TCP: The Curry Project

Near Aya Sofia, just up the road from the Basilica Cistern, lies a break from doner kebabs and bombas. Dubb Indian Restaurant takes up three floors of a building on the corner of a side street in the Sultanahmet district of Istanbul. You have a choice of dining inside, out on a terrace level, or on the street al fresco. We chose to sit outside and watch people either ignore or get sucked in by the touts of the Turkish restaurants along the alley way.

The “darling of restaurant critics,” 9Marys is approaching its first decade in Perth, a city known for its multicultural cuisine. Sid Grewal, deemed Master of the Kitchen, constantly experiments with new ingredients but maintains a richly traditional Indian ambiance in his cuisine. I walk in after a long day of work. The restaurant is packed, [...]

In Malaysia, Penang in particular, there is no shortage of mouth-watering cuisine. Heaping plates of fresh seafood and noodles and spices. Yet as always, no matter where I’m at in the world, I set aside at least one meal for Indian food. Palace d’India, which has been around for 13 years, came highly recommended. One [...]

Indian Mango is within walking distance from most of downtown Reykjavik. It’s 7:30pm on a Saturday night, and I walk, right in, something I would not have expected from a restaurant that was written up as “probably the best addition to the Icelandic restaurant landscape in recent years.” Especially in the height of the tourist [...]

I went there for lunch on a Sunday, and we must’ve just missed the post-church crowd (or just beat them), because most of the tables were empty. Once we were seated at a booth, we took advantage of the absence of a line at the buffet. I was surprised by the choices on offer. First off, there was no plain white rice to be seen. If you wanted plain rice, you had to ask.