Why is this a placeholder post?
I just got back from my short vacation to India. And both, my mind and heart are brimming with tales to write. Alas my overpowering schedule and dreaminess has got the better of me. I have also started maintaining a small (really cute) diary of places and food zones I'd like to visit. So I think it's just a matter of time before I start transmitting juicy bits of information from my black diary to my blog!
This placeholder post serves as a self-reminder :)
Now for more on my most favorite Indian restaurant in New york -
Tabla.
It was where I had the most delightfully inventive yet completely authentic Indian flavors-bathed meal of my life. This was the summer of 2010 and I must thank my friend profusely for taking us there on his birthday, else I don't think I would have ever entered through the doors of Tabla on 24th St and Madison Ave in Manhattan.
The setting was classy and upscale and yet there was nothing even remotely pretentious about the attitudes or the food that was floating in there. The dishes served were groundbreaking from the first appearance of the food through the flavors exploded by the last bits. Quality of ingredients, retention of natural colors and the build-up of flavors - everything about Tabla had won me over.
Chef Floyd Cordoz, the man behind the food at Tabla says a few words in this article on the closing of Tabla on 31 December 2010.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2010/12/floyd_cardoz_di.php
I am glad he recommends some upcoming Indian food places to try.. I know I will without any regrets!
Junoon Restaurant
27 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10010-3290
