Cafe Tandoor - Diverse

For the third restaurant in the San Ramon Market Place Revue I headed back to a familiar grub spot the Indian Cuisine of Cafe Tandoor. Of all the Market Place restaurant this is the one that I have eaten with the most diverse groups. I think most people like the fact that the restaurant has tall ceilings, is well lit, seems clean and indian food in general has good flavor.

Cafe Tandoor on the other hand is anything but diverse. First off there are only indians that work at the restaurant, which don't get me wrong, I prefer my ethnic restaurants to be populated by the particular ethnicity of the style of food being cooked. Chinese for chinese food, mexicans for mexican food, etc. etc. But even amongst the workers there is not much diversity, I believe that the cooks must be triplets all hired off of a remake of sinbad the salior.

All their dishes pretty much follow the same formula, Naan bread, rice, cucumber salad, main dish, i.e. chicken, lamb, veggies in a side dish in brown sauce.

To top it off they always have some crazy Indian Bollywood flick playing on the flat screen TV. So if you are easily offended beware Cafe Tandoor might not be for you.

I almost always order the special, which has me wondering whether the special is a specialty of the house or just excess food they have not been able to sell. Kind of like the deli chicken breast on Monday that becomes the chicken salad by Friday.

Come to Cafe Tandoor for brown fairly tasty food and racy bollywood flicks.