Paradise Biryani Pointe Norwalk, Norwalk

Paradise Biryani Pointe serves traditional Hyderabadi Nawabi dishes, an Indian culinary tradition that emphasizes slow cooking, careful and deliberate spice mixtures, and the use of direct fire. The signature dish, the hyderabadi biryani, exemplifies the style: meat and spiced basmati rice are cooked over steaming coals and together form three savory layers of food. The restaurant's kitchen also has a tandoori oven, which helps seal in the flavorful herbs and spices of meats, such as the marinated goat chops. In addition, the restaurant serves a wealth of vegetarian dishes, such as the bagara baingan—eggplant roasted in a clay oven and mixed in with tomato and onion—and gobi manchuria, a fried-cauliflower appetizer.