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32 | November 8, 2018 | The glenview lantern dining out
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Bombay Bowl provides quick, healthy meal options
Megan Bernard
Contributing Editor
Fast, fresh and healthy
— those are three words
Ravi Rawat used to describe
his Northbrook
restaurant Bombay Bowl.
The establishment at
3111 Dundee Road opened
in late July and aims to
provide fast, yet healthy,
Chinese food with quality
ingredients at an
affordable price.
Since its opening, the
restaurant’s concept and
business has been going
“excellent,” said Rawat,
who has more than 25
years of experience in the
industry.
Rawat, alongside his
head chef Raghu Singh,
chose the Northbrook location
because of its proximity
to corporate businesses
in the area, he said.
“Because of the corporate
business presence in
this neighborhood, there
was a great opportunity
for [a restaurant],” Rawat
said. “We get a big lunchtime
rush from Underwriter’s
Laboratory, Walgreens
and Discover. …
In the evening, we get a
lot of business from all the
activities happening in our
shopping center, too.”
During the lunch hours
from noon to 3 p.m., there
is an “express lunch buffet,”
Rawat said, where
customers pay for a bowl
($8.80) and then choose
the ingredients to include.
“The process takes less
than two minutes,” he said.
“Once you get it, you can
be in and out in 10 minutes;
so it’s a nice, quick
lunchtime break.”
The strip mall location
itself is modern, providing
plenty of tables and booths,
along with a mounted TV
on the wall and self-serve
fountain drinks.
For dinner, Bombay
The chicken Thai red curry dish ($8.99) showcases
chicken cooked in Thai-style red curry and coconut
milk and flavored with Thai spices and herbs.
Chicken, rice and spices cook together in a Szechuan
sauce in Bombay Bowl’s chicken sczewan fried rice
($7.99).
Bowl offers made-to-order
options, including meat,
vegan, vegetarian and
gluten-free options.
Rawat prides himself
on the variety of those
options, plus sourcing
his food locally, like the
antibiotic-free chicken he
purchases from Harrison’s
Poultry Farm in Glenview.
If knowing exactly what
goes into each dish wasn’t
already enough, once a
customer places their order,
the chefs cook the
food fresh right behind the
counter, as well.
22nd Century Media
editors got a glimpse of
the fired up woks when
we visited Bombay Bowl
last week. Since the lunch
buffet was wrapping up,
we tried several of the
Bombay Bowl
3111 Dundee Road,
Northbrook
(224) 282-8990
www.bombaybowl
bistro.com
Noon-8 p.m. Sunday
11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.
Monday-Thursday
11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
Friday
Noon-9:30 p.m.
Saturday
made-to-order dishes the
Northbrook eatery offers.
Described on the menu
as a “popular Indo-Chinese
dish,” we started with
the chili chicken ($8.99).
The breaded ginger chicken
was tossed with sauteed
green peppers and onions
Bombay Bowl’s chili chicken ($8.99) blends ginger, garlic, lemon juice and chili powder
for a sweet-and-spicy dish. Photos by Jason Addy/22nd Century Media
The bistro’s vegetable hakka noodles dish ($7.99) features thin boiled noodles, carrots,
peppers and onions mixed with traditional Chinese sauces.
and packed some heat with
chili powder, garlic and
lemon juice.
The chicken dish paired
well with the vegetable
hakka noodles ($7.99),
which was easily one of
our favorites. The thin
boiled noodles were stir
fried with veggies and
topped with a subtle, but
sweet, sauce.
Next, we had the chicken
Thai red curry ($8.99).
The white meat was less
spicy than the chili chicken
and was cooked in
Thai-style red curry and
coconut milk then topped
with spices and herbs.
We ended our meal with
a side of vegetable sczewan
fried rice ($7.99). It
had stir fried vegetables
mixed with cooked rice
and was tossed in the wok
with vegetable oil, pepper
and Szechuan sauce.
The rice was different
from the typical takeout
side most are accustomed
to since it had more of
nice citrus flavor.
To top off a meal,
Bombay Bowl offers ice
cream and chocolate roll
desserts, and of course,
you can’t leave without
a fortune cookie.