This Event:

        Wed     12/12  Banjara, Sunnyvale

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Kabuki web page at http://remarque.org/kabuki.

Time:

	Please arrive at 7:30pm; we generally order around 7:45pm.
	Arrivals after 8pm may need to find their own table.

Place:
	Banjara
	407 Town and Country
	Sunnyvale, CA 94086
	408-737-9151
	http://www.banjarainc.com/

Description:

Banjara is my favorite lunch buffet place, but they do great
dinners as well.  I would characterize their decor as two
notches below Swagat, and their food two notches above.  Big
screens showing Indian TV and movies add to the lunchtime 
ambiance; I'm not sure if they are going for dinnertime as well.
They are kept on low audio, in any case, and the acoustics
there are pretty friendly for conversation.

There is a wide selection of vegetarian offerings.  Banjara has 
dosas, yum!  For fellow gluten-impaired diners, check out the idli,
papadum, and dosas, all made with rice, chickpea, or bean flours.

Chicken #65 or Chili Chicken will delight the firemouths, and
for those kinder gentler souls among us, I recommend Chicken
Makhani or any of the Saag (spinach)-- lamb, paneer cheese cubes,
or plain.  If you're really spice-averse, like myself, ask for
it mild.  The Chicken Makhani or Aloo Gobi (veggie) is mild by 
default.  If you guess wrong, try a mango lassi.  Mmmmm.  :-)

Entrees run roughly $8 for vegetarian, $9-10 for meat.  Thali
dinners, with a smattering of many things, tend to add $2-3 to that.
A wide variety of appetizers will probably make the average bill,
with tax and tip, close to or just over $20.

Kabuki West was last at Banjara on February 8th, 2001.

[review by SRC]

Directions: 

Short:
   Banjara is on the Matildha side of the Town and Country shopping center
on the corner of Washington and Mathilda.  It's across the road and down 
from Chevy's.  You probably can't see it from Mathilda because of
all the construction in the front part of the mall-- it's right behind
all that plywood fencing!

Transit [http://www.transitinfo.org/]:
   Banjara is a couple blocks away from the Sunnyvale Caltrain station.
]From the station, cross the street and go into the Town & Country
complex, towards Mathilda.  Go forward until you hit a huge plywood
wall that encloses what used to be the front parking lot along
Mathilda.  Banjara is in the building along the front.

Long:
    Take 101 to Mathilda. Head west on Mathilda into downtown Sunnyvale,
crossing both Central Expressway and the JPB Peninsula Corridor rail line. 
After going over the railroad, turn left. Go one block south and park.  
You may wish to park in the parking structure of the mall next to
Chevy's and just walk over, since the majority of parking in front
is in the process of turning into an office building.  

[Directions by SRC, based on Thai Basil directions by Charles Merriam]