Taurat Tandoori Restaurant
Half halal meat market and half local hangout, Taurat Tandoori is “a true, uncut hunk of Islamic Indian glory” on the edge of Koreatown, C. Thi Nguyen writes in the Los Angeles Times. Nguyen is particularly enamored of Taurat’s goat dishes: The restaurant, he writes, “has some of the sweetest, most tender goat in town.”
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A salad isn’t merely a tasty and colorful feature of the menu at Taurat . It is also needed to cool the burn of the vindaloo seekh kebab, a notable dish that testifies to a love for the taste of chiles.
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Goat biryani, writes C. Thi Nguyen in The Times, is “magical, a stripped-down dish of goat curry, rice and butter, melded into one.”
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Heather Hill and Taushief Hossain have lunch at Taurat, whose orange walls are part of a decor that features an arrangement of cut tree branches hanging from the ceiling -- a touch that suggests not a strip-mall location but a Bangladeshi family garden party.
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Tandoori chicken makes an enticing dish at Taurat, where Mohammed Hossain and wife Aliza, the owners, do all the cooking. The couple hail from Bangladesh.
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Chicken fulodi kebab is served with onion.
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Mango lassi is among the menu offerings recommended by C. Thi Nguyen in The Times.
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