Butter chicken is a tomato and butter sauce around chicken, the dish also called chicken makhani. Reference notes credit Kundan Lal Gujral and Kundan Lal Jaggi with the Delhi original (Butter chicken). At Namaste Nola it is one of the plates people order when they want familiar spice rather than a lecture.
The sauce is rich. A drink that is also heavy makes the whole meal feel like one note. A lighter cocktail, salted lime soda, or chai cuts it.
At the bar
The drinks list sits next to the food menu for a reason. A chai martini keeps the spice in the glass. A brighter cocktail does the same job if you want acid instead of tea. If you are not drinking alcohol, ask for chai or a salted yogurt drink and keep the water glass full. Spice feels hotter when you are thirsty.
Twain wrote that a New Orleans host will offer one more round "for lagniappe" (Life on the Mississippi). Take the line as hospitality, not as a rule. One well-chosen drink is enough with this plate.
Order the food first
Look at the menu and decide whether butter chicken is the main or the mild dish next to a biryani. Then reserve if you want the table at a set time. Dinner runs until 10:00 PM. Lunch stops at 2:45 PM, which is early if you were planning a long bar lunch.
The address is 201 Baronne Street, Suite B.