PURNIMA BANGLADESHI CUISINE — Restaurant in Chamblee

[Time & Date of visit]: Weekday and weekend nights.

[Location/Ambiance]: Parking availability seems widespread on weekdays. But on weekends, you'll be hunting a bit. There are spaces on the sides and rear though.

Inside - Limited amount of tables for this fairly small restaurant, but I do see patrons willing to wait until a table or booth becomes available. Prime time dinner time around 7-8 pm expect to wait. The left booths aren't really fitted with tables made for booth seats, watch your step sitting down or getting up.

Ambiance is about average on the loudness scale. It's also pretty dim inside as well.

[Service]: Due to the size of the restaurant, the servers are pretty good on checking on everyone. Though they do not have cups for tap water. They do provide Costco branded water bottles.

From placing orders to food being brought out, has been average time wise.

[Food Highlights]:

Shingara w/ Chicken - Pretty much a samosa. I kind of liked it, but I think the one at Your Dekalb Farmers market is better. Worth a try at least.

Korma with Lamb - This thing can get pretty spicy, so I like to order it mild. The first time ordering, the lamb was a bit overcooked. But the other two times it was fork tender. I think lamb goes well with this sauce.

Chicken Tikka Moshol-la - I haven't been to that many other Indian / Bangladeshi restaurants to know how to compare this with a chicken tikka masala, but it's pretty good here. The chicken does get dry from resting though.

Chicken Vindaloo - I think this dish taste better with beef. The potatoes soak up the sauce well and are cooked just enough to crumble easily after scooping some up with naan.

Mixed Naan - Quite filling but I feel that all the flavors stuffed into the naan are a bit much. Ok to try the first time.

Garlic naan - I preferred this much more than the mixed naan. Just the right amount of garlic without being too overpowering. Fair warning, the rice and naan will fill you up pretty quickly. Dip into the sauces liberally.

{Summary}: My first visit was so-so, but the other two visits later made up for it. Just expect to wait if you're visiting on a weekend night for dinner. Spiciness can get up there, so be adventurous with caution and try something at...

This Bangladesh cuisine Restaurant is Great. You don't find many Bangladeshi restaurants around here mostly lot of Indian. This place is small yet cozy like your home bringing you comfort while you eat with beautiful art work of Bangladesh. My appetizer was veggie samosa, full of bake potatoes mixed with herbs. My entree I had order chicken Shaag paneer and moor gir roast. I was hesitant to order the chicken Shaag ponir because I was never fan of paneer but I decided to give it a chance since it was with Shaag. The dish was a great, I love it! The Shaag ( spinach) was mix with paneer making it perfectly creamy with herbs. You can choose to have any meat (or no meat) and pick your own spice level too! I really enjoyed the roast dish which is white rice make with herbs with a quarter of a chicken that is savory with flavors, the way they make this chicken is amazing because it's full of flavors that adds excitement into your mouth. Of course I ordered my naan (love naan as you know), I try their mix naan which most places don't even sell ( I recommend you try it). This naan has mix of tandoori, cheese and other items that add so much taste. I almost forgot about their tandoori wings which is great, you can really taste the juicy sauce they use for the wings, its like tangy tandoori flavored that leaves an impression on your tongue for more. When you ask for it hot, you will get it real hot not the American hot. If you have more questions the friendly staff are happy to help you with any questions you might have about dishes, they explained so well when I wasn't sure about certain dishes. They have vegetarian dishes and it's halal too! I like this place because they don't just offering you Indian food, they serve Bangladeshi food so you're basically experiencing two...

Place itself was rather dirty and run down, with peeled paint, flies, sticky floors, etc. Food options were rather limited, what with all items meant to be eaten with either naan or rice just coming with a small plate of microwaved rice. All the items were overprice and rather poorly done and underwhelming, we had to pour extra salt and black pepper on everything to counteract the blandness. In terms of the actual cooking, dishes were made to look fresh and hot, but only the exterior was warm, and the interior was cold, and hard, rather tough to chew, very clear sign of microwaved food. The bathrooms somehow managed to be even stickier than the main room, and were as disgusting as a small New York restaurant’s (like the ones in Jackson Heights) bathrooms. It claimed to be able to deliver the same taste that food back home at Bangladesh could deliver, and didn’t even come close (claims were on an article posted next to the door). After the meal, they provided a cup of poorly made, cold rice pudding smaller than the tiny water bottles you can buy, and some stale tamarind candies. Would not recommend, I wish I just went to the nearby Halal Guys and got a wrap, even if it isn’t Bengali. On a side note they seemed oddly proud about providing free water bottles, and insisted we take them, borderline forced us to despite our protests (we had visited the World of Coca-Cola earlier in the day, and weren’t remotely thirsty). Edit: meal was rather overpriced, with some naan, vegetables, and chicken coming in at $65 despite being not worth the ingredients it was made with, We have had a better meal consisting of Naan, whole chicken, and biryani for $37 at a restaurant back home in Maryland, Kabob Hut, heavily...