Dhamaka

"Recognitions & awards: • #1 New York Times New Restaurants 2021 • New York Times top 100 2025 💲Owner: Unapologetic Foods Group (Chintan Pandya, and his co-founder Roni Mazumdar) Appeared on Bon Appetit in Dec. ‘24 Offers feasts of rabbit and lamb, with a capacity of one order per day, also ordered ahead of time. This is purely due to space constraints, Pandya explains. “If I had the infrastructure over there, I could have sold 10 rabbits,” he says. “It’s practically impossible for us to do multiple of them.”"

@nchavotier

"Un des meilleurs resto indiens à nyc N•50 dans le NYT top 100 list en 2024"

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"Indien typique. Assez porté sur les épices."

@augustin.daube

"Cuisine moderne et traditionnelle ds l’historique Essex Market"

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"Indien. Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnelle dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market. Prix : 50-100$ Note : 4,5 Recommandation : on va déguster "

@lefevreclelia

"Lamb Shank Biryani Paneer Tikka starter Makhni murg starter"

@venkatesh.nayak

"Resa obligatoire. Parmi les resto du Essex market, indien qui revisite les oubliés culinaires. Feu d’artifice de saveurs épicées "

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"Good food but menu is slightly limited "

@iyala

"Google 4,5 $50 environ Good very spicy omg et C’est assez cher "

@leabreheret

"Fancy but special apparently "

@romain.from.rome

"indien resa obligatoire p165"

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"Cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnelle On va déguster Très épicé "

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"Delicious but pricey. Lamb biryani, eggplant, and paneer were delish"

@xmandell

"FRG Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market"

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"Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market."

@gervais

"Dal and goat neck biryani were great "

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"Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market."

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"Eater - Kim Friends The New Yorker - Kim"

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"Moderne & tradi Dans marché historique "

@emilie_gfr

"Russell and Antoaneta went and said it was good "

@julia.perry17

"Pete Wells’ 2024 list of top 100 #54"

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"Cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre du marche historique Essex"

@akemi

"Indien Branché - plat 20-37$ - Il faut réserver car l'adresse est vite devenue un favourite new-yorkais"

@larafaroux

"A réserver. Recommandé NYT"

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"Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market."

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"Reco « On va déguster » Cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnelle dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market "

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"Way too spicy barely edible Changed menu but hesitant to go back"

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"Insanely good. Crazy spicy but couldn't stop eating"

@russohungry

"Tres bon restaurant indien. Nous avons pris l’épaule d’agneau mijotee et le plat en sauce avec paneer accompagné de naan. Personnel attentif et efficace. Très épicé. #3 : gurda kapoora (goat kidney, testicles, red onion and pao) doh khleh (pork with lime, cilantro, onion and ginger) and champaran meat (mutton, garlic, red chili)"

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"selection inter Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market."

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"indien 👍🏻dans un marché génial!!!"

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"Goblins. Res open month in advance at midnight"

@spencer.saldana8

"Une cuisine indienne moderne et traditionnel dans le cadre magique du marché historique Essex Market, Store #34"

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"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/dining/best-nyc-restaurants.html #74"

@michaelwsherman

"Zie Mara Grim (travel mapje insta) Loten elke avond om het konijn !!!!!!"

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"Best Indian food in the city according to Carla. In my opinion it was over spiced. "

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"indien de ouf avec chef sympa vu sur youtube"

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"Trendy Indian canteen. Visited 12/24. Recognition: NYT 100 Best Restaurants in NYC 2025; "

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"Salué par la critique - resa obligatoire "

@ines.mislin

"Innovative, energetic eatery offering provincial Indian cuisine in a colorful dining room. "

@margaretannritter

"Rebs lo quiere probar (indio)"

@teresa.saenzdetejada

"Eatery offering provincial Indian cuisine in a colorful dining room"

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"Indien moderne. Provincial indian cuisine. Belle déco."

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"$9 ‘Lil Rowdy at Rowdy Rooster #eastvillage"

@olgasala

"Incredible place but need to book well in advance "

@camillethirifay

"Nyt top 10 Unapologetic indian"

@hannahperic

"Indian Chicken pulao, gurda kapoora "

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"Indian but impossible to get a reservation"

@jmdavid88

"Super spicy for you Tiphaine "

@tiphaineseite

"Good luck getting a reservation. Amazing Indian food"

@labeliumnyc

"7/12/22: Very good and interesting food. Not dying to go back but would recommend"

@bmd123

"Restaurant indien. Vu par Babba"

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"Recommendation by daviz muñoz"

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"Food was super spicy. Puja liked it ok but not sure if she loved it either"

@ronakshah33

"Looks soooooo good, have to try it fast"

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"Located in the new Essex market. Really delicious and super spicy! Got the lamb shank curry, fried paneer, whole fried fish app and the absolutely can’t miss cheese cake dessert. Highly rated Indian place on infatuation "

@gianna.carvalho

"indien parmi les meilleurs restaurants de tous les USA"

@perrinechssn

"Supposedly amazing, try Bihari-style mutton infused w garlic, crunchy topped biryani with goat"

@ekmoore2

"Thomas K. -> c est l equipe d adda indien delicieux"

@rarclem

"Nytimes recommendation. I liked it. Their sweet Lassi was so good. Lamb bhiryani was huge but good. "

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"Lower East Side Indian International destination dining took a long hiatus during the pandemic, but Chintan Pandya’s homage to the regional culinary traditions of India, which opened recently at the new Essex Market, is packed these days with mobs of gastronauts from around the city. The space inside is strung with colored lights and includes an increasingly crowded, lively bar, but if you wish to feel the full heat of the fresh, made-to-order cooking, we suggest you secure a table within the sidewalk enclosure, where there’s more space to spread out. Order a round of Brooklyn’s fine, Indian American–owned 1947 beer, then begin merrily working your way through the menu, which is filled with dishes that even the most knowledgeable food scholars from India may not have tried, like pots of Bihari-style mutton infused with garlic and crunchy-topped biryani folded with bits of chopped goat’s neck."

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"Authentic indian - meme owner que semma"

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"Excellent resto indien situé à SoHo. Excellents cocktails."

@antoine.tezenas

"Eat. Sweat. Swoon. Drink. Repeat. At this Technicolor corner of the Lower East Side’s Essex Market, chef Chintan Pandya and restaurateur Roni Mazumdar create Indian food with a visceral, transportive energy by showcasing the fringes of the cuisine: a paplet fry, which is a whole, fried pomfret fish, dusted with ginger and cumin, an ideal partner to beer; a fiery, funky gurda kapoora, made with goat kidneys and testicles; a Bengal curry with baby shark. It is the stuff of homes and street stalls thousands of miles away. And yes, it is spicy. It calls for you to put down the phone. The tapping and scrolling can make the world feel small, but is that really the case? Eat, sweat, swoon, drink, repeat, and realize: There’s so much to this world, so much to try."

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"Named one of Esquire's best restaurants in America 2021"

@pauportilla

"Indian restaurant in Essex market "

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"Indian , ranked top 11 best new restaurants in America by eater and top 50 by NYT"

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"Eater best new restaurant list 2021"

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"Best new 2021 Eater. Indian. "

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"on eaters best NYC restaurants, very good"

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"An Indian restaurant focused on lesser-seen regional cooking that was named one of the country’s best new restaurants in 2021."

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"Savory regional Indian restaurant (not your typical Indian menu)"

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"Mindy Kaling recommended, in addition to so many other lists."

@micnicrod

"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-12/the-best-new-restaurants-in-new-york-2021-top-chefs-make-picks"

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"Eater Review: Roni Mazumdar and chef-owner Chintan Pandya continue with their streak of modern Indian hits, building on the success of the tandoor-centric Adda and the internationalist Rahi with Dhamaka, located in the Lower East Side’s Essex Market. The venue is dedicated to brilliant and often blazingly spicy regional dishes not frequently seen on local South Asian menus. Expect excellent preparations like ragda pattice, a potato patty with sweet tamarind chutney and green chile; gurda kapoora, a stew of goat kidneys and testicles meant for mopping up with soft pao bread; rich paneer methi, the farmer’s cheese enriched by cashew cream, and goat neck biryani, whose incendiary heat levels require one to eat pomegranate-topped yogurt to free the tongue from pain."

@chelsearpratt

"Indien Reco par Bloomberg & Nytimes"

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"Famously, Dhamaka and its cousin Adda make their own paneer. This compressed collection of curds is so different than the supermarket sort used in most Indian restaurants today, which has obtained a rubbery consistency by being stored cold in plastic. Not here: This paneer, made from cow’s milk sourced upstate, is unstintingly fluffy. One version is coated with a mild but very red masala, but even better is the one that immerses generous cubes of paneer in a pungent fenugreek sauce, making for a brilliant vegetarian main course."

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"Nontraditional Indian fare, hot new spot. Try the macher jhol (fish stew with baby shark) next time. Casual, festive, good for a small group!"

@chelseachesner

"Michelin affordable Indian"

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"Essex Market, unique Indian "

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"https://gothamist.com/food/dhamaka-brings-outrageously-good-indian-village-food-les"

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""outrageously good Indian village food" "

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