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All of our dishes are served family style. Which means that along with every entree there is a rice plate for each person. Allowing you to share your entrees with your family and friends. This allows everyone to order dishes with distinctly different flavors for everyone to share and enjoy. We don't provide a buffet or are we open for lunch. We do take the time deserved in every dish we make with pride. Any dish can be made at the spice level of your taste and liking. So visit our menu page. Or better yet, stop in and see what you have been missing. |
Read our reviews!
The Alibi and The Albuquerque Journal Reviews
The Dish in The Alibi - April 11, 2007
by Laura Marrich
THE DISH: Ajay Gupta had a brain for engineering and a passion for cooking, and happily for the palates all over Albuquerque, his passion burned much hotter. Partly because it was for cooking Indian food. Not the tongue-searing stuff of southern India alone, but a richer combo of the milder, spicier northern along with the fiery southern.
That's what India Kitchen-6910 Montgomery NE-has specialized in for 25 years. Its anniversary April 6 is a celebration of spice, perseverance and wisdom. As well as damned good cooking. (I'd say "darned," but at India Kitchen, you can get the food as hot as you want it, and in keeping with that spirit, I thought a little extra semantic heat was in order here.)
Ajay, who runs the kitchen, while his wife, Rajul, runs the front, did manage to put his practical engineering brain to work, while Rajul used her psychology degree on three sons and many customers. The couple took a three-pronged approach to a kind of small business whose survival rate doesn't even approach the 25 years: Never get too big, stay consistent, educate the clientele.
The couple declined to take on additional space, focusing instead on their family, and their own joy, concentrated on pleasing most of the people most of the time, and taught classes, as well as early customers, on the finer pointes of Indian food.
Ajay can explain the particulars with an engineer's systematic view, but basically, he said: There are two kinds of heat. One unleashes its fire on the palate, as the chile does. The other warms you below the neck-spices like cinnamon, ginger, cardomom that wait until they get into your system and warm you from there. The closer we are to the equator, the more we crave heat, because it makes us sweat, cooling our bodies.
And, he said: "You can satisfy only a certain percent of the people. To satisfy another 1 percent, I'd double my efforts; another 2 percent, triple my efforts." Family and basic sanity always came first.
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India Kitchen 25th Anniversary Review in The Albuquerque Journal- March 22, 2007
by Susan Stiger
Auspicious Chutney - In a City where restaurants open and close faster then the a blinking eye (Stark's ABQ and Califronia Witches are two recent examples of both), India Kitchen is a welcome anomaly. Saturday, April 7, marks the 25th anniversary of the restaurant.
When you achieve a quarter of a century, you best have yourself a party, "Just to let them know we've survived," says Rajul Gupta. She's personally run India Kitchen (6910 Montgomery NE, 884-2333) with her husband, Ajay, since it opened in 1982
But maybe "thrived" is a better word. My first time at India Kitchen was prenatal-my mother took a vegetarian cooking class there when she was pregnant with me. I've been a regular, off-and-on, ever since. Rajul says the homey India Kitchen, which maintains a small, fragrant storefront of Indian culinary items, owes its success to a base of repeat customers that she affectionately as "die-hard."
"We feel very blessed," she says of the support. Through to the credit of the Guptas, India Kitchen has kept those customers coming back by cultivating one of the best vegetarian menus in town-what began as three dishes has mushroomed into the 25 pure vegetarian entrees they currently serve (and that's in adddition to a healthy selection of lamb, seafood, and poultry items). "And we keeep coming up with more! Rajul says.
To celebrate their prosperous tenure. the Guptas will hand free gifts to the first 50 customers that dine with them on Friday, April 6 and Saturday April 7. In Addition to the anniversary weekend freebies, India Kitchen will also reduce its usual $22 dinner-for-two special (which comes with a choice of the restaurant's most popular items: chicken with Mango chutney and vegetarian saag paneer to $15.95 for the whole month of April. Want more? They'll give a free Desert to anyone who wishes them happy anniversary. Just try and keep it within reason-It'd be a shame to eat them out of business after lasting this long.
by Laura Marrich
THE DISH: Ajay Gupta had a brain for engineering and a passion for cooking, and happily for the palates all over Albuquerque, his passion burned much hotter. Partly because it was for cooking Indian food. Not the tongue-searing stuff of southern India alone, but a richer combo of the milder, spicier northern along with the fiery southern.
That's what India Kitchen-6910 Montgomery NE-has specialized in for 25 years. Its anniversary April 6 is a celebration of spice, perseverance and wisdom. As well as damned good cooking. (I'd say "darned," but at India Kitchen, you can get the food as hot as you want it, and in keeping with that spirit, I thought a little extra semantic heat was in order here.)
Ajay, who runs the kitchen, while his wife, Rajul, runs the front, did manage to put his practical engineering brain to work, while Rajul used her psychology degree on three sons and many customers. The couple took a three-pronged approach to a kind of small business whose survival rate doesn't even approach the 25 years: Never get too big, stay consistent, educate the clientele.
The couple declined to take on additional space, focusing instead on their family, and their own joy, concentrated on pleasing most of the people most of the time, and taught classes, as well as early customers, on the finer pointes of Indian food.
Ajay can explain the particulars with an engineer's systematic view, but basically, he said: There are two kinds of heat. One unleashes its fire on the palate, as the chile does. The other warms you below the neck-spices like cinnamon, ginger, cardomom that wait until they get into your system and warm you from there. The closer we are to the equator, the more we crave heat, because it makes us sweat, cooling our bodies.
And, he said: "You can satisfy only a certain percent of the people. To satisfy another 1 percent, I'd double my efforts; another 2 percent, triple my efforts." Family and basic sanity always came first.
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India Kitchen 25th Anniversary Review in The Albuquerque Journal- March 22, 2007
by Susan Stiger
Auspicious Chutney - In a City where restaurants open and close faster then the a blinking eye (Stark's ABQ and Califronia Witches are two recent examples of both), India Kitchen is a welcome anomaly. Saturday, April 7, marks the 25th anniversary of the restaurant.
When you achieve a quarter of a century, you best have yourself a party, "Just to let them know we've survived," says Rajul Gupta. She's personally run India Kitchen (6910 Montgomery NE, 884-2333) with her husband, Ajay, since it opened in 1982
But maybe "thrived" is a better word. My first time at India Kitchen was prenatal-my mother took a vegetarian cooking class there when she was pregnant with me. I've been a regular, off-and-on, ever since. Rajul says the homey India Kitchen, which maintains a small, fragrant storefront of Indian culinary items, owes its success to a base of repeat customers that she affectionately as "die-hard."
"We feel very blessed," she says of the support. Through to the credit of the Guptas, India Kitchen has kept those customers coming back by cultivating one of the best vegetarian menus in town-what began as three dishes has mushroomed into the 25 pure vegetarian entrees they currently serve (and that's in adddition to a healthy selection of lamb, seafood, and poultry items). "And we keeep coming up with more! Rajul says.
To celebrate their prosperous tenure. the Guptas will hand free gifts to the first 50 customers that dine with them on Friday, April 6 and Saturday April 7. In Addition to the anniversary weekend freebies, India Kitchen will also reduce its usual $22 dinner-for-two special (which comes with a choice of the restaurant's most popular items: chicken with Mango chutney and vegetarian saag paneer to $15.95 for the whole month of April. Want more? They'll give a free Desert to anyone who wishes them happy anniversary. Just try and keep it within reason-It'd be a shame to eat them out of business after lasting this long.