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From June 2005 Cheap Eats

Many Indian restaurants offer a luncheon buffet that is usually a good deal. Dishes usually include curries that continue to improve in flavor as sauces seep into the meats or vegetables. Along with the curries come tandoori chicken on the bone and a few other dishes that good restaurants replenish before they go stale.

Bombay Tandoor has one of the better luncheon offerings. For $9.95 to $10.95 diners can eat all they want of tandoori chicken, butter chicken, goat curry, southern Indian idli with sambar, several vegetarian curries, rice, breads, and a dessert. Whether you choose the buffet or order from the menu you will enjoy a pleasing setting with comfortable chairs.

The menu includes the usual preparations plus such dishes as tandoori lamb chops; prawns masaledar, sautéed with ginger, garlic, onions, and tomatoes; and chicken kadhai, stir-fried with ginger, garlic, cilantro, and diced tomatoes. Prices are moderate--chicken and most lamb dishes average $12, vegetarian dishes a little less, seafood and tandoori lamb chops a little more.

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An elegant Indian restaurant, pretty as a Mogul's chamber, now graces the Route 7 corridor between Falls Church and Leesburg and it offers outstanding dishes with a certain Raj-like elegance. Best of all, the menu explores dishes that don't often turn up on local menus: Start with fish koliwada, then continue to lamb tikke peshawari, lobster tail masala and an achari of chicken pieces marinated overnight in Indian pickle spices. Breads are exquisite. Desserts, too, are special so be sure to save some room for the gulab jamun and gajer hulwa.

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Don't let the strip mall fool you. Bombay Tandoor is a busy and bustling Vienna favorite, which has been enticing customers to taste its refined Northern Indian cuisine since 2000. The interior décor transports you to India and owner Rani Varma brags about her homemade style menu. The menu features the specialite de la maison, butter chicken and her highly regarded tandoori dishes. Remember, there is no beef on the menu, but trust us, the lamb is to die for.

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Editorial Review

NOTE: The restaurant offers a daily all-you-can-eat lunch buffet.

By Tom Sietsema
Washington Post Magazine
Sunday, October 19, 2003

A spinoff of downtown Washington's Bombay Palace, Bombay Tandoor delivers plenty of style for the price. Paintings of long-ago maharajahs stare down from the big, sand-colored walls, and acres of blue carpet cushion your walk from the foyer to a prettily set table. It's an enormous space warmed up by a rosewood bar and lilting Indian music that help you forget you're in a suburban business district. Some of the cooking has that effect, too. Though the menu embraces all the familiar Indian restaurant staples, the kitchen distinguishes itself with a vindaloo of lamb or vegetables that should cheer any fire-eater, with its blazing sauce of vinegar, chilies and ginger. The fluffy basmati rice dishes (biryanis) are standouts, too, available with a choice of shrimp, lamb, vegetables or dried fruit. The breads lately have tasted routine, the vegetable fritters ordinary. But lamb chops rubbed with the dusky spice blend known as masala and cooked in the tandoor are terrific, and butter chicken has a creamy tomato sauce as rich as its name suggests. Indian beer makes the best companion to this food, and it's poured into a frosted mug. Nice touch.