Restaurant review: Tandoori Village - Manassas, VA

I want to start eating out more.  I want to eat at little places though, not big places, if you know what I mean.  Support the little man, not the big chain restaurant.

Today for lunch I went with my friend, and pastor, Ivan Schrock, to eat at Tandoori Village Restaurant in Manassas.  It is a small North Indian cuisine place.  We both got the lunch buffet.  Nice place.  Good food.  The chicken curry was good and spicy.  I don't usually like curry, but I now believe I like Indian curry.  They served us a big thing of fried bread, which was yum.  There was some sort of spinach and potato dish.  It look weird, but tasted fantastic.  The rice pudding was quite good, too.

I would go there again.  Nice place.  I didn't take any pictures but you can check out their website.

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So much pudding.

Yum yum!

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Ready for the oven.

Baked.

Yum.

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Ready to bake.

Baked.

Frosted, and so yummy!

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Pizza

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I now want to make Chicago-style pizza, aka deep-dish pizza.

Dough in the pans.

Ready for the oven.

Supreme pizza

Chicken and Ranch pizza. The cheese was a bit brown, but still good.

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