Gate Of India
(310) 656-1664
117 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica,
CA
90401
34.0144
-118.498
Neighborhoods: West LA, Downtown
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In Short
Just steps from the busy Third Street Promenade, this restaurant hideaway is warmly lit and decorated with intricate, brocaded tapestries. The menu features a selection of classic Indian fare such as chicken tandoori, naan loaded with toasted garlic bits, and mango chutney. But the hip international clientele comes for the house specialties, like fall-off-the-bone ginger chicken swathed in spicy-sweet paste, and coconut curry bobs with vegetables in a thick, heady sauce.
User Reviews
CPDean
December 09, 2008
My husband and I used to live in Santa Monica and eat at Gates of India all the time. We have not been able to find another Indian restaurant anywhere near as good and so we continue to drive back to eat here. It doesn't rate high for ambiance and the servers are FOB Indian (and sometimes Mexican) but the Malay Curry, Tikka Masa, and Sag Paneer are the best around.
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faboomba
October 20, 2008
Today i went with my girl friend for dinner inside gate of india, and the scenery was authentic enough, we were given our waters right away and off to a pretty good start. We even decided pretty quickly what we wanted off of the menu, it bothered me a little that everything was a la carte, meaning the rice being an essential part of the dish was something you have to buy as an extra, so I ordered the coconut malay vegetables, $9.99 and my girl friend ordered a lamb #12 in creme sauce for 14.99, two samosas for 5.00, and one plate of rice for 3.00. It wasnt 10 minutes until they brought out the samosas, they were pretty decent sized and with good sauces, this gave us good hopes for the main entrees. They brought out these burners under metals bowls to keep our meals hot, with a tea light candle under our very sparing portions that were way under the portion that we expected. We shared our lamb creme sauce and coconut veggies mixing them together, right away i noticed the lamb tasted really tough and resembled beef, in fact it was most likely beef for that unmistakable flavor that beef has, and it had a lot of gristles and very much over cooked. The waitress tells us that if we needed more rice that politely she would give us more, so the one plate of 3.00 rice wasnt enough so the waiter brought out another, and we finished off most of our portion since it was about the size of a small skimpy bowl that of an appetizer. The waiter with the weird teeth kept on shuffling back and forth behind our table and crowded our table, and we then became baffled not knowing if what we were eating was lamb or beef. So we decide to get our check, and the total comes out to be 38.19. We were more than infuriated, the waitress had deceitfully charged us for another rice, not to mention when we asked her if we ordered beef she responded by saying that if you ordered lamb then we gave you lamb, though it couldn't have been. They were pushy with the receipt, so i didn't leave a tip.
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dunwright
August 28, 2008
Had the terribly overcooked buffet lunch. Honestly, you could get a better meal in jail. I ordered a coke and asked for two refills during my meal with no comment from the staff. The bill arrived showing I'd been charged $3 for the first coke and $6.49 for the two refills. I'm not much of a math major but I believe that comes to $9.49 for soda pop ladies and gentlemen! And my meal (if you could call it that) was only $10.99! Not only did the supervisor not credit me for failure to mention they charged for "refills" but he had no explanation for the rising price of said cokes. My recommendation to you for a better meal and customer service would be to rummage through the dumpsters of Ye Ol Kings Head across the street.
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The Extras:
Save room for the dessert specialty, gajar halvah, a blend of pureed carrots sweetened with syrup made from ginger and milk, then topped with slivered almonds.
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Payment Methods:
American Express, Discover, Visa, MasterCard
Restaurant Special Features:
Family-Friendly Dining, Hidden Find
