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Namaste India
3101 Banksville Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15216
(412) 563-1901
M: 5-10; Tues-Fri: 11:30-2:30, 5-10; Sat-Sun: Noon-3, 5-10

As we get through Week 7 of the Indian Food-A-Thon, I’d like to reiterate how lucky I feel we are in Pittsburgh to have such a large number of Indian restaurants at our disposal. Unfortunately, not all of them are good, but characterizing restaurants as such is part of the purpose of our review. What we are finding so far is a three-tier split among the restaurants. It isn’t quite The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but maybe more like The Shiznit, The Aight, and The Fugly. There are some that stand out, like Bombay Grill and Taj Mahal: they are The Shiznit. The Fugly are most definitely Prince and Star of India. They were just nasty almost across the entire list of test dishes. The rest – well, they are somewhere in the middle. The Aight category of restaurants is markedly inconsistent in the quality of their offerings, as we find that some dishes are especially good, while others are forgettable. Namaste India falls pretty squarely into this Aight category. Really, a couple of things were quite nice, but it just didn’t quite make it over the hump of mediocrity. (more…)