Bon Appétit spends a day on the line with Chef Neel Kajale, the Chef de Cuisine at Adda, NYC’s most exciting new Indian restaurant. As the latest addition to the renowned Unapologetic Foods restaurant group–including Michelin-starred Semma–Adda is using bold flavors and techniques to reinvent classic Indian dishes such as butter chicken and Malvani fish curry.

00:00 Intro
00:48 Picking up fish
01:53 Morning check-in
03:53 Checking on prep
06:41 Making marinade
09:57 Business development meeting
11:35 Prepping expo station
13:15 Service

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