07/29/08

The Best Indian Food in Boulder!!

by chelseapohl

We always choose to go to the Royal Peacock when we want good indian food. The atmosphere, beautiful paintings, the food, the drinks...It's all amazing!

Check it out for sure and get a mango lassie for the kiddos, my daughter loves them!

07/29/08

Best tasting Indian for I have had in Boulder

by JohannHousman

My family and I had shown up at around 6:30 on a Friday. There were a few customers scattered around the room. We ordered a wine, an absinthe and a soda. The Absinthe was the best quality that I have ever tasted, though I'm no expert having only had it 5 or 6 times before. We ordered 3 tapas. the Goan Vindaloo, Ghost Ka Salum and the Chicken Makani. Each plate was so delicious that we just chose to order all new dishes for the entrees, now confident in the food. The plates were quite small as someone mentioned, however...they were only 5 bucks each and fit the price wonderfully. It gave us a chance to sample the quality of the food and led us to get entrees for all of us instead of getting a couple of them and splitting them as we tend to do. We then ordered the Sind Ke Jaan, Kashmiri Rogan Josh, and the Chicken Shahi Korma. I read someone was disappointed with the rice, it must have been an off day, because our rice was perfect, yellow and subtly seasoned. The entrees that my wife and I received were delicious and wonderfully prepared and we shared our meals eagerly and found ourselves quite sated. Our daughter found her dish (the Korma) a bit complicated for her pallette as the fruit and nuts in the dish was very new to her so she only ate about half of it, and the other half was hastily consumed by me for lunch the following day. Indian food is so off or on in this town that I sometimes refer to it as food I don't really prefer, finding so few establishments that can do it right. As a chef myself, I tend to be critical at times. But this time, I could'nt tell enough people that night how wonderful the food at the Peacock is. I was pleasantly surprised and now know why they have been there as long as they have. While the prices are not exhorbent, its not fast food prices either. If you want a 30 dollar meal for three people somewhere with a drive thru would be a better idea. If you want great indian food worth every penny...i recommend the Royal Peacock.

• Pros: Food prepared precisely, delicious, and with flavours balanced
• Cons: they don't carry Mead

04/27/08

Best of Denver??? WestWord let the absinthe go to its head!

by cmontvil

I've never before felt compelled to post a negative citysearch review, but this place was just that special. Arriving on saturday night to a half-empty restaurant, we were told to wait at the bar for 15 minutes while they cleared off a two-top. Apparently they were expecting a full house, but the restaurant was completely empty by the time we left at 8pm. We tried ordering mixed drinks, but to no avail. The bartender, we learned, is the owner's son, and he comes and goes as he pleases.

Then there was the food, which finally arrived after a long delay. The rice was so undercooked that it was actually inedibly crunchy. We tried to order more rice, suggesting as graciously as possible that they cook it this time, but it never came. We made do with the mediocre naan.

Worse yet were the entrees. The "tapas" portions aren't just small plates, they're nanoscopic. Our saag paneer ($4) was a small layer of saag in a saucer with one piece of paneer, Sind ke jaan ($8) was inedibly salty. Goan vindaloo ($5) lacked substance, subtly, or kick. Total damage was $55 for six tapas, naan, and two glasses of cheap red. And, for the first time either of us could remember, we left a restaurant hungry. Avoid this place, you'd do better at almost any other Indian establishment in the front range.

• Pros: Garlic and onion naan wasn't bad.
• Cons: Service, quality of food, tapas portions.