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825 W Royal Lane #120 Irving, TX 75039 972-707-7277 Website Service: ✮✮✮✮✮ Food: ✮✮✮✮✮ Cleanliness: ✮ ✮✮ ✮ ✮ Just went to Tikka Taco for the first time and really enjoyed the amazing flavors of the food. I ordered the Lamb Kheema bowl with the Tikka Taka Tak sauce.  The bowl was layered with rice, a minced lamb cooked with garlic, ginger and Indian spices, and topped with shredded lettuce and onions. It had just the right amount of heat to it to awaken my taste buds while still allowing the flavors of the minced lamb with garlic and Indian spices to come out.  The serving size was right on the mark as well.   The Biryani rice is really worth trying if you have not tried it before.  The rice is flavored with spices and it really accompanies the dish well.  White or brown rice is available if you prefer.   The service here was great.  While you order at the counter when you walk in, they brought our meal to us and the wait time was minimal.  I visited with the owner briefly and learned a

10560 Metropolitan Ave. Kensington, MD 20895 240-483-7285 Website Service: ✮✮✮ Food: ✮✮✮ ✮ Cleanliness: ✮ ✮✮ ✮ Talia's Cucina is a Mediterranean kitchen made fresh and with great flavor profiles.  The dine-in portion of the restaurant is small but the flavors coming out of the open space kitchen are huge and the result of true passion for the cooking.  We started with the kalamata olive hummus.  The hummus is for sale in a refrigerator inside the restaurant and they literally take the container from the fridge and serve it with some warm pita.  The nice thing about this is that you can easily take your leftover hummus with you just by putting the lid back on.  The hummus was very good and was not overpowered by the olives.   I had the 7-hour Lamb Wrap which had a roasted leg of lamb that has been marinated in Greek spices served on a pita with lettuce, feta tomato.  The lamb was very flavorful, but it was heated back up in a skillet which I felt dried out some of the lamb and made