tandoor

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Veeraswamy introduced the UK's first tandoor oven that decade - and a 1959 menu offers chicken tandoori for the equivalent of 52p in pre-decimal currency.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

Before the crackdown started, the Afghan ran a tandoor business.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024

It’s an essential component of some of the dishes at Bryant Ng’s Cassia in Santa Monica, where 20% of the dishes are cooked using a wok or a tandoor oven, both powered by gas.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Fry bread, responsible for the 12-seat bar, counts time at Elle, Columbia Room and the esteemed Rasika West End, where he met Sundas, the former tandoor chef there.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

On it went, down the street, around the corner, in line at the tandoor.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini