No Dishes to Wash

Take out.   Not really sure how I feel about take out.  I mean, sure, you don’t have to cook, it keeps your house cooler during the summer… but you still have dishes to wash.  Unless you are really good about eating out of the containers.  Or use paper plates.  There’s a novel idea, my whole blog could be useless if we just all used paper plates. But anyway, Caleb worked late tonight and so I brought him take out down town.  Now, where we used to live in New Jersey, it was great, all the take out places were like total fancy restaurant food, and they delivered for nothing.  Here, you never get delivery unless you call Delivered Dish.  So I called India Grill and ordered a chicken vindaloo, chicken cheera, choley and garlic naan.  This was the first time I had chicken cheera (I’m a big chicken tikka masala fan myself)  but it was good, they should really just call it chicken in saag paneer.  (Saag- spinach, paneer-Indian cheese).  I’m actually a little suspicious, because chicken cheera is supposed to have tomatoes in it, and there were no tomatoes in my dish.  Not even tomatoes masquerading as something.  So maybe I just got leftovers of something.  Their garlic naan is ok, nothing like the naan at Bombay Cricket Club.  I didn’t get my choley (chickpea dish) but they didn’t charge me for it, either.  So I guess that part was a wash.  All told, if you pick it up, it’s an ok price, but if you get it through Delivered Dish it is SOOOO much more expensive!  Probably because you feel like you need to tip the driver.  India Grill is an ok place to eat, the ambiance is horrible (you are upstairs in a victorian house, and it’s smelly and dirty.)  I like the tikka masala, saag paneer, and chicken cheera, but everything else I’ve ever tried was not that great.  And the waiters are never very friendly. I always feel like I’m doing them a disservice by being there.  They do a LOT of take out business… maybe because the waiters make you feel like you need to leave??  Honestly, I like their spices better than Bombay Cricket Club and their prices are better, too, but if you are going for a sit down meal, stick to the Bombay Cricket Club, the ambiance is much better.  India Grill located at 2924 E Burnside, open daily 11am-2pm for lunch and 5pm to 10pm for dinner, M-Th till 10:30pm F-Su.