{"id":104246,"date":"2016-07-08T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/taste-of-india-restaurant-opens-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2016-07-08T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T23:47:15","slug":"taste-of-india-restaurant-opens-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/taste-of-india-restaurant-opens-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of India restaurant opens in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=639cd14a-489e-447a-bdb5-8c10a029d1a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=639cd14a-489e-447a-bdb5-8c10a029d1a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=639cd14a-489e-447a-bdb5-8c10a029d1a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=639cd14a-489e-447a-bdb5-8c10a029d1a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1117\" alt=\"Naresh Kumar, Raju Singh, Paula Huskay and Gurcharan Singh have opened A Taste of India in Cortez.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Naresh Kumar, Raju Singh, Paula Huskay and Gurcharan Singh have opened A Taste of India in Cortez.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Co-owner and Chef Raju Singh came from Utah to open the restaurant, which he said is the only Indian restaurant within two hours in any direction.<\/p>\n<p>Singh is a 20-year veteran of the restaurant industry. He started a similar restaurant in Minnesota, also called Taste of India, in 2000. He said he liked the location of the restaurant along Main Street and it was good for his family to be located in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my main target \u2013 to give people good food and make us number one in Cortez,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>The menu includes Indian specialty dishes such as curry and masala made with chicken, lamb and seafood, as well as several vegetarian options. It also includes specialty beverages such as chai, as well as naan, a type of Indian bread cooked in a clay oven.<\/p>\n<p>Taste of India is open seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The restaurant can be reached at 970-564-9897.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumar, Raju Singh, Paula Huskay and Gurcharan Singh have opened A Taste of India in Cortez.Sam Green\/The Journal Co-owner and Chef Raju Singh came from Utah to open the restaurant, which he said is the only Indian restaurant within two hours in any direction. Singh is a 20-year veteran of the restaurant industry. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[431,21,450],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-104246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-business-general","tag-cortez","tag-restaurant-and-catering"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104246"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=104246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}