Heritage India Dupont, Washington, D.C.

Last night Scott called about 8:45 and wanted to go to dinner. I Metroed to Chinatown and met him, then we Metroed to Dupont Circle, where we landed at Heritage India Dupont for a late dinner. It was a slow night there, with only a few tables occupied; ultimately, we would be the only table there.

Heritage has a lot of interesting things on their menu above and beyond the standard Indian restaurant entree fare. They've a whole page in their menu devoted to "street fare" and things that could best be described as tapas. So, we crafted a shared dinner with some items from both categories.

The "entree" we ordered was sag paneer, a traditional creamed spinach dish with cubes of homemade farmer cheese; theirs has a little spice heat, as well. We both liked the dish. We also chose two seafood small dishes, a calamari and a seared tuna. The calamari was sliced into rings and simply prepared in a tomato sauce, then presented in a large martini glass. I found the squid to be tender and flavorful. The seared tuna came with a lot of greens and some rice cellophane noodles, making a tasty flavor combination.





For dessert, we got a banana sorbet (with a taste that reminded me more of banana bread than fresh bananas) and their Indian version of bread pudding. We both liked the bread pudding a lot and found the spiced bread, almost a gingerbread, to be a nice touch. There was an interesting silver thing on top of the sauced pudding. We thought perhaps it was a very thin film of culinary silver, kind of like the ultrathin gold leaf that is used something; it had no particular taste or texture, so we couldn't really tell what it was.




Along with dinner, we split a bottle of Taj beer, which comes in a big enough bottle that we both had a full pilsner glass. Scott used that for his official Kody Pose.