After vowing to never eat at Taj Indian Restaurant for reasons ranging from horrible customer service to bad food, we decided to give it another chance after learning they hired a new chef.
The restaurant (formerly the much missed Deeps) added some new items to the menu and so we started with the new lemon soup which was a thin lemony broth with peppercorn, garnished with cilantro. This had the most flavor out of anything else we ate on the menu. We ordered two entrees and requested them to be prepared with medium spice. The Alu Gobi which is potatoes, cauliflower & spices was so bland that we had to smother it with the green chutney. The Dal Mahkni was a bean dish that had decent flavor compared to the Aloo Gobi, meaning we didn’t have to smother it in chutney, but it was still very much nothing special. However, the most disappointing item at this Ashland Oregon Indian restaureant was the garlic naan. It was dry & flavorless and I have to say that I can't recall a time in my life that I had such bland uninspired Indian food.
Taj Indian Restaurant of Ashland was devoid of any of the awesome flavors & spices that make Indian food so fucking interesting & yummy. It is with a yearning in my belly that I relagate myself to eating organic Indian food at the Ashland Oregon Co-op. At least there it's organic and they seemed to have learned their cooking lessons well from what seems to be an authentic Indian chef. Alas it's served in their buffet only once or twice a week.
Two forks down!
