Dévi

Frommer's Review

ith the number of Indian restaurants in New York City, you would think another one would be redundant. But few of them are like this restaurant. Dévi offers $60 tasting menus (vegetarian and non-vegetarian), and that's really the way to go. The menu features nine small courses that will let you sample much of what the restaurant has to offer. Some of the highlights include tender tandoori chicken stuffed with spicy herbs, halibut coated in a cilantro rub accompanied with mint coconut chutney and lemon rice, zimikand koftas, delicate yam koftas in a creamy tomato-onion sauce, and the addictive, crispy okra, the Indian equivalent of french fries. With the tasting menus, you get a choice of desserts; I strongly recommend the fabulous falooda, an Indian sundae that's a refreshing combination of noodles with honey-soaked basil seeds, mango, and strawberry sorbet in lemongrass-infused coconut milk. Seating is comfortable and service is knowledgeable, though servers regrettably don bright orange uniforms that look a bit too much like prison garb.

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