LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
From the top, three Indian breads, spinach aloo saag and veggie korma at Taj Palace
If we lived in India, there's no way we could have been unaware that last week was Diwali, the Festival of Lights, when Indians - and Hindus around the world - celebrate the triumph of good over evil with a holiday filled with lights, color, fireworks, music and dance and plenty of good things to eat.
Diwali is like Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July all rolled into one, or in other words, about as big as Derby. Diwali doesn't have much of a profile here in the U.S., though. Well, the Hindu Temple of Kentucky off Westport Road did have a celebration last week. We couldn't find Diwali at any of the local restaurants, though, but that didn't keep us from enjoying a delicious Indian meal at Taj Palace.
Taj Palace offers an affordable and carefully curated lunch buffet. But it's the full menu that displays the appetizing diversity of Indian cuisine. If you think you don't like Indian food because "it's all spicy hot and it all tastes the same," you just haven't been paying attention.
Think about this: India's cultural diversity of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains and more all but mandates culinary diversity. Muslims don't eat pork. Hindus shun beef, and many of them avoid meat altogether. Jains are strict vegetarians, and some Buddhists are too. In short, like the famous Facebook status, "It's complicated."
But the result of that complication is that there's a lot more choice in Indian food than you might think. ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/?p=5426
See this column also in LEO Weekly:
http://www.leoweekly.com/2015/11/we-mis ... aj-palace/
Taj Palace Indian Restaurant
2929 Goose Creek Road
423-9692
http://www.tajpalacelouisville.com
https://facebook.com/tajpalacelouisville
Robin Garr's rating: 86 points