The hit-making duo, chef Chintan Pandya and restaurateur Roni Mazumdar, are on an expansion tear with three highly anticipated openings. On that lineup is a revived Masalawala in Park Slope — their first in Brooklyn — set to open on September 14, as a neighborhood restaurant with a retail shop for Indian pantry staples. The menu leans heavily into eastern Indian dishes like daab chingri, prawns cooked inside a spiced-up coconut and served in that presentation, Pandya tells Eater. Mazumdar explains the menu is a convergence of dishes his dad was cooking at home in the international trading hub of Calcutta at the same time Pandya, then a stranger was traveling and studying food there. In 2011, Mazumdar opened Masalawala in the Lower East Side for his father until the restaurant closed in 2021. Masalawala 2.0 — dubbed Masalawala & Sons — is a chance for Mazumdar to bring back family-style dishes that didn’t find success within a dining culture that was less open-minded. Meanwhile, Kebabwala’s debut in the East Village and Adda’s move to Manhattan are slated for early 2023. 365 Fifth Avenue, at Fifth Street, Park Slope

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