Starting a standalone thread as several of us have eaten here now.
Finally made it to Lungi, lunch for my first visit.
They serve thalis / set menu at lunch in addition to the a la carte menu, and we opted for two of the three types of thali (seafood, meat, veg) to get some variety.
Added the classic Kerala beef fry to that, because why not. Almost added a curry too, and then paused, which was just as well, because we barely finished what we had
Included in each thali:
2 mains — fish curry, prawn masala which we swapped because of an allergy, chicken curry, and mutton / goat masala
Vegetable of the day (avial/ mixed veg in coconut gravy)
Rasam
Sambhar
Dessert (bread halwa that tasted almost exactly like carrot halwa)
Yogurt (pretty per
Parotta
Rice
The beef was fantastic, and the thali was a good way to sample a little of many things. I’ll be back to try more of the a la carte menu, which my friends have been raving about.
Nice to have two options for this kind of food now, with Chatti also excellent. (The lunch portions at Chatti were more in quantity than here, but it was also almost double the price.)
I agree that Lungi deserves its own thread. I think I’ve posted before about the food there but haven’t the bandwidth – I’m on Amtrak – to track it down.
In any case, I had yet another delivery from them last Wednesday. I was originally to meet two friends at Chatti, but it looked like they’d be delayed, so I canceled that and ordered in from Lungi. The paneer ghee roast was as good as before, and the eggplant moju – new to me – was superb. The liver pepper fry might not be for everyone – somewhat rubbery liver – but it was for me, reminding me of the liver I ate in my youth. The drumstick sambhar was very tasty, but I’d have preferred an extra drumstick or ten. Their appams/hoppers are quite good, even after the damage they suffer from delivery.
My bread pudding was distinctly bready, but the dessert I go for there time and again is the hard-to-get wattalappam. Their version is overly sweet and underly complex, but at least they have it.
Sorry if I missed yours — I did a search for the prior posts so I could link them. Will look again.
Have you tried the goat curry, the duck, the short rib, or the trotters / paya? Those are on my list. ( I’ve only seen goat paya very rarely at the cabbie places.)
ETA: was thwarted by the search function not returning more than one instance in a thread
Thanks for digging up that post. My internet is off and on right now. I regret the somewhat lukewarm tone of that review. They are better than that, and have many interesting and hard-to-find-elsewhere dishes.
The goat curry, on one experience, was good – but quite different from the Northern Indian interpretation at, say, Baazi. (ETA: It’s a plus that neither place is pumping out averaged, pan-subcontinental versions of their dishes.) I’ve not had the other dishes you ask about, but the paya – I last had it at Haandi in NY and/or an excellent Pakistani place in Brighton/Allston place – is also high on my list.
Our second visit was not as good as the first. Nothing bad, I just think we picked better dishes the first time. One thing I disagree with you about is the beef chukka. We thought it was boring. A little goes a long way. I do want to go back to try the goat stew.
