{"id":1309,"date":"2017-05-21T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/uncategorized\/shiva\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:32:48","slug":"shiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/shiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src=\/shivasmall.jpg><\/p>\n<p><\/center>We&#8217;ve been coming to Shiva for years now, and I&#8217;ve always been very satisfied with their quality food, good service and reasonable prices.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe small restaurant on Reguliersdwarsstraat is warm, inviting and cozy.  Large and colorful painted scenes from India adorn the walls, and delightful Indian ragas surround you with the sounds of sitar and tabla, setting the scene for your meal.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn our last visit we ordered the Onion Bahji appetizer, delicious little fritters with herbs and spices, and another appetizer of Chicken Pakora, battered &#038; fried chicken pieces served with a tasty tomato\/onion chutney.<\/p>\n<p>\nOur main courses of salmon curry (the fresh fish of the day) was good, but a special order of Prawns Bhuna was even better.  I always love bhuna, as it&#8217;s more spicy than most curries, and sometimes I can almost hallucinate from some spice in bhuna (nutmeg perhaps?).<\/p>\n<p>\nThe food was accompanied by a lovely Cote Du Rhone (16 euros), and an order of paratha (fresh bread, like a nan).  The entire bill including wine came to 56 euros, not bad for a wonderful filling Indian feast for two.<\/p>\n<p>Info:<br \/>\nOpen every day.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nReguliersdwarsstraat 72<br \/>\nAmsterdam 1017 BN<br \/>\nPhone: 020-624-8713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been coming to Shiva for years now, and I&#8217;ve always been very satisfied with their quality food, good service and reasonable prices. The small restaurant on Reguliersdwarsstraat is warm, inviting and cozy. Large and colorful painted scenes from India &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/shiva\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}