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“Kalustyan's Cafe”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Indian	Flatiron	Moderate	Great

devouring more and more of this dish. You just keep going. It makes you sweat. You eat more. It makes you hot. You dig into the pot with bread as your fork. It makes you happy. And really, isn’t that what eating is all about?

But you will be made even happier if you save room for dessert. They are quite yummy. Jehangir Mehta, the pastry chef known for serving vegetables and spices as dessert up at Aix, is consulting on the dessert menu here and there are some showstoppers. The stone fruit naan ($7)—a wide stretched out coconut-laced naan is cooked in the tandori oven with a topping of roasted apricots, plum, nectarines, and peaches. It’s topped with a quenelle of vanilla ice cream studded with dried fruit. Another must have is the basil cake—a moist green pound cake that is sort of like zucchini bread, but better—served with a fresh and vibrant salsa made from pineapple and grapes with a tart papaya sorbet ($7).

There’s a lot of great food to enjoy at Kalustyan’s Café—and in this way, the restaurant’s makeover has been a huge success. Yes, it could use the Queer Eye’s Tom Filicia to fix up some design issues, but in the kitchen, Ted Allen would have no issue. He’d be flirting with Mohan (who is quite handsome and quite taken), and kvelling over the food, begging for recipes all along.

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Posted: August 1, 2004

Other restaurants in Flatiron :
+ Suenos   + Amuse-- Closed   + Dos Caminos   + Lucy-- Closed   + Gramercy Taver   + Veritas   + Fleur De Sel   + Bolo -- CLosed   + City Bakery   + Shake Shack   + Kalustyan's Cafe   + Devi   + BLT Fish   + Sugarcane   + BLT Prime   + Barca 18-- CLOSED   + Beppe   + Barbounia   + Boqueria   + Eleven Madison   + Lonesome Dove-- CLOSED   + Hill Country   + Olana   + Wildwood   + Primehouse   + Allegretti   + Bar Breton   + Aldea   + SD26 by Bao Ong   + ABC Kitchen   + Ciano   + The NoMad   

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