A taste of India in downtown Redmond, Haveli now offers a purely vegetarian menu, featuring favorites like naan and samosas. There's a daily lunch special for less than $8, from 11am to 3pm. An additional discount is available for Microsoft employees.
Pallino Pastaria is an Italian restaurant offering multiple courses including antipasti, insalate, soup, pizza, pasta and dessert. The courses come quickly, as opposed to the more traditional, sit-down, family-style restaurants. Their unique service method includes a walk-up ordering counter upon entering. After choosing an entree, guest can order a beverage ranging from Italian sodas to Pellegrino water to beer or wine. Guests then gather your utensils and carry their meal platter to any table they'd like and wait a short period of time before their entree is presented to them.
The specialties of Pallino's include: Spaghetti pomodoro, Anna's sauce with penne, Fettuccine Alfredo and Forest mushroom with penne.
Since 1990, the restaurant Rikki Rikki has been serving Japanese food, handcrafted sushi and fresh sashimi. The restaurant is in Kirkland, although this Redmond address is the location of the company headquarters. Rikki USA is a family-owned business run by owner Masahiro "Masa" Terada, who envisioned bringing Japanese food to the masses. Today, this award-winning restaurant truly brings good food to the people, offering dishes such as potstickers, prawns and vegetable tempura, ginger-crusted salmon and elegant bento boxes. It serves dinner and lunch and has sushi and happy hour menus. Rikki USA also offers catering and events on location or in its elegant restaurant. It also sells gift cards and you can conveniently order online (with delivery) or place reservations.
Kitanda is a Brazilian espresso and bakery shop offering pastries, cappucino, espresso and tea blends from Brazil. Its unique pastries include Kibe, Pastel, Risole, Coxinha, Americano and Cheese bread. The shop has 12 tables and a leather sofa with the ability to seat about 40 people.
This Thai restaurant offers a menu featuring popular Thai dishes as well as fried rice, noodles and soups. It also has a full bar with an elegant interior dining experience provided by its cherry wood tables and lighting. Typhoon seats about 80 people in its dining area.
Ming's Garden offers fresh Chinese food in the Redmond Ridge shopping center. It offers a wide variety of dishes, beef, pork, poultry, seafood and vegetarian. It also has a kids' menu with pizza, cheeseburgers and french fries, and a selection of beer, wine and sake for the grownups. Between 11am and 3pm, Ming's Garden offers 38 different lunch special dishes.