Venice Boulevard in West Los Angeles, with its many blocks dotted with Indian restaurants, sweet and spice shops and even a major temple, has evolved into a “Little India” second only to Artesia. And Mayura Indian Restaurant has become the official star of the show, in part due to the blessing of a prominent LA […]...
New India’s Oven featuring Exotic Cuisine of India offers new Singh family management and a variety of Northern and Southern Indian dishes. A daily buffet and champagne week-end brunch offers a wide variety of changing dishes. Pepper shrimp and Hayward 5000 Indian Beer are the latest on the list of most popular. E...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Spice Affair looks to fill big footprints in its Beverly Hills home on Restaurant Row. It replaces Gaylord’s and Tanzore (all in the same family) with brand new owners and management on a street where size and opulence once reigned. These days, all but historic institutions, such as Lawry’s The Prime Rib ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Known for their flavor-intensive Indian cuisine and lush interiors in the Los Angeles area, the family group’s newest restaurant in Westlake, Anarbagh Indian Restaurant, is ready to join their four other eateries as a “best Indian restaurant” designation. It’s easy to sit back and enjoy th...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Decades old, Peacock Gardens Restaurant and Banquet Room in Diamond Bar has earned ZAGAT Senior Editor’s affectionate distinction of “ institution.” He himself praised the restaurant as “Best Indian Restaurant” in the area. In fact, my friends in Walnut singled it out for me years ago wi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Joyous, Chef-owner, Boda Nirouia, renews Gate of India, an old Hollywood mainstay since the 198o’s, with his gift for contemporary Indian cuisine fusion. Chef Boda’s dishes shows a light, deft hand at incorporating fusion elements that elevate the most ordinary Indian dishes. Here radish sprouts, ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, Los Angeles)New, dedicated owner-chef Durga’s authentic Nepalese and South Indian dishes are only part of the ambitious revamp of Shalimar Cuisine of India (Culver City Raintree Plaza) from neighborhood mainstay into a “best of Indian” restaurant. Details, such as offering Mustang bee...
(reprinted with permission from Lisa Deutsch’s Cultural Wanderings blog) We had the pleasure of dining at India’s Tandoori today and we feel the same way we felt after our spice plantation tour of Goa, awed by the variety, intense flavor and richness of India’s abundant spice palette. India’s Tandoori dining room is ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Even in its second month neighborhood “buzz” and new regulars regularly fill New Tamarind Cuisine of India Restaurant in Sherman Oaks. When we ate at Tamarind last week, one of the customers walked over just to say that the owner of the cleaner business next door sent him in to Tamarind, and he [&hell...
My grandfather grew okra for me. He tended the bushes carefully, harvesting and freezing it so he’d have some when I came to Texas to visit. I’d walk out to the back porch, move the cases of Coke bottles off the deep freeze onto the painted cement floor. Lifting open the freezer, I’d marvel at the bags of f...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 