At some Indian restaurants in New York City, the attraction is in the fine food and pleasing service. At others like Bawarchi on 1st Avenue (at 63rd St) in New York City the highlight seems to be its death wish – An inexplicable, bizarre desire to want to shut its doors permanently at the earliest […]
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 […]
If you needed just one more reason not to drink harmful stuff like Coke, Pepsi or any other soda, would shit in your soda be good enough for y’all. Think we’re joking? No, kiddo. Here’s an excerpt from a CNN story (‘Soda fountains contained fecal bacteria, study found‘) on the soda shit in your glass: […]
The last few times we spoke to NYC Indian restaurateur Satinder Sharma, a.k.a. Sati the man seemed to delight in badmouthing his rival desi restaurateur, the Bollywood star Shiva Natarajan (crocodile in the pond, very insecure, bad execution of Dhaba, anger management issues, a whiner et al were some of the juicy epithets Sati hurled […]
Like all cheapo desis, we’ve always craved an Aishwarya Rai for the price of a Shriya Saran. Class for the price of crass has unfailingly been our mantra and guiding light. Oh, come on, you jerks. Don’t tell us you unwashed, cheapo desis are any different. And boy, an Aishwarya Rai is what we landed […]
Hygiene, it seems, is not a word found in desi restaurateur Nandita Khanna’s lexicon. Nandita’s high-end Utsav Indian restaurant in New York City continues to be plagued by serious hygiene issues. A recent NYC Health Dept inspection of Utsav (11/30/2009) brought up sewage disposal, adulterated food, live mice and vermin issues. Yeeks. Raw, cooked or […]