Most of the Indian restaurants in the United States focus on the same dishes: those that come from the north of India, specifically Punjabi cuisine. Which is fine, but India is a huge country: there has to be more, right? Enter Bhatti, a Murray Hill restaurant with a mission to bring diners a few of those less mainstream preparations. For that reason, non-Indian food experts won’t recognize much, but that’s part of the fun. Start with the tandoori chat, barbecued slices of apple, pineapple and sweet potato, before moving on to the house specialty: ultra tender balls of lamb---called gilauti kebab---said to have been made this way to give a toothless king food. It’s good enough to go toothless for. So is the shrimp, improbably cooked in Sprite (yes, the soft drink) and worth a return visit.
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Most of the Indian restaurants in the United States focus on the same dishes: those that come from the north of India, specifically Punjabi cuisine. Which is fine, but India is a huge country: there has to be more, right? Enter Bhatti, a Murray Hill restaurant with a mission to bring diners a few of those less mainstream preparations. For that reason, non-Indian food experts won’t recognize much, but that’s part of the fun. Start with the tandoori chat, barbecued slices of apple, pineapple and sweet potato, before moving on to the house specialty: ultra tender balls of lamb---called gilauti kebab---said to have been made this way to give a toothless king food. It’s good enough to go toothless for. So is the shrimp, improbably cooked in Sprite (yes, the soft drink) and worth a return visit.



