Good Taste: Welcome in Diwali’s light with Indian Restaurant Week

Good Taste tells you where to stick your fork in the Bay. Today, it’s a thrill to talk about the return of Indian Restaurant Week in SF. The Diwali edition of San Francisco’s Indian Restaurant Week takes place for two weeks, over November 1-14. Chefs Ashish Tiwari (ROOH), Srijith Gopinath (Copra), Pujan Sarkar (Tiya), Shibiraj Saha (Amber India), Ranjan Dey (New Delhi Restaurant), Thomas George (Bombay Brasserie) are offering tasting menus created especially for the holiday—not to be offered again—beginning at $75 and $85. Reservations can be made on the Indian Restaurant Week site. This isn’t a wade through a database for discounts kind of restaurant week—it’s carefully curated for excellence and is by invitation. Together, these six immigrant-helmed restaurants represent regions all over India, which has 28 states, all with different culinary expressions.  This week’s joyful Indian Restaurant Week preview party at Taj Campton Place was an exciting chance to see how close-kni