The Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guide announced a collection of 25 inspector discoveries, highlighting “a snapshot of new and inspiring culinary talent across California,” according to the Michelin website. Throughout Los Angeles, the inspector’s highlighted: TUMBI
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Los Angeles Times
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The LA HIT List: The Best New Restaurants in Los Angeles
Tumbi is a modern Indian restaurant right off the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. And despite being in an area of town not typically known for thrilling food options, it’s the most exciting new Indian restaurant to open in LA since Badmaash. The menu is fantastic and inventive,
The LA HIT List: The Best New Restaurants in Los Angeles
Tumbi is a modern Indian restaurant right off the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. And despite being in an area of town not typically known for thrilling food options, it’s the most exciting new Indian restaurant to open in LA since Badmaash. The menu is fantastic and inventive, with everything from prawn masala to a pani puri that ends with you pouring tamarind-mint water into a chickpea-filled puff pastry. Get here now before everyone else does.
https://www.theinfatuation.com/los-angeles/guides/best-new-los-angeles-restaurants-hit-list
Food & Wine
Los Angeles Times
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Tūmbi Gives L.A. a New Version of Indian Street Food
Tūmbi, a modern Indian restaurant that recently opened near the beach in Santa Monica, is focused on serving street food from different regions of India, as well as the Indian subcontinent and cultures that influenced what Indians eat. Tūmbi serves southern Indian dosas, a Goan prawn mas
Tūmbi Gives L.A. a New Version of Indian Street Food
Tūmbi, a modern Indian restaurant that recently opened near the beach in Santa Monica, is focused on serving street food from different regions of India, as well as the Indian subcontinent and cultures that influenced what Indians eat. Tūmbi serves southern Indian dosas, a Goan prawn masala, and northern Indian, Pakistani, and Afghani kebabs.And, of course, there’s pani puri, a popular snack you’ll find in many parts of the subcontinent, with recipes that can vary from area to area.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/tumbi-indian-street-food-los-angeles
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Chef Imran Mookhi and restaurateur RJ Singh are on a mission to introduce a new kind of Indian food to Los Angeles. The two are behind the new Tumbi restaurant in Santa Monica, where Mookhi is making avocado bhel puri salad with citrus and puffed rice; pani puri puff pastry with chickpeas served in a shot glass and charbroiled paneer tikk
Chef Imran Mookhi and restaurateur RJ Singh are on a mission to introduce a new kind of Indian food to Los Angeles. The two are behind the new Tumbi restaurant in Santa Monica, where Mookhi is making avocado bhel puri salad with citrus and puffed rice; pani puri puff pastry with chickpeas served in a shot glass and charbroiled paneer tikka with yogurt, curry and mint chutney. For lunch, Mookhi is filling stackable steel lunch boxes with lamb, prawns, vegetables, basmati rice, dal bhukara and house salad. Singh, who is co-owner of Tantra in Silver Lake and India's Oven, wanted to create a restaurant that combines influences from Rajasthan, New Delhi, Goa, C.hennai, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The restaurant, named for the musical instrument played at many Indian celebrations, was designed by architect Sat Garg.
http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-fo-re-newsfeed-smores-20180522-story.html
TUMBI on Michelin Guide
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