The chile-pepper string lights of First Avenue, two stories’ worth of them, have long been the beacon of the East Village’s Indian-food corridor, the compact shorthand to generations of New Yorkers ...

Nadia Chaudhury is a born-and-raised New Yorker who is the deputy editor for Eater’s Northeast region and Eater New York, was the former Eater Austin editor for 10 years, and often writes about food ...

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. The on-fire Dhamaka team is opening two more ...

Chintan Pandya follows up his hit Queens restaurant, Adda, with a celebration of rustic Indian cuisine on the Lower East Side. Chintan Pandya at Dhamaka, the Manhattan follow-up to his acclaimed ...

Restaurateur Roni Mazumdar and chef Chintan Pandya of the acclaimed Indian group Unapologetic Foods (Dhamaka and Semma) have big changes in store for one of their early restaurants, Adda. The duo ...