Yogurt Kebab

Babu JI is a trendy, modern Indian eater in the East Village that offers a very tempting tasting menu for only $65 bucks. In this town, that’s a steal.

As Stefon would say, this place is so hot right now, who you’d better reserve that shit, unless you’ve got some weird fetish for waiting in lines.

You are given about 4-5 little courses of nice sized, creative dishes. They include my favorite of the evening, the General Tso’s Cauliflower (which is just what you’d think it would be) and these unique fried yogurt pattys in a pool of ginger beet sauce. Very pretty.

I never order Tandoor Chicken because I always assume it’s going to be as drier than taking a shot of Gobi Desert sand. But this little Tnadoori appetizer was just delicious and moist.

After all those mini courses, we were presented with a large platter which appeared to be some sort of wonderful curry sampler and some heavenly, butter naan.

It ended up being a ton of food but we managed to polish off most everything.

For dessert we were brought an odd metal tube, which looked like some sort of medical probing device from the Victorian era. The mysterious device contained pistachio kulfi, a traditional frozen ice cream like treat.

It was the perfect sized ending to this rather lovely Indian smorgasbord.

175 Ave B
New York, NY 10009
East Village, Alphabet City
Phone number (212) 951-1082
babujinyc.com

General Tso’s Cauliflower

Tandoori Chicken

Curry Sampler (part of the $65 Tasting Menu)

Kulfi (Indian Ice Cream Pop)