Night out for Indian food

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

This is a late post, we went out for Jared's friend Matt's birthday around the middle of January. He invited a bunch of us out to his favorite Indian food spot. Actually getting in was quite the adventure. Matt did call ahead for reservations, however we still had to wait once we got there, we had a group of 25 and of course they are not going to keep their tiny restaurant clear for us, so they basically try to make a spot once you get there. So we waited outside for a while and then the restaurant we had the reservation at decided to take the party that came after us (also with about 25 guests) before us, so we had a choice....its actually pretty funny, there are three Indian restaurants two next to each other and one downstairs, and basically they all look exactly the same and fight each other for business. While we were waiting for our table at the first restaurant, there was a guy from the restaurant downstairs that kept coming outside and saying, "you guys should just come here, I have a table all ready, I have room, come to my restaurant." He did this like 3 times, and when we found out our reservation was basically overlooked, we took him up on it, and went to his restaurant :-)

This is me, Jared, Jon and Amal waiting outside for our reservation while getting heckled by the other restaurant :-)

This is the front of the restaurant that we were suppose to go to and you can see a little of the restaurant next door and the one we went to was underneath both of them.

The decor in all of these restaurants is just crazy, there are lights and streamers and all kinds of things hanging from the ceiling, its quite an experience.

As you can see the ceilings are quite low, Jared was hitting his head on the accessories even sitting down!

This is Matt, not birthday Matt though. He is from Hawaii and goes to school with Jared as well. He is a very nice and fun person, we like him :-)

This is birthday Matt!

This is Amal, Claire and Jon trying to finish the wine before we leave.
I forgot to mention that its BYOB at all 3 restaurants, so everyone brought their own wine and beer.

Ah, the Chili pepper lights :-)