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Godavari, Fall 2026 (Eden Prairie, MN)

A number of my readers have written in over the past few years to ask if I’m ever going to update my Twin Cities South Asian Restaurant Rankings, the first version of which I’d posted in 2020, followed by updates in 2021 and 2022. The answer, unfortunately, is that I’m not likely to do anytime soon. The reason for that is not a lowered opinion of the Twin Cities South Asian restaurant scene in the intervening years. I’d begun the rankings precisely because that scene had improved so much in the years leading into the pandemic, with the opening of more and more restaurants aimed at Indian diners in the suburbs; and I have no reason to believe that quality has dipped since 2022. It’s just that since 2022 I have begun to go back to Delhi (and elsewhere in India) several times a year—and will be doing so for the foreseeable future. Between all the eating out while I’m there and the mostly Indian cooking I do when I’m home, going out to eat at Indian restaurants more than occasionally in Minnesota is not really a priority. But I have been eating at Godavari—the restaurant that was atop my rankings in 2020, 2021 and 2022—once every year, as I have an annual appointment down the road from them in Eden Prairie. Last year I was there on a Friday and ate from their rather large weekend lunch buffet. This year I was there mid-week. There is no buffet offered Monday through Thursday but you can on those days get their lunch thali. I was very happy to do so—here’s a quick look at it.