Pondicheri (CLOSED)

Following the success of owner Anita Jaisinghani’s game-changing Houston restaurant of the same name—it garnered the chef a James Beard nomination for Best New Restaurant when it opened in 2012—the all-day Indian café is getting a New York sister with this NoMad successor. The 135-seat outpost—a cavernous, 5,000-square-foot space sporting New Delhi–imported tiled walls, bright, mural-painted walls and cobalt-blue banquettes—features a.m. Houston favorites like breakfast roti with masala eggs and cilantro chutney, and paneer-stuffed paratha with cashews and currants; for lunch, find items like snacky sweet-potato samosas, black-garbanzo kebab buns with cumin yogurt, and a Sindhi-style lamb kofta curry. (Dinner is expected to roll out with waiter service later in the month.)