Indian restaurants.....

[Handsome Rob]

I'm looking for recommendations. Anywhere between Nashville & Chattanooga, basically anywhere within a couple of hours of Tullahoma.

I'm looking for an upscale place, no lunch buffet joints. The Wife, being vegetarian, loves & really misses Indian food & it being her birthday this week, I figured I'd take her out for some fancy nosebag.

Does anyone know of any really, really, money-no-object, great restaurants?

[abusfullofnuns]

Take Sitar in Nashville off the list.  It is the opposite of what you are looking.  

[KahrMan]

If you want vegetarian Indian food there is only one place to go, The Woodlands.  They do have a lunch buffet but their dinner menu is spectacular.

 

http://www.woodlandstennessee.com

[bilcon1]

The Woodlands evening menu is really good.

Another good one is Taj on Nolensville Rd neat the Zoo.  Very good lunch Buffet (best in Nashville) but Evening off of menu has very good items.

Woodlands would be my pick, though

[MacGyver]

The Woodlands is great.  I've got friends that eat there weekly. 

[Handsome Rob]

Thanks guys!

The dinner menu does look spectacular!

I think we'll be giving it a shot.

[GlockSpock]

I'll let you investigate the following, may or may not be what you are looking for. My Wife and I love Indian food, but we also try to be budget minded but only seek out Indian Lunch Buffets.

India Mahal (Chattanooga/Brainerd)

Doesn't look like much from the outside but the food is good. I've been there for dinner once and enjoyed it. We really, really enjoy their lunch buffet but unsure if the dining experience for the evening would satisfy your requirements.

Sitar (Downtown Chattanooga)

Been here twice for their lunch buffet. Higher end place. Never tried their dinner but would place good faith that it would be a good experience. In the heart of downtown so lots to do before and after.

[JAB]

I haven't been to Woodlands since it became Woodlands.  If it still has the same decor as when it was Taj, however, then it is nice inside even though the building was a Steak Escape (fast food type cheese steak joint) in a previous life.  I like Bombay Palace at Turkey Creek but it does pretty prominently feature a lunch buffet.  No buffet at dinner, though, and their off menu stuff is really good.  I don't know if it is quite as 'fancy' as you are looking for, though. To be truthful, I can't think of an Indian restaurant in Knoxville that DOESN'T have a lunch buffet.

I am an avowed carnivore but if forced at gunpoint to convert to vegetarianism I'd have to eat a LOT of Indian food.  In fact, even as it is I actually like some of their vegetarian dishes.

Edited December 12, 2016 by JAB

[KaNaPaPi]

Bombay Palace in Nashville

 

http://www.nashvillebombaypalace.com/

[bud]

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Edited April 26, 2017 by bud

[JAB]

22 hours ago, bud said:

+1 on The Woodlands. Its nothing fancy in terms of atmosphere or decor, but the food should impress her. It's where Indian people eat Indian food. 

Man, I really have to get to that place.  As for 'where Indian people eat Indian food' the most Indian people I have ever seen in a restaurant at one time was at The Curry Pot - a semi-dive/hole in the wall in a small strip mall on Lee Highway in Chattanooga, close to where you turn off of Lee to go toward Hamilton Place (I believe that is Shallowford Road.)  I think we were the only Anglos in the place - and most of the folks there were having the buffet!  The best thing is that they have Northern and Southern Indian dishes.  The owners must be from Northern India, though, because that is the only restaurant I have ever been in that served beef Indian dishes (yeah, they exist just apparently mostly in Northern India where Christianity and Islam are more prevalent than in Southern India.)  My (now ex) wife ordered one of those beef dishes and it wasn't like anything else I have ever had before or since - even at other Indian restaurants.  There is an Indian-Pakistani grocery in the same strip mall (or maybe it was an Indian grocery and a Pakastani grocery - can't really remember.)  It isn't really the kind of place that robtattoo is looking for but I want to go back and would recommend it to others (assuming it is still there and is still as good - this was a few years ago when we went.)

Edited December 13, 2016 by JAB

[A.J. Holst]

 

[johnwilliams5721]

Woodlands is quite good. Bombay Bistro in Cool Springs is also quite good. I haven't been in a few years since I lived down that way, but I remember good food at somewhat elevated Franklin style prices.

[bowtieguy]

If you're looking for an upscale, lowlit, more trendy type place, Chauhan ale and masala house is the spot. I'd hit Woodlands if I was craving Vegetarian indian food, but if it were "a night out" I'd be at Chauhan. 

[Dustbuster]

I'm looking for recommendations. Anywhere between Nashville & Chattanooga, basically anywhere within a couple of hours of Tullahoma.

I'm looking for an upscale place, no lunch buffet joints. The Wife, being vegetarian, loves & really misses Indian food & it being her birthday this week, I figured I'd take her out for some fancy nosebag.

Does anyone know of any really, really, money-no-object, great restaurants?

I asked the guy at the convenience mart,he thought I was asking for Indian fool, he got pissed and said I am Pakistan not Indian ! I said figured I'd ask cause I saw the papa smurf thing on the wall and everyone knows that means you're Indian. He said no I am seek!!!sorry if you're seek I need to know where to find Indian food he then said go behind gorilla muffler they are arabs...

Sorry rob I tried

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[KahrMan]

1 hour ago, bowtieguy said:

If you're looking for an upscale, lowlit, more trendy type place, Chauhan ale and masala house is the spot. I'd hit Woodlands if I was craving Vegetarian indian food, but if it were "a night out" I'd be at Chauhan. 

If you want non vegetarian then bowtieguy is correct.  Chauhan Ale and Masala House is incredible.  It is owned by Maneet Chauhan.  She is one of the judges on Food Networks show Chopped.  Make reservations because it is usually pretty full.

[GlockSpock]

Chauhan Ale and Masala House

 

Putting this here for no other reason than to "bookmark" it for the future because I have to go there.