Indian Dining

 Your views may vary but here's my take:

Never order a curry with the name aloo in it.  This curry will have potatoes.  You eat curry with naan or rice, why would you want to eat potatoes with rice or bread? If you want a potato dish, aloo gobi or bhaji are better and yes, I know that bhaji is normally eaten with puris, but this is the exception which makes the rule.

Never order anything with paneer in it.  If you have a hankering for cheese, go to a Middle Eastern, European or Mexican restaurant.

I don't recommend ordering anything with saag in it, unless you like creamed spinach, because that's what this dish is.

Favorites:

malai kofta--a vegetarian curry, almost always great at restaurants but usually bad as a frozen entre from an Indian market.

Tandoori anything

Naan

Rice

Any curry, except the ones pointed to above.

Chole--this chickpea stew is always at least okay but can be sublime if done well.

Biryani--really great if you like rice casseroles. 

Fish pakoras if they have a decent fish, or if you like catfish or tilapia, which is what is usually offered.