I've mentioned before that when I first moved to the Denver area, one of my first orders of business was to find an Indian restaurant that had a Malai Kofta that I loved as much as the one I regularly had in Kalamazoo. I occassionally get a severe craving for it, and it's important to me to have a place I can count on when that happens. After sampling the food at several restaurants, I finally found Bombay Clay Oven in the Cherry Creek area. Their Malai Kofta is exactly how I like it, and as a bonus, several of their other dishes are just the way I like them, also. I can be picky about food, and especially certain foods, like Indian cuisine. Once I found Bombay Clay Oven, I stopped going anywhere else. Until yesterday.
Dan and I had an Indian feast all day yesterday. It started when a local Indian restaurant, Little India, left a delivery menu on our doorstep last week. Since then we've been looking at it and wanting to give it a shot. They have a daily lunch buffet and so we figured what the heck, that might be a way for us to try out multiple different dishes.
We went yesterday, and we were glad we did. First of all, I was thrilled because out of the 15 or so offerngs in the buffet, only two weren't vegetarian. The Little India buffet had a selection of fresh veggies and fruit, vegetable pakoras, sauces and chutneys as starters, as well as dal soup (which is a lentil soup). For entrees, there was channa masala (masala chickpeas), saag paneer (spinach with cheese), pakora curry, and others. There were also a few desserts. I liked everything I had. Dan had the two meat dishes - tandoori chicken and chicken curry - and liked both of them. My favorite thing on the buffet was the veggie pakoras, with the channa masala as a close second. They also served a basket of fresh naan to everyone getting the buffet. Bonus!
We were happy enough with the lunch buffet that we decided to order some things for dinner. I of course had to try the mala kofta, but we also got papadum, veggie momo with onion chutney, aloo naan (potato-stuffed naan), paneer makhni, and navratan korma, which is a veggie korma. Everything was good, but a few things were best. The aloo naan was just perfect. I even liked it slightly better than Bombay Clay Oven's naan. The papadum was very similar, even down to the dipping sauces, but I have to give the edge to BCO on that one, just barely. The malai kofta was good at Little India, but I prefer BCO's for sure. I'm just so picky. The veggie momo was perhaps my favorite of our ordered items. So good! Especially with the onion chutney. The other dishes were also good. Dan preferred the korma and I liked the paneer.
All in all, I liked Little India very much. I can see why they have received Best Indian Food and Best Buffet from a slew of various places - 5280, Best of Denver, etc. - repeatedly for many years now. However, no matter how good the food is generally, I still have to go to the place where the malai kofta is exactly how I like it, so I'll probably stay with BCO for that. But, I'm sure Dan and I will be eating at the Little India buffet again. There are four locations of Little India in the Denver area, so I highly recommend giving them a try if you live near Denver.
Happy eating!
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