While Indian pizzas are usually found in mom-and-pop institutions, over the past year or so, they have been getting the chef treatment. Mistry, who competed on Top Chef, turned out a rotating menu of higher-end Indian pies at her recently-shuttered Oakland restaurant Navi Kitchen. “I wanted to serve something fun and casual and that traveled well because takeout and delivery is one of the main components of the restaurant because the space is so small,” explains Mistry. So she landed on Indian pizza. “I’ve said for many years I can pretty much live on pizza and chicken curry, and now I’ve created a chicken curry pizza -- a food that will sustain me for the rest of my life.”

