This is the PERFECT location for a Meatball Shop.

That was the best Indian restaurant in the hood. I know, low bar. (No need to list your personal favorites on my account, I'm aware). The DOH is nothing but a racketeering operation. The guy who filed the suit against this restaurant is a con artist http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Abe-Shah-Michael-Caridi-Banu-Naseem-Hameed/New-York-New-York-10022/Abe-Shah-Abul-Shah-Michael-Caridi-Banu-Naseem-Hameed-Bennington-Group-LLC-Bennin-1107327 and the story about the cook was, for lack of a better word, 'stupid."
I will truly miss Baluchi's. Man, I do not look forward to time in Manhattan to get my Indian fix.

Gotten take out from new arapan. It's good!

New Arapan is pretty much the same as old Arapan, I think the menu had a few additions. It is BYOB too.

Bud, did you own the place? Have relatives who worked there? Baluchis across the city is pretty terrible Indian food. You're better off riding the subway for 20 minutes than you were eating here. Good riddance to bad dining.

Being Indian - I thought it was the best Indian food in Park Slope. Pretty sad that all we have now are sandwich and pizza shops.

Ideal location for a nail salon.

It may not have been an award winner but the Baluchis chain always had decent Indian food, its just dishonest to claim otherwise. Baluchis is a true NYC home grown chain that at its height had many locations across the city, its sad to see a successful enterprise like that decline as it has.

Baluchi's was awful.

If you know anything about Indian food at all, you'd know that Joy Indian on Flatbush is by far the best Indian in the neighborhood. The place on 7th avenue near Lincoln Place is also fine. Both are much better than the "new Aarpan"

Baluchi's was the worst Indian in the neighborhood and their cleanliness left a lot to be desired.

Baluchis was on a par with New Aarpan; hit or miss. Old Aarpan was the best the Slope has ever seen.

April 8, 2025 from Park Slope Stoop

The Department of Health was not too pleased with Baluchi’s at their inspection on April 4, and have since shut the place down.

It was the third visit the DOH made to the Indian restaurant this year, each one worse than the last. They marked 20 violation points in February, 35 points in March, and 49 last week. The last time they were closed, back in June 2012, it was after an alarming 70 violation points. (For reference, 0-13 points is an A, 14-27 is a B, and 28 or more is a C.)

Here’s the rundown of what went wrong (“critical” violations are in red):

1) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F.
2) Hot food item that has been cooked and refrigerated is being held for service without first being reheated to 1 65º F or above within 2 hours.
3) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.
4) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
5) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
6) Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.
7) Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
8) Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
9) Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.

Yipes.

A C grade is 28 points or more and Baluchi's racked up 70 points on one visit from the Department of Health.

Let's not pretend this establishment was "good" or even :"decent"

They were terrible in every way and their multiple shut downs from the Department of Health certainly didn't help garner them any business when weighted against the subpar food.

Again, I wonder if people like Jbob have taste buds at all. No wonder we have so many really bad restaurants around here. Some of you actually LIKED Baluchi's? That's scary.

Bud - the snot rocket chef story might have been stupid, but it was true and disgusting. I saw it with my own eyes.

The real Jbob is happy to see Baluchi's vacate the premises and drop snot bombs somewhere else. Oh and the chances for a meatball shop in this space are exactly.... ZERO!

I know the Meatball shop guys and they are looking at Park Slope actually. They just opened on the Upper East and Upper West sides so it's really not that unreasonable that Park Slope is on the radar.

Wake up people, Parm, Doughnut Plant, Le Pain Quotidien, Blue Bottle, Paper Source....ALL these places have just parked in Park Slope and lots more are on the way. Heard Xian Famous Foods and Dos Toros are looking around in PS also.

2nd for Joy Indian.

The old Aarpan was indeed good, the new one, not so much.

And Baluchi's was the worst of the worst.

But at least we're gaining a new french fry restaurant on the same block as Lobo. They oughta relocate that artisanal mayo shop next to it!

Everyones entitled to their opinion about a restaurants food and clearly if it had been amazing this place would likely still be open.

BUT this location had similar online ratings to both Joy and Aarpan including a 20 in Zagat (the average for most of their locations). So those detractors using extreme language about their food are simply not representative of the general public.

Lotsa people like Wendy's too, don't mean the food is any good.

@Sarah Are you claiming that ratings have no meaning? Im sure every restaurant and food professional out there that chases favorable ratings would disagree with you.

Until NYC restaurants by Sarah becomes a bestseller, Ill stick to Zagat, Michelin, the Times, Yelp, Chowhound and other online media for suggestions on where to dine.

Yelp is nonsense. Half the reviews are "friends" of the owner, another 40% are people who also review their experience at Jiffy Lube and the remaining 10% would know a good meal if put in front of them.

Wake me when Baluchi's is on Michelin, The Times.

If you'd like to read about how awful Baluchi's is though, just check out your beloved Chowhound:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/199034?page=all

And I quote:

"It was a Horrible mockery of indian food. The saag, vindaloo, and another dish were really terrible. Seemed americanized. An okra dish was ok. But I will never go back to a Baluchis if that is the quality. I grew up in Edison, NJ, and know what good indian is and that wasn't it."

And another:

"The 6th Street location (on 2nd Ave) is unsettling - but it's always crowded because you can't beat the price. On several previous visits I've encountered agonizingly slow service, dirty dishes, terrible food and nasty bathrooms. If you're in that area go to Haveli instead."

ANNNND this one:

"I went to the one in Soho sometime at least a year after it opened and it was a big disappointment. This was back when there weren't many high end indian places in NYC, only 6th St. so i had high hopes but they were dashed. I went with a group of 6 or 7 people and not one of us liked it. The daal that they served along with the meals was the only thing that got raves.

I was a bit outraged at the prices considering that the food wasn't that good and not particularly authentic. I was more than a bit outraged when they charged extra for rice...not extra for extra rice, just for the rice that goes with your dish. I find this practice unacceptable in a cuisine where rice is such an integral part. I think the rice was something like $3 a bowl which is even more maddening.

I haven't been there since so i can't speak for how it is now, but given the other responses it seems that their food hasn't improved much. I wonder if the prices or the rice issue have changed."

Anyone who thinks Baluchi's was good Indian Food also probably thinks the "Italian" restaurant in Disneyland is also good.

My god people, do you have ANY standards whatsoever?

Sarah is right about this one.

The asking rent for the space is $18,000 per month