The New York outpost of a Chennai group that started in 1964, cooking Chettinad food, which means black pepper and curry leaf and a good deal more heat than the dosa places up the street. Pepper chicken and mutton chukka off the board, biryani by the plate. This is the one on Lexington where the tables are full of people speaking Tamil.

7:00 PM · Steven Maglio & His Big Band Orchestra

After

Gagopa Karaoke

0.2 mi · 5 min walk - Murray Hill

Third floor of 28 West 32nd, where you take a booth by the hour with a remote, a couple of microphones and a tablet of songs rather than singing to a bar. The drink order comes to you. It runs to half three in the morning on a weeknight and four on weekends, which is later than almost anything else on the block.