Many "ifs" IF you find yourself in New York City and IF you love Indian food

[DFW]

And IF you don't mind a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in a very unpretentious neighborhood..........

My wife and tried an Indian place for dinner tonight for the simple reason that we LOVE Indian food, and there are no top-rated places in our
part of town. We know of some good ones in New York City, but we are staying in a neighborhood I haven't stayed in since I was a teenager. One of my grandfathers lived on the East Side in the upper 80s. We chose a place to eat at random, and it was like four dollar signs coming up on a Las Vegas slot machine. Everything from the Mulligatawny soup to the unbelievable garlic nan bread to the main course (seafood curry for me, ginger chicken for my wife) was just SOOO good, we walked out of there not sure whether or not we needed a stretcher.

The food was spicy--seriously so, but only to the point where it enhanced the flavor. It did not burn off the roof of your mouth just because they could have made it that way if they had felt like it.

Anyway, in case anyone meets all the ifs. The place is called Mughlai at 1724 2nd Ave. between 89th and 90th. Moderately priced (main #courses mostly between $15 and $18), it delivers solid value for the money.

We'll be back!

[Blue Owl]

1. Ooooh I could go for some chicken curry right about now...

And some garlic naan...

[LoveMyCali]

2. Thanks for the suggestion

I'm going to the city in June and I'm going to try to talk my sister into finding this place.

[genxlib]

3. There is one famous block somewhere in Manhattan

That has a bunch of Indian restaurants all within one block. Ate at one of them years ago. It’s fun to wander down the street and just smell the aromas and try to pick a place.

[DFW]

4. Curry Hill!

My daughter used to live near there. Low 30s and upper 20s in Manhattan.

[electric_blue68]

7. I'd travel down from Washington Heights or up from...

Brooklyn when I lived there.

In that area you can eat meat, vegetarian, and sometimes even vegan. There was a totally vegan restaurant like 30 years ago.

I just looked up to see if i one of my favorites was still around in Brooklyn -
301 Flatbush Ave called Joy.
Mostly Norrhern cooking.
Which showed up about 3-4 years into my 9 yrs time in Brooklyn. Only like 4 blocks away from my then home!
So it's been around for about 15 years.

😄 I could wax on and on about Indian food.
💖 🇮🇳

I guess it ties for my favorite cuisines along with my half 2nd gen Greek & Greek food heritage! 💖 🇬🇷
🤔 Actually I'd have to add "Down Home Southern Cooking" as a ties equally with the other two! 👍 😁
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[IcyPeas]

5. 6th street in the east village.

Little India.

[electric_blue68]

6. Oh, I used to eat there!

[DFW]

8. My wife is from the remote, flat farm country of northwest Germany

She was 19 before she even had her first pizza. But she had discovered Indian food on a field trip to London, and her class was starving because they found English food inedible.

She discovered Greek and Balkan food on trips there before she met me. She never dreamed she would even have access to the spices needed to make any of that stuff. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean and Mexican food were still unknown to her when we met, and we were both 22. But the world has changed a lot since then. When the girl from the farm country first dared visit me in the USA, she got to experience food from places whose cuisines she had never thought she would ever get to try. Now, she likes them all, and, better yet, can make them all.

[abqtommy]

9. We have a nice selection of Curry Restaurants right here in Albuquerque. I'd recommend

any of them to anyone who thinks they have to travel to New York, London or Mumbai to
get their curry fix! I'm still capable of preparing an acceptable curry right here at my home
by following my Mom's recipe.