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Tue-Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Tue-Sun. 5:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
I've only had naan and samosas and a plain lassi here, but that was enough for me to know: this is the best Indian food in the Triangle. And all vegetarian, amazing.
Since I didn't try most of their food, I will just comment on the environmental details. Even though the restaurant is in a strip mall in the suburbs, the interior is really nice and comfortable feeling. It's dimly lit, and has great big wooden tables, and cool artwork on the walls. I'm glad that they have gone in a different direction from all the Indian places that hang a picture of their family on the back wall, put up some cheap tables, and that's that.
Very cool. Only four stars because of the location. Otherwise, I would give them six.
yummy yummy yummy!!! Incredible buffet choices and I left as full as after Thanksgiving dinner. The variety of the buffet choices was immense and the flavors were so good I felt like I was in Indian food heaven. Highly recommended, even though it was a drive for me.
Absolutely, hands-down my favorite Indian food in the Triangle. South Indian all-vegetarian menu, Hyderabadi style with a healthy offering of typical North Indian curries. Friendly service, prompt preparation. Appetizers run about $4-5, entrees $7-9, desserts $4-5. Most menu items have quite generous portions. I'm not much of a buffet person, but they do have plenty of diverse options, and they bring around the cutest mini masala dosai to your table as a supplement. I think the buffet was $12 or 13, served for lunch on weekends.
Right, menu items:
For the best typical dishes, I like their Dhahi Vada and Idly appetizers, Mysore Masala Dosa, Jaipur Paneer Dosa, Special Rava Masala Dosa (can you tell I like spicy?), and rasmalai for dessert. Their uthappam is good, but it always makes me wish I were just eating a dosa. Their Special Upma is sublime, but a smaller portion than the dosai are.
For North Indian curries, I love Baingan Bharta, Malai Kofta, and their creamy Palak Paneer. Their samosas are excellent and flaky, and the paratha of any kind are tasty. My friends love the batura, which is like a giant puffy poori that tastes like it's made of donut.
Be forewarned, if you've never been before, it's easy to miss. You can't see it clearly from the road, so you'll need to know it's in the small green-and-brick shopping center that's nearly across the street from Circus.
I have eaten here couple of times and each time its a big disappointment. Sometimes its the food, sometimes its the service and sometimes the price. They have no consistency in the food quality. Being from India, I know how Indian food is cooked. The item prices doesn't make sense to me at all. For example, today I took out 2 idly, sambar, little bit of Channa masala and paneer from buffet, it ended up costing me more than 10 dollars. The idly was not fresh at all. Even they charge more for a can of soda. I hate to say but I will never go back here. There are better vegetarian places to try. Avoid this place !!! Also they should put a picture of their disgusting buffet display and the dosa in the picture shown is from another restaurant i bet :)
This was such a great surprise on a Thursday night. After moving to NE Cary from the Cameron Villiage area in Raleigh, we were feeling a little bummed about not being close to all the downtown hot spots, but fear not - NE Cary is packed with excellent ethnic food restaurants. In fact, I've even started telling people I live in "Little India". I'm a fan of Indian food, but I had never had food like this - a totally different style than the usual selection of curry and potato dishes I'm accustomed to. Not only was the food delicious, but the service was very professional (I think the waiter called me ma'am every time I asked him a question). We weren't sure what to order, but the well-dressed Indian waiter had the perfect suggestion - we tried a pancake (with cheese, and veggies mixed in!), along with a spinach and cheese dish and some bread that we were expecting to be similar to Naan, but instead we received an inflated puffy thing (literally 1 foot in diameter). Great fun! And to top it all off....a rose-flavored milkshake. Great local secret that all the local Indians seem to know about - you know its gotta be good! (FYI - no alcohol is served here).
I will admit I've only tried this restaurant once when my vegetarian parents were in town. I enjoyed my Jaipur Paneer Dosa, which truly is gigantic and a bit awkward to eat. The Dal Papri appetizer was also quite good, a little spicy and a little bit sweet, and there was plenty of it. My parents both ordered rice dishes ( I can't recall which ones). Unfortunately they were so incredibly spicy they could only eat a few bites. I felt terrible as they suffered through it, but they refused to let me send them back. They both commented that the flavors were excellent, just too much heat.
So my caution is to always ask if something is spicy, because the menu gives no indication of that. Lesson learned there. I also found the service to be slow. When we first arrived we were the only table, as the place started to fill up we got neglected and had to wait an eternity for our check.
I would like to try this restaurant again. The menu is extensive and seems authentic.
The daily lunch buffet that will satisfy any vegan's Indian craving. This restaurant was love by both myself and my omni friend. Your biggest problem will be waddling back to your car. Props to the wait staff they were also very informed about the items on the menu and were happy to take me up to the buffet and point out what items were vegan and which were not. I would go out of my way if I'm in the area to stop and have lunch here followed by a nap in the parking lot.
I am instantly skeptical of anything vegetarian. I like my meat and I like it in plentiful portions. Anything else is a side dish posing as a meal. Unless you go to Udupi. That's top-notch vegetarian eatin'.
I chowed down on some Biryani and enjoyed the mess out of it, but can also now fully recommend the panak paneer. However, if you're into deliciousness and hilariously fun presentation, you have to check out the dosa. It's bigger than your head. It's probably bigger than you. Unless you happen to be an athlete in a sport that requires largeness. Then you might be bigger than your dinner. It's big.
I went here with REALLY high hopes after reading the reviews but was a little let down. The vegetarian thing didn't bother me at all but the Naan wasn't that great (not bad either) and i've had better panak paneer. That said, service was very good and the food was quite good altogether...just a little underwhelming after reading the reviews.
We have a Vegetarian Aunt visiting us this weekend, and we found this place online and it definitely lived up to expectations.
Very busy, we went on a Saturday night. Wait staff was very friendly, and available.
We chose from the Curries Menu, and all of our dishes were good, but literally EVERYONE around us had the pancake/crepe type entrees, and we realized we must have missed out on the specialty!
The lasi was nice and sweet, and helped to ease any spiciness of the meal.
Looking forward to going back and getting the crepes!
On our last visit to Udupi, we had Channa Batura and Vegetable Dosa. The waiter recommended that I try the Vegetable Dosa. Woah. He was so right! I adored my meal! The fresh coconut chutney rocks my world, as does the service at Udupi! Can't wait to go back for buttery Dosa goodness.
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Carpe Durham, a local food blog, says this is the best Indian in the Triangle (and you should trust their opinion more than mine).
$12 weekend lunch buffet.
For a directory of Indian buffets in the triangle and their hours and prices, do a google search for: wehr world Indian buffets triangle, and there is a post on Wehr in the World from 3/1/09. (Sorry, I would link directly to it but yelp won't let me.)
Excellent south Indian food. The curry here is good but their dosas, uttapams, etc. are their mainstay. Other excellent items include their breads (especially their paratha) and their desserts. The service here was also exceptional but we went on a slow night at a slow time so that may not be a good indication. Also, I think that the atmosphere is slightly trendier than Tower Restaurant in Morrisville. However, I'd be hard pressed to pick between this and Tower Restaurant--they're both excellent!
The place is packed with Indians which is the truest indicator of exceptional Indian cuisine, in my opinion. You can apply this same principle to any ethnicity with corresponding cuisine, actually. It is located on India Alley (E. Chatham) and sits among probably 4 or 5 other Indian places. I need to order a few more items to give it a proper review but I wanted to get something up there about this amazing place for any vegetarians out there who need some guidance. Phenomenal food!! Turn off your computer and go. Right now.
The restaurant is off a main street =on a perpendicular strip mall. We were one of the few non-Indian groups. Perhaps a 5 - We started with a vada - a too sweet lentil dough nut steeped in sweet yogurt sauce - a novel but to my palate revolting way to begin a meal - followed by a dosa and an oppotham - pancakes with different batter - the dosa stuffed with potaptoes and vegetables; the oppatham served with a mildly spicy sambar. Both were excellent. Good service. No alcohol. A classic cheap eats.
Food is good, the service is somewhat poor.
Yummmm..... a vegetarian Indian buffet that's so good, a carnivore like me doesn't even miss the meat :) Sidle up to the bar and load up on freshly made chutneys - coconut, mint ... all so good. Enjoy anywhere from 5-6 different vegetarian dishes - spinach, eggplant, chickpea... different flavors, different levels of heat, all really good. Fresh naan, fresh dosas - my mouth's watering right now... It's well worth the drive to the suburban pit known as Cary!
I love Indian and really like Shree Udupi. I think that unless you specify, if you order medium, it's more like "American medium", which equals mild. I haven't done their buffet but usually the buffet is more mild than you like. I love their Dosai, Palak Paneer, Samosas, and Lassis.
I'm no connoisseur, but this is some of the best Indian food I've had. The reviewer who said that even carnivores won't miss the meat is exactly right. There are so many good things to pick from on the buffet - nothing disappoints. The lemon rice is amazing - you could make a whole meal of it alone, but if you did, you'd miss out on excellent curries, dosa, uthappam...it's all great.
Udupi Cafe made me fall in love with Indian food. My husband and I used to come here very regularly when we lived in the area. Everything tasted so incredibly good. Like, want to sit and eat in silence good. We've since moved to Berkeley, where Indian restaurants or groceries line every corner, but I still miss Udupi in Cary.
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