One of the oddities on Piedmont Avenue is the Kerry House Raj Indian Cuisine. It's located right next to the Kerry House Irish Pub, the local neighborhood dive bar (which I mean in the best possible way).
With the two Kerry Houses, I assume the pub was there first and I have no idea what kind of drunken wager or late-night poker loss led to the opening of an Indian restaurant in half the building. I say "half the building" because there's a doorway in the restaurant where patrons can walk back and forth between the bar and the tandoori chicken. The two establishments even share the same awning on the outside.
Today I stopped by to try the $6.95 lunch buffet. I should have been deterred by the empty dining room at the peak of the lunch hour, but I pressed on. The selection was small but not bad. The good thing about the restaurant being empty was that when I went for a scoop of the chicken curry, there was actually big chunks of chicken meat as opposed to a ladel full of peas and chicken shreds. The naan was a little tough, but the tandoori chicken was very good. And the "sauced" food was only mildly spicy -- which was good because I had to work the cafe that night and didn't want to have any "stomach issues" while steaming milk for cappuccinos.
FJ
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No - I couldn't find any pics of the Kerry House online, but I did find a shot of some tandoori chicken.
I did notice, however, that the tandoori chicken pic looks like it was on the same table as the kettle chips pic from a few days ago.
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