Southern Spice is now closed (via iPhone) Lunching at Southern Spice in Flushing (near the Ganesh Temple). Lousy. Lousy. Lousy. Comprende? Lousy food. Lousy desserts. Lousy service. Full review coming later. Update After reading a report in the New York Times that Sridhar Rathnam, the owner of Madras Cafe, a NYC vegetarian restaurant we liked, […]
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 […]
You can’t miss them. They are everywhere in Manhattan. From Pondicherry Masala Dosa to Pretzels, Hot Dogs to Curry and Peanuts to Falafel, New York City’s thousands of food carts offer a dazzling choice of hot food. A food cart in New York City There’s even an annual Vendy Award to honor the best food […]
Anjappar Chettinad NYC Review Anjappar Chettinad in North Brunswick, New Jersey gives a bad name not just to the famed Chettinad cuisine but to all Indian restaurants in the U.S. Disgusting service and a distasteful kitchen come together to deliver a dreadful experience to diners at Anjappar’s new outpost in North Brunswick, NJ. A far […]
With a population of 1.2 billion people, India has a lot of mouths to feed. A lot of mouths, indeed. India’s total foodgrain production target for 2007-2008 is 221.5 million tonnes, the country’s Minister of State for Agriculture Kanti Lal Bhuria told Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Parliament on Friday. For pulses, the production […]
I’m now knowing the smell of death. They are sweet like sugarcane and rotten like palm wine. And when [dead bodies] stay in the sun, they’re growing plump like brown mangoes. – Little Agu, after witnessing one too many deaths as a child soldier Director Cary Joji Fukunaga has put out no less than a […]