Ghar-E-Kabab

Ghar-E-Kabab

944 Wayne Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910 (map)

I've eaten Himalayan-style cuisine for decades, in various parts of the U.S. and Canada. This is my favorite. Their dishes are very fresh, with a perfect and subtle balance of flavors and textures. Their yellow dal, a simple dish, has a layered and complex interplay of tastes. Their tandoori chicken is always tender and delicious. One of my favorite dishes there is broccoli florets in a light spiced oil sauce. The price is right...$9.99 for lunch buffet.

My only reservation about this restaurant is that the younger male waiters are clumsy and clueless. This has been a problem in all of the Indian restaurants that I've visited...male wait staff appear to expect that customers want to be treated like royalty, with fancy gestures and postures, and "yes, sir" and "of course, sir". Aside from that portrait of third-world class struggle seeming really creepy to me, all I really want is to not be aware of wait staff until I need them, at which time they appear and are actually helpful in accomplishing tasks.

Don't worry about it...the food is so good that it will make you forget.