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Halal Grill

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3701 S Cooper St, Arlington. 682-321-7192. 11am-9:30pm Sun-Mon and Wed-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. All above acclaim cards accepted.

When was the aftermost time you had beef at an Indian restaurant? Likely never, aback the meat of beasts is abundantly anathema according to Hindu customs. However, as you ability accumulate from its name, Halal Grill observes Muslim comestible laws rather than Hindu ones. Among added things, this agency that while you can’t get pork or alcohol, beef is absolutely an advantage at this enactment in a band capital by the Parks Capital in Arlington. The restaurant opened this accomplished bounce confined Indian and Pakistani aliment but afresh revamped its menu, accepting rid of its cafeteria cafe in favor of Mediterranean book such as wraps and salads (as able-bodied as lo mein noodles, weirdly enough). Whether they absitively to board Western tastes in adjustment to survive, I don’t know. I do apperceive that the old staples are still the best things they do.

The restaurant is small, with alone about 20 seats, but it feels added ample acknowledgment to a bowl bottle storefront that faces Cooper Street and lets in a lot of accustomed light. (Also allowance affairs was the actuality that the abode was about abandoned anniversary time I visited.) A TV off to the ancillary played South Asian music videos, and handsome adipose board chairs lent a blow of chic to a anatomic interior. Where this abode skimps is the cooler account — there isn’t a soda bubbler or a bullpen of algid tea or alike a baptize faucet in sight. To ablution bottomward your food, you’ll accept to alcohol from artificial bottles stored in a refrigerator cabinet.

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I accept far beneath complaints about the food. During my antecedent visit, I begin the appearance in the palak paneer puréed to an aerial consistency, giving an aberrant airiness to a bowl that can be asperous if the greens aren’t appropriately chopped. The kitchen acicular up the thick, vegetarian adaptation of the Indian archetypal with aloof the appropriate bulk of spice. The capital courses actuality don’t appear with a starch, so you’ll accept to adjustment your aliment or rice separately. I called the adulate naan and begin it to be the absolute McCoy (the absolute Makhdoom?), a agee check of aliment blistered atramentous by the tandoor oven and bright with broiled adulate –– a far cry from those pillowy discs that you buy in the supermarket.

The aloo tikki blanket (served in an bold artificial basket) was added of a alloyed bag, with the spiced potato croquettes advancing bankrupt in the restaurant’s roti bread. For me, the cucumber and raita in the blanket blocked the acidity of those airy assortment brown-like nuggets inside. I would accept adopted the aloo tikki by itself as an appetizer, which the restaurant gives you the advantage of ordering. Instead, my appetizer that day was an adjustment of vegetable samosas, a accessible if boilerplate amateur that got upstaged by the minty chutney served alongside for dipping.

My server recommended the adulate craven as a banquet entrée, and the allegiant bowl did not disappoint, the umami of the amazon in the booze actuality bathed in a cottony ablution of butter.

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The best ambrosia advantage I approved was the gulab jamun, the absurd pastry that looks like an billowing donut aperture but has a added cakelike bendability and is steeped in a algid abstract of amoroso and rosewater. You won’t go amiss with baklava in this restaurant (or, really, anywhere else), but the gulab jamun offers a bigger finishing agenda to the able spices of the meal.

The all-embracing card takes in dupe biryani and momo (meat dumplings from Nepal). Fortunately, the amount point at this bashful beanery is low abundant to be aggressive with the alternation eateries in the breadth and animate you to appear back. Whether you’re anxious with befitting halal or artlessly attractive for analytic priced Indian aliment in the area, the Halal Grill has you covered.

Halal Grill

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