Indian Cuisine

3550 Southwest 34th Street

Five Thumbs Up*

Menu Highlights: everything here is pretty great. Particular favorites are the Chicken or Vegetable Korma and the Tandoori Chicken. Make sure you get some Naan and a side of tamarind chutney!
(tandoori chicken)

Price Range: It's a bit pricey. A dinner for one will easily run 20 bucks.

Remember how I was making fun of restaurants with witty names like Harvest Thyme? My basic theory is as follows: If a lot of thought went into making the name "creative," the food ain't that good. Well, I'd like to present the contra-positive of that postulate. "Indian Cuisine" couldn't be a more generic, descriptive, unremarkable name, yet it implies nothing but quality when it comes to the food.

Before we get started, let me explain away the asterisk above. I can only eat Indian food once every 4 months or so. There are many reasons why. First, it somehow shuts down the mechanism in my brain that tells me I'm full and forces me to stop eating. When they plop a plate of saucy goodness in front of me with ample sides of rice, naan, and chutney, I eat till it's gone. It's terrible for me, but I can't help it. If I eat here at 2:00 PM, I'm usually good until lunch the next day. It is RIDICULOUSLY filling. Second, it does tend to give indigestion on either end of the spectrum from time to time.

Despite these downsides, I can't get enough of it when I'm in the mood. I become a junkie, craving the exotic spices like some sort of primeval crack.

Since giving up meat, I'm drawn towards the vegetable korma.

I have to admit, the Chicken Korma is tastier, but the veggie version still does the trick with peas, carrots, cauliflower, and potatoes, swimming in a thick semi-gelatinous bath of spices, cream, and coconut milk. You're going to want to soak that goodness up with some garlic naan (pictured above) and then dunk it all in some tangy, sweet tamarind chutney.


Indian food is so diverse and varied, yet all extremely savory and delicious. Get adventurous and try unfamiliar items on the menu and always ask for advice from the staff. They've never steered me wrong.

Eating at Indian Cuisine is a true feast for the senses. It reminds me of ancient days where the kings and royals would satiate themselves to the verge of vomiting on the richest foods of the day. I also think of the SNL skit where Will Ferrell is the pompous professor telling tall tales of sexual escapades: "We filled our bellies with goat meat. Our hands greasy. Mouths glistening. Yes, and -- once again, our bodies sluggish with goat meat."

Check this place out, you won't regret it (unless you get asterisk worth symptoms)