— MODERN INDIAN RESTAURANT

One menu. Cooked once. Served at the table.

Name: House of Saffron
Address: 2104 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206
Telephone: (214) 555-0177

Twelve courses, family-style, Tuesday through Sunday. Two seatings. Open kitchen, brick wall, twenty-eight seats.

Reserve a table or call (214) 555-0177

— ON THE HOUSE

The night we stopped cooking for tickets.

Twelve years in, the kitchen voted to drop the prix-fixe. We cook one menu a night, served family-style, finished at the table. Here's why.

It started with a hot stove in McKinney and a dish nobody ordered. The butter chicken, three weeks in, had become the reason people drove out from Plano. Everything else on the menu sat. So we cut it.

By month four we were down to twelve dishes. By year two, six. The waste line on the inventory sheet hit zero. The line cooks stopped sweating Saturday. Reservations doubled.

This year we did the same thing again. One menu. Cooked once. Served the way our grandmothers served it. You sit, we bring it, you eat until you can't.

One menu. Cooked once. Served at the table.

The night we stopped cooking for tickets.

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