Here is the last of my reports from our side-trip to Northern California in June. As you may recall, we drove up to San Francisco from Los Angeles. On the way up we spent two nights on the central coast (I had reports on Mexican meals in Santa Barbara and Morro Bay). After a few days in San Francisco (meal reports here, here, here, here, here and here), we drove down to Menlo Park for a couple of days. We stayed with old, dear friends from my college days in India. We mostly ate at home with the exception of one lunch eaten after a long hike among the redwoods in Wunderlich Park in Woodside. We were hungry and stopped on the way back at a South Indian place a hop, skip and jump from their place: Dosa Point. Here’s a quick report.

Dosa Point is a small restaurant in a strip mall. It’s located next to a Subway and is itself in the prior home of what must have been an Italian restaurant. I say this on the basis of their doorway sporting an illustration of an Italian chef, repurposed to serve a dosa. Or maybe they picked that up from a restaurant supply store. Either way, I dig it.

We grabbed a table for six, sat down and got down to business. The name of the place is Dosa Point but they have a range of South Indian and North Indian dishes on the menu. The boys split an order of chicken tikkas to start while the adults shared an order of the goat chukka. For their mains, the boys were thrilled to learn that their butter chicken does not have nuts in it and asked for an order with naan. One of our friends loves their dal tadka, baghara baingan and chapatis and so she ordered that. The remaining three adults got a dosa each. The missus got the Mysore Masala Dosa, our other friend got the Madras Masala Dosa, and I got the Mylapore Dosa. All the dosas were very tasty if nothing to get very excited about. The boys enjoyed their butter chicken and tikkas but the naans were rather blah, being thick and spongy. The stars of the meal were the goat chukka, dal tadka and baghara baingan. And while the naans were blah, the chapatis were very good. There was also a fair bit of rice on the table though I can’t recall what came with rice (the goat, the dal and the eggplant, probably).

The boys washed their food down with Cokes and mango lassi (pronounced good); I had a buttermilk (decent). Water for the rest.

For a look at the menu and what we ate, launch the slideshow below. Scroll down to see what’s coming next from California and Minnesota.

I was not allowed to touch the bill so cannot tell you exactly how much the meal cost—but you can work it out from the menu pics. Service was fine—we were there on the early side for Indian lunch but the place had begun to fill up as we were eating (and they were also doing a brisk take-out trade). On the whole, it was a nice meal and I’d be thrilled to have it within easy reach of us here in southern Minnesota. But if you’re in the Bay Area it’s nothing you need to go out of your way for if you don’t live near them.

Okay, only two more California reports to come, both from Los Angeles. I will try to knock both out next week. Next week’s Minnesota report, meanwhile, will be of a recent dinner at Spoon & Stable. That’ll be on Tuesday.