Food|At Dhamaka, Indian Village Food Comes to the City
Chintan Pandya at Dhamaka, the Manhattan follow-up to his acclaimed Queens restaurant Adda.Credit.Jenny Huang for The New York Times
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At Dhamaka, Indian Village Food Comes to the City
Chintan Pandya follows up his hit Queens restaurant, Adda, with a celebration of rustic Indian cuisine on the Lower East Side.
Chintan Pandya at Dhamaka, the Manhattan follow-up to his acclaimed Queens restaurant Adda.Credit.Jenny Huang for The New York Times
Published Feb. 4, 2021Updated Feb. 8, 2021
Last winter, Chintan Pandya, one of the most celebrated Indian chefs in the United States, was in his dining room at home, wondering what his next restaurant could be. His wife, Namrata, offered him a bowl of thinly sliced potatoes and a gourd commonly known as tindora in Hindi, sautéed with cumin, ginger, green chile and turmeric.
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