📍 Hillcroft, Houston

Kaiser Lashkari's Pakistani-Indian restaurant on the Hillcroft corridor, feeding the community for decades and a James Beard semifinalist working out of a strip mall. The lamb biry...

A rare British-Indian restaurant serving tandoori, curries, and the restaurant's namesake sizzlers — all influenced by the Indian diaspora in London. A singular spot in Houston and...

All-vegetarian Indian restaurant in the Mahatma Gandhi District along Hillcroft, run by father-son team Ramesh and Akash Lulla. Counter-service style with dosas, chaat, and mixed t...

Houston's oldest family-owned Indian restaurant on Hillcroft, best known for its non-vegetarian cuisine and scratch-made sweets (mithai). A cornerstone of the Mahatma Gandhi Distri...

An all-vegetarian Indian restaurant in the Mahatma Gandhi District's Olympic Center showcasing Indian street eats. The menu features samosa chaat, masala dosa, and chole bhature. A...

Hyderabadi biryani spot on Westheimer in the Hillcroft corridor. Goat biryani and the dum-pot technique are the reason to come; Chicken 65 and goat chops fill out a menu that moves...

Candy store up front, all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffet in the back -- a Hillcroft institution that's fed Houston cheap and well for years. Load up on chickpea masala and eggplant ...

Hillcroft counter where the Pakistani chaat side of Houston's South Asian belt does its sharpest work — sev puri stacked tall enough to need two hands, chicken samosas that crack t...

All-vegetarian South Indian room on Hillcroft running a dosa list deep enough that ordering becomes a 10-minute commitment — paper-thin masala dosa, steamed idli with sambar hot en...

Hillcroft outpost of the global Indian-fusion bakery chain, doing the chicken-tikka-croissant and goat-korma-puff thing that turned the brand into a pan-Asian export. Masala buns c...