Bold Flavor,
Timeless Tradition.

Shyan's Kitchen is owned and run by Irfan Khan, who came to New Orleans from Kashmir in 2007. His first restaurant here was Salt N Pepper, a small Pakistani place on Iberville Street — but the tourist-packed French Quarter was never the right home for the kind of restaurant he had in mind, so he sold it and went looking for one.

He found it on Houma Boulevard, in the room that used to be Toni's Restaurant and Bar, and opened Shyan's Kitchen in the summer of 2016. The idea was simple and it hasn't changed since: a family-style restaurant for the families who actually live here, serving the Indian and Pakistani food people grew up on.

Everything is 100% halal and cooked to order. Naan comes out of the restaurant's clay tandoori oven fresh right through service, goat is slow-cooked into masala with stewed lentils or layered into biryani with vegetables and spices, and vegetable pakoras are battered in chickpea flour and chili and fried when you order them. There's a full run of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes on the menu, not an afterthought at the end of it.

Our chefs have years behind them cooking this food properly, and the neighborhood has noticed. Whether you're in for lunch, taking dinner home to the family, or planning catering for an event — including the week-long Indian weddings we know well — we'd love to feed you.