Indian Food and Cooking

Delectable Masala Dosas From a Cart at Washington Square

Eat with your fingers for maximum enjoyment! Carnivores: Vegetarian and even vegan food won't bite you! And it's often just as good or even better than meat-bearing fare. A case in point is the masala dosa available from the vendor called NY Dosas, usually parked at lunchtime near the intersection ... More >>

Heaven for Eggheads at Chennai Flavors

Your dinner gets laid in Jersey City

All Hail the Punjabi Hero at Tastee Curritos!

The chicken achari sub at Tastee Curritos. Don't you just love fusion? You fall asleep for a moment, and it leaps up and bites you on the ass. Such was the case with the chicken achari hero at MacDougal Street newcomer Tastee Curritos.

It's Bollywood for Your Tongue at Chote Nawab

Curry Hill gets a great Indian newcomer

A New Spot for Breakfast Dosas in Tribeca

Dish #26 is a cheese-laden breakfast dosa Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Tabata Ramen Gets New Noodle Broth | 3 Pastries from Du Jour ... More >>

Deccan Spice: They Got Your Goat

Eggs, too, in Jersey City's version of Hyderabad

Introducing the Pizza Dosa: Should It Be Banned?

Bam! The pizza dosa at Jersey City newcomer Chennai Flavors The dosa in its many variant forms is one of the world's greatest culinary inventions: a crepe made from a naturally fermented batter of ground rice and lentils, usually wrapped around a filling of potatoes, nuts, and chiles. For those wh ... More >>

What To Look for in the Farmers' Markets This Weekend

Thick meaty rhubarb is available in abundance. Several products have recently debuted for the season in the Union Square Greenmarket, and will be generally available this weekend and in the coming week. Bright red and much thicker than the specimens seen last week, rhubarb is a welcome harbinger o ... More >>

Benares: Howdy, Squishy Goat Foot!

Plus spuds and spices at a new upscale Indian spot

Taste of India and Thali (Food) Court Jersey City

There's hope for your tongue at Newport Centre Mall

Thali and Taste of India in Jersey City's Newport Centre Mall: 5 Delicious Dishes

The lush interior of the Mysore Masala Dosa at Thali This week Counter Culture bumbles into the Newport Centre Mall to find a vast food court on the third floor, like some undiscovered Incan ruin. Two counters in particular sell Indian fare far above average in quality. One, Thali, specializes in ... More >>

Our 10 Best Upper East Side Restaurants

When you think of hot neighborhoods for dining, the Upper East Side probably isn't the first to come to mind. In fact, it's probably toward the bottom of your mental list. But a crop of new eateries over the past couple of years has resulted in some new -- not to mention exciting -- culinary blood. ... More >>

The Indian Clove Plays Its Drums of Heaven

South Asian fare from many regions wows Staten Island

Indian Creperie Now Selling Dosas, Uttapams, and Other Carbolicious South Indian Snacks

Lauren ShockeyVada, a/k/a fried rice doughnuts with curry leaves and chiles, at Indian Creperie​Inexpensive Indian eats are relatively plentiful at the intersection of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets, with the Kati Roll Company, Thelewala, and Masala Times offering rolls, chaats, and curries. ... More >>

Battle of the Paneer Kati Rolls: Kati Roll Co. v. Thelewala

Rebecca MarxKati rolls: so very, very beige.​ Over the past few years, the kati roll has gained quite a bit of traction in Manhattan. A street food that originated in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, the roll has evolved over the years from a paratha wrapped around a k ... More >>

Sami Dosa Cart's Mysore Masala Dosa

Rebecca Marx​ The dish pictured above is one of very few good reasons we can think of to go outside in February.

Sapid Indian Food Delivers Subcontinental Standards to Prospect Heights

Let pakoras chase away the post-holiday blues.​As Floyd Cardoz of the now-defunct Tabla told us last week, Indian food in New York City is changing. But for a neighborhood like Prospect Heights, which doesn't have much in the way of fare from the subcontinent, a good old-fashioned curry joint ... More >>

Floyd Cardoz Discusses Tabla's Closing and Why He'll Be in Times Square on New Year's Eve

Mychal Watts/Wireimage.comFloyd Cardoz Prepares for the Last Supper​ After being in business for 12 years, Tabla, Danny Meyer's upscale Indian restaurant, will serve its final meal this evening. We called executive chef and partner Floyd Cardoz to get the last word on the landmark restaurant ... More >>

Jackson Diner: Next Stop Greenwich Village

​The so-called kachori chat at the new Jackson Diner -- no kachori in sight, but good nonetheless. Long ago and far away (well, Jackson Heights, Queens), there was once a tiny café called Jackson Diner. The proprietors had taken over a Greek diner near the corner of 74th Street and 35th Aven ... More >>

Sohna Punjab Shares the Fare of Five Rivers

A Floral Park restaurant refines an Indian cuisine

Tabla Will Close on Dec. 30

Photo courtesy of Tabla.​Well, this is sad but not entirely surprising: Tabla is closing.

Famous Dal Cart vs. Desi Food Truck: Chicken Tikka Masala Smackdown

Famous Dal Cart's CTM​Oh, chicken tikka masala: most Anglo of curries, disdained by seekers of the authentic, world-wide starter Indian dish. No one can agree on exactly where CTM--as it is nicknamed--was invented. The preparation of grilled chicken chunks in a spiced tomato gravy may be desce ... More >>

Curry Kitchen, New on 8th Street

If you should happen to get denied at the door of Rabbit in the Moon, the new bizarre "gastropub" with a bouncer, you could go right across the street to check out a new Indian restaurant called Curry Kitchen, which has been open for three weeks.

Hemant Mathur on his Working Relationship With Suvir Saran, Plans for Tulsi, and Good NYC Indian

​Yesterday, in the first half of this interview with Hemant Mathur, the chef talked about how he feels to be leaving Devi, where he is co-chef-and-owner with Suvir Saran. Today, we get details on Tulsi, the new restaurant he is opening with his wife, pastry chef Surbhi Sahni; talk about how h ... More >>

Hemant Mathur on Leaving Devi, the Art of the Tandoor, and Rajasthani Food

​Chef Hemant Mathur announced last week that he's leaving Devi, where he has been co-executive chef for all of the six years the restaurant has been open, and co-owner since 2007. Mathur and his wife, Devi pastry chef Surbhi Sahni, are heading up to Midtown, where they will launch Tulsi in Sep ... More >>

Curry Point: Solid Pakistani Food in Sunnyside

Keema naan​A thread on Chowhound suggested that a newish Pakistani restaurant called Curry Point might be better than your average chicken-tikka-masala-slinger. At lunch today, a handful of fellow eaters were checking out the menu, which offers the usual Northern Indian stuff like saag paneer, ... More >>

Tamarind Tribeca Upscales the Tandoor

Tabla and Devi get a little company

Tabla's Floyd Cardoz on Misconceptions About Indian Food, and the State of Indian Restaurants in America

​Earlier today, we brought you an interview with Tabla's executive chef Floyd Cardoz on Goan food and the trials of starting out as a young chef in Bombay. Here, in the second part of the interview, Cardoz talks about why there aren't more fine-dining Indian restaurants, misconceptions about ... More >>

At Bhojan, Indian Spring

A new Curry Hill restaurant hits the veggie sweet spot

Revisit: Bacon Naan and Other Delights at Tabla in Madison Square

​The richness and smokiness of the newfangled bacon naan is not to be underestimated. Seven years ago, when Tabla first opened, I respected the restaurant, but didn't love it. It was too fusion-ey for me. Nevertheless, I noted, "Despite his profound culinary departures from an authentic India ... More >>

The New Generation of Indian Convenience Foods

Lentil-stuffed snacks--just sizzle in oil and you're done​ In our meanderings through Indian grocery stores, we've noticed a relatively recent proliferation of convenience foods--and not just frozen samosas and tikka masala. Check out the freezer in a well-stocked Patel Brothers, and you'll fi ... More >>

Balaka's Best Dish: Lamb Achari

Indian pickle is spicy, bitter, and tart​ We finally had a chance to check out Balaka, the new Indian restaurant on Sixth Avenue in South Park Slope. Of three dishes, the papri chaat was good, the Bengali crab disappointing, the lamb achari excellent. But it's hard to evaluate a restaurant bas ... More >>

Balaka Opens in Indian-Food-Starved Park Slope

Photo: Indianfoodforever.comKachoris are a popular snack all over India, and are offered at Balaka​ Balaka, a kind of Punjabi-Bengali hybrid, opened on December 22 in the space on 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, that recently held the short-lived train wreck called Park Slope Bistro Restaurant. There ar ... More >>

Curry Hill Gets a "Handcrafted Indian" Restaurant for "Post-Modernist" New Yorkers

​ Kalustyan's expansion isn't the change to Curry Hill's storefronts: a new restaurant called Cinnamon Grill is opening in the former Coconut Grove space at 106 Lexington Avenue.

Our 10 Best: Indian Restaurants

​The glory of Indian food is its infinite variety. Think about it. An enormous region--we're including Pakistan and Bangladesh--with cultures that go back thousands of years, including influences from foreign invaders as diverse as the Mughals, the Portuguese and the English. Food from almost ... More >>

What Haggis? Scotland Now Claims Chicken Tikka Masala

CTM in all its glory​ Forget haggis. Scottish MPs are now claiming that chicken tikka masala, that creamy, junky-good dish found in mediocre curry houses worldwide, was invented at a certain Glasglow restaurant in the 1970s. Not only that, but they are insisting that the European Union to rec ... More >>

Goat Spreads: Aamchi Pao's Pulled Goat Kati Roll

​ Our Man Sietsema is a well-known goat freak, and Fork in the Road has watched, drooling happily, as goat dishes spread into the mainstream. If a good goat gets you all excited too, head over to Aamchi Pao for the goat kati roll. In Mumbai, they call them frankies, but Kolkata claims the k ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World--Bread Pakora

On Monday, we brought you Battle of the Dishes: Hole-in-the-Wall Samosa Smackdown. While Desi Deli Punjabi Dhaba's samosa did not reign supreme in that contest, we discovered a different, notable, diabolically delicious menu item at the tiny cabbie hangout: the bread pakora. We already know about ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes--Hole-in-the-Wall Samosa Smackdown

Left: Desi Deli Punjabi Dhaba, Right: Punjabi Deli and Grocery Battle of the Dishes: In which we pit the same dish from two different places against each other to see which one will emerge victorious. Ah, the samosa--beloved gut-bomb, starter Indian food, and perennial cheap eat. There are plac ... More >>

Pix from Southern Spice

Varuthameen deposits a kingfish steak--wearing a chile on its breast like a medal of valor--in a tart tamarind gravy Southern Spice is a new restaurant in southern Flushing that gives us a chance to sample several southern Indian cuisines, though the food mainly comes from Tamil Nadu and Andhra ... More >>

Red All Over: At Vermilion

A crazy quilt of Indian and Latin flavors goes flop

Pix from Krishna Cuisine

In conjunction with our review of Jersey City's new vegetarian restaurant, Krishna Cuisine, and for people who would rather look at pictures of food than read about it, here are some photographs of the principal dishes. One of the remarkable appetizers presented, as far as we can time, for the first ... More >>

Hearty Krishna Cuisine in Jersey City

New vegetarian restaurant hits Jersey City's Newark Avenue

Regional Indian Home Cooking: Marathi Spiced Shrimp

Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

The Early Word -- Indian Express

Singha's Pizza Now Serving Frankies

A New Crop of Dosas

Staten Island gets its first South Indian spot

A Manchurian Candy Date in Delhi Heights

Jackson Heights rouses itself from a long slumber

Our Man Sietsema and Fork in the Road Join Forces, Eat Dosas

Dosas at Flushing's Ganesha Temple

Feed your soul: Hindu canteens welcome everyone to the table