when hungers attack

There are three Indian restaurants on St. Laurent in very close proximity to each other: one is just north of Fairmount, one is just south, and one is at the intersection itself. I tried the south one last year, and last night I ate at the middle one. It's good to get out to a classy Indian restaurant every once in a while, to remind yourself how good that kind of food can be - once you've eaten fresh hot nan bread, it can take months before you're able to eat the store-bought variety again.

We had two orders of paneer makhadi (a sweet creamy orange curry dish with "paneer," a light Indian cheese that is like an even softer mozzarella), a spinach paneer dish, rice, nan, mulligatawny soup, pakuras, onion bahji (similar to pakuras but made with onions), and a bit of chapati. It was so beautiful. I've made myself hungry again.