Namaste is an Indian Restaurant located in a shopping center in North Scottsdale Arizona. This is a small family ran business. The owners are the cooks and their son serves tables. During the day (10:30-3 ) they offer their menu and a lunch buffet with a little over a dozen items that change every day. They offer some dishes that you don’t find at other Indian Restaurants like BEEF vindaloo.
Across the buffet is a series of paintings telling the story of the Taj Mahal.
There are other paintings around the restaurant.
It’s small but cozy. They offer both booths and traditional tables.
Bright light comes in threw the glass front windows.
We decided to try the buffet today.
With the buffet they made us fresh naan. We started with hot steamy garlic naan and they later brought us plain naan.
All the dishes that we tried were all very flavorful but nothing was spicy. We were told that they don’t put out the spicy dishes on the buffet so it can appeal to everyone. A few of the dishes that they offered today were – tandoori chicken, curry chicken, butter chicken, a ground lamb dish, dal, salad, chutneys, sweets.
The buffet was good so we decided to take out a few spicy dishes to see how they really are. We tried chili chicken chef hot.The chicken is tender…It’s flavorful and MIGHTY HOT! The rice was cumin scented.
and BEEF vindaloo chef hot. Also scotching molten HOT! The stewed beef cubes were very tender. The chunks of sweet potato gave some relief.
OMG! They are scorching molten hot! I’m so glad that they don’t dull the food.
Then we went back and tried some other things.
Onion Bhaji – garbanzo bean flour coated spiced onion fritters with tamarind sauce…tasty and delicious!
aloo tikki choley – potato patties with hot North Indian chick pea curry, mint chutney & tamarind date chutney.
Achari fish masala ( achari spice blend, yogurt, onion and ginger) & kadai chicken (spicy chicken with onions, tomato, ginger, bell pepper, and kadai masala spice)
That was a Little Taste of Namaste Indian Restaurant in Scottsdale AZ.
Worth a Fork!
wwwNamasteScottsdale.com
Everything is subject to change.
