Indian Food and Cooking

New Delhi Offers Inspiration for Home Chefs

Included in the extensive menu at the 25-year-old Indian restaurant New Delhi is a monthly special called "Curries, Chutneys & Cocktails." It's both a good value and a potential source of inspiration for your own home cooking. See Also: - New Delhi Marks a Quarter Century in Business

Background Music Makes Daily Life Worse, Not Better

Is background music necessary? Ever? My favorite sound in the world is the white noise the city makes outside my open window. I hear distant traffic; the arrivals and departures of streetcars; all manner of beeps; the occasional (and always alluring) clacking of high heels; the ascendent smoke ring ... More >>

The Pharcyde's Five-Step Guide To Creating A Classic Hip-Hop Album

Twenty years ago, The Pharcyde released a hip-hop classic. Titled Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, the 16-track album announced to the world the talents of M.C.s Bootie Brown, Fatlip, Imani, and Slimkid 3, plus producer J Swift. With raps that fused a freestyling background with humble and smart songwr ... More >>

THCafe's Ganja Mango Lassi: Edibles Go Drinkable

Ah, the weather is finally changing. 'Tis the season when a foggy, cold San Francisco winter reluctantly hands over the reins to a ... well, a foggy, cold San Francisco summer. Feh. That's why it's a good thing to avoid City provinciality and head out to the sunnier East Bay climes right around th ... More >>

Number 13: Gobi Aloo Kati Rolls from the Kasa Indian Truck

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Kolkota's version of a New York slice, kati rolls were  designed to eat on the street. Originally a meat skewer wrapped in a paratha (flaky flatbread), the rolls have evolved in numerous directions over the years ... More >>

Top Chef Alum Preeti Mistry Launches Juhu Beach Club Dinners at La Victoria

​Although Juhu Beach Club, the Indian food pop-up from Top Chef alum Preeti Mistry, stopped serving lunch this fall, Mistry's relaunching it as a series of dinners at La Victoria Bakery this week -- in preparation for opening her own restaurant in the Mission sometime this year. Mistry says, ... More >>

The Tender's Elia Varela Serra Talks About Food in the 'Loin

Anna Rascouët-PazThe Tender's editors, Elia and Miquel.​Since it debuted in May 2009, The Tender has become an invaluable resource for food types like SFoodie. The neighborhood blog does a great job at covering one of SF's best eating neighborhoods, which is mostly ignored by the mainstream ... More >>

Bombay Bazar's New Location Now Serves Lunch and Snacks

Jonathan KauffmanBombay Bazar's lunch plate, $5.95.​ Last November, water damage forced Valencia Street's Bombay Bazar and Ice Creamery to shut down and look for a new location. And when SFoodie reported on the market's reopening -- just a block west of Rainbow Grocery, on the corner of South Van ... More >>

Street Food Festival Preview: Azalina's Penang Curry Bomb

Azalina EusopeThe Penang Curry Bomb​Last week we went to a preview of the San Francisco Street Food Festival. We tasted more than three dozen dishes, and our single favorite was a new one being rolled out on Aug. 20: the Penang Curry Bomb from Azalina's Malaysian. It's a fair name because the ... More >>

Off the Grid Holds Curry-Themed Special Night

​Don't Worry, Eat Curry Where: McCoppin Hub (at Valencia) When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 5-9 p.m. Cost: As the curry costs Off the Grid is trying out its second themed dinner night, and this time it's curry. The six vendors at OTG's McCoppin Hub site on Saturday will all create at least one curry d ... More >>

Wooly Pig Sheds Its Window Paper, Tikka Masala Haight Reopens

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Remember Wooly Pig Cafe (205 Hugo, at Second Ave.), that papered-over space in the Inner Sunset that SFoodie spotted a few months ago? It opened this weekend serving sandwiches, salads, and ... More >>

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2009 McManis Viognier: Good with Indian Food, Perfect for Indian Summer

​As we head toward the end of our brief, glorious summer there's one last opportunity to drink in the cooling refreshment of a crisp white wine. The sheer number of wines that fit this description can be overwhelming, sometimes expensive, and not always rewarding. As much as the Cakebreads, ... More >>

Where Can I Take a Vegan Friend and a Meat-Crazy Husband?

If this mixed couple can stay married for 19 years, you can bring a carnophile and a vegan together for one dinner. ​This morning, I got a series of tweets from @aynsavoy, whom I'd helped out a few months ago:My (mostly) vegan best friend is visiting this weekend from Texas. My husband is a bit of ... More >>

Kasa Plans to Roll Out Indian Street-Food Truck

Carolyn AlburgerKasa's turkey kati rolls could soon be taking to the streets.​Kasa Indian Eatery has been serving up Indian street food from its brick-and-mortar locations since the first restaurant launched in the Castro in 2008. Soon, it hopes to roll out an actual kati-roll truck. Kati rol ... More >>

Green Coriander's Chicken Korma

John BirdsallChicken korma, vegetables cooked with coconut sauce, and brown rice ($13.95 as part of a three-course menu).​Thursday, July 29, 2010 Paawan Kothari rolled out her lunchtime Indian pop-up two weeks ago, in what would seem like just about the most random Mission venue she could fin ... More >>

Indian Lunch Pop-Up from Green Coriander/Chai Cart Starts Next Week

​Call Paawan Kothari ambitious. The Hyderabad native left an IBM marketing gig to sell chai on the streets of the Mission. Then, late last year, Kothari rolled out Green Coriander, a home meal service dispensing everyday Indian dishes that emphasize healthy. Now, Kothari's joining the ranks of ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Bloggery

Five of my favorite items from SFoodie this week:​1. The paper masala dosa from Udupi Palace in the Mission isn't just a feat of culinary engineering worthy of Grant Achatz, it looks like a prop for Pineapple Express II.  2. Some six-seven years ago, Oakland community organizers helped the ta ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch Today: Lahore Karahi's Lamb Kebab Wrap

Messiest thing we've eaten in months.​Mon., May 10, 2010 Gush Party, USA/Flickr​In terms of girth, El Farolito's super burritos have nothing on the kebab wraps at Lahore Karahi. This off-menu special, advertised only on the takeout window, is more than a foot long and as big around as a roll of ... More >>

Indian Taco Truck Curry Up Now Debuts in the FiDi

John BirdsallThe S.F. truck parked at Bush and Sansome today.​Indian taco truck Curry Up Now took its maiden voyage into San Francisco today, slinging deconstructed samosas and kathi rolls in the Financial District. Blasting a soundtrack that included Bhangra and Wham!, the truck attracted a l ... More >>

Downtown's Taste of India, via Haight Street: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallThe kaabli chana-lamb curry combo at Rotee Express.​Thurs., March 18, 2010 One of those good news/bad news things. The good: This steamtable spinoff of Rotee in the Lower Haight serves up the rich taste of Indo-Pak stew cuisine in the office-block desert near Rincon Center, land of ... More >>

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Opening Tomorrow in Lower Haight: India Clay Oven

The space previously housed Raja Cuisine of India.​Starting this weekend, the air at Haight and Fillmore should be extra-redolent with the aroma of tandoor ovens. The newest location of local mini-chain India Clay Oven opens at 4 p.m. tomorrow at 500 Haight Street, where Raja Cuisine of India ... More >>

Tikka Tacos from New Street-Food Vendor Indilicious; Co-Owner Runs a Bread CSA

​A new street-food vendor quietly debuted last Friday at the The Lab. Indilicious is the brainchild of Brian Soland and Julia Pon, a couple of twentysomething city planners. "From a really nerdy academic perspective, we're into thinking of ways to build community and create street life," Pon s ... More >>

Free PBR at Kasa in the Castro Today. But Only If You Embarrass Yourself

lucky kt/FlickrMight as well get a thali while you're there.​The Castro's seen its share of beer bashes, but today's PBR giveaway at Kasa (4001 18th St. at Noe) comes with more than a cab ride home you can't remember and the day-after taste of regret. Mention you're a Kasa Facebook fan (just s ... More >>

Curried Favors

Drink of the Week: Dosa's Laughing Lassi

Dosa on Fillmore (1700 Fillmore at Geary) elevates the classic Indian yogurt drink with its Laughing Lassi. A concoction of Bols Genever, Straus organic yogurt, grains of paradise, agave nectar, Angostura bitters and fresh mint, this savory, adult lassi is served with a cucumber spear. While we nor ... More >>

Chocolate and Chalk: Together at Last

In a few weeks, they'll be eating chalk and drawing with chocolate in the Gourmet Ghetto. Wait! Scratch that, reverse it, as Willy Wonka would say. The annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival in Berkeley combines a sidewalk chalk-drawing contest with a wild tasting menu created by area establi ... More >>

Where to Take Mom

Ana MandaraGet ready: Special meals are about to be cooked up in SF restaurant kitchens on Sunday. If you don't feel like dining amongst obvious mother-worshippers, or paying the extra freight a prix-fixe carries (even a well-thought-out and well-prepared one), we find that taking the whole fa ... More >>

Happy Hour Deals: Gaylord India

Plus, free parking after 5:00.

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Snacktion: Shakti Black Pepper Papadum

Name: Black Pepper Papadum Brand: Shakti/Planetary Products Origin: Berkeley Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom) Cost: $2.99 Ingredients: Urd bean flour, salt, papdkhar, black pepper, asafoetida Calories per serving: Not listed Why I bought it: Previous experience has proved th ... More >>

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