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Gunpowder
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Gunpowder is a simply designed little restaurant right off Commercial Street serving inventive takes on Indian food that are uniformly delicious and even better than some of the poshest spots around town. And while Gunpowder may share some dishes in common with both Indian restaurants around town and traditional Indian homes, they repackage them into something entirely new.
Take, for example, the spicy venison and vermicelli donut. This is Gunpowder’s take on keema, which is typically minced and spiced beef or mutton served with bread. Here the spicy venison is stuffed inside of a doughnut that looks like some sort of sea creature. Cut it open, expose its meaty guts, and serve it to your friends. Or there’s the classic tamarind rasam, which comes served as a shot with an orb-shaped dosa crisp floating in the glass. “rasam ke bomb” indeed. Bottoms up.
You get the idea. Gunpowder is a place that you come to with friends, passing plates from one side of the table to the other while you look at each other with surprise and delight and also a little bit of fear because you just ate far more than you intended to and have to get up far too early to be having this much fun.
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Food Rundown
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Rasam Ke Bomb
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Porzhi Okra Fries
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Spicy Venison And Vermicelli Doughnut
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Maa’s Kashmiri Lamb Chops
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