Patiala Indian Grill & Bar

[totient]

Visiting New York to see Luna Luna at The Shed in Hudson Yards, miss_chance and I wanted a good but unpretentious dinner. This was an opportunity to have better Indian food than you can get in Boston and we picked a likely-looking place: Patiala on 34th at 9th. The menu is quite extensive and everything we had was a delight -- this was long enough ago that I don't actually recall the standouts, but I took a lot of notes on their Daal Makhani which I will be applying to my own recipe. It has been a while since I've had that kind of learning experience as a diner and cook and I imagine there are many more such learning experiences available there.

Patiala Indian Grill
371 W 34th St (just east of 9th Ave)
New York, NY 10001
+1.212.564.2974

M-F 1100-1600 and 1700-2030
Sa-Su 1100-2030

Walk-in only and that was not a problem at 7:45 on a Wednesday night, though their other location a block or so away does take reservations.

Comments

[foms]

"This was an opportunity to have better Indian food than you can get in Boston and we picked a likely-looking place" jumped out at me. I wonder about the idea that a set of cultural cuisines as established in North America as Indian food and relative merits of restaurants. You have me thinking (again and in different ways) about the interplay of distribution and grouping and the relative food and restaurant cultures of various cities and city sizes and whether they are immigration draws and/or have longer-standing groups of specific cultures.