To celebrate its 10th anniversary, every Wednesday Tabla is offering a rotating menu of small plates for $10 and under in its upstairs dining room. Examples include Parsi spicy-sour curry with sauteed scallops and cilantro and a Goan pork sausage sandwich on a brioche bun. Bonus: you can bring up to 2 bottles of wine with no corkage fee (after that it's $25 a pop). Reservations are required.
Most of you have probably already tried The Kati Roll Company, which now has 2 locations in New York. Their paratha rolls (stuffed with beef, eggs, paneer, etc) are pretty good, especially after a night out, as evidenced by the mass of people in line at the Kati Roll on Macdougal St. at 4 am on a Saturday night. My main issue with Kati Roll is that, at $4-5 dollars, the rolls are cheap, but they're quite small, which lends itself to the "one is too little and two is a bit too much" predicament. Those of us with healthy appetites could even eat 3, but forking over $15-16 suddenly becomes not such a cheap eat.
Ludlow Fitness in the Lower East Side is currently offering a special: $449 for a year membership with no initiation fee if you pay in full (if you pay monthly it works out to about $60 a month). Equinox it ain't - no scented towels or fancy sauna here, but it's clean, the equipment is new, and they offer yoga, spinning, and pilates classes. And, at $37 a month, it's cheap to boot.
Here are a few ways to get tickets to Broadway and off Broadway shows at a fraction of the cost...
You're here, you're queer, now where do you go to get your drink on? Here are some drink specials at gay bars, sorted by day of the week. Most of them last all night. Not all of them are cheap, but they're all pretty popular.
For a fast, no fuss Indian meal, a reader submits the following:
There's nothing quite like Chinese food cooked the South Asian way - fried rice made with fragrant basmati, chili chicken cooked with Indian spices. The best South Asian-Chinese food in NYC is at Tangra Masala in Elmhurst, Queens. It's a huge space, usually filled with families and large groups. The prices are reasonable and the chicken lollipops are a must. It's byob, though you might get a disapproving stare from an auntie or two...
Happy Hours for the Witching Hour...
Some of the best happy hours deals on our fair isle.
Here's a list of happy hours where you can get your oyster on...(subject to change, as always)
