
A salad isn’t merely a tasty and colorful feature of the menu at Taurat . It is also needed to cool the burn of the vindaloo seekh kebab, a notable dish that testifies to a love for the taste of chiles.
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Goat biryani, writes C. Thi Nguyen in The Times, is “magical, a stripped-down dish of goat curry, rice and butter, melded into one.”
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Heather Hill and Taushief Hossain have lunch at Taurat, whose orange walls are part of a decor that features an arrangement of cut tree branches hanging from the ceiling -- a touch that suggests not a strip-mall location but a Bangladeshi family garden party.
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Tandoori chicken makes an enticing dish at Taurat, where Mohammed Hossain and wife Aliza, the owners, do all the cooking. The couple hail from Bangladesh.
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Chicken fulodi kebab is served with onion.
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Mango lassi is among the menu offerings recommended by C. Thi Nguyen in The Times.
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