Indian restaurant in Mountain View
A sleuthing puzzle for those of you familiar with South Bay Indian restaurants...
Back when I lived on the peninsula, I had a favorite Indian restaurant I liked to frequent. It was right on El Camino, on the south side of the street, tucked into the southeast corner of a nondescript strip mall. I believe it was only a few blocks east of Castro Street, though I could be slightly mistaken. Most defining feature: strangely colored lights that gave the whole restaurant a kind of surreal greenish tint.
I'm coming back into town for a few days and would love to go back. Does anyone know the name of this place?
Thanks so much!
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Cicely
Jul 28, 2010 07:50 PM
Only place in MV on the south side of Camino that comes to mind is the restaurant at Namaste Plaza. It recently changed names and I can't remember the new or old name right now. It's related to the supermarket next door. Don't remember any green lighting.
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Namaste Cafe
1390 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, CA 94954 -
bbulkow
Jul 22, 2010 09:44 PM
I would have to guess Amber India too, even though that's on the north side of the street. It's tucked back into a corner and quite good. The lighting is a little dim but I wouldn't call it 'colored'. If it is Amber, There's Sf version now.
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Amber India
Mission and Fourth, San Francisco, CA -
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There's Amber Cafe right there, although it's not on the south side and doesn't fit your description of being in nondescript strip mall.
A few miles up El Camino in Redwood City (although also probably not what you're talking about even though it is on the south side of the street) is Suraj, which I ate at the other day and found to be extraordinarily good. Especially the spicy chicken soup and the Chicken Masala (*not* the Chicken Tikka Masala). The heat level was high, flavors were very good, and overall i was really caught off guard, I expected it to be somewhat average.
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Tikka Masala
1668 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117 -
