Angon on the Sixth (CLOSED)

Mina Azad, the only female chef on Sixth Street, built her cult following at Queens’ Mina Foods. Now she has a setting truly worthy of her talent: a pretty dining room decorated in muted spice colors and lit by gourd-shaped paper lanterns. The staff is attentive, gregarious and quick to apologize for the inevitably long waits between courses. Aloo tikka (deep-fried potato balls) are richly creamy, and samosa chat are covered in deliciously herby yogurt sauce. The sweet caramelized onions in the khichuri (a lentil-and-rice dish) are nicely balanced by the side of spicy chicken curry. But no meal is complete without an order of the spectacular dal fry, a house specialty of fried and baked lentils, complexly flavored with turmeric, onion, garlic, ginger and cilantro.