Ghee Indian Kitchen

About Ghee Indian Kitchen

Ghee Indian Kitchen is chef Niven Patel's modern Indian restaurant in Downtown Dadeland, the original room that made his name and now the flagship of a group that has grown to Wynwood and Atlanta. Patel grows roughly a fifth of the produce and herbs he cooks with on his own farm, Rancho Patel, in Homestead, and that farm-to-plate habit is the whole point of the place. The kitchen has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand every year from 2022 to 2025, the guide's nod to serious cooking at a fair price.

It sits among the city's best mid-priced tables. Compare the wood-fired Italian at Boia De, the vegetable cooking at Le Jardinier and the Mediterranean room Ariete, or browse the wider Indian picks.

The Kitchen

Patel cooks across the Indian map — Gujarati at its core, with Punjabi, south Indian and Maharashtrian dishes — built on his own farm produce. The signatures are the things everyone orders again: a pull-apart cheddar naan, a slow, smoky lamb neck and a green millet dish that shows off the kitchen's vegetable-first instincts. There is a good-value three-course tasting alongside the a la carte for diners who want the full sweep.

It is genuine value, which is the Bib Gourmand point: the tasting runs around $55 and most diners land roughly between $40 and 70 a head. You are eating farm produce cooked with real skill for far less than the fine-dining norm.

The Room

The room is warm and casual — an easy, buzzy Dadeland space rather than a hushed dining room, with brisk, friendly service moving sharing plates around the table. It is lively rather than refined, built for a relaxed evening with friends and a spread of dishes to pass around. The appeal is the food and the energy, not white-tablecloth formality.