Rahi

"In Greenwich Village, Mazumdar says his restaurant Rahi, which has since closed and reopened as Semma." - Luke Fortney

"The pair’s existing restaurants are getting a refresh, too. Chef Vijay Kumar, previously of Michelin-starred Rasa in California, has been brought in to revamp the kitchen at Rahi with a menu of regional southern Indian food, to debut in September." - Erika Adams

"Rahi was their firstborn; that very good Greenwich Village venue offers the most creative dishes of the bunch, including dry-aged lamb burgers, masala fried-chicken sandwiches, and other fare that channels some of the internationalist Indian tendencies of the late, great Floyd Cardoz." - Ryan Sutton

"Roni Mazumdar, the co-owner of several top Indian restaurants in NYC, including Adda and Rahi." - Tanay Warerkar

"When the dog days of summer arrived, I still wasn’t taking public transportation out of COVID fears. But I was taking longer trips on my bike to places like Long Island City, Fort Greene, and the Upper East Side, where I would eat dishes like birria tacos, pho ga, and sizzling sisig — leaving sandwiches for convenient eating closer to home. On a very warm Sunday, however, as I brunched at Rahi in Greenwich Village, I was blown away by the restaurant’s take on what has become a citywide obsession: the fried chicken sandwich. Accompanied by masala fries, this one is topped with onions (shredded and fried) as well as mayo flavored with mint and a medley of Indian pickles, which made for a nice creamy and acidic contrast to the fried chicken." - Robert Sietsema