Mr. Currys India Restaurant, St. Louis

At Mr. Currys India Restaurant, the ingredients are fresh and the meals are made to order, but the recipes? Those date back more than 100 years. The owner-operators use their own family recipes in the kitchen, relying on their relatives' and ancestors' talents to craft a menu of traditional Indian cuisine. Before any dish lands on the menu, however, it's subjected to up to five years of further research and development. During this time, chefs tweak the ratios of each dish's 20 herbs and spices until the final results are perfect, yielding dishes like beef curry masala, lamb biryani, and mushroom mattar. This level of care and personal attention brings fans back every day for lunch and dinner, or for the popular lunch buffet when diners can sample their way through many popular dishes.