Mantra Indian Restaurant - Schiller Park

The popular and well known Indian Restaurant Indian Gardens opened up an outpost in Schiller Park. It is called Mantra and it is so opulent..

http://www.mantrachicago.com/menu.htm

First of all let me say this has got to be the most Opulent and luxurious restaurant I have ever been in. No expense has been spared on the details of this restaurant. They have a patio if you wish to dine outside.

The hostess and staff were very nice.

The menu is long and has quite an extensive list of different dishes with explanations. I have heard that the breads of India are phenomenal and noticed they have an item on the menu.. which is a basket of different types of breads for $12. I got that and I had so many different types of bread. Most of them were naan breads but with different fillings. Very good. The garlic naan was so good.

I went during lunch time on the 2nd day of business. There were a few people. I ordered as my entrée the butter chicken which is probably my favorite indian dish... so far. I have not tried a lot of the things on most indian food menus but this is one I am familiar with. It was very very good. The chicken pieces were chunky. The sauce was not too hot nor spicy.

Over all my experience has been a positive one. This is just a short ride from OHare Airport and the Rosemont Commercial district.

The address is 9438 Irving Park Road in Schiller Park, just west of River Road and East of Mannheim.

If you are not that familiar with Indian food and would like to try a few items at a time.. this place is great.

But I have to tell you.. It is very swanky.
The prices were reasonable though.

I live two blocks from this restaurant and I'll tell you, we eagerly awaited it's opening.

My family met with our friend's family for an early weeknight dinner the week they opened.

I'm sorry I can't tell you all of what we had, because they just kept bringing us food! I know we had more than one variety of naan, tandoori chicken, butter chicken, various lamb dishes, more than one kind of rice, mango smoothies for the kids and an assortment of Indian beers.

The staff was warm and welcoming. They brought us a variety of smoothies in little shot glasses to try, some were good and some were very odd!

It was not cheap, but it was worth it.

Everyone, please take a ride to Schiller Park and try this place, I'm sure you'll come back again!

So this has become the areas popular Indian restaurant. Even my Indian acquaintances love this place.

I was looking at some of the Yelp reviews, and one person who travels a lot said this may be the best in the world.

I don't know about that.. since I have not been around the world.. but I think it is great.

One thing that is really good here is the jalapeno margarita.