News Summary

• The city has been bullish on high-end Indian for a while from chefs who are established enough to take creative risks and can charge accordingly
• Chetan Shetty moved to New York to work at the Indian Accent on 57th Street, where he began incorporating local, seasonal ingredients, like fiddlehead ferns and ramps
• Regi Mathew, who runs the acclaimed Kappa Chakka Kandhari in Chennai and Bangalore, opened Chatti by RegiMathew a couple of blocks from Penn Station