Harikrishnan U.
Yelp
I can almost say that my long time search for an authentic dhaba style food is finally over. Recommended by one of my friends when I was mentioning that I couldnt find one authentic dhaba style food in LA. Went with the family on a hot Sunday afternoon. Went around 12:30pm and it was almost empty. Kind of open kitchen where you can see multiple tandoor stoves. Place your order at counter and then go to your table kind of restaurant. We ordered the following items, Chole Bhatura, Amristari Kulcha, Lacha Paratha, Paneer Paratha, Kadhi Chawal, Dhaba Chicken, Paneer Tikka Masala, Mango Lassi, Falooda, Paneer Burji Frankie. The Amristari Kulcha had rave reviews and it was pretty good. Every single paratha item was super fresh and authentic. Paneer paratha had the right amount of flavor and taste and the kids loved it. Would have loved the boondhi raitha, but seemed like they didnt have boondhi that day. The Dhaba Chicken curry tasted great as well, so was the Paneer tikka masala. Because we ordered these curries as part of the Combo along with Paratha, the quantity of the curry was small. If you are planning to share it with others, may be it wouldn't be enough. The chole bhatura was on spot as well. The falooda tasted ok nothing great and compared to the cost it is not worth it in my opinion. Mango Lassi was just ok as well. The Paneer Burji was yummy and huge. We ordered most of the items with Mild or Medium spice level. Glad we stuck to it and didn't order anything spicy, the kids wouldn't be able to eat. My complain is about the setup of the restaurant, it is a very basic setup nothing fancy or fine dining about it. I mean if you are purely coming for the food and authenticity alone you wouldn't mind how the restaurant looks. So you have to make a choice depending on the occasion. Also, serving food on plastic plates, spoons etc always throws me off. Especially when we are dining in, we expect it to be better cutleries. Something the owner should think about. But as I said in the beginning, I was looking for authentic Parathas Dhaba style and I found them here and I am satisfied. The service is good, comes out pretty quickly and the owner I guess in the billing counter is warm and made sure we had good service.