Spice Affair Beverly Hills Indian Restaurant

Even by Beverly Hills standards, Spice Affair is fancy. Its expansive La Cienega dining room has multiple water features, conversation-starting chandeliers swinging from the ceiling, and big circular booths for family dinners or intimidating work lunches with your company’s board of directors. It’s all a bit over-the-top—and expensive—but the food is good, and we’ll cross town for their lamb biryani. The basmati rice has been slow cooked so perfectly with the boneless chunks of lamb that there’s almost a creaminess to the dish that makes it one of the most memorable versions in town. Sure, it’s $32 (welcome to La Cienega), but it’s important to note that it easily feeds two grown adults.