"Hungry City writer Mahira Rivers is delighted with her meal at Peri Peri Grill House in Bed-Stuy, which specializes in grilled meats doused in peri peri chile. The owner Sohaib Malik is Pakistani, and his wife Ruschke is from South Africa and introduced him to peri peri by way of popular Johannesburg-based chain Nando’s. After wanting the style to be in New York, Malik opened Peri Peri Grill House just last year but seems to be a hit with the neighborhood, with waits stretching to 30 minutes most nights. That’s probably because it serves “unfailingly juicy” chicken and “buttery, tender” lamb chops, she writes. Of the chicken wings, she notes, “Chicken wings, for example, are flame-grilled, with the blackened bits to prove it, and slicked with peri peri sauce that hums with citrus and spice. But the smoke is what sticks with you." - Carla Vianna
