Badmaash

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"#72 What happens when a classically trained Indian chef and his two hip-hop-loving, Toronto-raised sons open an Indian restaurant in Los Angeles? You get Badmaash, an exuberantly unconventional restaurant whose name roughly translates to “badass” in Hindi. Pawan Mahendro and sons Nakul and Arjun mine their family’s dual heritage to produce brash culinary remixes that reference everything from familiar tandoori standards to Canadian comfort food. They make a gravy-smothered chicken tikka poutine with masala-dusted French fries; chili cheese-stuffed naan, vivid and bright with serrano peppers; and fried Punjabi-style catfish that has been transmuted into snackable crispy nuggets. There are Indian restaurant standard-bearers like saag paneer and butter chicken, but you’re here for the spiced lamb burger, a delicious byproduct of the sort of cooking that happens at the Mahendro family’s backyard tandoori barbecues. The menu reverberates with tradition, personal history and a fair amount of culinary badassery. Beer and wine. Credit cards accepted."

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