August 1 Five Chef Opens a Playfully High-End Indian Restaurant of his Own
Manish Tyagi’s new restaurant, Aurum, is open for takeout and delivery
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Loyal fans of Manish Tyagi who built a following in his three years at SF’s Amber Dhara, then solidified his local reputation at the groundbreaking August 1 Five have a new option for his playful take on high-end Indian food. As of December 22, his new restaurant, Aurum, is open in Los Altos, with a takeout and delivery menu of humorously named dishes with influences from around the globe.
Aurum means “gold” in Latin, a name that Tyagi says is intended as exuberantly as the names of his dishes: there’s a cheese toast called “double trouble,” for example, and a pulled pork on thepla taco called “the spoiled generation.” That mix of comforting dishes like tacos and toast with irreverent names is a reaction to the times we’re in, Tyagi says. “People are sitting at home, unhappy and feeling trapped