Annapurna Indian Clasic Restaurant and Bar — Restaurant in Dakar

Visit August 2017 I admit my 4 star rating was too lenient for my last year's experience. Meanwhile ... I am very glad to say that 4 stars are well-deserved. Dal tadka (yellow dal-lentil soup) was superb! Mixed vegetable raita (though it could have been colder) tasted great too. Tandoori paneer too. Chilly chicken yummy (attention chilly in the name is there with a good reason, make sure you order raita, bread and/or rice with it). Naan and rotis standardly good. They a bit changed the way they prepare tandoori chicken. Now the taste corresponds more to the standard taste you will find in other Indian restaurants, though, I liked that crunchier version from before. We ordered also tandoori fish, maybe it was our palate, maybe it was because of fish they chose, however, we did not enjoy it. This time bollywood/hindi tunes were played on speaker. If the visual experience (interior decor) were match to the taste and hearing, I would have given 5 stars.

October 2016 great tandoori chicken and rotis (breads). Rest (dal, palak paneer, mixed vegetable raita) was tasty but way too salty for my palate. i very much liked that serving dishes were authentic which contributed to the experience, but would have appreciated a bit more of indian touch in the interior as well as some hindi music (classic or bollywood), playing indian soap on tv can...

A quartet of dishes arrived—four names, yet every one tasted of a single, one, solitary…

flavor and heat level.

Each cloaked in the same oily red masala, no dish indistinct from the next.

No discernible cumin. No ginger rising through the steam. Mustard seeds in the lemon rice—still raw, still crunchy. The rice itself, not sun-kissed with turmeric or brightened by lemon, but scorched red with chili, unbalanced, and very aggressive.

The eggplant curry? Sparse: a scattering of aubergine softened by even fewer potatoes.

Even the salad—cucumber, carrot, onion—came cloaked in red chilli spice, no clean edge or oil, or lemon —JUST fire.

Spice was requested, yes—but not an onslaught. Not a palette-crushing blaze without warning. The waiter, silent and agreeing, offered explanation only after noting all 4 dishes were virtually untouched. Yet no apology. No recalibration. No gesture of hospitality—only the burn, and the bill.

14,000 CFA for a meal with no nuance, no refuge, no reverence, & no clarity and no difference across dishes.

A one-note heat. A lesson, not a...

Sleepy unassuming Indian place above a grocery store on the airport road in Ngor. We went early, around 4 or 5. Completely empty. Felt our way up the dark two story walk up. Passed, I think was, a dried up water fall or rock climbing wall, maybe even a Buddha? The restaurant is pretty spacious with a bar on the left. Saw a few guys lounging. Asked a few times if they were open. I think they were just taking a siesta. Caught them off guard. Staff spoke English. The menu is very comprehensive. I can’t remember or spell the dishes we had. But there was a super tender lamb dish and a chicken dish, some appetizers. We had mango lassi. Lots of garlic na’an and rice. They also had Chinese dishes in the menu. The food was very good and prices were reasonable. It could use a bit tidying up. Maybe get the rock wall waterfall to work or remove it. Brighten it up a bit. Good food also needs some good atmosphere. Very helpful staff and...