective. It did have a dominant taste of a mix of cumin seeds and perhaps coriander/mint, which did not help the flavor.

Havelie restaurant, Nice France 7/10

http://www.restaurant-havelie.fr/

Address: 35 Rue d'Angleterre, 06000 Nice, France

Phone:+33 4 93 88 99 40 

One of the better Indian restaurants in Nice (there arent many there to begin with).

The maitre d  is a knowledgeable lady with a background in hotel management and local history, besides the food.

Lamb madars - 7/10. Well made and flavorful, thick gravy. Tasty. 

Chicken biryani - 6/10. The chicken could have been better (marinated) but was still tasty.

Amaya, London

Address: Halkin Arcade, Motcomb St, London SW1X 8JT, United Kingdom

Phone:+44 20 7823 1166

http://www.amaya.biz/

 

Good ambience, classy, Indian tapas like place.

Chicken biryani - 7/10 : well made, in an earthen pot, tasty, but the chicken could have been done better.

Chicken kabab - 7/10 : moist, well made, but needed more taste and marination

Lamb kakori kabab - 8/10 : really good job on this one, almost melts in the mouth, as they claim. Not overly spicy, but has a discernible black pepper taste to it.

Hotbreads, Woburn MA

Hotbreads.

One of the best places around for Indian food and pastries. They have a good lunch buffet too.

Lamb biryani - 8/10. Very good. It is not served in the typical layered style (saffron rice, meat, rice...), but is mixed up. Nevertheless, its tasty and spicy.

Chicken biryani - 8/10. Ditto.

Lamb curry - 8/10. Good consistency gravy (not watery), spicy.

Egg curry - 8/10. Ditto.

Pastries - if you want the 'Indian style' pastries, this is the place!

Filter coffee - average. It used to be brewed the proper South Indian way, but its machine made now.

Ras malai and gulab jamun - both nice.

438, Main Street
Woburn, MA - 01801
Phone: (978) 361-6943

Priya, Chelmsford, MA

Priya

1270 Westford St (Drumhill Rd)
Lowell, MA 01851
(978) 454-7777

Update 11/24/11: As with most Indian restaurants, the quality has gone downhill, and it has become yet another 'average' Indian restaurant.
11/11/11
Goat curry (buffet) 6/10 - the curry was tasty and the goat was cooked well. 
The rest of the buffet was average.


2010:

This replaced the earlier Kebab (which had gone downhill over the past year or so)

The food is much better, and I would definitely recommend trying it out.

Chicken 65 or 95 or something like that - 8/10. Very well done. The dry kind.

Biryani - 7/10

Lamb curry - 7/10

Karachi Kitchen, Mississauga, Canada

4120 Dixie Road
Mississauga, ON L4W 4V8, Canada
(905) 625-5445

Beef kebab - 5/10. Werent spicy or flavorful. Just average.
Chicken biryani - 6/10.

Biryani King, Brampton, Canada

40 Gillingham Dr
Brampton, ON L6X, Canada
(905) 453-1500

This is near Toronto.
Chicken biryani - 7/10. Moist, flavorful with well tasting chicken pieces in it
Mutton biryani - 6/10. The lamb pieces were a tad bit dry, but tasty

Guru Catering, Somerville, MA

Lamb Biryani - 4/10. Wasnt biryani to begin with, more like pulav, and with no differentiating taste of anything. The lamb pieces had no taste either. It was wet rice with pieces of meat in it.

Chicken Biryani - N/R - this was almost equally bad, but what made it worse was that it had the 'aroma' of food beginning to spoil.

They were courteous enough to offer a complimentary replacement of the food. I have heard that their lunch "dabba" is nice.

Mehmaan, Nashua NH

Mehmaan Indian Restaurant (603) 891-1616
295 Daniel Webster Hwy, Nashua, NH 03060


Was dissappointed by their weekend buffet - average 5/10
The food came out at 12 noon (few minutes after they open). The rice and naans came at 12.20. Obviously the food was a re-heat of the previous day. The chicken biryani was not even heated well, with clumpy cold rice.

Tandoori chicken - 5/10 - the usual stuff at every place
Chicken curry - 6/10 - tasty but nothing much to write a blog about
Chicken biryani - could have been edible if it was re-heated at least - 4/10
Kheer - nice
Vegetarian food was ok. Matar paneer, some daal... usual fare.

Rangoli Restaurant
129 Brighton Ave, Allston, MA
(617) 562-0200

Chicken biryani - which was tasty, but wasnt the layered style (you know, rice-meat-rice-meat-rice). It looked and felt like pulao, which is ok as long as it tastes good. - 6/10
Some other vegetarian stuff was ok.

Hot Breads, Woburn, MA
438 Main St, Woburn, MA (781) 933-7557

Chicken Biryani - 7/10 (nice)
They also have nice Indian style pastries and puffs (although the filling leaves you a bit unfulfilled :) and "dabeli" too.