India Sweets & Spices

Overall, very friendly service and very good confort food. Just what I was looking for. I will definitely come back every time I visit Fresno.
This place is an Indian market/​grocery store with a little window in the back where you can order hot food. I was greeted with a friendly smile by the man behind the market register, who kindly gestured to the back after correctly assuming I was not there to buy groceries.
My order came fairly fast and the food was very good! I got the butter chicken with channa samosas. The butter chicken was really flavorful and rich, and the portion was enormous. I’m 6’4″, 225lbs and that entrée and the samosas carried me through lunch and dinner. I was particularly impressed with the samosas. The order came with two crispy nuggests of love sitting atop warm and rich garbanzo beans in a light and sweet sauce. This made the samosas a little soggy on the bottom, but hey, I ordrer samosas in sauce, so who am I to complain? The soggy bottoms were actually a nice contrast with the crispy tops and I gladly tore those things up in no time.

India Sweets and Spices is apparently a chain. I stumbled across this second location today when I was going to an appointment.
This mostly vegetarian Indian fast food place is slightly different from the other one (Ashlan & Marks). The dosa was a little more expensive (but still cheap) but also bigger and better tasting. The soup that came with it wasn’t like the usual sambar that comes with dosa. This was a thicker, more curry dal soup. It was really good. I’m disappointed by the coconut chutney at both places, but otherwise the dosa is good. I still need to try their sweets, though. I haven’t had any in Fresno.
I was also very, very pleased to find in the grocery part of the restaurant this snack that I had in India and wasn’t sure if it was imported here. It’s called Kurkure, and it’s like spicy-​curry cheetos. They’re awesome.
So this location is good, though slightly more expensive, but closer ot my house. It also looks like there’s a location at Herndon & Cedar that I haven’t seen when driving by. I’ll have to investigate.