Renowned Bay Area chef, Gopinathan, partners with Ayesha Thapar to launch Eylan, a new live-fire Indian restaurant in Menlo Park. Eylan celebrates Gopinathan’s roots and passion for live-fire cooking, with a menu featuring innovative dishes using fresh, seasonal ingredients.
One of the Bay Area’s best chefs, Gopinathan, has just opened Eylan, a live-fire Indian restaurant in Menlo Park . This partnership with Ayesha Thapar marks Gopinathan’s fourth restaurant with her, following Little Bird, Buffalo Trace’s Prohibition Collection of Whiskeys Is Back, and We Got a First Taste. For Gopinathan, live-fire cooking is deeply personal. “Live-fire cooking for me is not new,” he told Eater.
“When I grew up in my village back home, we did not have gas cooking back in my village, we were cooking everything by live fire. It’s almost like going back and revisiting what I’m used to in the old days.”Eylan’s menu boasts a range of innovative dishes. Starters include a unique Hamachi crudo with fermented red peppers, Thai chiles, and chaas, a spiced Indian buttermilk, served in sesame-leaf pakoda. Chaas also features in pani puri, with puchkas filled with chickpeas, green grapes, and the buttermilk. A caviar service is accompanied by fried maitake mushroom pakoras with coconut crunch. Main courses showcase dishes like marinated sea bream with a spiced scallion crust and Gopinathan’s take on butter chicken, which uses a halved Cornish hen and a tomatillo-based sauce. In the future, Eylan will also offer a five- or six-course tasting menu to complement its a la carte options. The restaurant’s drinks menu offers both full-proof and low-ABV cocktails, ranging from the Bazaar Paloma (mezcal, tamarind, grapefruit) to the Weak in the Knees (a milk punch with Pathfinder amaro, spiced tamarind syrup, lemon, and demerara sugar). Gopinathan and Thapar are known for their restaurant design, and Eylan continues this tradition with Art Deco touches, geometric-patterned floors, and brass details. Earth tones are incorporated throughout, and three olive trees stand as the centerpiece, alongside a mural by artist Ranbir Kaleka depicting an Indian story
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