Mezbaan Restaurant

You'll find Mezbaan tucked into the N10th Street strip, and it's the sort of restaurant that doesn't need to shout about itself. Walking in, there's a warmth to the place—exposed brick, soft lighting, the kind of comfortable bustle you get when a restaurant's been doing something right for years. The kitchen takes North Indian seriously: their tandoori is genuinely excellent, charred and fragrant, and the curries have proper depth rather than just heat. It's the neighbourhood spot where families come for weeknight dinners and groups gather for celebrations, all getting equally good treatment.