Cafe Of India
52 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 229-7928Menu
Appetizers Cold
Spiced potatoes with fried wheat fluffy wafers. Garnished with spicy yogurt and sweet and sour sauce.
Cubes of white meat chicken and cucumber delicately tossed in our sweet and sour tangy yogurt sauce.
Shrimp and cucumber delicately tossed in spicy yogurt and sweet and sour tangy sauce.
Appetizers Hot
Spicy turnovers stuffed with potatoes and green peas. Choose your level of spicyness.
Spicy turnovers stuffed with minced lamb and spices. Choose your level of spicyness.
Combination of meat samosa, chicken tikka, lamb kabab, seekh kabab, and chicken pakoras. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh cut vegetables deep-fried in chickpea batter. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh, homemade cheese deep-fried in spicy chickpea batter. Choose your level of spicyness.
Vegetable pakoras, samosas, vegetable tikka, and cheese pakoras. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless, tender pieces of chicken deep-fried in chickpea batter.
Tender pieces of white meat chicken marinated in spicy yogurt and cooked on skewers in a tandoor.
A selection of vegetarian or non-vegetarian appetizers.
Basmati Rice Specialties
Basmati rice cooked with chicken chunks, nuts, raisins, and spices. Choose your level of spicyness.
Juicy pieces of lamb cooked with basmati rice, nuts, raisins, and spices. Choose your level of spicyness.
Saffron-flavored basmati rice cooked with shrimp, nuts, and spices. Choose your level of spicyness.
Rice cooked in butter with pieces of shrimp, fish, chicken, lamb, beef, cheese, veggies, nuts, and raisins. Choose your level of spicyness.
Basmati rice cooked with exotic spices, herbs, and fresh vegetables. Choose your level of spicyness.
Basmati rice, spicy beef chunks, fresh vegetables, almonds, cashews, and raisins flavored with saffron. Choose your level of spicyness.
Beef
Chunks of beef and exotic spices in a thick curry sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Beef cubes cooked with fresh spinach and exotic spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Beef cubes cooked in a spicy sauce with potatoes and a touch of lemon. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless beef pieces cooked with sliced onion, tomato, fresh herbs and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of beef cooked with fresh mushrooms and a blend of fresh ground spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Beef cooked with exotic spices, herbs, cashews, raisins and a mild cream sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of beef with exotic spices in a thick curry sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Beverages & Conveniences
One wire stand, one full size aluminum pan and two burners
One plate and a utensils kit.
Chicken
Cubes of white meat chicken tandoori style, cooked in a rich, creamy tomato sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless chicken pieces in a thick curry sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Cubes of white meat chicken tandoori style, cooked in a rich creamy tomato sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless chicken cooked with potatoes and tangy sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chicken cooked with spinach and flavored with exotic spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless chicken pieces cooked in a thick curry sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chicken pieces cooked with exotic spices, herbs, cashews, raisins and a mild cream sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless white meat chicken, pan-roasted with onions, tomatoes and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
White meat chicken pieces roasted in a clay oven, in a creamy tomato sauce with cashews and raisins. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless chicken pieces cooked with vegetables fresh herbs and exotic Indian spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
White meat chicken cooked with lentils, herbs, and exotic spices, garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Desserts
Homemade cheese in a special condensed milk, flavored with rose water and pistachio nuts.
Dry milk and cottage cheese balls, deep-fried in butter with syrup.
Cooling rice pudding, flavored with cardamon and garnished with pistachios.
Homemade ice cream with mangos and fresh cream, sweetened to perfection.
Exotic ice cream from India, with saffron, almonds and nuts.
Entrees
Tandoori chicken, tandoori tikka, boti kebab, seekh kebab, and tandoori shrimp with onions and lemons. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Soup, samosa, seekh kebab, chicken tandoori, chicken tikka, boti kebab, your choice of two meat curries, naan and pullau. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Vegetable soup, samosa, your choice of two vegetarian entrees, raita, pullau, poori and your choice of dessert. Served with rice.
Vegetable soup, vegetable samosa, your choice of two vegetarian entrees, naan, raita, pullau, and your choice of dessert. Served with rice.
Comes with soup, vegetable samosa, sizzling tandoori chicken, chicken tikka, seekh kebab, your choice of curry, naan, rice pullau and dessert. Served with rice.
Cubes of boneless lamb marinated in yogurt and spices, cooked on skewers. Served with fresh garden salad and rice. Five pieces per kebab. Choose your level of spicyness.
Finely minced lamb, seasoned with chopped onions and herbs. Served with rice. Five pieces per kebab. Choose your level of spicyness.
Pieces of boneless lamb cooked with fresh mushrooms. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Tender chicken, marinated in yogurt and freshly ground spices, baked on skewers in our tandoori oven. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Your choice of a half or whole chicken, marinated in yogurt and freshly ground spices, baked on skewers in our tandoori oven. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless white meat chicken, cubed, marinated in yogurt and spices, cooked over charcoal. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless chicken pieces cooked with fresh mushrooms, exotic herbs, and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh jumbo shrimp marinated in delicately spiced yogurt and baked on skewers in our tandoor. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of fresh swordfish cooked in a spicy curry sauce with potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh garden vegetables cooked in a creamy sauce with nuts, raisins, and spices. Served with rice.
Indian Bread
Unleavened white flour bread baked in our clay oven.
Unleavened white flour bread stuffed with raisins and almonds, baked in a clay oven.
Unleavened bread stuffed with onions and baked in our clay oven.
Thin and unleavened bread cooked on griddle, and served with or without butter.
Round, whole wheat bread baked in a clay oven and served piping hot.
Whole wheat bread cooked on a griddle with butter.
Unleavened white flour bread stuffed with chopped, fresh garlic and coriander. Baked in a clay oven.
Handmade bread stuffed with diced chicken, herbs, and spices.
White flour bread stuffed with spices and minced lamb.
Unleavened white flour bread stuffed with chopped, fresh basil and baked in our clay oven.
Deep-fried puffed bread.
Whole wheat, deep-fried puffed bread.
Whole wheat bread, stuffed with spiced potatoes, cooked on a griddle with butter.
Unleavened bread stuffed with potatoes and peas, and baked in our clay oven.
Lamb
Cubes of lamb cooked in a thick gravy of exotic spices and herbs. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Minced lamb cooked with green peas, onions, tomato, herbs and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Cubes of lamb cooked in a thick gravy of exotic spices of herbs. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless barbecued lamb with spinach and exotic spices, garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Lean lamb pieces cooked in yogurt, almonds and a blend of fragrant spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Lamb pieces cooked with exotic spices, herbs, cashew nuts, raisins and a mild cream sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Lamb pieces marinated in vinegar and spices, cooked with potatoes in a spicy tomato and onion sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Pieces of barbecued lamb roasted with onions, tomatoes and spices, garnished with coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Cubes of lamb baked in a clay oven and folded into a delicately creamy sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of boneless, barbecued lamb cooked with spinach and exotic spices, garnished with coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Minced lamb cooked with green peas, onions, tomato, herbs and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Options
Salads
Mixed greens.
Seafood
Fresh jumbo shrimp cooked in a spicy curry sauce and garnished. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of fresh swordfish cooked in a spicy curry sauce and garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh jumbo shrimp, tandoori style in a rich creamy tomato sauce, garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh fish pan-roasted with ginger, garlic, onion, and tomato touched lightly with exotic spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh shrimp cooked with fresh spinach and herbs. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh jumbo shrimp cooked in a creamy sauce with nuts and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Shrimp cooked with potatoes, onions, and tomatoes in a hot curry sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh jumbo shrimp cooked in a spicy curry sauce and garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of fresh swordfish in a creamy tomato sauce, garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Chunks of fresh swordfish cooked in a spicy curry sauce and garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Juicy shrimp, pan-roasted with ginger, garlic, onions and tomato, lightly touched with exotic spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Side Items
Mango fruit drink.
Homemade yogurt with shredded cucumber, touched with spices.
Long grain white rice.
Lightly spiced lentil wafer.
Mint sauce.
Onion sauce.
Soups
Vegetable and lentil soup, mildly spiced. Choose your level of spicyness.
Boneless chicken soup with herbs and spices.
Creamy shredded coconut milk soup, with nuts and flavored with Indian cardamon. Choose your level of spicyness.
Vegetarian Delights
Homemade cheese cooked with fresh spinach and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Mixed, garden-fresh vegetables cooked with herbs and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh green peas cooked in a delicately spiced sauce with potato balls. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Vegetable balls cooked in an onion and creamy tomato sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Eggplant baked over open flame, mashed, and then sauteed with onions, garlic, ginger and other spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh garden vegetables cooked in a creamy sauce with nuts, raisins and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Cheese sauteed with fresh ginger, garlic, onion, tomato, nuts, and raisins in a creamy sauce. Choose your level of spicyness.
Homemade cheese cooked with fresh spinach and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Okra cooked with Indian spices in an onion gravy. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Whole chick peas and potato balls cooked with onion, tomatoes and spices in a sauce. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Mixed, garden-fresh vegetables cooked in herbs and spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Cauliflower and potatoes cooked with tomato, onion, herbs and spices, garnished with coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh green peas cooked with homemade cheese cubes and a variety of herbs and light spices. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh spinach cooked with potato balls and freshly grown garlic, ginger, and exotic spices. Choose your level of spicyness.
Fresh green peas cooked in a delicately spiced sauce with potato balls. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
Lentils cooked with fresh herbs and spices, sauteed in basil and garnished with fresh coriander. Served with rice. Choose your level of spicyness.
