Urban India, Chicago

Mood-setting muted lighting illuminates Urban Indian Restaurant's cozy dining room as waiters ferry piquant platters of Indian cuisine to tables and leather booths. The chefs bake spicy helpings of tandoori chicken harnessing the heating power of a clay oven—a more tasty method than warming them with a hair dryer—and help diners to achieve meatless munching with sundry vegetarian dishes. Complementing the spicy cuisine, the restaurant's warm, low-lit interior embraces guests in smoldering burnt-orange walls and rich wood floors.