Punjab Palace

Punjab Palace (109 Brighton Ave Boston MA) is a welcoming place with an extensive menu. There are more than half a dozen items featuring goat, including the flecked rice dish, biryani which our waiter tells us twice contains goat on the bone. Goat does not taste like chicken, by the way; it’s more like mild lamb. The waiter’s favorite dish is a gingery goat curry which we also like; it’s fun to ni...bble on the bones and the sauce, ordered mild, is just hot enough!! Vegetable pakora are delicious, golden-brown fritters of spinach, potato, and peppers. They’re shaped into little pyramids. At first a pretty bowl of red lentil soup seems watery, but it’s such a pleasing, mild bowl to sip. The tandoor cooks fish, chicken, shrimp, and lamb. Sheekh kebab is made with ground lamb, pressed onto skewers, and turned into firm sausage. Not very interesting. Tandoori fish is flaky; shrimp is sweet and succulent, one of the most successful dishes cooked in the oven. They are all bright red, something I’ve never understood, and come with a big mound of onions and more wonderful nan.