Chatti by Regi Mathew

NYC’s New Restaurant Openings

"While several Manhattan restaurants have drawn from India’s coastal cuisines—Lungi, Kanyakumari, Semma—Chatti is the first to explicitly refer to the toddy shop culture of the southern state of Kerala. The restaurant is less backwaters shack and more Midtown glam, but the “touchings” section of the menu features drinking snacks like beef fry, and duck mappas, and they’ll have plenty of regional bread and rice dishes too—from coin porotta to steamed puttu. As far as we know, they won’t have actual palm toddy (which doesn't have much of a shelf-life), but will be mixing cocktails inspired by the region." - will hartman, bryan kim