Next Sunday's review
If you’re happy with your neighborhood Indian restaurant’s lamb saag and chicken tikka masala, I’m not going to urge you to try Indigma. Owner Tony Chemmanoor’s biggest challenge is going to be to find enough Baltimoreans willing to expand their horizons a bit.
Upscale Indian may not be the easiest concept to sell around here, but the Ambassador Dining Room has managed to succeed for many years, and surely there’s room for one more place along those lines. Those lines would be an appealing setting, a place in the general scheme of things for wine, even though this is Indian food, and dishes you simply don’t get at many Indian restaurants.
But do they taste good? as food writer Calvin Trillin used to ask. For that, you’ll have to read my review in next Sunday’s Arts & Life Today section.
(Monica Loppossay/Sun Photographer)
Comments
I can't wait for this one, Elizabeth! The picture took my breathe away. Are those really habaneros?
Posted by: Janet | September 30, 2007 1:02 PM
I don't see how that block in Mount Vernon really needs another Indian restaurant, even if this is one is high end. Between the three Indian restaurants and the very similar Nepalese and Afgan places, you would think the market has been over-saturated.
Mount Vernon really needs another late night spot like the old Gampy's...only with out the surly service.
A Mexican place would also be great. too bad that Tampico, which had good food sometimes was so inconsistent.
Finally, a casual wrap place, like Wrap Works in Dupont Circle, would be ideal.
Posted by: Robert | September 30, 2007 3:10 PM
There is a Mexican place in Mount Vernon, opened up opp Donna's on the corner of Charles and Mt. Vernon place (?). I'm not sure of it's name, but it used to be the Chinese restaurant...
Posted by: aussiewonder | October 1, 2007 8:38 AM
But the surly service was what made Gampy's! I remember going there with "my gays" after a night at the Hippo. We'd sit at the bar and plague one particularly stuck-up and affected young bartender. He was a real a**hat, but the place wouldn't have been half as fun without him.
Posted by: Kathy | October 1, 2007 8:51 AM
My favorite Gampy's story was from about seven or eight years ago. My girlfriend, who is now my wife, and I were there at 3 in the morning. She ordered steamed broccoli. When it came out it was cold. She told the waitress it was cold. The waitress felt the broccoli and told us she would go heat it up. We told her not to bother.
I would
Posted by: Robert | October 1, 2007 11:39 AM