Sagar Indian Restaurant is an Indian restaurant on Mokoia Road in Birkenhead, Auckland. Indian food covers a huge amount of regional ground, from rich, creamy North Indian curries to lighter, more chilli-forward South Indian dishes, so a good restaurant usually signals its style through a handful of specific regional dishes rather than a menu that tries to cover everything at once. A simple dish like dal or a butter chicken is often the best test of a kitchen, since there's nowhere to hide behind fancy ingredients when the dish comes down to how well the spices have been balanced and cooked through. Asking for a spice level to be adjusted is normal practice rather than an imposition, since heat and flavour are two different things and a good kitchen can turn either up or down without losing the dish. On Mokoia Road in Birkenhead, Sagar sits in that local corner of the trade.