New Delhi Bar and Restaurant

We add our “megadittoes” to the chorus of praise heaped on this Loring Park restaurant since it opened this summer. Although it’s located in a graveyard of failed dining ventures (the unfortunately named “Snoodles” restaurant being only the most recent doomed enterprise), this Indian eatery has culinary chops to spare, and a pleasing atmosphere of hand-painted murals and hanging silks. Several recent visits to the obligatory lunch buffet revealed some unusual choices, including a clove-tinged egg curry, a seasonally-appropriate zucchini curry, a goat curry, and a vegetable curry flavored with white raisins. Also in evidence was the crepe-like Dosai, which Twin Cities diners have recently been introduced to at southern Indian restaurants like Udupi in Columbia Heights. In addition to the usual suspects of local Indian dining, the dinner menu includes other intriguing dishes like lobster vindaloo, an okra masala. and a coconut soup, which will insure many happy returns this fall. New Delhi, (612) 813-0000