Sylva Senat

Tashan Does Delivery: Not Your Average Indian Take-Out

Posted by Jason Sheehan on September 18th, 2012

“What we are doing at Tashan will be more like elegant Dinner At Home experience. Everything about the service will have get a special touch of style, including the packaging and serving containers, napkins, and even utensils.”

So says Munish Narula, owner of Tashan, in discussing the brand new carry-out / delivery service the restaurant will be rolling out starting this Thursday. The kitchen will be offering the entire menu to-go (including all of the new dishes recently added by chef Sylva Senat), which means that you can now sit around on your couch in your underpants eating gol-gappa, tandoori lamb chops, baby octopus in red pepper sauce and screw-pine scented palak tikki in a saffron-morel mushroom cream sauce–which is just classy.

Right now, the delivery area includes Center City, Rittenhouse Square, Graduate Hospital, Bella Vista, Washington Square West, Queen Village and University City. And while that’s already a pretty sizable region to cover, Narula is saying it will probably get even bigger as the new service hits its stride.

Tashan Review [Philly mag]

Tashan [Official website]

Paranoia at Tashan

Posted by Jason Sheehan on August 17th, 2012

Over on the Philly Post, Hugh E. Dillon was out celebrity-hunting last night and caught Commissioner Gordon and Indiana Jones’s grandfather having dinner together at Tashan. They had the chef’s tasting menu (that’s chef Sylva Senat there on the right and his boss, Munish Narula, on the left) and despite some tense moments negotiating the return of the President’s airplane, Air Force One, a fine time was had by all.

In reality, the two Hollywood heavyweights are in town filming the thriller Paranoia. You can check out all the details at the Philly Post.

Seriously, when was the last time you watched Air Force One?

Maddox-Star BBQ Challenge Winners

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on August 15th, 2012

Over the weekend 59 teams competed in the Garry Maddox-Stephen Starr Barbecue Challenge, but only one came out on top. The team at Carolina Blue Smokehouse and Taproom (pictured above) of Pitman, New Jersey was the ultimate champion. The team fended off competitors from both the restaurant and amateur Pit Master divisionsto win tickets to the 2012 World Series.

More than a dozen judges including Phillies alumni and Philly restaurateurs and chefs like Jen Zavala and Sylva Senat worked their way through every entry (poor guys!) to come up with the results.
Winners in each category »

Swagger and Spice at Tashan

Posted by Foobooz on November 23rd, 2011

Adam Erace says the food coming from Sylva Senat’s kitchen at Tashan is some of the most exciting to debut all year. Especially impressive when you figure the Jean-Georges, Aquavit and Buddakan veteran had never cooked Indian cuisine professionally.

His comfort working with bold seasoning is evident in dishes like venison, grilled with fenugreek, cumin and smoked cloves before being kissed by rum-and-plum chutney. He distills Xacutti, a Goan curry typically made with chicken or lamb, to its essential spices — no fewer than 21 of them — and applies the blend to pork tenderloin in both wet and dry marinades. Even the desserts showed a mastery of Indian flavors, from mysterious, fickle rose in a trio of kulfi ice creams, to cardamom and cinnamon woven through a lush bread pudding. The spectacular peshwari naan, part of the “chef’s basket” of baked-to-order flatbreads, could have qualified as a dessert, too, with a paste of ground cashews, pistachios, raisins and coconut spread inside its warm, smoky folds. It tasted like India’s version of French toast.

Posh Spice [City Paper]
Tashan [Official Site]

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Sylva Senat

Tashan Does Delivery: Not Your Average Indian Take-Out

Paranoia at Tashan

Maddox-Star BBQ Challenge Winners

Swagger and Spice at Tashan