So I'm generally very excited to eat Indian food, whenever and wherever. In fact, my Indian food fanaticism might be considered a bit problematic, if you ask the husband. You can probably imagine my delight when I stumbled upon this place (which has been around since 1986 per the awning) with a couple of my friends while exploring Mexico City.
Despite the rather lukewarm Yelp reviews, we decided to order takeout from this place one evening after an especially long and tiresome day. I settled upon the Aalu Palak (potatoes with spinach in curry sauce) - it was one of two vegan options, and my friend ordered the Tandoori Chicken. Only the rice was vegan, so I opted for that while my friend asked for some naan to accompany her dish.
So our food took a good long while to be prepared, despite the place being completely empty. That's fine, we ordered ourselves a couple of beverages. My friend's husband opted for a mango lassi, which he declared was "strange, not what I was expecting" - it was a really really pale white color, not sure how much mango was actually in that lassi. Tandoor happens to be a Pokemon Gym Stop so my friends' kiddo happily amused herself while we waited on our food (super important info, I know - but perchance you have busybody kids!).
Well the disappointment soon smacked me right in the palate once I dug into my Aalu Palak. Holy bland Indian food Batman! By "curry sauce," do they mean water? Because it sure as heck tasted like it! I had to liberally pour salt onto my dinner, and generously glopped on the chili paste they had packed along with our order - to make the Aalu Palak remotely edible. My whole love affair with Indian food stems from its intense flavorful-ness so to say this was a letdown is a understatement. My friend reported her Tandoori Chicken was fine and consumed it without much commentary, so I assume Tandoor did a decent job with that. But for me, what a waste of Indian food! So much potential . . . unfulfilled.
Two stars instead of one because at least our server was polite and the chicken was allegedly good. read more