Indian food in Little India - Cerritos/Artesia?

[JinCC]

Hi,

My wife and I are looking for recommendations on Indian food in Little India (Pioneer Blvd). I've searched the site, but each time I find a good place recommended; I find it is closed or vegetarian. We are interested in the non-vegetarian restaurants.

Please help us choose a good restaurant.

Thanks in advance,
JinCC

[JinCC]

All,

Thanks so much for recommending India Restaurant. We went for lunch today and had an excellent meal. Everything was well-spiced. We ate the lunch buffet and particulary enjoyed the palak (spinach), chicken makhni (curry?), and naan. The servive was excellent as well. We'll definitely be returning.

Thanks,
JinCC

[lerich]

We just had a totally fabulous lunch at Mumbai Ki Galliyon Se - Artesia, CA. This is a little restaurant with Mumbai street food, little plates of things with flavors I've never had before. Its all vegetarian but nothing I missed at all (as a big carnivore) with the mix of textures and flavors. The chef was very kind to recommend specialities since we didn't recognize a single thing, in spite of the fact that we eat lots of more traditional Indian food. Quite affordable too.

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Mumbai Ki Galliyon Se
17705 Pioneer Blvd, Artesia, CA 90701

[Das Ubergeek]

How about Kabob Korner, which is in the same plaza as Tirupathi Bhimas (KK is on the ground floor, TB is one floor up).

I don't care for meat in Indian food so I can't say whether the places that have both meat and vegetarian dishes have any good meat dishes. To me, Indian food is about amazing things done with vegetables.

[sel]

Tirupathi Bhimas is a really good veg place and the one time that I tried Kabob Korner, TB's place with meat dishes it was also good. And it is next door to Saffron Ice Cream!

[sushigirlie]

This strip mall is in a bit of flux. Tirupathi Bhimas on the second floor no longer exists. It's been replaced by a restaurant called "Chowpatty," interestingly enough. There is a new restaurant "Bhimas" on the first floor. I assume, but cannot be sure, that it's related to the old Tirupathi Bhimas.

I also noticed an interesting restaurant called "Tasty Tomato" on the second floor purporting to specialize in Indian Chinese food.

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Tirupathi Bhimas
18792 Pioneer Blvd, Artesia, CA 90701

[JMan604]

There's an Indian restaurant in Pioneer and Artesia across 99 ranch. It's pretty good and I love their chicken mukhni (sp?) and sag paneer (spinach with cheese). Their roti is pretty yummy too.

[OCAnn]

Hmmm...I think that's the India Restaurant.....

India Restaurant
562-860-5621
17824 Pioneer Blvd
Artesia 90701

[OCAnn]

Here's a thread from last fall: www.chowhound.com/topics/445605. DH and I absolutely love the India Restaurant.

[MaryT]

FYI, they also own Kamal Palace which was closed for a few years in the 90s when they turned Long Beach's Marina Pacifica into a slightly smaller than big box lifestyle center, and last I checked (a year or more back) they still shared a very similar menu. I tend towards using certain dishes I favor such as benghan bharta as my litmus test for this sort of establishment, and theirs used to be what I strive for at home and am now finally matching.