"In September, he and his partner at Rahi, Roni Mazumdar, opened Adda, a “canteen” that serves the kind of unpretentious, homey food that “Indian people actually eat,” Mazumdar said, as he and Pandya made rounds in the dining room one recent afternoon. To insure quality, they kept the menu small. “We can’t do justice to forty pages,” Mazumdar said. To keep prices down, they chose a low-rent location in Long Island City. Otherwise, they did exactly as they pleased, plastering the walls with colorful Indian newsprint and choosing an eclectic array of their favorite multiregional specialties." - Hannah Goldfield