Indian Food and Cooking

I Just Became Vegetarian By Accident!

For one meal only, but still, it was alluring and educational. See, I dropped by some Indian dive in the West 20s for a quickie lunch the other day and ordered the $6.99 special, which involved three roti, two vegetables, soup, rice, and condiments. For some reason, I thought roti were balls of ta ... More >>

5 Amazing Indian Dishes From Deccan Spice

How down-home! Corn fritters at Deccan Spice Love Indian food? Well, you'll be glad to hear Jersey City is now bursting with regional South Indian restaurants, many representing cuisines the metropolitan area has never seen before -- and these restaurants are a quick ride away from the West Side o ... More >>

Natu Kodi Biryani at Deccan Spice, Dish #57

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Leberkäse from Der Kommissar, Dish #58 | Polpettine Pizza -- With a Gooey Egg -- at Pulino's, Dish # ... More >>

Tulsi's Street Cart Chaats: Not Quite Street Food but Mighty Tasty

Lauren ShockeyTulsi's Chaat​Over the weekend, we popped into Tulsi, Hemant Mathur's new Indian restaurant in Midtown. It's been a big year for upscale Indian restaurants, first with Tabla closing and then Junoon opening several months ago. Tulsi isn't quite as exciting as Devi (Mathur's old ... More >>

Our 10 Best Vegetarian Street Foods

Rebecca MarxMexicue's beet and goat cheese taco.​ While street food is, to many people, still synonymous with street meat, there are plenty of vegetal pearls to be found among the literal swine. You just have to search a little harder, and we have, across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. What ... More >>

Vikas Khanna: Good Diwali Eats, Where to Get Mithai, and the Best Ingredient You Probably Don't Know

Chef Vikas Khanna​Yesterday, we brought you part one of a Q&A with chef Vikas Khanna, chatting about the dishes he'll offer at his new restaurant, Junoon, and what foods he misses from his childhood in the Punjab. Khanna juggles many projects, including a catering company, cookbooks, and makin ... More >>

Heinz's Curry Beanz

​Leave it to the British to invent baked beans with raisins.

Hemant Mathur's Tulsi Set to Open in October

DeviHemant Mathur​In early June, word surfaced that Devi co-chef-and-owner Hemant Mathur would be leaving to open his own place, called Tulsi. At the time, the restaurant -- whose name means "basil" in Hindi -- was shooting for a September opening. As is so often the case, that prediction prov ... More >>

Masala Times' Paneer Pav Bhaji

​194 Bleecker Street has been home to a long line of Indian snack joints--there was Indian Bread Co, then the dearly departed Aamchi Pao, and, since May, Masala Times. Here, you can get kebobs, lassis, and the popular sandwiches based around pav, the squishy white rolls brought to India by the ... More >>

New Delhi's Varq Coming to New York?

Agoda.comVarq's New Delhi dining room​Last week, we got Tabla chef Floyd Cardoz's thoughts on why there aren't more fine dining Indian restaurants in the United States. This week, Food and Wine's Mouthing Off blog brings word of just such an establishment.

Double Happiness at Merit Kabob and Dumpling Palace

Jackson Heights serves up a South Asian two-for-one

No F*%#ing Onions at Jersey's Sapthagiri

Anger-making orbs and other delights at a veggie Indian restaurant

Vegetarian (and Vegan) Delights of NYC: Pesarattu Upma at Sapthagiri in Jersey City

​Pesarattu upma is one of the vegetarian dishes hitherto-unseen in the region, making Sapthagiri well worth the visit. Instead of potatoes, the interior holds a secret surprise. A new restaurant featuring the vegetarian cuisines of north and south India has materialized in Jersey City's Littl ... More >>

Floyd Cardoz on Tabla's New Menu

Courtesy Tabla​The Danny Meyer restaurants formerly known as Tabla (upstairs, haute New Indian) and Bread Bar (downstairs, casual New Indian) have been unified into one entity, which is now simply called "Tabla." Hearing the news, Fork in the Road feared that executive chef Floyd Cardoz's insp ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: Gobi Manchurian in Floral Park, Queens

Left: Gobi Manchurian from Mumbai Xpress; Right: Masala 2 Wok's version. This week's battle of the dishes pits two different renditions of the Indo-Chinese classic gobi (cauliflower) Manchurian against each other. The restaurants, Mumbai Xpress and Masala 2 Wok, are right next to each other. I ... More >>

Undercover Homemade Channa Masala at a Health Food Shop

Balance Life is a small, family-owned health food store/grocery in South Park Slope. The expensive groceries are not the reason to go here--instead, find a little hand-lettered sign on the refrigerator that reads "homemade Indian food." The exceedingly nice woman who owns the store comes from the Pa ... More >>

Sikh Day Eats

This is a PSA, calling your attention to Joey DiStefano's fantastic coverage of the Sikh Day parade and associated enormous buffet of free food to serve 50,000 in Madison Square Park. I really wish I could have been there myself to sample those roti and pakoras--although the heat and the large crowd ... More >>

Darbar Grill's Chicken Korma

Chef Simon Gomes of Darbar Grill shares his recipe for easy, satisfying Chicken Korma. The latest Darbar Grill outpost opened on E 55th Street late last year. Ingredients: 1 lb chicken breast or thigh (boneless), cut into small pieces 2 large chopped onions 1 tsp red chili powder 1 tsp turmeric p ... More >>

Floral Park: A Lesser Known Little India

Vada Pav from Mumbai XpressThe neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens, is located as far east as you can go and still be in New York City. The neighborhood cozies up against the Nassau County line, and is made up of wide, quiet streets lined with small brick houses with yards. It also happens to be hom ... More >>

What's For Dinner?

24-Hour Goat-Tripe Curry and Other Good Stuff

Tamil Nadu Bhavan, a New, Strictly Vegetarian Indian Restaurant in Curry Hill

New vegetarian restaurant on lower Lexington Avenue concentrates on India's Tamil Nadu

Elettaria: Where Saag Paneer Is 'Saag Paneer'

Elettaria puts chefs onstage, plays with convention, and comes out ahead

Our Man Sietsema: 'Some of the Best Indian Food in the Region'

Our Man Sietsema: 'Oddly Vaginal

Bachelor pad

New place on Newark Avenue wants to be your Indian diner

Our Man Sietsema: 'Indians are Snackers'

Lunch Box

Fresh vegetarian cuisines at Curry Hill's newest spot

A Chorus Line

Game birds kick high at new Pakistani diner in Bath Beach

Trunk Show

It's all in the micro-organisms at vegetarian South Indian

Wok That Way

Stir fries and gutter lollipops at new Curry Hill Chinese

Shipshape

New manifestation present on recipes from the southern coast of India

...And Everything Nice

The Spice Corner heats up Curry Hill

Day of the Dosa

A toasted-cheese surrogate comes to life in Jersey City

Egg Lover's Paradise

Exploring the mysterious dish chicken 65 on Curry Hill

Find Happiness

Indian on Essex Street adopts Chinese production methods

Yellow

Eating Bangladeshi food while solving a culinary mystery

All Rolled Into One

Getting Your Dosa Dose in Kosher Vegetarian Curry Hill

Getting Your Goat

Where in the World Is Dhaka Hazi?

Vapo-Rub Lamb

Cooking With Camphor in Curry Hill

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