Comments on: PROFILE: Downtown Lunch’er “Matt”

By: rodalpho

rodalpho — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:14:36 +0000

Ahh yes, diwan-e-khaas, home of the dirty dishwater chicken tikka masala. Not quite as bad as tandoor palace, which is classified as a bioweapon under the geneva conventions, but pretty, pretty awful.

The “best”, and I use that term loosely, indian in the FiDi used to be Baluchi’s, part of a NYC chain that was at least minimally edible and unlikely to be poisonous. According to Seamless it’s now called Bombays. I actually haven’t tried it since the transition– the only indian joint in the FiDi I haven’t tasted (vomit in my mouth).

By: blueprintu

blueprintu — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:16:59 +0000

Bombay’s is close to me also since I am on Whitehall. However, I like to make the trip to Diwan-E-Khaas which has 2 locations. The closer one is on Cedar between William and Pearl, the other is a block or so further on Nassau St between Maiden & Liberty. It is worth the walk and for some reason haven’t been to Bombay’s back since I started going to Diwan-E-Khaas.

By: rodalpho

rodalpho — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:45:19 +0000

I also work on Battery Park, and Nixtimalito now delivers all the way down here. They’re on Seamlessweb. It’s pretty great mexican food for the east coast. I just wish their carnitas were crustier.

Sadly there is no good indian in the FiDi. It all verges (and sometimes trespasses) on inedible. Ten gazillion choices for sushi but like 3 terrible options for indian.