Last night my wife and I had appointments to use one of her Groupons I purchased her for Christmas, Herbal Therapy Body Wraps. This article is not meant to fully discuss the wraps, but I will briefly recap. Honestly, I am not quite sure why anyone would pay and believe the body wraps actually did anything. They took measurements of me before and after, and showed I did lose an average of 3/4 of an inch across my body, but I am not too convinced. However, it was nice getting to spend some quality relaxation time with my wife, so money well spent.

After our wraps (actually my wife could only get a facial because she is still breastfeeding), we were starving, and decided to try Flavors of India next door, located at 26703 Brookpark Extn, North Olmsted, OH 44070.

We were one of only two tables when we went around 6pm. We were kind of surprised by the lack of patrons, but they are honestly in a horrible location. Luckily, by the time we left, the place had several tables. My wife ordered a Thakali Thali special and I ordered Himilayan Thali. Basically, they were one price with drink, appetizer, a five course meal, dessert, and tea.

First the appetizers. My Aloo Sadeko (Potatoes fried in a Nepali style) were amazing compared with my wife’s Himalayan Choela (Chicken in mustard oil and spices), which were slightly dry, but very flavorful.

Both of our main dishes were great, and even though they were served in small tea cup size bowls, there was way more food than we both could eat.

We both ended the meal with the rice pudding, which was really good as well.

What I was surprised with after we got home was how bad the reviews were online. We thought the food was amazing though, and loved the different, fresh flavors.

Another really crazy thing that was really good, was my soda. I ordered “Sunkist” off the menu, but when it arrived, it was a sparkling lemonade served in a can. We had never seen this before, and it was very good.

Overall, we were very pleasantly surprised with the meal, which including tip came to $50. We much rather support authentic, local cuisine, than chain restaurants. We even laughed how the Olive Garden down the street was packed as usual, yet right next door was the Flavors of India restaurant, which had no wait, and some amazing food. I think we ended up bringing home more food than we even ate because there was so much of it.

It really makes me want to travel to India to experience the authenticity of Indian cooking. With buying a new home though, it is not in the near future.