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If Bollywood actor and NYC restaurateur Shiva Natarajan had just one whit of shame, he’d take a long dagger and plunge it deep into his stomach, ritually disemboweling himself in a harakiri a la the Samurai of yore when their honor was questioned.

Alas, since shame is in short supply lately and the Samurai have gone AWOL we’re unlikely to see such atonement.

Folks, in a long life we’ve come across scores of hypocritical Indian swines.

But we’ve rarely dealt with a two-faced monster like Bollywood actor Shiva Natarajan, who plays minor villain roles in crappy Hindi films.

Great Nonsense

The garrulous fella opens his mouth and the tiresome drooling starts – his charity work for orphans in Chennai, his acting prowess, his friendship with Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar, his father’s stage talent, his reverence for the works of Swami Sivananda, his daughter’s sorrow over our blog posts, his threats to unleash lawyers on us, his cooking skills and other assorted juvenilia.

But alas the milk of kindness in Shiva’s breasts never extends to New Yorkers (if you go by the NYC Health Department inspection reports).

Endangering New Yorkers

For few Indians in NYC have endangered New Yorkers as much as Shiva Natarajan through his callous, reckless disregard for the most basic hygiene at his Indian restaurants in the Big Apple.

A remorseless, shameless, merciless scrooge, Shiva Natarajan has turned his Indian restaurants Dhaba, Bhojan and Tadka into unhygienic shitholes without a thought of the health horrors he might be inflicting upon unwitting hungry New Yorkers who flock to his eateries.

Some of his restaurants like Dhaba have repeatedly failed NYC Health inspections and yet this shameless bozo fails to fix the hygiene horrors as if showing the middle finger to his customers.

Are we to wait for the plague, a great calamity before Shiva decides to clean up his shitholes?

Dhaba NYC – A Horror Museum

Live Roaches, Improper Pesticide Use, Live Mice/Mice, Live Rats/Rats, Flying Insects and Inadequate Personal Hygiene by Shiva’s staff are only a small fraction of the hygiene violations the NYC Health Department has unearthed at Dhaba NYC over the last few years.

Yeeeeks!

We’ve dined at Dhaba and, no, we wouldn’t offer such garbage even to our Pakistan Terroristan foes. Both the food and service are hopelessly, disgustingly bad at Dhaba NYC.

C Grade for Dhaba

But now Shiva has gotten his comeuppance.

After yet another unsatisfactory inspection, the NYC Health Department recently slapped a C Grade on his Dhaba NYC at 108 Lexington Ave in Murray Hill.

A C-grade to a NYC restaurant is kinda like being told that your debauched daughter or profligate son has contracted HIV after weeks of cocaine-fueled orgies near abandoned rail-road tracks.

The NYC Health Department issues out a C-grade only to those dirty, unhygienic restaurants that have 28 or more violation points. Dhaba NYC scored a pathetic 33 in the April 27 inspection.

Oh, we almost forgot. As per the NYC Health Department’s recent inspection:

Dhaba NYC has Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Bon appetit.

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(A Public Service Blog Post)

OMG, OMG, Rats, mice, vermin and food contamination issues?

Chola NYC – Restaurant or Pig-Sty?
Say, is Chola NYC on E.58th St in Midtown Manhattan an Indian restaurant or a filthy pig-sty.

Folks, Rats, Mice, Vermin, Sewage and Food Contamination issues are some of the hygiene problems identified by the NYC Health Department on August 26, 2010 at Chola, the flagship Indian restaurant of Bollywood actor Shiva Natarajan in NYC and the favorite of Indian movie stars like Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai.

Do Hollywood stars Harrison Ford and Woody Allen also come to your Rat & Mice place oops Chola, Shiva?

Geez, Harrison Ford and Woody Allen would have a heart attack if only they knew how dirty Chola is!

Chola NYC – Dirty, Really Dirty
Guys, if we’ve said it once we’ve said it a million times – Bollywood actor Shiva Natarajan is irresponsibly careless when it comes to hygiene at his NYC restaurants.

Repeatedly, Shiva’s Indian restaurants get pulled up by the NYC Health Dept. over evidence of rats, mice, roaches and other serious hygiene issues.

In the latest instance, the New York City Department of Health and Hygiene has put out a highly damaging report on Shiva’s Chola Indian restaurant that gives it a massive 40 violation points.

And the report is so damaging that Chola and Shiva Natarajan are both in deep shit.

Here are the Sanitary Violations Highlighted by the NYC Health Dept (Critical violations marked by Health Dept. in Red color):

1) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
2) Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
3) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
4) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
5) Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Continue reading »

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Never let it be said that the Bollywood actor Shiva Natarajan f*cks up only his Indian restaurants with intolerably poor hygiene.

No sir, no. Our garrulous blah blah blah chatterbox Shiva is determined to prove that when it comes to bad hygiene practices his Thai NYC restaurant is as bad or worse than his Indian restaurants in NYC.

Shiva is what you’d call an equal opportunity serial hygiene offender.

Indian, Thai or wateva, Shiva’s NYC restaurants turn into filthy shitholes that repeatedly fall foul of the NYC Health Department forcing the bozo to pay hefty fines that he then whines about.

Live Roaches in Little Thai Kitchen NYC
Recently, the NYC Health Department came down harshly on Shiva’s Little Thai Kitchen in midtown Manhattan for, among other serious violations, Live roaches in the facility’s food and/or non-food area and inadequate personal cleanliness.

Inadequate personal hygiene, that we can easily understand. You see, Indians, rich or poor, North Indian or South Indian, fair or dark, are for the most part stinking, dirty creatures with a body odor just a few degrees better than wild pigs after a gambol in raw sewage. Continue reading »

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Say, do you think Bollywood actor and restaurateur Shiva Natarajan ever takes a shower?

If Shiva maintains the same poor hygiene standards on his body that he repeatedly, shamelessly demonstrates at his NYC Indian restaurants, we’re inclined to believe the fella seldom showers.

You can say what you will but the man never tires of showing his contempt for diners visiting his crappy NYC Indian restaurant Dhaba (Lexington Ave).

Shiva, who has played bit roles in a handful of Bollywood films (Khakee, Halla Bolet al), has a seemingly vast arsenal of tricks for insulting diners to his Dhaba Indian restaurant on Lexington Ave. in NYC.

For instance, when we visited the place we encountered lousy food accompanied by poor service (like serving Tandoori Chicken and Vegetable Pakoras in the same plate).

Sure, bad food and poor service are par for the course at NYC Indian restaurants and Shiva Natarajan holds no exclusive rights here.

Dhaba NYC maintains Poor HygieneDhaba NYC – Maintains Poor Hygiene Standards

Most Worrying
And whether Shiva showers or not is of no account but his failure to maintain the most basic hygiene standards at Dhaba NYC is most appalling, most insulting and most worrisome to diners.

At times, we wonder whether Shiva is running a restaurant or a dumpster on Lexington Ave.

Bet even Shiva has no idea whether he’s running an Indian restaurant or a dumpster.

Again and again and again, Shiva’s Dhaba fails the NYC Health Department inspection (including a recent inspection in December 2009) or earns horrid violation points. Continue reading »

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Bollywood Actor Shiva Natarajan Loses Hygiene War at Dhaba NYC

These are troubled times for Shiva Natarajan, numero uno Indian restaurateur on the U.S. East Coast and Bollywood actor.

The New York City Health Department has come down heavily on Shiva’s Dhaba Indian restaurant citing mice, vermin, sewage, garbage, pesticide, prohibited chemical and a host of other unpalatable issues at this restaurant on Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill area of Manhattan.

Yes, Dhaba failed the February 10, 2009 NYC Health Department inspection.

Besides Dhaba, another Indian restaurant Shiva is associated with in the NYC area – Tadka – is also facing serious, serious sanitation problems.

Whining and More Whining
After our recent restaurant review on Dhaba, we got an earful from Shiva.

In our review, we made no secret of the fact that the food and service at Dhaba (Shiva’s newest Indian restaurant in New York City) were crappy and crappier respectively.

You know what. Shiva got agitated and whined and whined and whined over the phone.

Because we made a reference to Shiva’s Bollywood connections and his name in the headline, the fella suggested to us that our review took an ‘unprofessional approach’ and implied that it was a ‘personal attack’ on him.

Folks, by his association with Bollywood, Shiva is a celebrity. So, what’s wrong in putting his name in the headline.

Dhaba NYC – Dirty Hovel

Citing a lot of appreciation from the American press and dropping names like the New York Times, Shiva boasted:

Today in New York City if you see the variety of food that I have got and the acclaim that I have got from the American press…you should be proud of what I’ve done.

Really, Shiva? So, we should be proud of your mice, vermin, sewage, garbage and other sanitation problems at Dhaba?

Shiva, remember all these problems were uncovered by the NYC Health Department after our conversation last month.

Disgusting. Continue reading »

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The last time we spoke to NYC restaurateur and Dhaba NYC owner Shiva Natarajan, the fella was blabbing on and on about his Bollywood connections, his Bollywood roles in movies like Halla Bol and Khakee, his Bollywood celebrity acquaintances like Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai, blah blah blah blah.

And Shiva’s main restaurant Web site boasts of the fella’s connections to Bollywood celebrities with photos of Shiva alongside filmi personalities like Akshay Kumar, A.R.Rahman, Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha et al.

Well, after a visit to Shiva’s latest Indian restaurant in New York City Dhaba, our advice to the bloke is to stop all that Bollywood yakking and fix the crappy food and crappier service. Pronto.

Located on Lexington Ave in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan, Dhaba’s sole claim to fame is that it marks a new low even by the lowly standards of Manhattan Indian restaurants.

After an unendurably bad meal at Dhaba NYC, we strongly recommend that if you love fine Indian dining and if passion for Indian food runs through your veins, run from this dumpster. As Kollywood comedian Vivek does in some of his movies, scream escape and run for your life.

Shiva, you told us you were the second villain in Halla Bol but at Dhaba NYC you are definitely the first villain for your ignominious failure to uphold the most basic standards of food and service.

As it is, the New York City Department of Health has said your Dhaba is not vermin proof and has evidence of mice or live mice, rats or live rats and flying insects or live flying insects present in the facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Dhaba NYC - Serves Crappy Indian FoodDhaba NYC – Serves Crappy Indian Food

Dhaba NYC – The Big Lie

To describe what Dhaba NYC offers as Indian cuisine is a Big Goebbelsian Lie.

Maybe, it’s Mongolian cuisine or Ethiopian cuisine or Icelandic cuisine but Continue reading »

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