Lal's indian cusine — Restaurant in Île des Terres Basses

We were on our way to 3 Amigos to find out it was closed down on Monday's so we ended up here. My dad who always is on the search for Indian food had tracked this place down. We were seated promptly and given menus. The man taking the orders obviously knew we were Indian and mentioned he can make anything off menu if we needed , which was nice! For appetizers we got gobhi Manchurian (off menu), onion pakora, and samosa chat (off menu). All the food tastes fresh and good. Wasn't a huge fan of the Manchurian, it was too sweet and quite soggy and oily. The appetizers took and a long time to come out. For mains we ordered garlic naan, paneer makhni, bunny chow, fried fish, vegetable biriyani, shrimp biriyani, and tandoori chicken. The food again took forever to come. The shrimp biriyani and tandoori chicken were the highlights. Very tasty and well cooked. I felt the other dishes were either just ok or a total miss. That being said I really feel for the people of Saint Martin. You should definitely give this place a try if you have a hankering for...

Ate here this week, and had the butter chicken and spicey chicken. It was good - to - very good. Had lots of flavour and spice and requested.

The friend rice was bland I thought, and the bread bland as well.

I gave it four stars because I didnt find the depth to the flavours. For me, great indian food you can taste the layers of flavours.

Saying this, I would still eat here again.

Atmosphere is outside, on raised chairs (like bar stool tables/chairs), the view is of the parked boats. And like others have mentioned, the music is always playing.

One thing to mention is the smoking. When we were there, many people were smoking and if you are down wind, it sucks. You're trying to enjoy your meal and you're inhaling smoke from the neighbouring table; let alone, get 5 people smoking. My suggestion would is to put non smoking up front have the smoking...

After reading the reviews perhaps my expectations were too high. We tried the lamb vindaloo, channa masala, chicken frankie and garlic nan. The chicken frankie was the highlight for us, very flavorful and well spiced. Could have benefited from some type of sauce (mint or yogurt). The other dishes were ok, but not special, they seemed to lack the well spiced flavor of some Indian food. The chickpeas were canned which was disappointing. The Nan was good, but could have been more garlicky. I was a bit surprised they didn’t offer more of the traditional sauces served with Indian food. That would have kicked up the flavor for us. Service was friendly, patio had a nice breeze and the...