A Reason to Not Dining on 6th Street - Banjara

After perusing through many reviews of Banjara and being mostly positive, we tried this Curry Lane restaurant on a beautiful Thursday evening. We sat outside, and surprisingly without traffic and noise as you would think the East Village has.

 
 
 
 
 
 



We begin with chicken samosas. They are soft and curry-spiced, but lack any moisture   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Chicken madras - see those chilis to the right? There was none of that (spiciness) going on in the dish.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Lal Mas - lamb with chilis. See the deep redness of the dish? Yep, no spiciness in this either.

 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Chicken & mushrooms in herbed cream
 
Everything was bland and did not have a hint of spicy even in the 'spicy' dishes.  At least the naan and dipping sauces were decent.  Too bad!
 

97 1st Avenue @6th Street  (212) 477-5956