The Greater Hell's Kitchen Area [Manhattan]

Moving from markets to establishments where they sling food at you:

  1. Le Sia.

  2. Saar. No one link to give, so you’ll have to work for your kebabs by hunting around HO, but all the chicken ones here are excellent. And, all the work behind the hunting will have given you an appetite. The best chicken kebabs I’ve had outside India. The flat breads (naan, roti, and suchlike) are also good, and those + kebabs make a terrific meal. Other dishes here are meh-to-miserable, but I usually balance the kebab meat with either okra or the dal tadka (not the overly rich makhani – unless you like wallowing in creaminess) or the baingan/eggplant. A word or twenty on their desserts: their gulab jamun is more kala jamunish, but that’s to the good, and they are one of the few places that offers shahi tukra.

I’m moving in stages, so I’ll stop here with this.

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