Chintan Pandya, chef and co-owner of New York City newcomer Dhamaka, usually starts his day at the butcher, bringing his haul — in today’s case, of goat neck, liver, kidneys, and testicles — back to ...

Chef Chintan Pandya is having a blast doing all the things he once thought he could never do at a restaurant. Dhamaka, the sensational hot spot that Pandya and Roni Mazumdar opened at Essex Market on ...

The team behind critically acclaimed Indian restaurants Rahi and Adda is gearing up to bring a new restaurant to the Lower East Side later this year. Similarly to new Long Island City restaurant Adda ...

Chef Chintan Pandya and his business partner Roni Mazumdar, who already run the stellar Adda in Long Island City, and the equally excellent Rahi in the West Village, have given us another huge ...

“The mind-set of the people has changed” in New York, says Chintan Pandya, the chef of Dhamaka, one of the hardest reservations in Manhattan. He thinks his rustic Indian restaurant would not have been ...

The other night at Dhamaka, a new Indian restaurant in Essex Market, on the Lower East Side, my dining companions and I took turns dragging our spoons through a hot metal pot of gurda kapoora, ...