This time around, the restaurant was celebrating the cuisine of Coorg. Coorg is a hilly region of Karnataka that is well-known for its warrior-class people and cuisine.

We first elected to sit outside in the patio to take advantage of the nice summer breeze, but we quickly had to migrate inside since the heavens decide to open their doors!

We lucked out in our choice of food since the staff helped us select our menu. The senior sous chef, Shyam Sundar, helped us out with our selection of food once he discovered our food preferences. Boy, were we glad that we had him help us out, as the meal that we had was absolutely a delightful culinary experience.

Our gastronomical journey began with an appetizer and ended with the main course; we simply had no room for desserts. We had a combination of vegetarian, chicken, and fish dishes. We started with a lentil-based vada (somewhat like a salty doughnut, a dumpling of sorts), and a spice-smeared fish fillet. Both the appetizers were amazing! The vada was spiked with spinach, and that gave this dish its special edge.

For the main course, we had traditional Coorgi chicken cooked in a blend of spices, lentils, greens, and a bit of coconut; a dish of mixed vegetable kootu; and a bitter gourd dish. We started off with akki roti (a rice-based bread) and then polished off the rest of our dish the traditional Indian way: rice! No South Indian meal is complete unless you eat rice. We rounded off our dinner with yogurt rice spiked with curry leaves, mustard, and onion. The yogurt rice cooled off all the spicy food we had eaten.

After such a delicious meal, we had no room for dessert and decided to skip it. Instead, we opted for a nice hot cup of South Indian filter coffee. If you are ever in the southern part of India, do not pass out an opportunity to have a great cup of south Indian filter kappe.

The whole meal cost us about $60, and it was worth every delectable morsel we ate.