To harvest the rich milk of a coconut, one must break through its hard husk by hitting it with a hammer or bowling it down a city street to smash against parking meters. Taste this laborious delight and other staples of Indian cuisine with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Indian fare at Tadka, located on West Dublin Granville Road. The latest culinary concept from the gourmands behind Inchin's Bamboo Garden, Tadka conjures up a menu full of tandoor-roasted and skewered cuisine from the northwestern frontier regions of India. A sweeping banquet room swells with savory smells as diners appease their voracious palates with aloo moti tikki, fried cakes of paneer cheese and potato coated with sago ($4). The cuisine-cruise continues with a selection of tandoori kebabs such as the succulent sikandari raan, a boneless leg of spring lamb marinated in black cumin and roasted to perfection ($18). Sate a veggie hankering with a plate of the creamy daal tadka curry simmered on a charcoal fire overnight at a hair-braiding, prank-calling slumber party with giddy black lentils, tomatoes, ginger, and garlic ($12). Meals can be brought to a lip-smacking close with a dish of homemade pistachio-and-almond-infused ice cream ($4).

Reviews

Tadka India has received favorable reviews from The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus Alive!, and Columbus Monthly:

• Tadka, which cooks some potent and fabulous food, is far from your average Indian restaurant. – G.A. Benton, Columbus Alive!
• The unusual starters were even more satisfying. Machchi amritsari provided little fillets of fresh fish that were fried and wonderfully flavored with a marinade in which hot chilies and lemon stood out. – John Champlin, Columbus Monthly