Boston Phoenix, 06/27/2002
Bringing Bangladesh - and all its spices - to Boston
by Robert Nadeau
This is the second Taste of India, an expansion of the successful Dorchester location of Boston’s first explicitly Bangladeshi restaurant. The owners apparently considered calling the restaurants " Taste of Bangladesh, " but decided that their home country had too much of a reputation for poverty, famine, and flood.
I don’t know if they’re right, since Boston has accepted fine restaurants with cuisine from beleaguered countries like Cambodia, Ethiopia, Cuba, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Burma.
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But Taste of India is a good restaurant by any standard, and one of the best Indian-style restaurants Boston has ever had. The typical Indian menu is well executed, and the Bangladeshi-spiced dishes are exceptionally rich. Since Bangladesh was originally the eastern and Muslim part of Bengal, the food combines the heartiness of Bengali food (which we recently enjoyed at Royal India, in Cambridge) with the rich rice pilafs and lively kebabs of Indian and Pakistani Muslim cooking. The pleasant and rapid service makes Taste of India ideal for dinner before or even after performances at the nearby Symphony Hall or Huntington Theatre.
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