Grain of Salt Indian Cuisine

Grain of Salt prints a small G next to certain dishes — Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Paneer Tawa Masala, Vegetable Maratha, Aloo Tikki, Mulligatawny Soup, Fish Masala, and the house Special Tandoori platter — the kitchen pointing diners at what it considers its own. The mark turns the menu from a survey into a recommendation, and it cuts across categories rather than concentrating in one lane. A first-time diner skimming the list for a strong order has the answer printed in eight places. The G-marked set covers a starter, a soup, three meat-curry leads, a paneer signature, a tandoor platter, and a fish dish.

The signatures fan out from there. Butter Chicken is boneless tandoori chicken in fresh tomato sauce, the comfort anchor for the meat-curry section, and Chicken Tikka Masala carries the sharper end of the same lane with green peppers and a thicker, spicier gravy. Paneer Tawa Masala is the paneer dish written with force — cubes simmered in a hot-and-spicy special gravy rather than the milder default. Vegetable Maratha pulls mixed vegetable balls into an onion-tomato base, a house signature for diners who want vegetarian cooking with weight. The Grain of Salt Special Tandoori platter draws chicken tikka, hariyali murg tikka, badami tikka, fish tikka, lamb boti kebab, and jhinga tandoori onto a single plate, which gives the tandoor section one answer for a group that wants the clay-oven cooking in one pass. Garlic Naan, Dal Makhni, and the Mulligatawny soup of red lentil with rice and chicken fill out the supporting orders at prices under twenty.