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One Corner, Three Identical Restaurants: A Decades-Long Competition Going Strong in the East Village

- One Corner, Three Identical Restaurants -
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On the corner of 6th street and 1st avenue, one two-story building is home to three restaurants: Panna II, Milon, and Royal. Each Indian restaurants, with a BYOB policy, and colorful Christmas lights that can be seen through the windows. You might think this would be confusing...and you wouldn’t be alone. Dylan Heuer investigates their decades-long competition for customers and street cred.

This story was originally featured on Meat + Three on Heritage Radio Network. Listen to the full episode here: 

https://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/food-fights/

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