Indian Food and Cooking

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Tandoori Wrapper's Delight

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Tandoori Chicken USA The Cuisine: Indian-style tandoori sandwiches Specialty Items: Paneer or tandoori chicken sandwich Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunchtime, it was a ... More >>

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Building a Meal with the Deconstructed Samosa

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Curry Up Now The Cuisine: Indian chaat meets American street food Specialty Items: Tiki masla burritos and samosas Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunchtime, it was a total ... More >>

Gajalee: Indian Cuisine from a Different Coast

Fresh Eats: New Indian: Preeti Mistry Relaunches Juhu Beach Club as Popup

Anjan Mitra's 2011 Food Find: Summer Salad at Dosa

​SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses over the course of the next 10 days. ​We spoke to Anjan Mitra from Dosa: "I had to think about ... More >>

San Francisco's Top Five Indian or Pakistani Restaurants

Courtesy dosasf.comThe paper dosa from Dosa on Valencia.​Before the Tenderloin became the Tandoorloin a decade ago, Indian food in San Francisco was a restrained, almost elegant affair. Linens and goblets, muted sauces, rather doctrinaire menus of tandoori chicken and mixed vegetable sabzi. A wave ... More >>

Kasa's Anamika Khanna and Tim Volkema on the Closure, Pop-Ups, and the Kati Roller Truck

Britney's last-minute venue change isn't the only disappointment hanging heavy on the Castro these days. Late last month, the owners of Kasa Indian Eatery ― which opened in the Castro in 2008 ― shuttered its year-old second restaurant, on Fillmore Street in the Marina/Cow Hollow. Writing on the ... More >>

Tandoori Oven, Daly City's First Indian Restaurant

Luis ChongChicken tikka masala dinner at Tandoori Oven.​South Bay chain Tandoori Oven decided to go north for its fifth location, the first Indian tandoori restaurant in Daly City. Less than 2 weeks old, Tandoori Oven took over the space from late-night burger joint Slider USA after 3 months ... More >>

At Viva Goa, authenticity sometimes trumps taste

Curry Village Has an Awesome $10 Lunch Buffet

Tamara Palmer​Friends have been telling us to check out the $10 all-you-can-eat buffet since January, when Curry Village opened in the Sunset. We're sorry we didn't heed their insistence sooner. The entrees change all the time, but expect a consistent balance of meat and vegetarian offerings. ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Eat This: Green Coriander's chicken korma

Learning Indian with Soul Cocina's Roger Feely

Jun BelenRoger Feely.​What's the coolest way in the city to learn how to make saag paneer? Through Soul Cocina's Roger Feely cooking classes at Jharna's Kitchen, without a doubt. Jun Belen​Last weekend we donned our aprons, rolled up our sleeves, and, for $50, joined an intimate clas ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Kasa's Lamb Curry Thali

mswine/FlickrThali with lamb curry ($10.95).​Monday, June 21, 2010 Sonya Philip | waxandwool/Flickr​It's two years since Kasa launched at the eastern pole of the Castro's 18th Street cruise corridor. Chef-owner Anamika Khanna grew up in a Punjabi enclave in London ― leave it to someon ... More >>

Soul Cocina's Roger Feely Leads Indian Cooking Class at Jharna's Kitchen

Tamara PalmerSoul Cocina's sabudana vada, pictured at last week's Street Fixe pop-up.​One of the most exotic places on Roger Feely's resume includes a year spent as a chef/instructor and consultant in Goa, India. He'll draw from that experience, as well as his street feats here as Soul Cocina, ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Little Delhi's Chicken Curry Special

Jonathan KauffmanChicken curry special ($6.99). Whoa.​ Tuesday, June 8, 2010 leporello87/Flickr​Located just around the corner from the Powell Street station, or on the gateway to the Tandoorloin, Little Delhi is one of the city's better Punjabi restaurants, with terra-cotta and gold walls, un ... More >>

Ruchi, southern homestyle cooking. Southern Indian, that is

Jonathan Kauffman Finds Thali Pleasures at Ruchi, South Park's South Indian Gem

John BirdsallRuchi's masala dosa.​Remember the thrill of discovering that Indian food isn't some murky repertoire of indistinguishable, ghee-drenched curries, inevitably served up with naan and cucumber raita? For most of us, Udupi Palace might have been a liminal zone of paper dosas and idli ... More >>

SFoodie's 92: Indian Pizza from Zante

That's not pesto on that there slice.​ As a windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here, a different one each day. Tweet your own nominations ― extra points for pics ― to @SFoodie. Number 87: Indian pizza from Zant ... More >>

Foodie Confession: The Smells from Aslam's Rasoi on Valencia Finally Got to Us

DrewMacKenzie.com/FlickrWhat was keeping us away all this time?​We have walked down Valencia a lot over the years and inhaled a variety of good smells curling from the stoves of the strip's eateries, like hissing vats of chile verde and burritos meeting grills for quick sizzles. Between 22nd a ... More >>

Dosa v. Udupi Palace: The Epic Battle for South Indian Dominance on Valencia

Yan M./FlickrDosa's chennai chicken: Smuggle-worthy.​On the painful days following Thanksgiving, we like to recover by enjoying foods bearing little resemblance to those we spooned up on Thursday. Sometimes, with health or digestive relief in mind, we gravitate to raw salads or restorative sou ... More >>

Indian Taco Truck Curry Up Now Headed for San Francisco

cfarivar/californiatacotrucks.com/blogGet ready for biryani burritos, San Francisco.​With any luck, it'll be a particularly spicy New Year for San Franciscans who love street food. Peninsula Indian taco truck Curry Up Now is hoping to begin selling in S.F. by the third week of December, compan ... More >>

A Little Slice of Succulence in the 'Hood: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

phxpma/FlickrAll eyes here.​Thursday, November 12, 2009 It's the Tenderloin, for god's sake, not some food court in Danville -- you expect a little atmosphere. Once the food arrives, you won't notice, especially if you order the extra-succulent chicken tikka masala, saag dal (lentils and sp ... More >>

Nate Appleman Is a Dick, But We're Sorry to See Him Bounced from The Next Iron Chef

Skanky Indian food did him in, even when douchey antics didn't.​If anyone who cares doesn't know by now, former pizzaiolo laureate of San Francisco Nate Appleman will not be the next Iron Chef, following Luce chef Dominique Crenn who ended up on the chopping block last week. To be fair, he was ... More >>

Demolition Flavors, Happy Hour Aggro, and Mid-Century Style: A Foodie Day Planner

​Friday, August 21, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's a North Beach hole in the wall, with food that packs the kind of flavor capable of knocking the whole damn wall down. SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody likes the lamb vindaloo, daal, and garlic naan at Naan 'N' Curry, 533 Jackson (at Col ... More >>

Food Porn: Kati Rolls And Thalis At Kasa Indian Eatery

SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

Fremont's Paki-Indian Naz 8 Theater Proves There's No Place Like Om

Recipe for Success

Prepare fine, humble foods in a chic upscale setting, add wine list and music, and stir

Chaat Amongst Yourselves

"Fast, fresh, casual" -- and innovative -- Indian food

Naansense

Where should we order an Indian pizza from tonight, hon?

Indian Love Song

A progressive meal through three Indian places with a knowledgeable companion

Small World

An exceptionally pleasant setting for fresh Indian fare in the ever-evolving Mission

Best Indian (No Tablecloths)

Shalimar

Ghee Whiz

Perfect double bill: Amber India in Mountain View and Satyajit Ray in Palo Alto

Together at Last

Pizza combines with Indian food to form a more perfect union

The Church of Trillin

Our critic, an early convert, attends a revival meeting and genuflects at the altar of Shalimar

Urban Explorer

A request for an inexpensive and interesting restaurant for a party of eight sends our critic to the books

Fit for a Prince

Raja Cuisine of India

Spice of Life

Al Hamra

The People's Choice

Breads of India

Best Restaurant in Which to Have a Cultural Identity Crisis

Zante Pizza & Indian Food

Best Indian Restaurant

Shalimar

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Ali Khan Band

Spicy Sanctuary

The Man Who Came to Dinner

After the Moguls

River of Dreams

A Walk on the Mild Side

Sweet beats heat on Rasoi's Indian menu

Hot Flashes

Indian Oven stages its firestorm of spice with a superior menu

Where's the Beef?

You won't find any at Valentine's - just great vegetarian fare that blows the doors off the competition