Boston Phoenix, 06/27/2002, continued
... and it was like a high-quality mango sorbet. Kheer ($3.55) is the original rice pudding, very creamy and sweet. Rashmalai ($3.55) are fresh cheese cakes, surprisingly unsweetened little patties of white cheese. Gulab jamun ($3.55), possibly the original doughnuts, are here egg-shaped, and soaked in rosewater syrup sweet enough to make my teeth hurt just writing about it.
Taste of India is quite spiffed up for the symphony. The long room is done in shades of olive and yellow, with tables of plexiglass over pink linen. Each table has, also under the plexiglass, beautiful hand-embroidered napkins.
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There are large, circular murals inset in the walls, Tiffany lamps, a row of urns over the bar, and a fresh zinnia at every table.
Service, by elegant men in ties, is excellent and knowledgeable. Patrons our night (at an early hour, since we were going to an 8 p.m. show across the street) seemed to be South Asian students and professionals, but this place will be discovered by symphony-goers. The background music is unobtrusive Bengali pop, possibly from the film scores of " Bollywood " movies, although I didn’t recognize anything from Monsoon Wedding.
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