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Nadu crams over ten distinct regions in India into one room with two giant glass chandeliers. This Lincoln Park spot focuses on dishes from specific areas, like crab milagu fry from Kerala or goat curry from Odisha. And it's from the team behind tasting menu spot Indienne, but is more casual while still being nice enough to celebrate a birthday. Make sure your party includes the crab stir-fry. On our first visit, each bite of their Dungeness crab blanketed in a garlicky sauce of shallots and tomatoes kept enticing us to rabidly tear into the shelled legs and claws like rubber-gloved Terminators. But this spot has plenty of other noteworthy dishes, like Goan prawns that are punched with so much cinnamon they’re basically the cousins of a Hot Tamale.