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  • Features
    Time Out New York / Issue 667 : Jul 10–16, 2008
    Cheap eats 2008

    Street carts name desires

    Four vendors-turned-critics rate their restaurant competition.

    By Pervaiz Shallwani

    STREET-CART CHEF
    Thiru Kumar of NY Dosas (W 4th St at Sullivan St, 917-710-2092). Mon–Sat 11am–5pm.

    SPECIALTY
    Vegan dosas ($4–$6), stuffed with veggies and curried potatoes, served with sambar (spicy lentil soup), coconut and fiery cilantro chutneys, doled out to value-seeking students

    RESTAURANT CHALLENGER
    Hampton Chutney Co. (68 Prince St between Crosby and Lafayette Sts, 212-226-9996). The classic masala dosa ($7.95), a rice-and-lentil crêpe with curried potatoes, plus curry and cilantro chutneys

    VALUE
    “For a restaurant, this is not bad pricewise,” Kumar says. “It is good according to the market. For $8 it is big and the packaging is good.”

    TASTE
    “The filling is good. The curry chutney is good. [The dosa’s] texture is very different.” Kumar says it’s crispy, but “like restaurant-style, nothing special. Mine is special. I have a grinder from India. I grind my batter according to the weather. It’d be nice if they give you coconut chutney. It goes better with the dosa.”

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