St. Maarten Restaurants

Sitar

Gourmet Indian Food is now available at Atlantis Casino in the Dutch Lowlands. Ricky Hotchandani, the owner, has brought Sitar's chef from a five star hotel in Bombay and is using his skills to turn out the finest Indian cuisine right here in St Maarten. There is much more to Indian food than curry, and a gourmet chef can demonstrate it. The several sauces are thick, full, flavorful, and distinct. Various levels of spicy heat can be used, but many dishes can be prepared with no heat, if desired.

At Sitar, your dinner always starts with a crispy papadum made of chick pea flour and accompanied by three chutneys: red with slightly spicy tamarind, green with coriander, coconut, green pepper and mint, and yellow with mango and a touch of heat. Order some drinks, choosing among the several beers, the wine list, or the fully-stocked bar, and taste a hint of the delights to come as you look over the menu. Vegetable dishes such as chana masala (chick peas in a slightly spicy red sauce) and aloo palak (potato and spinach flavored with coriander and mint) demonstrate the chef's abilities to make a two very different sauces that complement the underlying vegetable. The lamb masala and the chicken korma show that he can do it with meat. No Indian dinner is complete without nan. In this case, the Indian bread is baked in the traditional manner on a Tandoori clay oven.

Details

   Atlantis Casino, Dutch Lowlands
   545-3358
   Sitar Web Site

Reviews

Rated by Erich kranz on 03/28/06
It's a great restaurant. Unfortunately, it closed over a year ago. This is a lame website. After stealing much of my info, several years ago, they have never updated it.

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