"The casual restaurant specializes in spicy dry pot, which you can customize with your choice of vegetables, meats, noodles, and spice level. You could eat here three times in the same week, with three very different people, without ever feeling like you’ve done it all before. Málà Project opened their first location in the East Village in 2015, and have since opened three more restaurants and a jazz lounge. At the original, long, brick-walled space, you’ll see a lot of dates splitting bottles of wine and chatting over Chinese music from the ’80s. " - neha talreja, hannah albertine, diana kuan
Noah Devereaux