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Fearless Critic restaurant review
San Antonio
Food
Feel
Price
5.6
7.5
$30
Indian
Casual restaurant

Hours
Daily 11:00am–2:30pm
Daily 5:00pm–10:00pm

Features Date-friendly, veg-friendly
Bar Beer, wine
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Accepted

www.indiaoven.biz

North Central
1030 Patricia St.
San Antonio, TX
(210) 366-1030
India Oven
Once intense, the Oven’s fires appear banked

Formerly a jewel in the crown of the city’s Indian restaurants, India Oven’s fires have appeared banked of late; even simple but usually satisfying flatbreads have fallen, well, flat, and vegetable pakoras have seemed perfunctory, relying on tamarind and mint chutneys to save the day. Nor have items from the tandoor tantalized. Chicken tikka has emerged dry and tasteless, and marinated lamb tikka kebab failed to live up to its relatively high price.

Yet more of exotic and aromatic India appears in stewed dishes such as the dal turka (yellow lentils with garlic, ginger, and spices), and in the even lustier and yet more harmonious prawns vindaloo with potato; here the flame leaped back to life. And as there are more wines than are customarily available at an Indian restaurant, avail yourself of a glass of Gewürztraminer; its affinity for spicy foods is admirably demonstrated here.

IO’s soothing pink interior also plays well against spiciness, but it does little to placate diners whose service may have been brusque and forgetful. We recommend an order of saffron-scented rice pudding as a cross-cultural chill-out and wind-down; it will salve both lingering spiciness and diminished expectations.