Birthday Dinner

For my birthday dinner on Monday, I chose to go to a pure vegetarian Indian restaurant, Knishna Bhavan, at 21/24 rue Cail near the Gare de Nord. (Unfortunately, there's no website available.) This is a very small, completely informal place that serves great simple Indian cuisine. The menu has a wide selection of the fast dishes that you find in southern India such as dosas, but I especially like fermented rice bread called idli that is usually served with sambar, soup. I got the house thaali that comes on the large metal dish that has several little compartments for small portions of different dishes. Gabriella and I had invited our friends Adele and Bruce to join us so after eating we all walked back to their apartment where we had champagne and a delicious chocolate cherry cake from a bakery down the street from us on Faubourgh St. Antoine. It was a very simple but lovely evening and we were back home before 11:30pm.