Fearless Critic restaurant review
San Antonio
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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