Just four months after opening her debut restaurant Drāvida in NYC, celebrity Chef Aarthi Sampath (who won Food Network’s Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay) is now officially opening Jam & Jaggery, the restaurant’s downstairs speakeasy, on Friday, September 18th!
Jam & Jaggery is a natural extension of Drāvida, bringing together the same regional Indian flavors, global influences, and overall mission of the restaurant. The space serves as a speakeasy-style cocktail lounge and private events space.
Filtered through the lens of the South Indian diaspora, the cocktail program draws inspiration from Spanish cocktail craft and tropical drinking culture—classic techniques paired with flavors from around the world, with ingredients like tamarind, curry leaf, chickpeas, mango, and cardamom. The menu will also include unique bites like an Indian-inspired burger, the perfect savory bite to accompany the cocktails.
The drink menu includes:
- Double Trouble: Angostura, Chana, Lustau PX sherry, Scotch Bonnet, cucumber, lime
- Don’s Adonis: Primo bitters, Lustau sweet vermouth, mango ume, banana-infused amontillado sherry
- Lycheetini: Cherry blossom vermouth, lychee, sake, Meyer lemon
- Badak Old Fashioned: Lustau Cream Sherry, shochu, duck fat, cardamom bitters, jaggery
- Goa Highball: Lustau Sherry blend, passionfruit, grapefruit, ginger, amaro
- Dirty Currytini: Lustau fino sherry, sake vermouth, olive vermouth, curry leaves
- Gola Chaat: Watanabe bros shochu, yogurt, pomegranate, tamarind, aloo bhujia, herbs
Jam & Jaggery’s Hours: 6pm - 10:30pm ET
Location: 211 1st Ave New York, NY 10003 East Village