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Tipu's Tiger
115 1/2 S. Fourth W.
Missoula, MT
TipusTiger.com
PETA supporter Allison Kahn:
Your mouth will start to water as soon as you walk past this restaurant.
It offers some of the BEST Indian food that I have ever tasted! The menu
is vegetarian with a number of vegan options. So far, the authentic Indian
chai tea is a must-try (they offer a version with soy milk that is amazing!!).
In a state where veggie-friendly dining is scarce, Tipu’s is a hit!
The decor is funky, clean, and casual. The staff is quite friendly and always
willing to help with dietary restrictions and educate their patrons about
Indian cuisine. I love this place!!!
Philosophy
Tipu’s Tiger opened the first Indian restaurant in Montana in May
1997 to an enthusiastic welcome from Missoula. Two years later and desperately
in need of more space, our second location, Tipu’s , was opened. Over
the past five years, we have worked hard to provide the Missoula community
and its guests with high-quality, handcrafted food and friendly and efficient
service in many ways. Missoula has found us at our restaurants, making chai
for other coffee shops around town, offering lunches at the UC market on
campus, catering weddings and other events, at Out to Lunch in Caras Park,
and at other events and festivals.
Some of you know that we started as a small group of Buddhists who wanted
to try to run a business that reflected our ideals and ethics. This is the
reason we are vegetarian, use locally grown organic ingredients when available,
and recycle whatever we can. Those of us who are Buddhists live simply and
communally and strive to make our work reflect our practice of developing
awareness and compassion. We work as much as possible under a team-based
concept, which we feel allows creativity and individual responsibility to
flourish. Our full-time salaried staff is provided with health benefits,
is paid based on their needs, and is allowed paid leave to attend retreats
and renew themselves. We believe that this reflects a commitment to create
a sustainable lifestyle that supports personal and spiritual growth.
Externally, we feel that our mission is to offer really tasty and healthy
handcrafted vegetarian food. We want to help educate people about the many
wonderful flavors and health benefits of vegetarian cuisine. We aim to keep
the prices low and quality high. We try to create spaces that are beautiful
and relaxing for our customers to enjoy while they eat. We strive to make
all our encounters with the public and each other as friendly and helpful
as we can. We trust that all these things enrich the quality of our lives
and enhance the life of the community as a whole.
The practical working out of our Buddhist ideals internally takes many forms.
Though only about half of us who work here are committed to the Buddhist
path, all take on the practice of working together in as friendly and harmonious
a manner possible. The Buddhists among us are trying to use the environment
of working and living together to support our attempts to develop awareness,
openness, kindness, and "positivity." We work on developing tranquility
in the midst of the chaos of restaurant work, communication that is truthful,
kindly, meaningful, and harmonious, and friendships that grow in depth and
warmth. Our long-term goals include using any profits we make to benefit
the community and the world. May all beings be well and happy!
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