Udupi Palace is a South Indian vegetarian restaurant best known for its dosas - thin rice crepes stuffed with various fillings - and its uthappams - rice and lentil pancakes topped with your choice of ingredients. Udupi Palace is open seven days a week and offers a lunch buffet that includes curries, dosa, fruit, salad and desserts.
While excellent Indian restaurants seem to be on every other Berkeley street corner, Himalayan Flavors provides some diversity for local food lovers by combining the cuisines of India and Nepal, which tends to work on the same flavor palette, but is a little mellower. This restaurant has a limited delivery area, a private room available for guests and catering services available, but coming in to the restaurant has its privileges: The restaurant occasionally plays host to live entertainment and to Bollywood dance lessons. Check its website for more information as well as to learn more about its associations with Karma Clinic and Karma Kitchen.