WHY A rare chance to savor the sweet side of Portugal. WHAT This Artesia store serves what amounts to lunch—sausage sandwiches and a weekend-only selection of salt cod dishes—but the main reason to make the trip here is the selection of Portuguese breads and pastries. Try thequeijadas, little tartlets flavored with almond, pineapple, caramel, coconut, [...]
May 10, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Wonderful dinner theater in the form of a bottomless Gujarati thali. WHAT Of the many buffets scattered throughout Little India—where idle curries sometimes congeal under heat lamps—none approach the exacting elegance of Rajdhani. Here, all-you-can-eat meals aren’t ladled from steam tables but delivered by a cast of waiters armed with the components of a [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY An unrivaled menu of Mumbai street food. WHAT Mumbai Ki Galliyon Se (literally ‘from the streets of Mumbai’) specializes in the street food of India’s largest city, a cosmopolitan menu of vegetarian curries, fritters, sandwiches and snacks. These are dishes you won’t find just anywhere: fried tapioca pearl patties, bowls of pulses and sprouted [...]
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WHY Inexpensive and excellent Gujarati food. WHAT One of Little India’s top chat shops, Jay Bharat is a standard-bearer on Pioneer Boulevard. And though you can eat well sampling the sweets and snacks, don’t ignore the precise Gujarati cooking. Everything is vegetarian—appetizers like the potato-patty slider pav vada and the pettis, a six-piece plate of [...]
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WHY No-frills Filipino home cooking. WHAT Magic Wok prepares pork at its most glorious. Order the crispy pata, a bone-in leg of pork brined and fried until its skin is a crisp mahogany and its meat falls away simply because of gravity. Sisig, cubes of fatty, crunchy fried pork tossed with bits of ginger, scallions, [...]
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WHY They keep the ovens fired up all day, so everything’s fresh and hot. WHAT This Gujarati-style chat (snack) and mithai (sweets) shop in Little India packs ‘em in with a menu featuring vegetarian thalis (combo plates), curried dishes and a marvelous array of fresh goodies—all made from ground grains and beans—that include crispy chips, [...]
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WHY Go on Dosa Nights (Wednesday and Friday), when you can pick a dosa and gorge yourself at the sumptuous buffet—all for $10. WHAT Who needs meat when you can feast on south Indian vegetarian fare that’s this scrumptious? Go-to dishes include tamarind and lemon rice, coconut chutney and the amazing chana batura—fried bread that’s [...]
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WHY The dosa are among the biggest—and lightest—in Little India. WHAT Maybe you can’t spell it, but you should definitely order the kancheepuram idli. The ginger-and-cashew dumplings are a specialty at this restaurant, which is named for a temple city in India’s Karnataka state. Also check out the kadi fritters in coconut curry and the [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY The Pioneer rice special, a combination of crispy minced shrimp cake, slabs of grilled marinated pork, delicate steamed egg loaf and a salad garnish, has customers returning again and again. WHAT The small city of Artesia may be famed for Little India, in which this Vietnamese place sits, but in fact it’s as multinational [...]
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WHY The lunchtime thali—an assortment of small dishes with big flavor. WHAT Spicy vegetarian fare in the Andhra style is on the menu at this spacious Little India restaurant. Carrot cubes with grated coconut and a lentil stew called kootu are accompanied by roti, rice and dessert. 18792 Pioneer Blvd., Artesia, 562.809.3806, bhimasveg.com. L & [...]
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