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Recommended Restaurants: Indian

Price Guide: $ = less than $15, $$ = $15 - $35, $$$ = $36-$50, $$$$ = over $50

  • Price estimates are based on an average dinner for one, excluding drinks, tax and tip.
  • Listed restaurants accept major credit cards unless otherwise noted.
  • Symbols: L = lunch, D = dinner, BR = breakfast, B = brunch, R = reservations required, V = valet parking, W = wheelchair accessible, P = private room, BQ = banquet facilities.
  • Star Guide: 4 stars = superlative, 3 stars = excellent, 2 stars = very good, 1 star = above average. (Note: No stars will be assigned to a restaurant until it has been newly reviewed.)


Cafe India

1521 North Main Street, Walnut Creek     MapIt!
(510) 944-5403
$/L Mon-Sat/D daily/W

The compact Cafe India, surrounded by Italian-style restaurants, presents a menu that covers the whole range of Indian cooking. There are samosas, Indian breads from naan to chapatis, curries, and tandoori-style meats from lamb to prawns. For dessert, mango ice cream cools down the curries' fire.--Diablo

Chutneys

9000-J Crow Canyon Road, Danville     MapIt!
(510) 736-5448
$-$$/L Mon-Sat/D daily/W

Chutneys is an elegant, sophisticated Indian restaurant where the complex food is accompanied by friendly, nearly doting service. Curries are a must, and you can specify the heat level when you order. Tandoori chicken is red and moist, and don't pass up the naan, classic Indian flatbread. Use the warm rounds to soak up the last bit of savory sauce.--Diablo

Ganges, The

775 Frederick St., San Francisco     MapIt!
(415) 661-7290
$/D /R /P

Malvi Doshi translates the food of her homeland with skill and finesse at this popular, astonishingly inexpensive vegetarian restaurant. The curries are sensational; the chai, state-of-the-art.

North India

3131 Webster St., San Francisco     MapIt!
(415) 931-1556
$$/L /D /R /W /P

Owner and head chef Parvesh Sahi produces a variety of delicious specialties from the clay oven, or tandoor, he brought from India. Some of the best Indian food in this country is available in his Cow Hollow restaurant.

VIK's Chaat Corner

726 Allston Way., Berkeley     MapIt!
(510) 644-4412
$/L /W/3 Stars

Housed in a white-tiled warehouse, VIK's Chaat Corner feels like a New Dehli bazaar. The restaurant is adjacent to VIK Distribution, an Indian market and import company. Long lines of Cal students and sari-draped women wait for the unbelievably inexpensive snacks--many of which are substantial enough for a meal. The food is delicious, complex, and immediate. Don't miss the dahi batata puri, crisp profiterole-like puris in a lake of yogurt, tamarind, and mint; the lamb baida roti, a soft, flat bread filled with chili-spiked lamb; or any of the weekday curries. (Victor)

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