Besharam

Chef Heena Patel had been making regional dishes from her home state of Gujarat, in northwestern India, as part of La Cocina, SF’s nonprofit incubator kitchen. Her new restaurant, Besharam, takes over the Alta space in the Minnesota Street Project. Order the Khichdi Bowl (lentils and rice), inspired by a dish her mother fixed weekly during her childhood: “It was our mac and cheese, our comfort food.”