NY Dosas
Indian takeaway · Greenwich Village ·
Vegan South Indian dosas, snacks, & sambar from cart
Vegan South Indian dosas, snacks, & sambar from cart
"I like going to have a dosa in Washington Square Park—I used to take my daughter to the playscape—where I get a regular dosa with no masala inside, served with podi on the side and chutney; it’s fresh, simple, and entirely vegetarian. What NY Dosas (and my dosa recipe) does is increase the proportion of lentils to rice, which makes it a little more flavorful and nutty." - Padma Lakshmi
"This vegan dosa cart in Washington Square Park is as legendary a landmark as any New York City monument, and so is the dosa man (Thiru Kumar) who runs it. NY Dosas serves South Indian staples like dosas filled with curried vegetable and potato, as well as roti and samosas every day except Sunday, from 11am to 3pm out of a little cart by the dog run in the park. All of the dosas are served with coconut chutney and sambar, and you can pay with cash or Venmo." - molly fitzpatrick, bryan kim, neha talreja, carina finn koeppicus, sonal shah
"This vegan dosa cart in Washington Square Park is just as legendary as any other New York City monument, and so is the dosa man who runs it (named Thiru Kumar). NY Dosas serves South Indian staples like vegetable and curried potato-filled dosas, roti, and samosas every day (except for Sunday) from 11am to 3pm out of a little cart by the dog run in the park. All of the dosas are served with coconut chutney and sambar, and you can pay with cash or Venmo." - neha talreja
"NY Dosas is pretty much just as legendary as Halal Guy’s, only there’s one location, with just one dosa man (named Thiru Kumar, who is a legend in his own right), and the menu is completely vegan. This lower Manhattan fixture serves South Indian staples like vegetable-and-curried-potato-filled dosas, roti, and samosas every day (except for Sunday) from 11am to 3pm out of a little cart by the dog run in Washington Square Park. All of the dosas are served with coconut chutney and sambar, and you can pay with cash or Venmo." - hannah albertine
"I discovered this when, at Gourmet, I did a TV show called Adventures with Ruth. One episode of it was Jeffrey Wright and I went and took cooking classes from a Julie Sahni, a very famous cooking teacher in Brooklyn. And we explored Indian New York. Dosa batter is complicated. It is not something you really are gonna do at home. It is so wonderful. I love texture. The crispness of the Dosa, it's the pancake itself against the softness of the potato filling. And then you have the chilies in there. It's great. Plus, [Thiru Kumar, the owner], he's just a lovely man. I grew up playing in Washington Square Park where the only food you could buy was the Good Humor man, Tippy. So we always went to Washington Square Park hungry, knowing we were gonna get ice cream, and now I go and get masala dosa. There's something wonderful about the evolution of New York." - brennan carley
