{ Sunday, April 20, 2003 }
Another excellent meal at Vij's last night with Mark and Julie. Delicious! The decor is luxe-moderne and food Indian-fabulous and the attention to detail (perfect candles, copper water can) lapidary.You can have a look at the menu and plan your next meal in advance. We had the paratha, the fritters, the tiger prawns, the jackfruit, the saag paneer, the duck breast and the lamb popsicles.
The kitchen is run by women, all of them laughing. We turned to watch them. The staff gives you chai and cassava fries and samosas while you wait. Vij greets everyone and makes a point of stopping by each table to ask how everything is. He dashed outside to put an ashtray in front of a woman who had just lit up a cigarette. He picked up napkins off the floor, folded them, and put them on the table for when the diner returned to his seat.
Good service is rare in all but the most expensive hotels and restaurants -- or when you're poised to part with a huge amount of money -- so when you encounter it in regular places it's enough to make people come back again and again and again. But reservations? Reservations, please.
LINK | 10:49 PM | TB
As was Vij: "he dashed outside..."
Caterina | April 21, 2003 8:18 PMLove Vij's. I first ate at his place in 1995 when it was tucked into a little spot on Broadway near Hemlock, which now houses the Velvet Cafe. It was a tiny place, with tasteful photogrpahy on the walls and jazz on the system. He used to give me chunks of raw asafoetida to add to my dahls at home.
And the thing is, if you showed up on a more or less rgular basis, he learned your name quickly and would ask all the right questions to make you feel at home. And now that Vik is a superstar, and his place is packed every night with people waiting (get there at opening, Caterina!) he STILL rememembers names, and still asks about the kids, and my cousin, with whom he worked in Banff in the early nineties.
Vikram has found the secret to longevity in the restaurant biz: make everyone feel like they're the special friends of the owner. And serve them chai on arrival. And offer the odd free desert ("just to try...I want your opinion.")
He is a master.
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Everything sounded great until the cigarette, then I was running for the door.
kathy | April 21, 2003 5:49 PM