Today's Special

In this touching, engaging, heartfelt, 2009 comedy, which is filled with scrumptious food and inspired by Aasif Mandvi's Obie award-winning play Sakina's Restaurant, a disillusioned, angry Manhattan chef (Aasif Mandvi), who lives with his traditional Indian parents (Harish Patel and Madhur Jaffrey), quits his job to move to Paris when his boss passes him over for a promotion as the head chef of a new restaurant, reluctantly assumes the responsibility of running the Tandoori Palace in Queens following his father's heart attack, and turns it into an award-winning restaurant with the help of a talented, unassuming taxi driver (Naseeruddin Shah) and a comely sous chef (Jess Weixler) with a young daughter (Lucy Radack).
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