It’s hard not to feel a huge degree of schadenfreude over Yelp’s pitiful plight these days. For the benefit of those not living in the U.S.,Yelp is an online destination for Reviews of restaurants and other businesses. Easily Manipulable We’ve always believed a lot of reviews on the Yelp site are junk. Why? Because it’s […]
Folks, we’ve said this a million times. Indian restaurants run by our desis in the U.S. are obscenely filthy, more like public toilets in India. Now one of these shit-holes has earned the dubious distinction of being forcibly closed by the authorities. The New York City Health Department recently closed Madras Mahal on Lexington Avenue […]
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 […]
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 […]
(Recommended by SI reader Satya) After watching Akshay Kumar’s latest nightmare a.k.a De Dana Dan the other day, we were in desperate need of some cheering and comforting. So after the crappy movie ended, we walked up a few blocks from AMC Empire 25 on 42nd St to the latest New York City landmark – […]
Well, well, who’d have thought this. An Indian-born Columbia University economist as president of the United States Soccer Federation. Born in Allahabad, Sunil Gulati grew up in Nebraska, studied at Columbia, worked at the World Bank and is now president of the United States Soccer Federation. Oh, our desi also teaches at Columbia. Interesting, na? […]