tandoori cuisine in silicon valley

Do you crave for taste? Taste is what makes all the difference, and taste is our passion. For instance, take our Tandoori Lamb Kebab. We could cook it like many other eateries do: in the morning and reheat it on demand for faster service. Not here. We cook your food from fresh, when you place the order. Taste is everything. All our ingredients are Halal and guaranteed to be as fresh as possible.

We cook traditional indian cuisine: tandoori, curries, biryanies, naans.... Have you tried them all?

We're really glad when people come back over and over because to us, it means that we fullfilled our promise to deliver food that simply tastes good. Take a look at our menu and try something you've never had. Break the routines and enjoy a meal where its taste is sure to remain a memory.

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A tandoor is a cylindrical clayoven used in cooking and baking. The tandoor is used for cooking in India, Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, the Transcaucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia as well as Burma and Bangladesh.

The heat for a tandoor was traditionally generated by a charcoal fire or wood fire, burning within the tandoor itself, thus exposing the food to live-fire, radiant heat cooking, and hot-air, convection cooking.

Temperatures in a tandoor can approach 480°C (900°F), and it is common for tandoor ovens to remain lit for long periods to maintain the high cooking temperature. The tandoor design is something of a transitional form between a makeshift earth oven and the horizontal-plan masonry oven.

The tandoor is used for cooking certain types of Iranian, Afghan, Pakistani and Indian foods such as tandoori chicken, chicken tikka and bread varieties like tandoori roti and naan. The word tandoori is the adjective meaning "pertaining to the tandoor" and is used to describe a dish cooked in a tandoor. The tandoor is basically used to cook meats. Even though 33% Hindus of India are vegetarian while Sikhs are mostly non-vegetarian, it was popularised during Muslim reign in South Asia. It is thought to have travelled to Central Asia and the Middle East along with the Roma people, who originated amongst the Thar Desert tribes. In India, the tandoor is also known by the name of bhatti. The Bhatti tribe of the Thar Desert of northwestern India and eastern Pakistan developed the Bhatti in their desert abode, and thus it gained the name "The tandoor" and is currently a very important fixture in many Indian restaurants around the world. Some modern day tandoors use electricity or gas instead of charcoal. In Armenia, it is known as a tonir which is a widely used method of cooking barbecue and lavash bread. In Georgia it is called a tone and is used for bread and kebab.

The oldest examples of a tandoor were found in the Harappa and Mohenjo Daro settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, though earlier Tandoor type ovens have been recovered in early-Harappan contexts on the Makran coast, including the mound site of Balakot. InSanskrit, the tandoor was referred to as kandu. The word tandoor comes from the Dari words tandūr and tannūr; these are derived from very similar terms. Persian tanūr, Armenian "t’onir", Arabic tannūr, Turkish Tandır, Azeri təndir and Kurdish tendûr. However, according to Dehkhoda Persian Dictionary the word originates from Akkadiantinûru, and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgames (as reflexed by Avestan tanûra and Pahlavi tanûr). As such, tandoor may not be originated from Semitic or Iranian altogether, dating back to periods before the migration of Aryan and Semitic people to the Iranian plateau and Mesopotamia.

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We love it when we read genuine feedback from the people we serve:

"I totally forgot about this Indian restaurant until the other day.. My sister was desperately craving some good curry so i remembered tandoori café…."

"I'm hopelessly addicted to the lamb wraps. Sometimes w/ the side of creamy hot sauce (mildly hot) and sometimes not."

"Tandoori Cafe offers a variety of dishes if you need to grab a quick dinner or lunch. Some popular dishes include Chicken wrap, Chicken Tikka and Lamb Curry."

"I can honestly say that this place has the best naan."

"Lamb burger was excellent! French fries – good . Veggie Wrap was very good as was veggie appetizer - Aloo Tikki (potato patties with garbanzo side)"

"I have eaten here several times and have enjoyed the food every time."

"I'll start by saying that everything that I had was very delicious. We had the Butter chicken, onion naan, samosas and aloo gobi."

"This place is fantastic! You can get some really good Indian food at reasonable prices here. The service is fast and the guy at the counter was friendly."

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