By God, where did this weirdo spring from? Who? Who? Oh, we’re talking of this desi nut case we encountered (hey, we mean American encounter, not the Indian style dishoom-dishoom encounter) the other day. Fella said his name was Sunny Chugh and claimed to be the owner of Palace of Jaipur Indian restaurant on Hamilton […]
Most NYC Indian restaurants are bad but some like Aaheli are more bad than the others: First, they said it was ‘South Indian Coffee.’ Then, after we discovered several cardamom pods along with dark coffee powder floating on the surface the yuck ‘South Indian Coffee’ became Nescafe. Next, the flustered waiter waved his hand and […]
Raison d’etre. Like a hovering bee, the French word raison d’etre kept buzzing in our mind during a meal at Aangan Indian restaurant in Freehold, New Jersey. Just in case you are curious, the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition, P.1028) defines raison d’etre as ‘reason or justification for existence.’ The smart ones amongst you have […]
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Yes, that was the bard in Twelfth Night (Act 1, Scene 1). Having belatedly realized that our 16GB iPhone (which of course includes an iPod) still has a considerable amount of empty […]
via iPhone: Sitting at Jose’s Border Cafe (Tex-Mex cuisine). It’s 1:40 PM ET and the place is fairly crowded. People are still eating out a lot notwithstanding what the analysts would have you believe. Free WiFi, cool. We like the Margaritas (not allowed today) 🙁 and the Vegetable Jambalaya here. Nice salsa & yummy tangy […]
Boy, these are hard times for restaurants in the U.S., particularly for Indian restaurants that are starting to see long and dark shadows fall over them. Real hard times, folks. Market researcher NPD has just put out a report that traffic for casual dining restaurants in the U.S. declined 4% in this year’s spring quarter […]