Indian Food and Cooking

Malai Marke's New Snack Kitchen Now Serving Kati Rolls, Chaat, and More Indian Street Food

I love making a quick lunch of hot masala chai and pav bhaji, one of India's finest junk foods. The bread rolls should be generously buttered and deeply browned, ideally served with a super-spicy curried mash that's full of flavor and devoid of nutritional value. Shiva Natarajan's sparse and shiny ... More >>

The Egg-centric South Indian Menu of Chennai Flavors, in Jersey City

At Chennai Flavors, Chennai egg masala features hard-boiled eggs as its principal ingredient. This week Counter Culture scrambles into Chennai Flavors, a new restaurant just north of Jersey City's Journal Square that features the regional fare of the former city of Madras in South India. It is one ... More >>

Say Hello to Moti Mahal Delux, Hot Bread Almacen

Moti Mahal Delux is opening at the Upper East Side today. As a departure from almost every other Indian restaurant in the city, they will be serving a menu sans chicken tikka masala. Instead, the star dish will be the signature butter chicken. [Fork in the Road] Hot Bread Kitchen is opening a reta ... More >>

INDIAN LULLABY

Stay up late with Chhandayan

Robert Sietsema at Taste of India and Thali (Food) Court; Lauren Shockey at Battersby

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema travels to New Jersey's Taste of India and Thali (Food) Court, where he finds that the Newport Centre Mall's options do not disappoint even the most refined palates: "Vegetable commonplaces such as chana masala (chickpeas bobbing in mellow gravy), palak paneer ... More >>

The Indian Spice Girls Rocked Fire Island

Colin Shanley​The big scene at the Pines earlier today was a Bollywood-themed bash that drew hundreds of tucked and plucked "gals" in saris (though love means never having to say you're wearing a sari.) Above are a gang calling themselves the Indian Spice Girls and consisting of Curry, Marsal ... More >>

Indian Creperie Coming Soon to Bleecker Street

Lauren ShockeyComing soon!​Perhaps capitalizing off the success of Thiru Kumar, a/k/a "the Dosa Man," who peddles his vegan, South Indian rice-and-lentil crepes on the south side of Washington Square Park, a new spot called Indian Creperie is set to open in the upcoming weeks at 190 Bleecker S ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ...

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ...

Tulsi Opens This Evening

​As expected, Hemant Mathur will open Tulsi for dinner this evening, bringing high-end Indian cuisine to the far eastern end of 46th Street. The 2,000-square-foot restaurant, whose name means "divine basil" in Hindi, will serve a regional Indian menu featuring dishes like semolina-crusted monk ... More >>

Chicken Liver Poori at Gandhi in Flatbush

​Chicken liver poori: Be careful! When you tear the bread open, scalding steam squirts out. Lately, Indian restaurants are becoming a substitute for neighborhood Chinese. On Bedford Avenue (yes, the same one that runs through Williamsburg, but miles to the south in Flatbush), Gandhi is the la ... More >>

Otarian's Bleecker Street Location Is Closed 'Due to Water Problems'

Otarian's Tandoori paneer and accompanying propaganda.​Can it be that only eight months after its inception, the Bleecker Street outpost of Otarian, the fast-food restaurant peddling vegetarian cuisine and guilt, is closed?

Tawa Tandoor Is Now Serving All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast in Jackson Heights

Ben Schmerler​Tawa Tandoor, an Indian restaurant with a location in Midtown, has opened its doors at 37-56 74th Street in Jackson Heights, in a space previously occupied by Shereen Mahal. It's now serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and offering a $6.95 all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. Whet ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Vict ... More >>

Gourmet Sweets and Restaurant Spreads Its Treats to Queens

Unlike the Midwood original, a full-fledged restaurant for Jackson Heights

Spicy Mina Closed?

Spicy Mina​This Chowhound thread points out that Spicy Mina, the cultishly popular Bangladeshi restaurant in Woodside, has been closed since early August, causing the 'hounders to worry the shuttering is permanent.

Jehangir Mehta: Where to Get Great Biryani, What New York Restaurants Need Now

Jehangir Mehta​ After working at Aix, Compass, and Jean-Georges, chef Jehangir Mehta opened Graffiti in 2007. He's one of the few chefs to have worked professionally in both pastry and savory kitchens, and his cooking style features both sweet and savory flavors. It also combines Indian, South ... More >>

Tulsi, Mehtaphor, Junoon, and East India Tea Co: Four Fall Openings From Indian Chefs

Amol MhatreToasting chiles in Mumbai​ I've often wondered why there aren't more successful high-end Indian restaurants in New York--legit Indian or Indian-influenced places that are not better than the best down-home spots, but which show subcontinental cooking from a different perspective. (N ... More >>

Where Am I Eating? Sapthagiri in Jersey City, NJ

​The coconut uttapam at Sapthagiri (click to enlarge). This week's Where Am I Eating was a bit of a toughie, requiring the answers to five questions. Mos got four questions right (The restaurant is Sapthagiri; the dish is coconut uttapam; the plate is a banana leaf; and one of the sauces is s ... More >>

Our 10 Best Vegetarian (and Mainly Vegan) Dishes in NYC

​The kanchipuram idly at Sapthagiri is served with tamarind sauce and homemade coconut chutney. In case you haven't noticed, vegetable matter is the new meat - easy to cook and digest, jam-packed with vitamins and minerals, environmentally friendly, and, most important, good tasting. We've ra ... More >>

Taj Mahal Closed for Renovations

​Though it's not particularly distinguished from its Curry Row neighbors, Taj Mahal is a reliable enough place for Mulligatawny soup and shrimp tandoori masala and, according to one Yelper, has a "killer sitar player." According to this sign on its gate, it's closed for renovations but will be ... More >>

The Early Word: Otarian

Otarian invites you to judge its food by its cover.​ If you've ever stopped to wonder what a restaurant created in a joint effort between some Simpsons writers, a bored McDonald's mid-level executive, and a rogue band of profit-minded Hare Krishnas might look like, then Otarian might be for y ... More >>

Spring Guide: A Tongue-Torching Tour of Town

Possible Preview of the Preview of Fatty 'Cue on New Year's Eve

​Could this double-smoked pork belly be half a special Fatty 'Cue dish being served at Fatty Crab on New Years Eve? A friend and I were hanging out at the uptown Fatty Crab a couple of evenings ago, with the ostensible purpose of comparing the food at the uptown and downtown branches. (Inquir ... More >>

A Possible Preview of a Preview of Fatty Cue at Fatty Crab(s)

​Could this double-smoked pork belly be half a special Fatty 'Cue dish being served at Fatty Crab on New Years Eve? A friend and I were hanging out at the uptown Fatty Crab a couple of evenings ago, with the ostensible purpose of comparing the food at the uptown and downtown branches. (Inquir ... More >>

The Early Word: Cafe Barakah

A grand opening at Cafe Barakah​ A talented Pakistani-Punjabi shopkeeper who was whipping up dishes like channa masala and selling them at her Brooklyn health food shop has expanded. Cafe Barakah, on Fourth Avenue at 21st Street, opened about two months ago, and offers homemade aloo ghobi (pot ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Indian Restaurants

​ Check here tomorrow for Fork in the Road's 10 Best Indian restaurants. We've ranged around the city, stuffing ourselves with Chettinadu fish curry on Staten Island, dosas in Flushing, khandvi and other regional snacks in Jackson Heights, and pongal in New Jersey (true Desi-land). We're pitch ... More >>

GREET THE DAWN

Stay up all night for this South Asian tradition

Get a Jamaican Fix at Gordon's Bakery

Poking around the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn today, I came across Gordon's Bakery and Restaurant. At first glace, I thought the place focused mainly on baked goods, but a second look revealed a long breakfast/lunch menu: Cow's foot soup, oxtail, curry goat, chicken and shrim ... More >>

Double Crown: Culinary Empire Building

Eating fluke while Rome burns

The Best Places To Find '80s Prices!

Great deals on illicit sex, waffles

Letters

Blonde on Blonde

Bangladeshi restaurant in Queens smothers us in mustard oil

Our Man Sietsema: 'I'd Pick Mutton Any Day'

It's a Good One: Experimental Trinidadian Deep-Frying

Let There Be Lite

Melt your winter heft with dosa, tea, and something nice 'n' stinky

And Don't Forget . . .

Ten champions from previous lists that retain their culinary glory

Khan Edison

Poles scream as chiles explode in the wilds of New Jersey

Clusters

Pelham Parkway's Profusion

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The Birds

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Black Curry Sour

Gravy, Gravy, Gravy

Dosa After Dosa