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Dhamaka

Bold provincial Indian cooking inside the Lower East Side's Essex Market

📍 Essex Market, Lower East Side, New York

📍 New York City North Indian Regional Indian

About Dhamaka

Chef Chintan Pandya's Lower East Side restaurant focuses on rustic regional dishes rarely served outside Indian homes and roadside stalls. The menu runs from goat neck biryani and smoked dhungar gosht to butter pepper garlic crab, with the whole Rajasthani rabbit available by advance order. Dinner is served nightly, plus weekend brunch.

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