Baluchi's Abandons Brooklyn?
Looks like local Indian food chain-let Baluchi's has jumped ship from Brooklyn. Not that it was much of a ship. With locations on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens and Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, it was more of a rowboat, but the Smith Street location closed this spring and a Labor Day wander down Third Avenue found the Bay Ridge outpost replaced by a new spot called Himalayan Cafe. The chain's website says there are 15 locations, but they are down to 12, all but one of them in Manhattan. The other is in Queens, which is interesting given that Queens has the best Indian food in New York City and, probably, the most competitive market for Indian restaurants. At one point, a new Baluchi's was supposed to be opening on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, but we've seen no evidence of it, unless we've missed something.Bonus Question: Why are so many Brooklyn Indian restaurants so mediocre, with the same generic menus and the same generic sort of cooking?
[Photo courtesy joodee on flickr]
posted by rsguskind at 11:20 AM
3 Comments:
i'm not sure. but i will say that joy on flatbush near 7th ave (other side of the street, tho) is (if it's still around) a really good deal and the best indian i've had in bklyn. i hear good things about the curry near Soda Bar as well, so maybe prospect heights is the place to go for chana masala?
ps i think kinara is way overrated.
I'd love for a good Indian spot to open up near Pratt.
For the time being we have to order from Amin which is touch and go... sometimes the Tikka Masala is amazing and other times it tastes like Campbell's Tomato Soup.
By the way, the Baluchi's in Queens is WAY out in Kew Gardens... I've always been under the impression that Jackson Heights was the neighborhood where all the good Indian food was... I don't think there's much in the way of great indian food out where Baluchi's is, near the Van Wyck and the Grand Central.
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