******UPDATE*****NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS******Vaigai Indian Restaurant is located in north Glendale AZ in a strip by 59th and Bell Road. Certain days of the week they serve a lunch buffet and at night they serve by the menu. For weekend lunches they serve a banana leaf platter. It’s sort of all you can eat…….but only sort of.

I came in and got seated.

At the moment it’s kind of empty and we are just sitting there looking around. About ten minutes later someone approaches us and said do you want to order vegetarian or with meat. After he mentioned the meat dishes I decide to go vegetarian ($12.99) and my husband goes meat ($14.99) It seemed like within seconds the place fills up with people.

Nobody asks us if we want beverages but water is provided on the table.

We get served our platters very quickly.

My husband gets a platter with egg omelet, chicken 65, chicken biryani and something crisp that might be a poppadom or some kind of rotti. ( A kind person named Biny informed me that the crisp is an Appalam)

I got-

I got vegetarian biryani, crispy onion bondas, a thin crisp (appalam). We both also received what taste like yogurt with carrots and a thin sweet white sauce.

A second latter more food arrives from hot metal cans.

Even more food arrives.

Now I have my complete plate. I might have (from the left after the crisp) tomato dal, beet poriyal, potato masala, gobi mutter and puri. In the corner is tasty onion bonda and in the middle is vegetable biryani. Everything was delicious. The gobi mutter was very spicy. I never had these beets before…they were delicious! I’m happy with what I have. To me it’s a lot of food that’s hard to finish.

My husband feels differently. He eats more than me and tries to get some repeats.

He thinks everything he tried was delicious but each taste contained very little meat. (from the left what might be chicken 65, omelet, tomato dal, shrimp potato curry, eggplant fish, goat curry chicken biryani and a appalam and he did get puri too.

We wait and wait eventually my husband flags someone down for his repeats. They give teaspoon amounts of mostly sauce the second time around and a large mound of biryani rice.

No one drops off a bill. It’s casual and you just pay at the register when you’re done.

That was my trip to Vaigai Indian Restaurant in Glendale AZ for the Weekend Lunch Banana Leaf Platter.

******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS******

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