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Ok, so there are a lot of Indian and Thai joints in this town. Being from Chicago, my area was full of first and second-generation families from the Middle East (primarily India), and believe it or not i never had this kind of food until i moved to Cincinnati. I can't understand how i could have missed out on such a wonderful ethnic food! Today on the way back from a trip to tri-county, we stopped @ Dumesh, a new Indian joint that opened literally across the street from Cincinnati State. Some of our friends from India had gone and raved about the food, so we had the "authentic" perspective down, and i had read a positive review in (the now defunct) Cinweekly a few weeks ago and been interested in going sometime.
Suffice to say, we were not disappointed. I have never seen such a large and somewhat intimidating menu in my life! There had to be probably 60 options on there, broken out by salads, apps, nans and rices, then broken down further by chicken, lamb and seafood. We ended up getting the old standby, veggie samosas, which you can never make a mistake on, and i started with a cup of tea. I'm not sure what kind of tea they use, but it was AWESOME. It kind of tasted like a cross between Chai, Assam and Masala. What i liked was that the way they price it is similar to when you get coffee @ a restaurant - you pay a flat fee and they refill as many times as you want.
After the samosas, we opted to split their vegetarian Thai combo platter. Normally we'd just get a chicken saag and nan and call it a night, but I've been itching to try new things and the combo platters at Indian joints are really fun b/c they come out on these really fancy silver tv dinner platters (for lack of a better comparison). The "Thai" part of the item's name kind of threw us, but it all was the Indian food we're used to - no pad thai or anything that you'd find at Lemongrass. It consisted of basmati rice, garlic nan, riaku (cold yogurt n veggie salad), chori, saag paneer (spinach dish), aloo matra (potato dish)and chana masala (chickpea dish). Anyway, it was ALL wonderful! Its really true that each restaurant has its own iterations of recipes, varying by amts of one spice put in over the other - this was by far the best saag we've had in the city, and everything else was so tasty, we both hated to be full. The place was reasonably priced - my tea was 1.50, the samosas were around 2.99 and the combo platter was 13.99 and it was enough food for us both. I'm glad we split it b/c there's no way one of us would have been able to eat it all. There was really only one lady there and she was so much nicer than the staff at Baba India (the woman there who refills the water and seats you always seems so angry!). We tipped her generously, and i think in total our dinner was 26$. If you ever want to try a new place, this is it - spread the word!
Here is a link to directions, phone #, etc.: http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/32/1415970/restaurant/Northside/Dusmesh-Indian-Restaurant-Cincinnati
Suffice to say, we were not disappointed. I have never seen such a large and somewhat intimidating menu in my life! There had to be probably 60 options on there, broken out by salads, apps, nans and rices, then broken down further by chicken, lamb and seafood. We ended up getting the old standby, veggie samosas, which you can never make a mistake on, and i started with a cup of tea. I'm not sure what kind of tea they use, but it was AWESOME. It kind of tasted like a cross between Chai, Assam and Masala. What i liked was that the way they price it is similar to when you get coffee @ a restaurant - you pay a flat fee and they refill as many times as you want.
After the samosas, we opted to split their vegetarian Thai combo platter. Normally we'd just get a chicken saag and nan and call it a night, but I've been itching to try new things and the combo platters at Indian joints are really fun b/c they come out on these really fancy silver tv dinner platters (for lack of a better comparison). The "Thai" part of the item's name kind of threw us, but it all was the Indian food we're used to - no pad thai or anything that you'd find at Lemongrass. It consisted of basmati rice, garlic nan, riaku (cold yogurt n veggie salad), chori, saag paneer (spinach dish), aloo matra (potato dish)and chana masala (chickpea dish). Anyway, it was ALL wonderful! Its really true that each restaurant has its own iterations of recipes, varying by amts of one spice put in over the other - this was by far the best saag we've had in the city, and everything else was so tasty, we both hated to be full. The place was reasonably priced - my tea was 1.50, the samosas were around 2.99 and the combo platter was 13.99 and it was enough food for us both. I'm glad we split it b/c there's no way one of us would have been able to eat it all. There was really only one lady there and she was so much nicer than the staff at Baba India (the woman there who refills the water and seats you always seems so angry!). We tipped her generously, and i think in total our dinner was 26$. If you ever want to try a new place, this is it - spread the word!
Here is a link to directions, phone #, etc.: http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/32/1415970/restaurant/Northside/Dusmesh-Indian-Restaurant-Cincinnati
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