"As a pop-up-turned-restaurant, LUFU NOLA delivered on long-awaited promise: the trio of chefs Sarthak Samantray, Aman Kota, and Sachin Darade presented an elegant take on regional Indian cuisine honed from their food-stall and mobile-kitchen days, with magnificent presentations of biryani, chole bhature, and falooda, photo-worthy cocktails, and eye-catching backdrops that made the first solo space a true hotspot advancing New Orleans’s growing Indian food scene." - Clair Lorell