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Healthy Indian Food

5 Posted on 12 / 26 / 2012

I've been eating at this restaurant for 20 years...it has moved locations and expanded a few times but the food is still the same. They offer healthy Indian food using less oil and everything is vegetarian.

They recently added a lunch buffet which is great value.

I find many Indian restaurants to be quite oily and this is one of the few restaurants that doesn't use much oil in their curries. If you go for dinner the tandori dishes are really nice.

Pros: Tasty Food , Gluten curries, Excellent breads

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Good food

4 Posted on 01 / 08 / 2010

I usually dont like Indian food but I loved the food at Nataraj. Nataraj is a chain of about 5 resturants in Japan, and it saved us many times from going starving on our vacation.

This resturant was easy to find if you have a map, just a 3 min walk from the metro station. Its in a basement, and not so fancy as the one we visited in Osaka. I had a curry with tofu and eggplant, loved it:) We payed about 4500 yen for dinner, rice, nan bread and drinks, not that expensive.

Pros: english menus, easy to find, good food
Cons: in a basement

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Interesting Indian variation

3 Posted on 09 / 10 / 2007

This branch of Nataraj is located in a basement, down a flight of stairs, and provides Indian vegetarian food. But, if you were expecting South Indian food, or any of the vast range of vegetarian dishes from that subcontinent, you'll be in for a surprise. As is so often the case in east Asia, the food here is heavy on the fake meat.

There are a number of good-value set menus, but this time I opted for à la carte. I started with the gluten tikka. I've never had tikka before, as British curry houses only do meaty ones, and was intrigued as to what it tasted like. My omni partner nicked a piece and said it was very accurate. My main course was spinach with plain rice. The spinach was tinned, but nicely spiced, and there were lumps of gluten to break up the texture a little. My partner had a mushroom and mock chicken dish, with fried rice and a garlic naan.

All in all, Nataraj provides a good facsimile of British Indian food.

Pros: keeps the omnivores happy, friendly, English spoken
Cons: ingredients out of tins