Bibi Ji - Santa Barbara

Noise is defeaning: very difficult to have a conversation with your dinner companions. Food is good but the portions are quite small . Wine list is bizarre, filled with highly obscure and inexpensive wines but at high prices. Will not return.

Cauliflower, potato-pea fritters lamb chops were delicious. Our other dishes were pretty good, but unfortunately overly salty. The kitchen would do well to significantly decrease the salt content.

In my opinion you get a better value if your come for lunch rather than dinner. Not only you get less food and less attention from your server at dinner time on a Friday night, but because there are more people it is so noisy it is hard to have a conversation with your companion. On the other hand, the past 3 or 4 times we came for lunch (with our 3 and 6 year olds) we had full attention from the server, food was plenty (for example, an entry included rice as opposed to the same food at dinner time) and it was quiet, few customers at that time.

Overall seasoning and spices were excellent. Very elavated Indian Cuisine. However, the lamb chops were overcooked and the Panak Paneer portion was extremely small. Borh at 33 and 25 dollars. So I thought value was very low.

Outstanding Indian cuisine. The creamiest, richest dal makhni I've ever had. The coconut curry with shrimp again, the best I've ever tasted. Very attentive and friendly service. So good!