TCP: The Curry Project

Namaste Kerala: Southampton, UK

As the skies opened up and the rain began pouring down during the walk back to my hotel, I immediately ran for cover. Hopping onto the sidewalk, I opened the first door I came across, went inside and found myself standing in a tiny foyer. When I looked up from shaking the water off of [...]

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Maharaja: Tbilisi, Georgia

Tbilisi’s sun casts rays upon the narrow and cobbled streets of Vera, a neoclassical neighborhood just South of the Kura River. It was early afternoon and I was hungry–the kind of hungry that can only be remedied by one thing, and one thing alone. The delicate and sumptuous spice of Indian cuisine. Fortunately, I found [...]

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Jomolungma: Minsk, Belarus

Eating out in Minsk is no longer the outright horror that is once was. There now seems to be two kinds of restaurants: those that get it, and those that don’t. —Minsk Belarus In Your Pocket guide Jomolungma, the only Tibetan/Indian/Chinese restaurant in Minsk and greater Belarus, “gets it.” Jomolunmga, the Tibetan word for Mt. [...]

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Ashiana: Tirana, Albania

It was May 2009, and unlike Tirana’s hot and sticky afternoons, the early evening air was calm and pleasant. I exited Broadway Hotel, my small and friendly, pseudo-Egyptian themed lodging in search of Albania’s first—and only—Indian restaurant, Ashiana. India Gunsen Shah and his Albanian wife Erinda opened Ashiana in early 2007. Despite the lack of [...]

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