Pickles Indian Kitchen

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11710 South St
Artesia, CA
(562) 860-3999 View Dishes
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Description: Pickles Indian Kitchen is a Indian and Vegetarian restaurant where most Menuism users came for a meal on the go and paid between $10 and $25.  Tags: and
   
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July 19, 2009

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City Plaza's Indian food

Pickles Indian Kitchen is a great restaurant. Overall, the employees seem to enjoy their job and are always more than happy to explain anything to their customers. It’s a good environment to be in. The restaurant has huge brightly colored paintings of Indian women, mangos and trees. The restaurant also sells pickles in jars near the cash register. If you want my opinion, the restaurant has a home-like feel to it. Home-like feel in that their employees remember their customers and the brightly colored walls as well as the painting seem to welcome you each time you enter the restaurant.

Located inside City Plaza, there’s a lot of available parking. However, parking is often hard to obtain if you come to City Plaza during a busy time (ex. lunch or dinner). You might want to also keep in mind that there are many other restaurants at City Plaza in addition to Pickles Indian Kitchen, which explains why parking tends to be fully be occupied during lunch or dinner times. Try to get to Pickles Indian Kitchen 10 minutes (give or take) before you get hungry just so that you can focus on finding a parking spot.

If I remember correctly, they’re closed between the hours of 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. I know this since I was once hungry at 4 PM, wanted Indian food, came to Pickles and learned that they were closed. I ended up taking a menu from their restaurant instead. (They place menus outside of their restaurant.)

In regards to food, they offer vegetarian items as well as non-vegetarian (chicken, mutton and seafood) items. To date, I’ve had their kadai paneer, karaikudi fries and samosas. Overall, their food has been tasty. Unfortunately, there have been times when I’ve eaten the same dish and it didn’t taste exactly the same as the first time I ate the dish. I came to realize that this may have something to do with the restaurant having more than one chef. (I am assuming that each chef cooks a bit differently from the other.)

Last but not least, their prices are a bit on the expensive side.

Dishes I tried:

Kadai Paneer

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Kadai paneer is good. It’s hard to describe the many flavors found within this dish. There are the spices and then there are the cubes of cottage cheese that just melt into your mouth. YUM! I want to give this dish five stars, however there have been times when the dish wasn’t as scrumptious as the first time and second time I consumed it, so I had to give it a rating of four stars. If you’re new to Indian food and can handle spicy, try kadai paneer. You’ll thank me! Just thinking about this dish makes my mouth water. Oh, and the dish comes with basmati rice.

Karaikudi Fries

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Fries with a twist! If you’re bored of McDonald’s fries, give karaikudi fries a try. They’re more flavorful and probably a whole lot healthier than McDonald’s fries. The fries are crinkled and eaten with sliced onions and cilantro. I’ve eaten this dish greasy and non-greasy before. I honestly prefer the greasy version of this dish. I guess the dish isn’t always exactly the same since a different chef may be making it for you. When i t’s greasy, this dish deserves four stars.

Samosas

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Very good, but nothing too special considering the fact that you can get samosas almost anywhere in Artesia. You can also probably get samosas elsewhere for a cheaper price. Anyway, what I did find to be different in Pickles Indian Kitchen’s samosas were that their potatos were well hydrated and thus, made the samosas more tasty in comparison to the samosas I’ve had at other Indian restaurants. If you’ve never had samosas, they basically are triangular empanadas, filled with spiced potatos that have been mashed, peas and coriander. They’re usually eaten with a sweet (red) or spicy (green) chutney.

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