I love good Mexican food, but sometimes I need to take a break and have something different. Fortunately, Mexico City is very cosmopolitan, and there are many different kinds of restaurants and cuisines from which to choose.
Alejandro and I noticed that there was an Indian restaurant just a couple blocks from my apartment. The place is called Restaurante Dawat, and it must be fairly new since I do not recall seeing it before. We were the only ones there, but we arrived around 5:00... in between the mid-afternoon mealtime and the later supper hours. We had a table next to an open window, and our waiter wore a facemask, so we felt at ease dining there.
We both ordered mango lassi... a tasty beverage made with mangos and yogurt. As an appetizer we had "paneer pakora", cheese coated with garbanzo flour and deep fried. It was very good.
For our main course we each ordered different kinds of chicken curry. Alejandro had something called "kadai" chicken, a Northern Indian dish with a slightly spicy, yellow curry sauce. I had chicken "shahi korma", chicken in a mild, cashew sauce. To accompany our curries we ordered lemon rice and garlic "naan" (Indian flatbread).
There was a lot of food here, and we alternated between our two curry dishes. There was no room to even think about ordering dessert. Everything was delicious. There is an Indian restaurant back home in Ohio that I like, but this place is even better, and I suspect more authentic. We will definitely come back in the future.
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