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Thirty Years of Award-Winning Classics at Taj Mahal, Encino

Glassed-in Taj Mahal, awarded Best Indian Restaurant in Encino many times over, sits on the second floor overlooking the hills, with an outdoor patio for good weather day dining. It is a light, airy, pretty dining room with graceful salmon cloth napkins on turquoise over white tablecloths.
It is a must try not only for Indian food lovers, but all food lovers.

Encino's Taj Mahal makes it, with room to spare, onto the "A" list. The restaurant is a sparkling clean, ultramodern space on the second floor
of a boulevard mini-mall.

Any discussion of Indian food is complicated by the fact that there are so many varieties. In his massive tome, India Cookbook, author
Pushpesh Pant identifies ten key culinary regions, each with "its own gastronomic traditions