Sahib
Indian restaurant · Midtown East ·
Regional Indian cuisine, goat curries, chicken biryani, paneer
Regional Indian cuisine, goat curries, chicken biryani, paneer
"The Rose Hill restaurant travels all over northern India to collect recipes. There are four kinds of bone-in goat curry alone, including one from Kashmir and another from Kolkata — which is a good measure of the seriousness of an Indian restaurant. This is one of a handful of chef Hemant Mathur’s Fine Indian Dining group’s restaurants in Manhattan. The vegetarian dishes keep pace with the meat-bearing ones, including paneer kali murch in a creamy black pepper sauce, and achari bhindi: okra flavored with tart Indian pickles." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Sahib travels all over northern India to collect recipes — there are four kinds of bone-in goat curry alone, including one from Kashmir and another from Kolkata — which is a good measure of the seriousness of an Indian restaurant. This is one of a handful of Hemant Mathur restaurants in Manhattan. The vegetarian dishes keep pace with the meat-bearing ones, including paneer kali murch in a creamy black pepper sauce, and achari bindi: okra flavored with tart Indian pickles." - Robert Sietsema
"I appreciate the palak paneer at Sahib: a flavorful slurry of spinach and one of the softest, most agreeable paneers—made on the premises—reflecting the restaurant’s focus on Kashmiri and northern dishes under Hemant Mathur’s supervision." - Robert Sietsema
"An Indian restaurant on Lexington Avenue he credits with serving possibly the best chicken biryani in the city, recommended as the superior alternative to upscale club dining for authentic, high-quality Indian food." - Greg Morabito
"With this opening, Mathur will leave his other restaurants — Dhaba, Chote Nawab, Chola, Sahib, and Malai Marke — to focus on Saar." - Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
