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Caribbean Cuisine Week Raises Money for Penn Relays Athletes

Posted by Taylor Bush on April 11th, 2013

The Penn Relays are the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, hosted annually by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field. The multi-day event has occurred annually for 119 years.

This year more than ten Philadelphia restaurants (including Tashan and Cuba Libre, Tashan’s Sylva Senat is talking about offering a coconut lime calamari) are participating in Caribbean Cuisine Week– a week of food, music and raising funds to assist over 700 high school athletes from Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas and Grenada get to the 2013 Penn Relays.

The event is held April 16-18, 2013. The Caribbean/Latin Specials include appetizer, main course and dessert for $33 or less.

Caribbean Cuisine Week – Participating restaurants [Official Site]

Munish Narula Opening an Indian Bistro in South Philadelphia

Posted by Foobooz on April 2nd, 2013

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Munish Narula (left) is back on the expansion path | HughE Dillon for the Philly Post

After a series of profitable quarters for Tashan, Munish Narula is getting back to opening restaurants. His next restaurant will not be a Tiffin or a Tashan, but rather a Tiffin Bistro, slated for 11th and Federal at the former Kris. Narula declined to reveal the exact location until the lease was signed but did fill us in on several other details.

The Indian bistro will have a liquor license and a more upscale feel from a regular Tiffin, but not as high-end as Tashan. Narula stressed this would be a whole new concept as he doesn’t want to cannibalize Tiffin’s delivery business or the experience at Tashan. Expect a more traditional Indian menu but not the dishes you see on most Indian restaurant menus around town. Narula is bringing in a chef from Junoon in New York who has also worked at Amber India in San Francisco as well as London’s Cinnamon Club. Tashan’s Sylva Senat will be involved as well in fine tuning the menu and plating.

Narula hopes to sign the lease before the end of the week and open six weeks after that. As Kris, the restaurant had room for fifty people, plus ten at the bar.

UPDATED Restaurant Week Alternatives: Tashan’s $35 4-Course Anti-Restaurant Week Menu

Posted by Jason Sheehan on January 28th, 2013

Tashan isn’t participating in Center City Restaurant Week–at least not officially. What chef Sylva Senat and his crew have done instead is assemble a $35, 4-course menu, offered in the same multiple-choice style as all the Restaurant Week menus, and put it out there for this, the final five days of Restaurant Week.

What’s more, it’s a great menu, with lots of excellent options. The catch? It’s only running from 5pm-7pm, today through Friday.

But still, if you’re willing to eat a little early, this one is a fantastic deal. Check out the full menu after the jump.

UPDATE: So now getting this deal is even easier. That thing about the deal only being available from 5pm-7pm? No longer the case. Tashan’s $35 4-course menu will now be available straight through dinner service, which is good news indeed

Tashan’s Anti-Restaurant Week Menu

New Menu Items At Tashan

Syla Senat is working up a new menu at Tashan. This is apparently what an Alaskan king crab cake looks like in his world.

~@SylvaSenat

Vets Eat Free at Tashan and Tiffin

Posted by Foobooz on November 12th, 2012

In honor of Veterans Day, Tiffin and Tashan are offering US military veterans free dinner. Valid for dine-in only, vets must present ID to enjoy the offer. The deal is good for one appetizer and one entree at all Tiffins locations and at Tashan. The maximum value is $25 at Tiffin and $40 at Tashan.

All Vets Eat Free [Tiffin & Tashan]

Time Sweetens Restaurant Week Deal with Beer#PHLRW

Posted by Foobooz on October 3rd, 2012

Time is offering a fun addition to Restaurant Week this evening as they are tapping a special firkin of Brooklyn Brewing Bitter. They’re also offering a slew of other Brooklyn beers includingPost Roadd Pumpkin, Oktoberfest, Lager, Brown Ale, Weiss and East IPA.

Restaurant Week Alternatives and Tweets »

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?

Six Pack: Doughnut Desserts in Philadelphia Restaurants

Posted by Aubrey Nagle on June 1st, 2012

Sure, you could go to Wawa at 7 a.m. to wrestle an icing-slathered and probably stale doughnut out of another commuter’s grubby hands to get your morning sugar rush. Or, you could wait for the dessert menu after dinner at one of Philadelphia’s finest restaurants for a twist on the breakfast staple.

If you’re bored with the same old Boston Cream check out these six restaurants serving up daring and delicious dessert dougnuts.

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Tashan: The Best Restaurant You’re Not Going To

Posted by Jason Sheehan on April 3rd, 2012

Second Chance

Philadelphia is now home to one of the best Indian restaurants in the country. So why aren’t you eating there?

Once upon a time in Philly, there was a small and slightly troubled high-end Indian restaurant called Bindi, owned and operated by Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney, the Lords of 13th Street. It wasn’t a perfect restaurant. It was a BYO operating in a highly competitive environment. It was cash-only.

But the thing that really killed it was that it was a high-end Indian restaurant in a town that just doesn’t get high-end ethnic cuisines. “After a while, you get tired of hearing people say, ‘We don’t eat Indian food,’” Safran said in an interview shortly after it was announced that Bindi would close in September of 2011. She blamed Philadelphians for being unwilling to take a chance on something different. At the time, I didn’t completely buy her argument. Now, I’m not so sure.

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