| |  | Elettaria | | | “Serving up an eclectic American menu with Indian and Filipino undertones in a former musical venue where Jimi Hendrix once played.” —restaurant | | Cuisine: Eclectic / Intl, Eclectic, Filipino, Indian |
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| | | | | | Akhtar Nawab (center) runs a tight ship at ElettariaAkhtar Nawab first came to prominence at Tom Colicchio’s Craftbar. He left in 2006 to go solo, but things didn’t quite go as planned. He was the originally announced chef at Allen & Delancey, but when the restaurant finally opened, Neil Fergus... Read More | | | | | | "I'll show you Clooney-like scruff." Photo: Tejal Rao. In his one-star review of Elettaria earlier this year, the Times's Frank Bruni described the atmosphere as “self-consciously adorable, with girly flourishes,” and “dollhouse elements.” Last week, in an article about gender roles and... Read More | | | | | | West Village 33 8th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave 212-677-3833 elettarianyc.com Elettaria just opened so we walked over to check it out. It's from a chef formerly at Craft Bar and on a block dominated by shoe stores, with size sixteens displayed in window after window. Bigfoot Row. The staff is ... Read More | | | | | | I wouldn???t believe you if you told me I would be eating Filipino congee for my Christmas meal. Every year I have a holiday dinner date at an often random restaurant a few days before December 25th because I don???t do the going home with the boyfriend for Christmas thing (no, not even after nine C... Read More | | | | | | I wouldn’t believe you if you told me I would be eating Filipino congee for my Christmas meal. Every year I have a holiday dinner date at an often random restaurant a few days before December 25th because I don’t do the going home with the boyfriend for Christmas thing (no, not even after nine Chris... Read More | | | | | | I wouldn’t believe you if you told me I would be eating Filipino congee for my Christmas meal. Every year I have a holiday dinner date at an often random restaurant a few days before December 25th because I don’t do the going home with the boyfriend for Christmas thing (no, not even after nine Chris... Read More | | | | | | Months ago, Angie and Winnie went to Elettaria Elettaria, ordered too much food, and decided to bring their doggie bag to us. From then on, Elettaria has been on our restaurant wish list but you know how that goes. If only there were 8 meals in a day....Well, waiting so long is our loss. It was a me... Read More | | | | | | Elettariaphoto: Ryan Charles Akhtar Nawab (ex Craftbar, The E.U.) presents seasonal, South Asian–accented New American fare at Elettaria, a stylish arrival on an unlikely Greenwich Village block; it’s in the space that once was 8th Wonder, where Jimi Hendrix played, now done up in rustic-hip style... Read More | | | | | | Any restaurant formed by the remaining Presidential candidates (two parts Kenya and Kansas; one part Panama Canal Zone; a dash of Anywhere You Want) would surely resemble Elettaria, a kaleidoscope of cultures and histories. Elettaria’s chef, Akhtar Nawab, was born to Indian émigrés and gre... Read More | | | | | | I went to Elettaria the other night, on W 8th St. between 5th and 6th, just past Macdougal. Its chef describes it as American cuisine influenced by, among other things, Indian spices. The space is a rectangular, with low ceilings made from aged wooden planks, which gives it a homey feeling. At the e... Read More | | | |
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