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Fearless Critic restaurant review
San Antonio
Food
Feel
Price
7.7
8.0
$35
Indian
Casual restaurant

Hours
Sun–Thu 11:00am–10:00pm
Fri–Sat 11:00am–10:30pm

Features Veg-friendly
Bar Beer, wine, liquor
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Accepted

www.melagrill.com

Northwest
4987 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, TX
(210) 682-1234
Mela Indian Bar & Grill
Spice-scented Indian sans saris but with some dishes not normally seen in SA

Mela is not your everyday Indian restaurant. Yes, there’s the ubiquitous buffet, and it does perfume your arrival at this artfully transformed chain-restaurant structure alongside a busy freeway, but Shiva is in the specifics. Even if they’re street-food simple.

Try, for example, the “Dahi Papri Chaat,” a street snack of fried…

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