Passerine
Perks
- Complimentary glass of bubbles any time you dine at the restaurant
About
Opened this past November, this Flatiron eatery hopped right onto both Eater’s and Infatuation’s lists of “Best Indian in NYC.” Chef Chetan Shetty spent a decade at Indian Accent, working both in New York and Delhi, as well as at Michelin-Starred Rania in Washington, D.C. Don't expect your usual butter chicken at Passerine—named for an order of songbirds prominent in India. Instead, you will find unexpected dishes seasoned with spice blends that were personally grounded and shipped by Chef Shetty's mother in Pune, India. Consider lamb cheela, a chickpea flour-based pancake holding shredded lamb, red onion pickle, and cooling yogurt, naga pork belly with fermented beans and broccoli rabe, monkfish vagadam, and crispy cauliflower with ginger and winter radish. Outrageous desserts too, like pistachio cremeux with rose and chai or kuttu pavlova with pumpkin and coconut-mandarin sorbet. “A menu aiming to entice and surprise…Passerine is about showcasing regional Indian cuisine that has no bounds,” says Time Out.
Category
- Restaurants
