Flavors of an India You Didn’t Know [Restaurant review]
Chef Goeorge Godinho of Mandovi, a new Indian restaurant in El Segundo serving cuisine from the Goa region. Photo Everyone who seeks out exotic cuisines knows the process of negotiation to find out a restaurant’s true specialties. Though it might seem that these would be easy to spot, that is often not the case. Servers are understandably cautious about recommending highly spiced or unique dishes, and sometimes you have to tell them explicitly that those are what you came for. My solution is to go to a higher power – the chef – and ask him or her to make a meal that is exactly what they would prepare for their family. The chef already knows their family’s food allergies or strong dislikes, but they don’t know that about you yet – so a dialogue begins. Once the chef understands your enthusiasm for their cuisine, they are likely to go back into the kitchen and create something wonderful. Obviously they can’t take the time to do this if the restaurant is slammed with customers. It was therefore an opportunity when we stopped in one evening at El Segundo’s Mandovi restaurant, which serves the distinctive cuisine of the Indian region of Goa, and found the place sparsely populated. I…
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