I love ethnic food, and I’ve certainly visited at least 6 Indian restaurants in the Pittsburgh region. This is a pretty solid Indian restaurant that is currently offering 20% off their already fair prices. Naturally, I wanted to take advantage of this deal. So, I ordered salmon curry, gulab jamun, their appetizer platter, and naan bread.
I appreciated that the salmon curry had whole chunks of tomatoes in it. Usually, Indian places would blend the tomatoes but I quite enjoy having that texture of real tomatoes in a curry. The salmon was plentiful, cooked well, and had a decent amount of flavor. Portions are probably slightly above average and the curry also came with a container of rice. My only complaint about the fish curry would be that it is on the watery side and not quite thick enough.
Naan was also smaller than at most places but not too bad. Somewhat dry though. The aloo tikki was very large and quite crispy on the edges and stuffed full of potatoes and peas. Pakoras were overly rich in onions but still crisp. Seemed to also have a cheesy element to it, not quite sure what that was. Samosa is also large, seasoned well (a bit of mint?), and had a good batter but I would have liked it to be a bit crispier.
My favorite part of the meal is the gulab jamun. They were 3 small balls soaked in super sweet syrup and I truly enjoyed them!
Overall, this is a good and cheap place to get Indian food in Oakland. Portions are large enough, tastes overall quite good, but it does have a few shortcomings.
3.6/5
Top photo is their appetizer platter consisting of aloo tikki, samosa, and pakoras. There is also a plain naan on the right.