If you see only one thing on Broadway, see Kimberly Akimbo, the musical about a 15-year-old with a fictionalized rare disease that ages her four times the normal. The show is Tony-worthy, especially two of the performances. Victoria Clark makes you believe Kimberly is 15 instead of ready for Medicare. Aunt Debra (Bonnie Milligan) stops the show each time she belts her songs.

After the show, we walked north a few blocks to Saar Indian Bistro.  The last I’d been was when we welcomed Les Dames d’Escoffier Legacy winner Chef Helen Vass almost five years ago.

[Nominations for this year’s 2023 LDEI Legacy Awards are open until March 17, 2023. Women with a minimum of four years of culinary industry experience are eligible. For more information and the application, click here.

Each LDEI Legacy Award winner earns an experience of approximately one week working alongside accomplished LDEI members sometime between May 15 and August 31, 2023.]

We chose the $45 3-course restaurant week menu, starting with two dishes I’d recommend. Their chicken with pineapple chutney (lasooni kebab) and the (shakarkandi chaat), smoked Japanese sweet potato with tamarind chutney.

We shared the Goan-style shrimp with the basmati rice and the tandoori nicely-sized four lamb chops, worth the upcharge of $7, with mustard potatoes and pineapple chutney. We added the tandoori roti ($4) to sop up the sauces.

And since dessert came with our Restaurant Week menu, we had two: their saffron ride pudding and the unusual lentil-based moong dal halwa.

I recommend both Kimberly Akimbo and a stop at Saar.

Saar Indian Bistro
Midtown West
251 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
646-571-0319