Monsoon is closed

The Indian Asian Fusion place at the corner of Broadway and diversey has closed. Bring on another Coldstone!

Good riddence.

Though I think you're kidding about the Coldstone because 1) the location is way too big for a coldstone and 2) there is one less than 100 yards from there.

The site is slated to be something called O Lounge, from the people behind Room 22.

"there is one less than 100 yards from there."

Since when has that stopped Coldstone?

Wait, when was this? I ate dinner there last weekend, and it was packed. <cough> Not that I mind it closing. A good friend who thinks it was authentic Indian food brought me there. And, uh, I'm Indian.

The bathrooms were lovely though, really truly lovely.

publicblast wrote:Wait, when was this? I ate dinner there last weekend, and it was packed. <cough> Not that I mind it closing. A good friend who thinks it was authentic Indian food brought me there. And, uh, I'm Indian.

The bathrooms were lovely though, really truly lovely.

Sooooo, publicblast, as an Indian, where do you suggest for authemtic indian food (if you have a place you'd suggest). Fwiw, the indians I know who've been to monsoon (including members of my family) didn't think much of it

i'm indian as well, and i thought it sucked my left nut. the food was very very subpar. i'm a horrible cook and i think i could have cooked better indian food.

soooo ChiTownAbs - same question as I gave to publicblast, ok I'll phrase it slightly differently - which indian place around town doesn't have its mouth around your genitals?

Hema's in Lincoln Park

If you really had to, then Standard Indian Resturant on Belmont or Star of India on Sheffield.

Soooo Zim, same question you had for the others, maybe phrased a bit differently - what are your current recs for authentic and/or good "Indian" food, Devonesque or otherwise?


Monsoon, from what I'd heard, lost its original chef a fair while ago. Around then Vermilion a quasi-Indian (ok, Indian-Latin fusion) place opened. I wonder how it is doing - I know there was some media buzz (though that may or may not mean anything, as Erik M. wondered).
I came across this favorable report and this underwhelmed experience ('vermillion' spelled with two els in the latter).
I have not been to either.

sazerac wrote:Soooo Zim, same question you had for the others, maybe phrased a bit differently - what are your current recs for authentic and/or good "Indian" food, Devonesque or otherwise?

nothing I haven't said before

Truth be told, I've sworn off of Indian restaurants for awhile now. They just use way too much oil in their food, something that makes me ill after I eat it. Everybody gushes about Hema's kitchen but I still haven't gone.

I get my South Indian fix at Mysore Woodlands on Devon, and if I get nostalgic for Calcutta I'll get a frontier chicken roll from Bismillah (on Ridge near Granville): not the same as a righteous Calcutta kadhi roll, but it'll do.

And the hot dog place in Evanston that served decent biriyani changed management and is now just a boring hot dog place.

Hey, my line about the bathrooms is the LTH quote! I've arrived!