Best Indian Food in PS

filmlover44

I like Bombay Grill just fine.

ilovecarbs

Joy's the only spot I'd order from. Everything else has that weird generic sauce take out taste (like that mystery brown sauce in the bad chinese take out chains).

the chipster

JOY on Flatbush. Hands down the best. I have loved everything I've ordered. Great for deliveries, and if you were to eat there, the service is great cause it's ALWAYS empty. Either way--it's the ONLY Indian place I eat from around here.

dailyheights

Sure, it's more fun to do a field trip to the "red light district" on 1st and 5th... but if it's about the food, then JOY is surely one of the best choices in the tri-neighborhood area.

lc punk

I've ordered from Joy a bunch of times, and each time I thought the food was excessively greasy. Maybe I'm just ordering the wrong things. Any dishes you guys recommend?

The thing I find myself wishing this neighborhood had the most is really good Indian food..

dailyheights

Tandoori.

drano

filmlover44 wrote: I like Bombay Grill just fine.

They're not bad at all, I used to order from there.

I tried Joy once and it was good, but...well, now I'll hafta give it another shot.

Amin was lackluster, but gone now.

I've never tried Star of India.

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It says here that I am giving a fair-to-pretty-good recommendation for Kinara, which is a workhorse in my ordering-in routine. But, more to the point, what I can't find, in Park Slope, is a decent bowl of mulligatawny. And. Please don't post and tell me that it's not authentic Indian cuisine. Because. It tastes good. And I like to eat it.

Any suggestions?

I have not been to the place, Joy, or whatever it is, mentioned above. Hopefully, that's a possibility. Because Kinara doesn't have it on the menu, and neither does Bombay. ...Star of India, for what it's worth, has it, but it's a throat-catchingly strange, tomato-infused version that does nothing to repair their, uh, reputation.

crooklyn

Ok...

so joya has opened a sister rest in the slope called SONG:

Song
295 5th Ave (Cross Street: 2nd Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Im going there tonight and will let you know how the food is...

hollyhock

crooklyn wrote: Ok...

so joya has opened a sister rest in the slope called SONG:

Song
295 5th Ave (Cross Street: 2nd Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Im going there tonight and will let you know how the food is...

ooopps... sorry if this posts twice. I thought I hit submit but I must have hit preview and then forgot to submit.

Song isn't Indian food. It's Thai food. It is the sister restaurant of Joya (on Court Street). Good Thai food though!

southslopesuit

Indian food has always been PS's weakness.

Back in the day it was India House or nothin'... The least inviting restaurant ever, and their takeout/delivery looked like leftovers - tiny portions in paper cups. Not bad food, if you got past the presentation. Not great either (except for their Aloo Paratha, which I quite enjoyed).

Tried Bombay Grill once, but prefer spices other than ketchup in my indian food. Should probably give them another chance, could have been a fluke.

Kinara is good (almost too spicy for my palate, which I respect). Wish their delivery menu had more pick and choose choices - what's with the forced combos?

Order regularly from SoI, and am quite happy with it - they do a decent Chicken Tikka Masala (no ketchup sauce), good appetizers, and come pretty quickly. Not the friendliest people on the phone, but what can you do.

southslopesuit

Subject: THIS JUST IN!

Almost feel bad I dissed them earlier -

Bombay Grill was sporting big white "Closed by Order of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene" flyers in its windows as I was walking home today.

Don't suppose it's cause they were driving people crazy...

raw

SouthSlopeSuit wrote: Indian food has always been PS's weakness.

Tried Bombay Grill once, but prefer spices other than ketchup in my indian food. Should probably give them another chance, could have been a fluke.

Kinara is good (almost too spicy for my palate, which I respect). Wish their delivery menu had more pick and choose choices - what's with the forced combos?

Order regularly from SoI, and am quite happy with it - they do a decent Chicken Tikka Masala (no ketchup sauce), good appetizers, and come pretty quickly. Not the friendliest people on the phone, but what can you do.

I agree with your thoughts on Bombay Grill and Kinara.

Where is SoI?

veets

We went and picked up food at Kinara tonight. Dinner included a mixed grill, samosa and a rice prepared with almond and coconut milk (delicious) and a cold chick pea dish. The food was consistently tasty. I don't consider myself to be an expert on Indian food but this was a nice meal.

filmlover44

Subject: Re: THIS JUST IN!

SouthSlopeSuit wrote: "Closed by Order of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene"

Well, that explains my slow descent into madness. I must stop eating there.

meganlibrarian

Another vote for Kinara. I love that place. Their khandari naan is one of the better examples that I've eaten in the area. I've eaten pretty much everything on the vegetarian section, and it's all been pretty good. Heck, it's all pretty good.

ilovecarbs

Has anyone tried Amin on 7th and Union?

ljnd

Yes. Ick. Gristle.

drano

ljnd wrote: Yes. Ick. Gristle.

Oh yeah. I hate places that just throw every single piece of garbage meat into whatever it is that they are selling - hey go ahead, maybe some people like it, but I'm not paying for it. Same thing with putting the end of a tomato on a sandwich or salad...it saves $0.00 and it's a slap in the face to a customer.

doublediamond

So tonight my friend and I went to Joy based on the recommendations here. My friend and I are Indian food connoisseurs. This is our favorite cuisine, we're very experienced with the flavors and the items, and I myself cook authentic Indian food all the time. My friend and I were astonished at how awful the food at Joy was.

First, there was no complimentary papadum. Perhaps it's a Brooklyn thing or a Joy thing, but in the city, restaurants provide it to you free of charge.

We started out with a banana pakora as an appetizer. An unusual choice for us, but we were expecting it to be a banana fritter, similar to the vegetable pakora in preparation. No such thing. It was a ball of bread with banana in the center. Not the best thing we could have chosen and it was edible only with the onion and cilantro chutneys.

For the main course, my friend first got the Dumpakht and said it tasted bad (the chicken was tough, the sauce bland). The waitstaff were great and attentive and exchanged the dish at her request for chicken tikka masala, typically a solid dish. Again, the chicken was tough but the sauce was like pasta sauce. Very, very bad.

I had the malai kofta. The dish was very sweet and I could not identify any Indian spices in it other than the cardamom pod. It was a hot mess.

We also ordered the onion kulcha. If it were naan, it would have been ok but as onion kulcha it was dry, had no onions but green flecks and was pretty tasteless (they did not brush ghee on it).

We were very disappointed in the food. While we've have had ok Indian food, we have honestly never had bad Indian food. It's like they weren't any Indians in the kitchen.

I do have to say that the staff at Joy were very attentive and friendly. The Joy is in the staff, not the food.

Ugh. You know when you're full but you're full of food that you didn't even like and your mind wants something tasty but you're too full to eat? That's how we feel right now.

veets

Double.. I love your avitar!
Have you tried Kinara?
You and your friend sound like experts on this cuisine.

I would be interested in your evaluation of that restaurant as well.

doublediamond

veets wrote: Double.. I love your avitar!
Have you tried Kinara?
You and your friend sound like experts on this cuisine.

I would be interested in your evaluation of that restaurant as well.

No, haven't tried Kinara. There is a Kinara in Edgewater, NJ that is amaaazing, so if it's related that would be great.

I like the avatar too. Cracks me up whenever I see it!!

veets

Ok ..Now we need to figure out what Kinara means.. Perhaps it translates to "generic Indian Restaurant in NYC Metropolitan area."

doublediamond

veets wrote: Ok ..Now we need to figure out what Kinara means.. Perhaps it translates to "generic Indian Restaurant in NYC Metropolitan area."

Kinara has to do with the water or river side.

carnivore

Isn't that also what a Kwanza menorah is called?

doublediamond

Carnivore wrote: Isn't that also what a Kwanza menorah is called?

I think so!

laura

I'm rather amazed that people have had good luck with Kinara. I got take-out from there a year ago and it was awful (don't remember what I ordered). I tried it again yesterday ... the samosas weren't awful, but they weren't very good (same for the sauces), and they had bits of hard whole spices in them you could break a tooth on. Same with the vegetable curry. I threw the whole gross mess away even though I was starving. I love Indian food and could happily eat it every day, but I'm never going back there.

drano

laura wrote: I'm rather amazed that people have had good luck with Kinara. I got take-out from there a year ago and it was awful (don't remember what I ordered). I tried it again yesterday ... the samosas weren't awful, but they weren't very good (same for the sauces), and they had bits of hard whole spices in them you could break a tooth on. Same with the vegetable curry. I threw the whole gross mess away even though I was starving. I love Indian food and could happily eat it every day, but I'm never going back there.

So where you go?

laura

Drano wrote: So where you go?

I don't.

I guess I need to unlazy myself and pull out my old Indian cookbooks. I do make a spicy Indian porridge/soup thing regularly, but that's just a breakfast or lunch thing.

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laura wrote: [quote=Drano]So where you go?

I don't.

I must have eaten Kinara for dinner a couple dozen times since moving here, and have never ordered something I didn't happily finish. It isn't always great, but nothing like your experience.

You are, by the way, the fourth Park Slope resident who has, in this space, said that they have completely ruled out one type of cuisine and only cook those dishes for themselves. (No more Italian, or whatever, they say; I'm only eating spaghetti I make at home.) It's a phenomenon I have never experienced before. Are you guys just great cooks? Or incredibly sick of disappointing food?

...(More to the point, though off the thread, I eat out probably five or six times a week and can count the bad meals I've had in 16 months in New York on one hand. Do I just not know better? Or am I just incredibly gifted at choosing where to eat? Discuss.)