Chole Bhature Has a Second Counter on Hillside Avenue
Navdeep Singh was six when his father and uncle opened the Richmond Hill room in 2006. He cut the ribbon on a second room in Glen Oaks on October 18.
- punjabi
- queens
- chole-bhature
- vegetarian
Chole bhature is chickpeas with a fried bread you tear. Punjabi Dhaba has been serving that plate in South Richmond Hill since 2006. On October 18 the family opened a second room, on Hillside Avenue in Glen Oaks.
Navdeep Singh, who owns it, was six when the first room opened. His father, Karnail Singh, and his uncle, Gurmit Singh, drove taxis and started the restaurant in 2006. Both have died. He opened the Hillside Avenue room with his mother, a cousin, and his sisters. At the ribbon, Sumita SenGupta, founder of the Arts4All Foundation, named the jobs: a mother cooking laddus, the round sweets, a cousin making the chole bhature, a son taking the orders, and a sister packing the bags.
The new address is 259-11 Hillside Avenue, near 268th Street. The original is still at 119-16 101st Avenue. More than a thousand people came for a prayer, live music, and a free buffet of what the family cooks. The menu is vegetarian.
On the Richmond Hill menu, chole bhature is $10. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the lunch thali is $10 too: three dishes, three tawa rotis, the griddle bread, rice, salad, and a sweet. Two pieces of ras malai are $4. Ras malai is fresh cheese, flattened, in cardamom cream.
Richmond Hill lists 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The website still shows only that room, says there is no other location, and gives no hours for Hillside.
Start with the chole bhature at 259-11 Hillside Avenue. For more than the bread and chickpeas, the Richmond Hill lunch thali is the bigger plate, at the same $10.