New Tandoori Tadka Chennai...Whats new???

To take a friend out for a dinner promised long ago, me and my Husband decided to explore a new place and thought to take the route of reading some reviews on various blogs like this to chose the place. After some surfing we settled for a North Indian outlet called "New Tandoori Tadka" at T Nagar Chennai as we wanted to eat some North Indian food. It took us almost an hour to cruise thru the heavy traffic on a Saturday evening to reach the place and struggled another 15 min to pull our car towards the small parking area. The exterior of a building with Arun Icereams and Dindigul restaurant in the ground floor with New Tandoori Tadka on the first floor. A board that had Limca and Coco Cola AD which gave it a Pan Bidi shop look.

We took the steps and came to a very Punjabi kinda looking place with "charpiys" replacing the chairs and decently inhabited with a mix of north and southie faces. We got a welcome drink that was a pineapple juice (actually squash) followed by tandoori starters. Like any other usual restaurant it had more options for the carnivores with seekh kabab, chicken 65, malai kabab etc. However the veg starters tasted good, specially the tandoori cauliflower was done well with a good marinade and was succulent. Tandoori aloo, vegetable kebab, paneer tikka would certainly receive an 7/10. After 2 rounds of starters we moved to the decently spread Buffet. The main course was dampening after the sumptuous starters. The aloo was sour in dum aloo, Dal Malkhani was tasteless which tasted more of cornflour. The mutton in the Gosht Balls was a lil smelly and one wouldn't want to risk to have them, the biryani was very average and tasted exactly as we would reheat one from the refrigerator after 3 days. Desserts again were very average. The fruit custard looked repulsive so none of us ventured. We tried the carrot halwa which has a very wrong ice cream flavour, Pista to compliment it. Needless to mention the finger bowls were of glass and bigger than the serving bowls. Though our quest to try a new restaurant was quenched but we ceratinly cudnt give it its dew as we drove back with full unsatiated stomach...

To those who have a better luck than mine, hope you have a good and a "new" experience at "New Tandoori Tadka"