01-09-2015, 10:45 AM
My wife, daughter and I ate there for lunch today. My background with Indian food isn't huge, but I have enjoyed some great Indian cuisine in NYC, PDX, SEA, DC, SFO, and other places so I'm no expert but I know good Indian food when I eat it. The only other Indian restaurant that I know of in Hilo is Prabha's. I only ate there once and at their old location and I didn't care for any of it. Kamana's place is much better. We all had the lunch specials and ordered lamb curry, tikka masala, and chicken curry. The tikka masala was the flavor winner, followed by the lamb curry, and then chicken curry. We all ordered 'medium' and found the heat to be just about perfect. The only complaint on the food was the lamb curry contained very little lamb and was mostly sauce, I guess lamb is more expensive so they only give you 1/2 as much meat as chicken. Even getting shorted on the lamb it was still a huge meal.
The service was pretty slow and so was the food. If I was on a lunch break from work I would have been in trouble. After we got our food nobody ever came to check on us so we weren't able to order more naan. I would endure the slow service/food to eat there again though.
One thing I don't think I can do is sit in one of their black booths again. When we sat down we sunk nearly to the floor. I'm a little over six feet tall and I felt like I needed a booster chair. I felt like a little kid and my head was so close to my food I could practically eat it off the tray like a dog if I wanted to. By the time we left my back was killing me and so was my wife's hips. If we go there again and there is only seating available in one of the black booths, I'll either inquire about eating at the bar or getting takeout. I don't think I could handle those seats again.
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The service was pretty slow and so was the food. If I was on a lunch break from work I would have been in trouble. After we got our food nobody ever came to check on us so we weren't able to order more naan. I would endure the slow service/food to eat there again though.
One thing I don't think I can do is sit in one of their black booths again. When we sat down we sunk nearly to the floor. I'm a little over six feet tall and I felt like I needed a booster chair. I felt like a little kid and my head was so close to my food I could practically eat it off the tray like a dog if I wanted to. By the time we left my back was killing me and so was my wife's hips. If we go there again and there is only seating available in one of the black booths, I'll either inquire about eating at the bar or getting takeout. I don't think I could handle those seats again.
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