James
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We had a lot of different things at this place, but nothing really was that amazing - everything that we had was around average
Starting with appetizers, I had some of the chili baby corn, palak patta chaat, gol gappa shots, and paneer duo delight
Of these, I think I liked the baby corn the best. While it was harder than you would expect, the sweet chili sauce had a ton of flavor in both directions
The chaat was fine - pakoras were not good, but the dahi and green chutney made things a bit better
The paneer duo delight had a nice spice to it, but the paneer was also harder than I would like
the pani puri - ie: gol gappa shots - was immensely bland. there was no spice at all, or any flavor to the water. I think they took the water literally here, because that's pretty much what the liquid tasted like
As far as main courses, we shared the butter chicken, and tandoori chicken tikka, along with a bread basket
Note that a bread basket comes with 9 total pieces - which is a lot. This includes 3 butter naan's, 3 bullet naan's, and 3 garlic naans.
The naan itself was fine - soft enough, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference between the garlic and butter naan's. There just wasn't much garlic flavor at all on the garlic naan. The bullet naan did have some points of being spicy at least
The butter chicken was quite bland. There was no sense of depth in flavor from sauce, and it just tasted like very basic tomatoes with too much cream. Nowhere close to enough spices were put in the dish.
The tandoori chicken was probably my favorite - it had a deep red color, and actually had some flavor to the outside - it seemed to have been marinated and cooked well.
Another nice thing was in both - the chicken was very juicy.
The price is quite expensive. It came out to $50 per person for the overall meal, for this food and a drink. None of the individual curries are too outrageous, but some of the appetizer prices are a bit questionable. The portion size with the curry + rice is decent enough though, I wouldn't recommend ordering extra naan if you come here
Overall, it's not bad, but there are so many other flavorful spots in this area of Capitol Hill that you really shouldn't be stopping by this place. 6/10