Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s New Indian Restaurant Opens in NYC

Earlier this month, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas announced her new restaurant,Sona在纽约市的Flatiron区Instagram。她写道：“索纳是永恒的印度的体现，也是我长大的风味。”

但是索那的故事,哪个企业家Maneesh Goyal和餐馆老板David Rabinare debuting with creative partner Chopra Jonas on Thursday, starts in Texas four decades ago.

In May 1975, Goyal's father opened India House in Dallas, which he says was the first Indian restaurant in Texas. Goyal's father, who also worked at Xerox at the time, started India House because he had a growing family to support: Goyal, who has an older sister and an older brother, was born just a couple months prior.

One menu item at Sona is known as India House's butter chicken. This dish, with charcoal-smoked chicken tikka and tomato gravy, is based on the exact recipe that was used in Dallas.

The food that chef Hari Nayak is cooking at Sona includes other loving nods to the past, including a dish called Floyd's Goan fish curry. This dish honors award-winning chefFloyd Cardoz, who died of COVID-19 in 2020. Cardoz ran the pioneering upscale Indian restaurant Tabla in the neighborhood that's now home to Sona.

"This was done with the blessing of his lovely wife, Barkha," Goyal said. "Floyd was the original pioneer of Indian cuisine in America. Floyd just meant so much to us."

Sona的菜单探索了具有区域特殊性的印度食品，从孟买的街亚搏电竞道到果阿海滩。yabo电竞投注戈亚尔谈到纳亚克时说：“我们的厨师来自芒格洛尔，在丹尼尔·布鲁德（Daniel Boulud）的领导下接受训练，他为自己的核心而成为印度人感到非常自豪。”“当我们开始谈论菜单时，他很早就很清楚：他说我们需要代表整个印度。”

The food also gets playful. There are samosas filled with goat cheese and spinach. Crab puri comes with caviar. Kofta korma is made with Dancing Ewe Farm ricotta. Aged cheddar dosas pop with a turmeric-edamame mash. One idea that Chopra Jonas had was to start dinners with a riff on golgappa shots, which are liquid-infused street snacks that Sona fills with vodka, tequila, or spiced water.

Goyal,他和乔Chopra成了朋友nas when she was in New York filmingQuantico，是一个自称为“贪婪的艺人”，他以在阁楼上举行活泼的晚宴而闻名。他经常被要求推荐纽约的印度餐厅。他意识到，他有墙上有洞的选秀权和满足特定渴望的地方，但缺少一些东西。

戈亚尔说：“我没有一个有趣的地方，可以找一群朋友去那里。”没有乔先生，宇宙或巴尔萨扎尔或印度食品的印度菜，所以戈亚亚开始与他的长期朋友拉宾（Lambs Club，American Bar，Jimmy，Jimmy亚搏电竞，Skylark）谈论如何创建一种。

"If you could dream up what an Indian brasserie would be, that's the kind of spirit we're looking for at Sona," Goyal said. "It's boisterous yet elegant. … We were relentless about location because we did not want this to be a fringe restaurant. People assess you based on your location. From the first second that people heard we were next to Gramercy Tavern, we were legitimized."

拉宾说，在整个创作过程中，乔普拉·乔纳斯（Chopra Jonas）一直是索纳（Sona）的“缪斯女神”。她与团队会面，讨论从食物到面料选择再到颜色选择的一切。亚搏电竞她为Goyal，Rabin和设计师Melissa Bowers提供了很多有关餐厅氛围的投入。戈亚尔谈到这位女演员时说：“与她合作的是她毫不掩饰的印度人。”

This is the first restaurant for both Chopra Jonas and Goyal. Goyal knows it's a privilege for him to open a restaurant that wasn't born out of necessity. He knows that having an Indian restaurant where he can think about being fun and glamorous and cool is far different from the experience and sacrifices of many restaurateurs who came before him.

走进Sona时，您会看到的第一件事是一张全家福，戈亚尔的父母及其孩子站在印度之家前。

戈亚尔说：“事实是，我父亲正在养育一个五口之家，赌博，并在得克萨斯州庞大的州开设了第一家印度餐厅。”“我妈妈没有开车。所以他带她去了医生的约会和上课。他在扮演双重职责。我们试图在某些方面过着美国的生活和美国的梦想。从骄傲的角度来看，生存的角度，公认的，还有更多。”

"I feel like I have to do this," he continued. "Where's a really fun great night out with Indian food? If I can't answer that question, I have to do something. That question should have an answer."

Goyal thinks about the grandparents he never knew because they didn't ever come to America. And he thinks about his cousins, nieces, and nephews. He wants to "build a bridge for that next generation" and help them stay connected with their food and their culture.

戈亚尔说：“我感到自豪，我感到义务。”“这就是给我的动力，但这与父亲的燃料截然不同。”