Indian street food star Chat Patti shines in Decatur
posted on March 21, 2017 at 7:29 am
The Chat Patti Special Chaat and noodles.
Photographed by Jennifer Zyman
When I was a student at Emory University, I discovered two things that would become fixtures in my life, both located in the same predominantly Indian shopping center off of North Druid Hills Road. One was eyebrow threading at the salon Hair Images (I’ll never wax again!), and the other was Chat Patti, a vegetarian restaurant specializing in North and South Indian food, as well as Gujarati-style dishes. It was one of the few places intown to get thali (an assortment of vegetarian dishes—think stewed lentils—served in a round stainless steel platter filled with small bowls) and chaat (street food).
