Restaurant: Memories of India
Price: ($24.02: Chicken Tikka Masala with rice, Butter Naan, Garlic Naan
(not including tip, plus tip came to $30.02 split between two people)
I have been craving Indian food since our three day stay in Dublin this past May. Our first night in Dublin found us in a nice restaurant with delicious Indian food. I had Tandoori chicken and we got naan. Lots and lots of naan. I’ve been craving naan ever since…
I, along with Sarah and Danielle, have been wanting some Indian food since we got back to Florida in the middle of May. After realizing just how much we all love food, we started a sort of “restaurant club”. One day, we really will think of a better name. Pretty much, it was just a good excuse to go out to a new place, a local place, a place we’ve wanted to try once a week or every other week.
This past week, we went went to Memories of India in Lake Mary, in a little plaza just off Lake Emma Road. The inside was much nicer than you would think judging by the plaza’s look.
We were seated at a booth in the back room. The service was great. From the man who sat us to our main server was attentive and friendly.
Single dishes were a bit pricy, but very much worth it. Sarah and I decided to split Chicken Tikka Masala (per Stephanie’s suggestion) which came with white rice. We ended up with three types of naan: butter, garlic, and plain. All were just so delicious. Garlic was especially tasty. Danielle ordered vegetable samosas, which for some reason I did not try. They did look pretty good though.
The chicken Tikka Masala was adequate to split if you get three orders of naan and are expecting to have dessert after, so Sarah and I were fine on that. The chicken was as good as I expected. And of course, the sauce made for a delicious naan dip.
I’ve heard that Memories of India has a buffet on the weekends, and another Indian restaurant near by has a lunch buffet daily. I’d very much like to venture to one of those. My experience with Indian Food has been limited to fairly similar types of chicken and naan. Really, I’m okay with that. But I would like to try more.
I’m all for returning to Memories, the food was delicious and the service was great.
On to dessert…
After much discussion (as usual), we decided on Delano (“The Everyday Cafe”) for dessert. Delano is a fairly new (okay, over a year old) local cafe in Lake Mary. It was recently bought over and they are expanding into the space next door this fall. I’d go on about how good their flatbreads are, or how awesome their “make your own salad” menu is, or how they have really great freshly made hummus… But I’ll stick with our dessert experience.
I was hoping to have a chocolate panini, which is basically Nutella in between a couple small slices of good bread and put in a hot press. Sadly, when Delano changed owners, some of the menu items changed as well… No more nutella for me. Our other choice was smores, as they bring out a litle smore kit for you to roast your marshmellow and make a mess right at your table (and almost set the place on fire, if you’re me).
Though they still had the smores, we chose to split a piece of carrot cake. Our server informed us that it was exclusive to Delano and made fresh daily, and that she didn’t even like carrot cake but she loved this one. SO, in the spirit of trying new things, we ordered a slice and three forks.
I’m sure I’ve tasted carrot cake before, but it is not an occasion I can recall. So this was sort of a first for me. The icing was incredible. I’m not a huge fan of chunks of fruit in pies or cakes and I had a little trouble with that in this case. Overall, it was moist and quite delicious. I really enjoyed the icing.
A cheap slice of cake and a good tip (we knew the server), we spent about $3 on dessert each.
