The restaurant within the Leander Quick Mart serves up some really fantastic Nepalese, Indian, and Indo-Chinese fare. There are all sorts of momos (chili to deep-fried), as well as samosas, tandoori wings, hakka noodles, curries, and biryanis. Takeout orders can be placed online.

The Round Rock restaurant is all about southern and northern Indian food, from all sorts of goat and mutton entrees to onion pakoras to spicy fried fish to paneer entrees. Takeout orders can be placed online.

One of Austin’s best Indian vegetarian restaurants relocated from North Lamar to Round Rock, where it still serves its essential thali specials, which are basically platters and the best way to try a little bit of everything. The restaurant is also home to some of the best dosas in the Austin area. Takeout orders can be placed online.

The food truck at the Anderson Mill Food Park is chock-full of fun and delectable Indian street snacks, from pani puri (crispy hallowed balls filled with chutney, spices, potatoes, and chickpeas) to samosa chaat (chunks of samosas topped with chickpeas and chutneys) to bhel puri (puffed rice mixed with vegetables and tamarind sauce) to vada pavs )deep-fried potato sandwiches). Takeout orders can be placed online.

While the Milwood restaurant offers dishes from the entire country of India, its specialties lean more southern Indian, especially Chettinad cuisine from the Tamil Nadu state. This means Takeout orders can be placed online. The breakfast menu includes egg dosas, idiyappam (rice noodles) paired with coconut milk, and potato masalas. Lunch and dinner are more expansive with various entrees such as mutton chops, tangy fish curries, boiled egg masalas, idlis (essentially rice cakes), dosas, and halwas (a pudding-ish dessert). For drinks, there are rose milks and filtered coffee, plus booze.

One of the city’s finest Nepalese restaurant is up in Barrington Oaks. The namesake thali offers up a greatest hits of Nepalese from rice to dal to main options like vegetables or goat. The soupy jhol momos are also a great pick. Takeout orders can be placed online.

In far north Austin, Bombay Express serves up daily specials with both northern — aloo (potato) parathas, puri bhaji puris paired with potatoes — and southern regional fare, plus many dosas. Opt for the thalis, where diners can order two curries with rice, dal, snacks, and salad. Takeout orders can be placed online.

Originally Mirchi, the revamped restaurant near Scofield Farms remains steadfast about its Indian and Pakistani menu. There’s chicken karahi (chicken cooked with a tomato-butter sauce), beef nihari (beef slow-stewed with spices and peppers), and nutty-creamy kormas. Takeout orders can be placed online.

Another fantastic pan-Indian restaurant, the Tech Ridge Center spot serves up something for everyone. There are numerous meaty entrees thoughtfully sorted by boneless (lamb, chicken) or bone-in (the really great goat), curd rice (yogurt rice), the Apollo fish (a deep-fried spicy fish), and more. Takeout orders can be placed online.

The Hyderabadi-style rice dish is the star of the South Indian Arboretum restaurant, where the biryanis are filled with eggs, paneer, chicken, goat, shrimp, and more. Plus there are plentiful naans and tandoori. Takeout orders can be placed online.

More Indian and Nepalese specialties — plus some Indo-Chinese takes — can be found over at the Northwest Hills restaurant. Check out the Saffron scallops, tandoori lamb chops, and chow mein. There’s a second location near West Lake Hills. Takeout orders can be placed online.

On South First, Bombay Dhaba dishes up remarkable Indian food out of the trailer. The jalapeno cheese roti is great, as is the array of rice-accompanying entrees from the paneer tikka masala to the spinach lamb.

The sampler dinners (vegetarian and meat) are the best ways to try the best of what the pan-Indian South Lamar restaurant has to offer, including samosas, rice, and more. Takeout and delivery orders can be placed online.

The Southpark Meadows Indian restaurant, named after the capital of the state of Rajasthan, serves a variety of regional dishes, from papri chaat to parathas and stuffed kulcha bread to biryanis to a sweet and savory mango chicken dish. Takeout orders can be placed online.