Restaurant: KC's Tandoor Location: 9450 Scranton Rd. San Diego, CA Phone: (858) 535-1941 Price Range: $4.49-$8.79

Number of visits: many
Last visit before review: Early 2001

Jeff has had: Lamb kati kabob, cottage fries.

We've both had: Chicken breast salad, makhini chicken, karahi lamb, dosa (a wrap stuffed with spiced potatoes and peas), naan (bread), dal (lentils), iced tea

Rating 5 (of 12) Poor

Randy says: I thought that the dressing on the chicken breast salad was overpowering, so I would get it on the side. By default the chicken comes with iceberg mixed in with romaine, but I asked for it with only romaine.

Jeff says: I really liked the dressing on the chicken breast salad. It was lemony, but not sour and with a nice variety of spices. Unfortunately, several times we were served bad chicken. Sometimes it was simply not at its peak of freshness, and other times it was definitely "off".

Randy says: The makhini chicken was good but I preferred the spices in the karahi lamb to the milkiness of the makhini chicken. Occasionally the lamb could be a bit tough or fatty with gristle, and other times it was perfect.

Jeff says: I really liked the sauces of both the makhini chicken and the karahi lamb. Sauces are something KC's Tandoor does well, however occasionally the delicious sauces were covering up problems with the meat such as gamy lamb or chicken that wasn't fresh.

Randy says: The lentils were okay but I liked to mix in some mint chutney to give them additional flavor. By default the naan bread is buttered with a brush, but I always asked for it dry.

Jeff says: At first I didn't like Randy's idea of mixing chutney into the lentils, but the mixture really was quite tasty. The naan was supposedly buttered by default, but to me it looked (and tasted) like it had a coat of oil on it. The lamb kati kabob consisted of ground lamb cooked on a skewer and then removed, and it was usually pretty good. The cottage fries, with their lemon and pepper seasoning were yummy and addictive, but quite greasy and unhealthy. They made me wildly thirsty for hours afterwards.

Randy says: The iced tea, from a mix, was God-awful. When we went to KC's I would get iced tea from a neighboring concession in the food court. The dosa was a bit greasy and had too much potato.

Jeff says: The menu says the iced tea is freshly brewed, but whatever it was it was undrinkable. The dosa was packed with potato and a bit too spicy for my taste.

KC's Tandoor is in the Sorrento Towers Food Court. We really enjoyed having good Indian food at the convenient food court. But over time the quality declined greatly, and we were served rotten chicken too many times to consider going back.