Best of Boston

1988 Best Indian Restaurant

Shalimar

The aroma from the tandoori oven greets you at the door, and the food on the plate does not disappoint. As the “Kashmiri Song” goes, “Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar.” After eating the hot tandoori chicken, though, your hands are likely to be a mite flushed.

546 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge,